"CEF B2 to C1"--cover.

"Delta Academic Objectives: Reading Skills has been written to prepare students for academic reading, placing emphasis not only on extensive reading skills development, but also on continued language development through four main areas: Understanding the text, Critical thinking, Using the text and Language Focus.

Understanding the text activities develop essential comprehension skills, teaching student to further analyze texts and interpret standpoint and argument.

Critical thinking activities go on to actively develop students' abilities to critically engage with a text, teaching them to assess the strength of an argument or its validity, and constantly challenge the ideas of others.

Using the text activities show students how to incorporate others' ideas with their own to formulate arguments and conclusions in academic writing.

Language Focus sections help students develop their knowledge of lexis typical of academic texts, enabling them to understand a wider range of texts and transfer their knowledge into their writing.

Key features:
written for students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level
themes relate to a wide range of common academic subject fields
texts are both academic and common yo everyday life, thus accessible to all students
contains a section of exercises to practice vocabulary in the Academic Word List
is supported by online resources consisting of a bank of extended reading texts with accompanying worksheets

CONTENTS

Introduction

Unit 1 Education
Understanding the text - Identifying purpose and audience
Using the text - Selecting texts
Critical thinking - Identifying stance
Language focus - 1. Selecting vocabulary -- 2. Identifying features of formal writing

Unit 2 Leadership
Understanding the text - Skimming vs. scanning
Using the text - Selecting information
Critical thinking - Question to analyze texts
Language focus - 1. The Academic Word List -- 2. Dictionary skills - meaning and context

Unit 3 Language learning
Understanding the text - Unknown vocabulary
Using the text - Summarizing
Critical thinking - Fact and opinion
Language focus - 1. Tense review - past and present simple -- 2. Common suffixes

Unit 4 Sustainability
Understanding the text - Predicting content
Using the text - Paraphrasing
Critical thinking - Reasons and conclusions
Language focus - 1. Prefixes -- 2. Dictionary skills - word form

Unit 5 Crime
Understanding the text - Identifying relationships between ideas and theories
Using the text - Discussing texts
Critical thinking - Cause and connection
Language focus - 1. Modals and hedging -- 2. Alternative and counter-arguments

Unit 6 Revision

Unit 7 Culture
Understanding the text - Text organization
Using the text - Integrating ideas
Critical thinking - Bias, expertise and neutrality
Language focus - 1. Connected ideas -- 2. Pronoun referents

Unit 8 Personality
Understanding the text - Speed vs. accuracy
Using the text - Direct quotes

Critical thinking - Interpreting the criticisms of others
Language focus - 1. Noun collocations -- 2. Noun phrases

Unit 9 Ethics
Understanding the text - Main ideas and supporting evidence
Using the text - Indirect quotes

Critical thinking - Persuasive language
Language focus - 1. Active vs. passive -- 2. Verb collocations

Unit 10 Consumer behaviour
Understanding the text - Claims and assumptions
Using the text - Summarizing from multiple sources
Critical thinking - Evaluating evidence
Language focus - 1. Comparison and contrast -- 2. Reporting

Unit 11 Nutrition
Understanding the text - Drawing conclusions
Using the text - Bibliographies and references
Critical thinking - Statistics
Language focus - 1. Cause and effect -- 2. Describing graphs

Unit 12 Revision

Academic Word List exercises (Units 1-12)

The Academic Word List