Full Description
The new edition of For Your Information 1: Reading and Vocabulary Skills, by Karen Blanchard and Christine Root, helps beginning students become engaged, thoughtful, and confident readers of English. Each thematic unit features high-interest readings and an assortment of activities to increase students' vocabulary base and build reading skills.
Features of For Your Information 1, Second Edition:
New and updated reading selections motivate students to explore different aspects of each topic and develop a range of critical thinking skills.
Expanded reading comprehension and skill-building exercises help prepare students for academic competency and standardized testing
A variety of new vocabulary-building skills and word-attack activities increase students' vocabulary.
A companion CD of ABC News excerpts, with accompanying activities, expands on the themes.
0132626462 / 9780132626460 For Your Information 1: Reading and Vocabulary Skills (Student Book and Classroom Audio CDs)
Package consists of:
0131991868 / 9780131991866 For Your Information 1: Reading and Vocabulary Skills
0136135641 / 9780136135647 For Your Information 1: Reading and Vocabulary Skills, Audio CDs
Contents
Unit 1 ALL IN THE FAMILY
Chapter 1 A Family Bike Trip
Chapter 2 What's in a Name?
Chapter 3 The Jim Twins
Tie It All Together
Unit 1 Vocabulary Self-Test
Unit 2 LET'S EAT
Chapter 1 A Peanut Butter Restaurant
Chapter 2 The Tokyo Fish Market
Chapter 3 A Cookie with a Surprise Inside
Tie It All Together
Unit 2 Vocabulary Self-Test
Unit 3 KEEPING IN TOUCH
Chapter 1 Sending E-Cards
Chapter 2 Easy Ways to Keep in Touch
Chapter 3 Sending Cyber-Hugs
Tie It All Together
Unit 3 Vocabulary Self-Test
Unit 4 THE WORK WORLD
Chapter 1 What's New?
Chapter 2 A Job Change
Chapter 3 A Popular Cartoonist
Tie It All Together
Unit 4 Vocabulary Self-Test
Unit 5 LANGUAGE AND LIFE
Chapter 1 Languages of the World
Chapter 2 Hangul Day
Chapter 3 Students Save Their Native Language
Tie It All Together
Unit 5 Vocabulary Self-Test
Unit 6 ANIMAL TALES
Chapter 1 Friends with Four Legs
Chapter 2 A Baby Panda Gets a Name
Chapter 3 A Lost Cat Comes Home
Tie It All Together
Unit 6 Vocabulary Self-Test
Unit 7 SPORTS STORIES
Chapter 1 A Marathon Marriage
Chapter 2 Who Is Tiger Woods?
Chapter 3 The "Ultimate" Game
Tie It All Together
Unit 7 Vocabulary Self-Test
Unit 8 CITY SIGHTS
Chapter 1 Istanbul's Grand Bazaar
Chapter 2 An Ice Hotel
Chapter 3 Sister Cities Exchange Gifts
Tie It All Together
Unit 8 Vocabulary Self-Test
Vocabulary Self-Tests Answer Key
Glossary
Map of the United States
Map of the World
Reader's Journals
