Insights 1: A Content-based Approach to Academic Preparation
Published on 4. November 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
191 pages
978-0-201-89854-5 (ISBN)
Description
Insights: A Content-based Approach to Academic Preparation, by Donna Brinton, Linda Jensen, Lyn Repath-Martos, Jan Frodesen, and Christine Holten, helps pre-college and college-level ESL students develop the crucial academic skills they need to meet the demands of academic English. By exploring four high-interest academic content areas, students learn to synthesize information from a variety of sources and apply their knowledge in stimulating discussion and writing assignments. Features *Students work with a variety of authentic source materials, including selections from college texts, real college lectures, visual materials, and literary passages. *An integrated skills approach weaves together reading, writing, speaking, and listening activities with context-related grammar and vocabulary exercises. *Videos of real university lectures accustom students to typical North American lecture style and natural language. *A wide variety of academic strategies includes listening for emphasis cues, finding the appropriate definition for a word, using examples with generalizations, and more.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Upper Saddle River
United States
Target group
ELT/ESL
Dimensions
Height: 272 mm
Width: 278 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
461 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-201-89854-5 (9780201898545)
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Content
Introduction
UNIT 1: INSIGHTS FROM FOLKLORE
Introduction:Material Folk Culture
Exploring the Concepts
Vocabulary: Describing Objects
Grammar: Sequencing Adjectives
Working with Sources
Academic Strategy: Extended Definitions
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE: What Is Folk Art?
LITERATURE: "My Navajo Home in Los Angeles" Thomas Whiterock
Grammar: Fronting Adverb Phrases
Integrating Perspectives
POEM: "A Navajo Blanket" May Swenson
Academic Strategy: Journal Writing
Exploration:Recognizing Culture in Handmade Objects
Exploring the Concepts
Working with Sources
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE 1: Folk Art and World View
Academic Strategy: Coping with Unfamiliar Words in Academic Lectures
Vocabulary: Verbs Expressing Relationships
Academic Strategy: Highlighting or Marking a Text
READING: "Folk Objects, Part 1" Simon J. Bronner
Academic Strategy: Using Examples to Make a Generalization
Grammar: Using Adverbs of Frequency to Qualify a Generalization
Vocabulary: Expressing Significance
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE 2: Folk Art and Culture
Integrating Perspectives
Expansion:Popular Culture and Folk Art Objects
Exploring the Concepts
Vocabulary: Expressing an Opinion
Working with Sources
VIDEOTAPED LECTUPE: Mediating Popular Culture
Academic Strategy: Clarifying a Point Using Examples
READING: "Folk Objects, Part 2" Simon J. Bronner
Vocabulary: Exemplification
Grammar: Passive Verbs in Description
LITERATURE: "Mrs. Flett's Aged Father" Carol Shields
Grammar: Embedded Questions
Integrating Perspectives
Academic Strategy: Characteristics of Thesis Statements
UNIT 2: INSIGHTS FROM ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Introduction:Local Winds
Exploring the Concepts
Academic Strategy: Cubing
Vocabulary: Expressing Power through Verbs
Working with Sources
LITERATURE: "A Year in Provence" Peter Mayle
Grammar: Participial Phrases
READING 1: "Relish the Rhone" Clive Irving
Grammar: Verb Tense in Description, Narration, and Explanation
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE: Wind Direction
Academic Strategy: Comprehending Unstressed Words
READING 2: "Demon's Gates and Devil's Doors" Mary Reed
Grammar: Expressing Contrast through Subordination
Integrating Perspectives
Academic Strategy: Sensory Description in Storytelling
Exploration:Thermal Circulations
Exploring the Concepts
Academic Strategy: Previewing Illustrations in a Text
Vocabulary: Geographical Terms
Working with Sources
Academic Strategy: Previewing an Academic Text
READING: "Local Wind Systems" C. Donald Ahrens
Grammar: Subject - Verb Agreement with Present Tense Verbs
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE 1: Thermal Circulation Systems
Academic Strategy: Predicting the Contents of a Lecture
Academic Strategy: Skimming and Scanning
READING 2: "Extreme Temperature Winds" C. Donald Ahrens
Vocabulary: Word Families
Grammar: Adverbs of Manner, Place, and Direction
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE 2: Foehn and Chinook Winds
Integrating Perspectives
Academic Strategy: Synthesizing Information
Academic Strategy: Studying with a Partner
Expansion:Hot Winds
Exploring the Concepts
Working with Sources
Vocabulary: Finding Synonyms or Paraphrases
READING 1: "Santa Ana Winds" C. Donald Ahrens
Grammar: Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses Indicating Location
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE: Santa Ana Winds
