Strategic reading 3 : building effective reading skills : student’s book
✍ Scribed by C, Richards Jack
- Book ID
- 110517126
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 7 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780521555784
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
131 pages : 28 cm;The student's manual for the third level of the three-level series designed to develop reading, vocabulary building, and critical thinking skills;Scope and sequence -- Introduction -- Unit 1. Superstittions (Two worlds -- Lucky hats and other fishing superstitions -- A superstition about new calendars) -- Unit 2. Health (Diets of the world -- Drink, blink, and rest -- Azeri hills hold secret of long life) -- Unit 3. Talent (A prodigy in mother's eyes -- Born to paint -- The sound of silence) -- Unit 4. Beauty (Executives go under the knife -- What makes a man attractive? -- In the land of the mirror) -- Unit 5. Technology (The car that thinks it's your friend -- Identification, please! -- Researchers worry as teens grow up online) -- Unit 6. Punishment (Spanking on trial -- The letter -- Schools take the fun out of suspension) -- Unit 7. Loss (Death & superstition -- Chapter two -- Funeral blues ; The chariot) -- Unit 8. Memory (Can you believe what you see? -- Man weds wife he forgot -- Repeat after me : memory takes practice) -- Unit 9. Personality (What do our possessions say about us? -- The role of temperament in shaping individuality -- Mind your P's and Q's) -- Unit 10. Celebrity (I'm just another kid from Brooklyn -- California law has paparazzi buzzing -- Fan club confessions) -- Unit 11. The circus (Getting serious about clowning -- Circus town -- Tragedy at the circus ; Circus safe for animals) -- Unit 12. Martial arts (Shaolin Temple -- The karate generation -- Iron and silk) -- Unit 13. Fashion (Smart clothes -- It's a dog's life -- How to separate trends from fads) -- Unit 14. The media (Something strange is happening to tabloids -- When our worlds collide -- Media violence harms children ; Media violence does not harm children) -- Unit 15. Art (Girl with a Pitcher -- Organic architecture -- How forgeries corrupt our museums) -- Unit 16. Humor (So, who's the comedian? -- Taking humor seriously in the workplace -- Three comedians)