Designed to help students build a nontechnical college-level vocabulary, this content-based ESL reading skills text will help users begin to develop reading skills for college-level materials.
Each of the 15 chapters includes:
- Pre-Reading Discussion question valuable for understanding the readings.
- Reading Selections drawn from a wide variety of topics illustrative of science, social science, and the humanities. These readings were designed to simulate the variety of courses readers may be exposed to in their early college years.
- Skills Exercises covering broad topics and details, including scanning, signal words, adjective clauses, prediction, text mapping, word families, pronoun reference, ellipsis, organization, words with more than one meaning, substitution, summary writing, and inference.
- Vocabulary Exercises which help students build a nontechnical cocabulary that is taught in context.
- Writing Exercises that help students interact with and react to the reading, and integrate them with their personal knowledge and opinions.
Unit 1 Cultural Anthropology
Unit 2 The Human Brain
Unit 3 Non-Western Ideas
Unit 4 Astronomy
Unit 5 Biographies