Unit 1 ALL ABOUT FOOD — Chapter 1: A Restaurant for Change (Newspaper Article) — Reading Skill: Predicting — Vocabulary Skill: Antonymes — Real Life Skill: Reading Food Labels — Chapter 2: Let's Make Blueberry Muffins! (Recipe) — Reading Skill: Scanning — Vocabulary Skill: Irregular Past Tense Verbs — Real Life Skill: Reading Food Labels — Unit 2 INVENTIONS — Chapter 1: Computer Beats Champs (Newspaper Article) — Reading Skill: Reading for Details — Vocabulary Skill: The Prefixes com- and con- — Real Life Skill: Dictionary Skills: Identifying Parts of Speech — Chapter 2: The Most Useful Inventions (Web Forum) — Reading Skill: Scanning — The Suffixes -ful and -less — Real Life Skill: Dictionary Skills: Identifying Parts of Speech — Unit 3 STUDYING ABROAD — Chapter 1: Want to Study Abroad? (Advertisement) — Reading Skill: Using Subheadings to Predict Content — Vocabulary Skill: Compound Words — Real Life Skill: Writing an English Journal — Chapter 2: My Travel Journal (Diary Extract) — Reading Skill: Reading for Details — Vocabulary Skill: Adjectives Ending in -ed — Real Life Skill: Writing an English Journal — Review 1 Fluency Strategy: SQ3R; The Freshman Fifteen (Magazine Article) — Fluency Practice: 1. Four Funny Inventions (Advertisement) 2. My Working Holiday (Travel Magazine article) — Unit 4: MONEY AND BUDGETS — Chapter 1: A Student Budget (Magazine Article) — Reading Skill: Skimming for Main Ideas — Vocabulary Skill: The Prefixes in- and ex- — Real Life Skill: Creating a Personal Budget — Chapter 2: My Money (Web Interview) — Reading Skill: Identifying Supporting Details — Vocabulary Skill: Words Relating to Money — Real Life Skill: Creating a Personal Budget — Unit 5: OUR MODERN LIFESTYLE — Chapter 1: Cell Phone Etiquette — Reading Skill: Identifying Transition Words — Vocabulary Skill: Using Transition Words — Real Life Skill: Reading Blogs — Chapter 2: Smartphone Apps for Travellers (Magazine Article) — Reading Skill: Making Inferences — Vocabulary Skill: Word Webs — Real Life Skill: Reading Blogs — Unit 6: THE OLYMPICS — Chapter 1: The Olympic Flame (Reference Article) — Reading Skill: Skimming for the Main Idea — Vocabulary Skill: The Suffix -ment — Real Life Skill: Understanding Punctuation — Chapter 2: Unusual Olympic Sports (Webpage) — Reading Skill: Reading for Details — Vocabulary Skill: Words Relating to Sports — Real Life Skill: Understanding Punctuation — Review 2 Fluency Strategy: KWL; Not Your Regular Scholarship (Student Magazine Article) Fluency Practice: 3. Real Mail vs. Email (Magazine Article) 4. Selecting the Olympic Sports (Reference Article) — Unit 7: GREAT STRUCTURES — Chapter 1: The World's Oldest Universities (Reference Article) — Reading Skill: Identifying Supporting Details — Vocabulary Skill: Expressing Certainty — Real Life Skill: Recognizing Survey Question Types — Chapter 2: Modern Engineering Wonders (Webpage) — Reading Skill: Scanning — Vocabulary Skill: Superlatives — Real Life Skill: Recognizing Survey Question Types — Unit 8: LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION — Chapter 1: Which English Will We Speak? (Reference Article) — Reading Skill: Identifying Main Ideas Vocabulary Skill: Loan Words Real Life Skill: Distinguishing American and British Words — Chapter 2: Sign Language (Reference Article) Reading Skill: Distinguishing Main Idea and Supporting Details Vocabulary Skill: Word Families Real Life Skill: Distinguishing American and British Words— Unit 9: FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS — Chapter 1: How Do You Celebrate? (Reference Article) — Reading Skill: Scanning Vocabulary Skill: Prepositions of Time: in, on, at — Chapter 2: Edinburg Festival Journal (Diary Extract) — Reading Skill: Reading for Details — Vocabulary Skill: Sensory Verbs — Real Life Skill: Reading Tourist Information — Review 3 Fluency Strategy: Dealing with Unkown Words; Amazing Machines! (Webage) Fluency Practice: 5. Dying Languages (Magazine Article) 6. Celebrating Chusok (Travel Guide Extract) — Unit 10: GROWING UP — Chapter 1: The Age of Adulthood (Reference Article) — Reading Skill: Predicting — Vocabulary Skill:The Prefix trans- — Real Life Skill: Choosing the Right Word — Chapter 2: Firsts in Life (Web interview) — Reading Skill: Making Inferences — Vocabulary Skill: The Prefix sub- — Real Life Skill: Choosing the Right Word — Unit 11: LOOK INTO THE FUTURE — Chapter 1: Are you an Ophiuchus? (Reference Article) — Reading Skill: Summarizing — Vocabulary Skill: Phrasal Verbs — Chapter 2: Predicting Earthquakes (Newspaper letter) — Reading Skill: Identifying Transition Words — Vocabulary Skill: The Suffixes -ness — Real Life Skill: Doing Research on the Internet — Unit 12: THE POWER OF STORIES — Chapter 1: A Japanese Folktale (Story) — Reading Skill: Recognizing of Events — Vocabulary Skill: Adverbs — Chapter 2: Internet Hoaxes (Magazine article) — Reading Skill: Identifying Cause and Effect — Vocabulary Skill: Nouns That Are Also Verbs — Real Life Skill: Understanding Internet Speak — Review 4 Fluency Strategy: Reading ACTIVEly; Young People Are Adults, Too! (Newspaper Letter) Fluency Practice: 7. The Mystery of the Fortune Cookie (Webpage) 8. Three Centuries of Hoaxes (Reference Article)

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