Table of ContentScope and Sequence Unit 1 The World of Advertising Theme: Advertising Reading One: Advertising All Over the World A magazine article Reading Two: Changing World Markers An excerpt from a speech Vocabulary: Word definitions, context clues, synonyms, idioms Grammar: Contrast simple present and present progressive Unit 2 Going to Extremes: Sports and Obsession Theme: Extreme Sports Reading One: Interview with Tony Hawk An interview with a professional skateboarder Reading Two: High School Star Hospitalized for Eating Disorder A newspaper report Vocabulary: Context clues, word forms, synonyms, vocabulary categorization Grammar: Modals of ability Unit 3 Miracle Cure? Theme: Fraud Reading One: A Miracle Cure? A magazine article Reading Two: The Organic Heath Center An advertisement Vocabulary: Word definitions, context clues, prefixes and suffixes Grammar: Superlative adjectives Unit 4 The Metamorphosis Theme: Storytelling Reading One: The Metamorphosis An abridged story Reading Two: Ungeziefer A critique of the story Vocabulary: Word definitions, synonyms, context clues, comparison and contrast of word meaning and usage Grammar: Infinitives of purpose, relative pronouns Unit 5 Speaking of Gender Theme: Language Reading One: Different Ways of Talking An article Reading Two: Speaking of Gender An interview with a linguist Vocabulary: Synonyms, context clues, vocabulary classification Grammar: Using modals for requests Unit 6 Ecotourism Theme: Tourism Reading One: Tourists in a Fragile Land An opinion essay Reading Two: A Travel Journal An account of a trop to Antarctica Vocabulary: Paraphrasing meaning, context clues, word associations, Analogies, synonyms and antonyms Grammar: Past progressive and simple past Unit 7 What's So Funny About That? Theme: Humor Reading One: The Story of I Love Lucy An autobiographical account Reading Two: Cosby: A Different kind of Family Show A TV show review Vocabulary: Context clues, word definitions, suffixes, word forms, vocabulary classification Grammar: Non-clauses with wh- words Unit 8 Always In Fashion Theme: Fashion Reading One: The Search for Beauty A passage on plastic surgery Reading Two: My Wife Wants to Look Younger An excerpt from a journal Vocabulary: Word definitions, word association Grammar: Describing the past with used to Unit 9 Crime and Punishment Theme: Punishment Reading One: Life in Prison Is Still Life: Why Should a Killer Live? Why Do We Kill People to Show That Killing People Is Wrong? Two newspaper op-ed articles Vocabulary: Context clues, word definitions, abstract nouns, appropriate word usage Grammar: Contrast: present perfect and present perfect progressive Unit 10 Finding a Spouse Theme: Marriage Reading One: Finding a Spouse An anthropological article Reading Two: What's Wrong With Tradition? A letter to the editor Vocabulary: Word definitions, analogies, synonyms and antonyms, word forms Grammar: Articles: Definite and indefinite Grammar Book References
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