Reading for Today 5: Topics for Today
4th Edition
Published on 16. July 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-111-03304-0 (ISBN)
Description
Topics for Today is the fifth in a five-level academic skills program that systematically develops students' reading and vocabulary skills through engaging themes and comprehensive practice. The Reading for Today series teaches essential reading strategies like skimming, scanning, fact-finding, and paraphrasing, and gives students opportunities to talk and write about what they've read. The new edition of this best-selling series helps learners build solid skills for academic success!
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Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Mason, OH
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
ELT/ESL
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-111-03304-0 (9781111033040)
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Content
Unit 1 Society: School and Family Chapter 1 Hop, Skip..and Software? Program to Bring Laptop Computers to Rural Schools Chapter 2 My Husband, the Outsider Unwelcome in Chinatown Chapter 3 Beyond Rivalry Middle Children and Their Position in the Family Unit 2 Influences on Our Lives: Nature versus Nurture Chapter 4 Who Lives Longer? More Senior Citizens, Fewer Kids Chapter 5 Switched at Birth: Women Learn the Truth 56 Years Later Polish Twins Swapped by Doctors as Babies Receive Damages Chapter 6 Are Gifted Children Born or Made? Reading at 8 Months? That Was Just the Start Unit 3 Technology and Ethical Issues Chapter 7 Assisted Suicide: Multiple Perspectives Matters of Life and Death Should Doctors Be Allowed to Help Terminally Ill Patients Commit Suicide? Chapter 8 Trading Flesh Around the Globe Sales of Kidneys Prompt New laws and Debate Chapter 9 The Gift of Life: When One Body Can Save Another Saving Her Sister's Life Unit 4 The Environment Chapter 10 Students Dig into Sustainable Farming at Vermont College NASA Goes Green with New Sustainability Base Chapter 11 Wilder Places for Wild Things Predators on the Prowl Chapter 12 A Nuclear Graveyard A Nuclear Graveyard (Excerpt) Index of Key Words and Phrases Skills Index