The Teacher's Manual includes teaching suggestions, unit quizzes and answer keys. The electronic version of the Teacher's Manual is available at www.cambridge.org/makingconnections.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Making Connections 3 is a high intermediate academic reading and vocabulary skills book. It is intended for students who need to improve their strategic reading skills and build their academic vocabulary.

Each unit begins with an in-depth study of key skills and strategies for reading academic texts, helping students to learn how and when to use them.

Students learn strategies for approaching academic texts and skills for consciously applying the strategies.

Predicting the content of a text is critical for reading college books, and students practice this skill extensively before beginning each reading.

Each unit contains 5 readings, providing students with multiple opportunities to practice applying the skills and strategies.

Students learn how to use the skills and strategies by applying them to each text while they read it.

Students continually review the skills and strategies, helping them build up a valuable set of tools for reading academic texts.

Students expand their vocabularies by studying key words from each reading and academic words from each unit.

Each unit develops students' higher level thinking skills, such as exploring options and synthesizing information.

Students also learn to read more quickly, a valuable skill for extended academic texts.

The units end with a study of academic connectors, helping students learn how to navigate dense academic text." (Introduction, p. vi-ix)

CONTENTS:

Unit 1: Global Health

Skills and Strategies 1: Identifying Main Ideas
Reading 1: The State of the World's Health
Reading 2: Changing Attitudes Toward Cardiovascular Disease

Skills and Strategies 2: Cause and Effect
Reading 3: Medicine and Genetic Research
Reading 4: Malaria: Portrait of a Disease

Skills and Strategies 3: Managing Unknown Vocabulary
Reading 5: The Health Care Divide

Making Connections

Unit 2: Multicultural Societies

Skills and Strategies 4: Continuing Ideas
Reading 1: The Age of Immigration
Reading 2: Who are Today's Immigrants?

Skills and Strategies 5: Point of View
Reading 3: The Meeting of Cultures
Reading 4: One World: One Culture?

Skills and Strategies: 6: Reduced Relative Clauses
Reading 5: The Challenge of Diversity

Making Connections

Unit 3: Aspects of Language

Skills and Strategies 7: Identifying the Thesis of a Reading
Reading 1: When Does Language Learning Begin?
Reading 2: Learning a Language as an Adult

Skills and Strategies 8: Definition and Classification
Reading 3: Rules of Speaking
Reading 4: Languages in Contact

Skills and Strategies 9: Passive Sentences
Reading 5: The Advantages of Multilingualism

Making Connections

Unit 4: Sustaining Planet Earth

Skills and Strategies 10: Problem-Solution Texts
Reading 1: Ecology, Overpopulation, and Economic Development
Reading 2: The Aral Sea: An Environmental Crisis

Skills and Strategies 11: Graphic Material
Reading 3: Biodiversity and Tropical Rainforests
Reading 4: The Water Crisis

Skills and Strategies 12: Nominalization in Subjects
Reading 5: Managing Earth's Greenhouse

Making Connections

Appendix 1 Key Vocabulary from the Readings

Appendix 2 Index to Key Vocabulary