Burgmeier, Arline

Inside Reading 1 : The Academic Word List in Context / Arline Burgmeier ; Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman (Series Director). - 2nd ed. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. - 164 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. - Inside Reading .

"Develop reading skills and acquire the Academic Word List
- Explicit reading skills provide the foundation for effective, critical reading
- High-interest readings from academic content areas motivate students
- Corpus-based examples from the Oxford English Corpus teach real-life English." (Book Cover) TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Acknowledgements

An Insider's Guide to Academic Reading

Unit 1 Riding Through History
Content Area: Engineering
READING SKILL: Previewing
Reading 1: The History of Bicycles
Reading 2: Segway Into the Future
Vocabulary activities

Unit 2 Fighting Diseases
Content Area: Medicine
READING SKILL: Finding the Main Idea
Reading 1: The Battle Against Malaria
Reading 2: Searching for New Medicines
Vocabulary activities

Unit 3 They Know What You Want
Content Area: Marketing
READING SKILL: Scanning
Reading 1: They Know What You Want
Reading 2: What's in a Name?
Vocabulary activities

Unit 4 Identifying People
Content Area; Sociology
READING SKILL: Identifying Examples
Reading 1: Who Are You?
Reading 2: Symbolic Clothing
Vocabulary activities

Unit 5 Success Story
Content Area; Psychology
READING SKILL: Identifying Definitions
Reading 1: What is Success?
Reading 2: I Love Me
Vocabulary activities

Unit 6 Solving Crimes with Science
Content Area: Science
READING SKILL: Identifying Time and Sequence Words
Reading 1: Solving a Crime with Science: A True Story
Reading 2: Forensic Science
Vocabulary activities

Unit 7 The Fast-Food Revolution
Content Area: Business
READING SKILL: Reading Numerical Tables
Reading 1: The Fast-Food Revolution
Reading 2: Franchising
Vocabulary activities

Unit 8 The Autism Puzzle
Content Area: Neuroscience
READING SKILL: Making Inferences
Reading 1: The Autism Puzzle
Reading 2: Looking for Answers
Vocabulary activities

Unit 9 Sea of Life
Content Area: Oceanography
READING SKILL: Reading Statistical Tables
Reading 1: Saving the Oceans
Reading 2: Exploring the Deep Ocean
Vocabulary activities

Unit 10 Giving Nature a Hand
Content Area: Physiology
READING SKILL: Distinguishing Fact from Opinion
Reading 1: Giving Nature a Hand
Reading 2: Bionic People
Vocabulary activities

INDEX: ACADEMIC WORD LIST

A2 (CEFR).

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