Grammar: Using Articles with Geographical Terms
READING 2: "The Wise Man of the Mountains" Patrick Goldstein
Vocabulary: Similes
Integrating Perspectives
LITERATURE: "Los Angeles Notebook" Joan Didion
Academic Strategy: Supporting a Thesis Statement
UNIT 3: INSIGHTS FROM AMERICAN HISTORY
Introduction:Images of Immigration
Exploring the Concepts
Academic Strategy: Clustering
Working with Sources
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE: Immigrant Stereotypes
Academic Strategy: Predicting the Contents of a Reading
READING 1: "The New Immigration: 1880-1900" Gary G. Nash and Julie Roy Jeffrey
Grammar: Cause/Effect
Vocabulary: Synonyms
READING 2: "The New Colossus" Emma Lazarus
READING 3: "The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921" Alan M. Kraut
Vocabulary: Connotation and Denotation
Integrating Perspectives
Exploration:Traditional Models of Assimilation
Exploring the Concepts
Vocabulary: Word Families
Working with Sources
READING 1: "Assimilation" Alex Thio
READING 2: "Assimilation in American Life" Milton Gordon
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE I: Variables of Assimilation
Grammar: Brief Definitions through Relative Clauses
VIDEOTAPED LECTUR.E 2: The Melting Pot Model
Academic Strategy: Graphic Organizers
Vocabulary: Synonyms
READING 3: "Amalgamation" Alex Thio
Academic Strategy: Summarizing
Integrating Perspectives
Expansion:Recognizing Diversity
Exploring the Concepts
Working with Sources
READING: "Cultural Pluralism" Alex Thio
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE: Triple-Generation Theory
Integrating Perspectives
Academic Strategy: Applying a Theory to a Case
LITERATURE: "A Juk-Sing Opera" Genny Lim
Academic Strategy: Applying a Theoretical Model toExamples
Academic Strategy: Using Peer Feedback to Revise Academic Essays
UNIT 4: INSIGHTS FROM ANTHROPOLOGY
Introduction:Images of Family Life
Exploring the Concepts
Grammar-Using Modals to Express Possibility
Vocabulary: Kinship Terms
Working with Sources
READING 1: "The Way We Are" Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary: Figurative Language
READING 2: "Why Men Need Family Values" Robert J. Samuelson
Grammar: Referring to Sources
Academic Strategy: Reacting to Readings
VIDEOTAPED LECTUPE: "Post-marital Residence"
Vocabulary: Key Terms
Integrating Perspectives
Exploration:Who Are Your Kin?
Exploring the Concepts
Academic Strategy: Chaining
Working with Sources
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE 1: Definition of Kinship
Vocabulary: Colloquial Language
READING 1: "Kinship Systems" Gary Ferraro
Academic Strategy: Outlining
Grammar: Clarification Connectors
READING 2: "Descent Groups" Gary Ferraro
Vocabulary: Latin and Greek Roots
Academic Strategy: Mapping
VIDEOTAPED LECTUR.E 2: Bone vs. Blood
Integrating Perspectives
Expansion:Whom Should You Marry?
Exploring the Concepts
Academic Strategy: Agreeing and Disagreeing in Class Discussions
Working with Sources
READING 1: "Marriage" Gary Ferraro
Grammar: Qualifying a Definition with Subordinators
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE: Marriage Partners
READING 2: "Mate Selection" Gary Ferraro
Integrating Perspectives
LITERATURE: "The Bird Artist" Howard Norman
Academic Strategy: Prewriting Debate
Academic Strategy: Organizing an Argumentation Essay
Insights 1 Skills-at-a-Glance
UNIT 1: INSIGHTS FROM FOLKLORE
Introduction:Material Folk Culture
Exploring the Concepts
Vocabulary: Describing Objects
Grammar: Sequencing Adjectives
Working with Sources
Academic Strategy: Extended Definitions
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE: What Is Folk Art?
LITERATURE: "My Navajo Home in Los Angeles" Thomas Whiterock
Grammar: Fronting Adverb Phrases
Integrating Perspectives
POEM: "A Navajo Blanket" May Swenson
Academic Strategy: Journal Writing
Exploration:Recognizing Culture in Handmade Objects
Exploring the Concepts
Working with Sources
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE 1: Folk Art and World View
Academic Strategy: Coping with Unfamiliar Words in Academic Lectures
Vocabulary: Verbs Expressing Relationships
Academic Strategy: Highlighting or Marking a Text
READING: "Folk Objects, Part 1" Simon J. Bronner
Academic Strategy: Using Examples to Make a Generalization
Grammar: Using Adverbs of Frequency to Qualify a Generalization
Vocabulary: Expressing Significance
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE 2: Folk Art and Culture
Integrating Perspectives
Expansion:Popular Culture and Folk Art Objects
Exploring the Concepts
Vocabulary: Expressing an Opinion
Working with Sources
VIDEOTAPED LECTUPE: Mediating Popular Culture
Academic Strategy: Clarifying a Point Using Examples
READING: "Folk Objects, Part 2" Simon J. Bronner
Vocabulary: Exemplification
Grammar: Passive Verbs in Description
LITERATURE: "Mrs. Flett's Aged Father" Carol Shields
Grammar: Embedded Questions
Integrating Perspectives
Academic Strategy: Characteristics of Thesis Statements
UNIT 2: INSIGHTS FROM ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Introduction:Local Winds
