Full Description
LEAP 2 - Reading and Writing (CEFR Level B1) is a task-based textbook for students preparing for college or university studies in English. It offers interesting, challenging and varied content with strong vocabulary work, emphasising Academic Word List items, and solid text-based skills development, including academic skills and critical thinking. At the same time LEAP 2 is adapted for learners at a lower level of language proficiency, with vocabulary activities preceding each reading text, one grammar focus per chapter and more basic comprehension checks. Students apply critical-thinking skills as they engage in academic reading and writing tasks across a range of disciplines. Contemporary texts prepare students for college reading requirements, with activities that develop reading comprehension.
With focuses on reading, writing, grammar and academic survival skills, LEAP 2 - Reading and Writing empowers students to thrive in their academic studies.
Features and benefits:
Three authentic reading texts per chapter from a variety of mostly Canadian textbooks, journals, magazines or web reports prepare students for the text length and genres they will encounter in academic courses.
Focus on Reading sections provide explanations of reading skills and strategies, accompanied by well-structured and challenging activities to help students improve their ability to deal with university-level texts.
Warm-Up and Final Assignments integrate a process approach to writing, as well as a genre approach, to guide students with the various writing tasks. Focus on Writing activities develop more specific writing skills, which students reinvest in the assignments.
Key words and vocabulary from the Academic Word List are highlighted in three Vocabulary Build sections in every chapter, giving students ample opportunity to expand their vocabulary.
My eLab includes:
Vocabulary review exercises
Additional focuses: skills practice based on texts from the book
New content in four sections related in theme to the four chapter pairs in the book:
Vocabulary lists by chapter and AWL master list
Helpful documents, including Writing Checklist, Parts of Speech, Irregular Verbs List
Contents
CHAPTER 1 • SUCCESS IN BUSINESS
READING 1 Looking for Money
READING 2 Youth Entrepreneurs
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Write a Descriptive Paragraph
READING 3 Crowdfunding: History and Future
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write Two Descriptive Paragraphs
CHAPTER 2 • THE FUTURE OF WORK
READING 1 Will Robots Bring about the End of Work?
READING 2 Half of All Jobs Today Will Disappear by 2030
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Write a Topic Sentence for a Cause and Effect Paragraph
READING 3 Old and New Job Skills
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write a Cause and Effect Paragraph
CHAPTER 3 • FIT FOR LIFE
READING 1 This Is How Important Sleep Is for Your Mental Health
READING 2 Body Energy: Spending It and Storing It
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Compare and Contrast Two Ways to Keep Fit
READING 3 Living Forever, Living Well
CHAPTER 4 • A HAPPY LIFE
READING 1 Eleven Ways to Walk Away Stress
READING 2 Take Control of Stress
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Write Short Definitions
READING 3 Defining Happiness
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write a Definition Paragraph
CHAPTER 5 • THINKING DIFFERENTLY
READING 1 Avoiding Innovation
READING 2 The Quirky Secrets of the World's Greatest Innovators
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Write a Formal Email
READING 3 Anyone Can Be an Innovator
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write an Email Request for Information
CHAPTER 6 • A VIEW OF THE FUTURE
READING 1 Guide to Augmented Reality
READING 2 How Can Augmented Reality Be Used for Social Good?
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Write a Short Summary
READING 3 AR + AI = New Life
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write a Summary
CHAPTER 7 • EDUCATION FOR ALL
READING 1 To Adapt MOOCs, or Not? That Is No Longer the Question
READING 2 The SOLE of a Student
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Write a Process Paragraph
READING 3 A Personal Education
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write a Process Paragraph and Give a Presentation
CHAPTER 8 • RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
READING 1 How Are Today's Biggest Tech Trends Affecting Our Human Rights?
READING 2 What Is Google's "Right to Be Forgotten"?
WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Write an Introductory Essay Paragraph
READING 3 Private Lives: We Need New Laws
FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write a Persuasive Essay
