Practice Makes Perfect. Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

✍ Scribed by Diane Engelhardt

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Series: Practice Makes Perfect
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The challenging exercises and critical vocabulary you need to advance your English skills Created by ESL instructor Diane Engelhardt, Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Reading and Comprehension features lengthy, complex passages to help you develop essential English reading and critical thinking skills. Inside are 15 readings on topics such as DNA evidence, sustainable urban communities, the human genome project, and more--subjects that will keep you engaged as you take your English to the next level. You will get plenty of practice, practice, practice on understanding and comprehendin.

The book is designed to:

• Build academic and nonacademic vocabulary
• Develop reading comprehension skills at an advanced level
• Stimulate creative thought on the subject matter and the problems that each topic poses to human society

Each chapter is between 1,450 and 1,900 words long

✦ Table of Contents

Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
1. Ecotourism: Another way to see the world
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
The growth of tourism
The growth of ecotourism
The principles and challenges of ecotourism
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Organizing information
Critical thinking
Bibliography
2. The Human Genome Project: Writing the book of life
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
Historical background
Medical beneits
Ethical, legal, and social issues
The Genomic Era
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Critical thinking
Bibliography
3. Near-death experiences: Fact or fantasy?
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Organizing information
Critical thinking
Bibliography
4. Genetically modified organisms: Breadbasket or Pandora’s box?
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Critical thinking
Bibliography
5. Men and women: Long live the difference
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Critical thinking
Bibliography
6. Electric cars: Greener, cleaner driving
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Paraphrasing
Critical thinking
Bibliography
7. DNA fingerprinting: Condemning evidence
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Paraphrasing: Using synonyms and deinitions
Critical thinking
Bibliography
8. Eco-cities: Building sustainable urban communities
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
Curitiba, Brazil
Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm, Sweden
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Organizing information
Critical thinking
Bibliography
9. Solar energy: Power for the future
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Paraphrasing: Changing voice
Organizing information
Critical thinking
Bibliography
10. Healing circles: A gentler justice
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
How healing circles work
Types and applications of healing circles
Challenges, rewards, and widespread adoption
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Paraphrasing: Eliminating the passive
Organizing information
Critical thinking
Bibliography
11. Medical technology: New frontiers in health care
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Paraphrasing: Transitional devices
Organizing information
Critical thinking
Bibliography
12. The Enneagram: Understanding our personalities
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
Type One: The Perfectionist/Reformer
Type Two: The Giver/Helper
Type Three: The Performer/Achiever
Type Four: The Romantic/Individualist
Type Five: The Observer/Investigator
Type Six: The Loyal Skeptic/Loyalist
Type Seven: The Epicure/Enthusiast
Type Eight: The Boss/Challenger
Type Nine: The Mediator/Peacemaker
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Summarizing: Eliminating relative clauses and appositives
Organizing information
Critical thinking
Bibliography
13. Artificial Intelligence: Can machines think?
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Summarizing
Organizing information
Critical thinking
Bibliography
14. Voluntary simplicity: Making more out of less
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Critical thinking
Bibliography
15. Future directions: Ecology or technology?
Pre-reading
Questionnaire
Predicting content
Reading text
After reading
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
Reading strategies
Critical thinking
Bibliography
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✦ Subjects

english