This three-level academic, theme-based reading series focuses on cross-cultural content and promotes critical thinking skills.

Features

• Reading selections span fiction, non-fiction, news and magazine articles, interviews, maps, charts, web pages, quotations, and photo captions.


• Reading passages reflect controlled word count and vocabulary and structure progression.


• Skills are continually recycled to build student reading fluency, confidence, and mastery.


• Units open with engaging photographs and questions to introduce the theme, provide academic focus, set chapter goals, and activate prior knowledge.


• Before You Read activities stimulate background knowledge, focus on vocabulary presentation and practice, and introduce important expressions.


• As You Read sections focus students on the main idea, offer timed readings to build fluency, and provide pair work activities to promote topic discussion and information processing.


• A specific section in each unit focuses on Internet reseach.


• Structured speaking activities help students further explore each unit theme.


• Each unit concludes with three writing activities.

This teacher's manual is designed to accompany the high intermediate level student book.