Exploring the Concepts
Academic Strategy: Cubing
Vocabulary: Expressing Power through Verbs
Working with Sources
LITERATURE: "A Year in Provence" Peter Mayle
Grammar: Participial Phrases
READING 1: "Relish the Rhone" Clive Irving
Grammar: Verb Tense in Description, Narration, and Explanation
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE: Wind Direction
Academic Strategy: Comprehending Unstressed Words
READING 2: "Demon's Gates and Devil's Doors" Mary Reed
Grammar: Expressing Contrast through Subordination
Integrating Perspectives
Academic Strategy: Sensory Description in Storytelling
Exploration:Thermal Circulations
Exploring the Concepts
Academic Strategy: Previewing Illustrations in a Text
Vocabulary: Geographical Terms
Working with Sources
Academic Strategy: Previewing an Academic Text
READING: "Local Wind Systems" C. Donald Ahrens
Grammar: Subject - Verb Agreement with Present Tense Verbs
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE 1: Thermal Circulation Systems
Academic Strategy: Predicting the Contents of a Lecture
Academic Strategy: Skimming and Scanning
READING 2: "Extreme Temperature Winds" C. Donald Ahrens
Vocabulary: Word Families
Grammar: Adverbs of Manner, Place, and Direction
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE 2: Foehn and Chinook Winds
Integrating Perspectives
Academic Strategy: Synthesizing Information
Academic Strategy: Studying with a Partner
Expansion:Hot Winds
Exploring the Concepts
Working with Sources
Vocabulary: Finding Synonyms or Paraphrases
READING 1: "Santa Ana Winds" C. Donald Ahrens
Grammar: Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses Indicating Location
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE: Santa Ana Winds
Grammar: Using Articles with Geographical Terms
READING 2: "The Wise Man of the Mountains" Patrick Goldstein
Vocabulary: Similes
Integrating Perspectives
LITERATURE: "Los Angeles Notebook" Joan Didion
Academic Strategy: Supporting a Thesis Statement
UNIT 3: INSIGHTS FROM AMERICAN HISTORY
Introduction:Images of Immigration
Exploring the Concepts
Academic Strategy: Clustering
Working with Sources
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE: Immigrant Stereotypes
Academic Strategy: Predicting the Contents of a Reading
READING 1: "The New Immigration: 1880-1900" Gary G. Nash and Julie Roy Jeffrey
Grammar: Cause/Effect
Vocabulary: Synonyms
READING 2: "The New Colossus" Emma Lazarus
READING 3: "The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921" Alan M. Kraut
Vocabulary: Connotation and Denotation
Integrating Perspectives
Exploration:Traditional Models of Assimilation
Exploring the Concepts
Vocabulary: Word Families
Working with Sources
READING 1: "Assimilation" Alex Thio
READING 2: "Assimilation in American Life" Milton Gordon
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE I: Variables of Assimilation
Grammar: Brief Definitions through Relative Clauses
VIDEOTAPED LECTUR.E 2: The Melting Pot Model
Academic Strategy: Graphic Organizers
Vocabulary: Synonyms
READING 3: "Amalgamation" Alex Thio
Academic Strategy: Summarizing
Integrating Perspectives
Expansion:Recognizing Diversity
Exploring the Concepts
Working with Sources
READING: "Cultural Pluralism" Alex Thio
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE: Triple-Generation Theory
Integrating Perspectives
Academic Strategy: Applying a Theory to a Case
LITERATURE: "A Juk-Sing Opera" Genny Lim
Academic Strategy: Applying a Theoretical Model toExamples
Academic Strategy: Using Peer Feedback to Revise Academic Essays
UNIT 4: INSIGHTS FROM ANTHROPOLOGY
Introduction:Images of Family Life
Exploring the Concepts
Grammar-Using Modals to Express Possibility
Vocabulary: Kinship Terms
Working with Sources
READING 1: "The Way We Are" Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary: Figurative Language
READING 2: "Why Men Need Family Values" Robert J. Samuelson
Grammar: Referring to Sources
Academic Strategy: Reacting to Readings
VIDEOTAPED LECTUPE: "Post-marital Residence"
Vocabulary: Key Terms
Integrating Perspectives
Exploration:Who Are Your Kin?
Exploring the Concepts
Academic Strategy: Chaining
Working with Sources
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE 1: Definition of Kinship
Vocabulary: Colloquial Language
READING 1: "Kinship Systems" Gary Ferraro
Academic Strategy: Outlining
Grammar: Clarification Connectors
READING 2: "Descent Groups" Gary Ferraro
Vocabulary: Latin and Greek Roots
Academic Strategy: Mapping
VIDEOTAPED LECTUR.E 2: Bone vs. Blood
Integrating Perspectives
Expansion:Whom Should You Marry?
Exploring the Concepts
Academic Strategy: Agreeing and Disagreeing in Class Discussions
Working with Sources
READING 1: "Marriage" Gary Ferraro
Grammar: Qualifying a Definition with Subordinators
VIDEOTAPED LECTURE: Marriage Partners
READING 2: "Mate Selection" Gary Ferraro
Integrating Perspectives
LITERATURE: "The Bird Artist" Howard Norman
Academic Strategy: Prewriting Debate
Academic Strategy: Organizing an Argumentation Essay
Insights 1 Skills-at-a-Glance