Better Reading English
Improve Your Understanding of Written English
1st Edition
Published on 4. November 2016
240 pages
978-0-07-175192-6 (ISBN)
Description
Sharpen your English language skills through readings about its speakers' daily lives and culture Better Reading English offers you entertaining, "e,real world"e, texts to help you understand and learn more English vocabulary and phrases. Each chapter features articles that cover a specific topic, such as cuisine, music, sports, film and theater, art, the family, today's lifestyle, or politics and history. Along the way, you will find instruction and exercises to help develop improved reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary. The articles become gradually more difficult as you proceed through the book to keep you challenged and engaged. Better Reading English is an easy, engaging way to boost your language skills and learn more about the language and its speakers as you go.
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Jenni Currie Santamaria
Better Reading English: Improve Your Understanding of Written English
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McGraw-Hill Contemporary
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- How to Use This Book
- 1. Nature in the United States
- Yellowstone Park rules
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Saving trees
- An outdoor survival school
- Excerpt from Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
- 2. The 20th Century
- Technology time line
- Bill Gates at college
- Rock against the Berlin Wall
- JFK's inaugural speech
- Facing tanks in North Africa
- 3. San Francisco
- City travel tips
- A guide to city neighborhoods
- A new gold rush
- Caught up in the 1906 earthquake
- The development of Alcatraz
- 4. The Early United States
- Civil War reenactment
- "Paul Revere's Ride"
- The Declaration of Independence
- Christopher Columbus' Journal
- 5. Entertainment
- The main movie genres
- Reviews for Titanic
- From Norma Jeane to Marilyn Monroe
- All the world's a stage
- 6. Eating In, Eating Out
- Restaurant reviews
- Choices on a Denny's® menu
- Trends in supermarket foods
- Hunting for dinner
- Christmas morning breakfast
- 7. Playing the Game
- The rules for checkers
- "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
- The attraction of golf
- The invention of basketball
- Toward the finishing line
- 8. Sickness and Health
- Rules for healthful eating
- Happiness boosters
- Mental gremlins
- Symptoms of depression
- 9. Children and Parents
- Positive parenting
- The power of early experience
- Household chores
- Establishing yourself as coach
- 10. Free Time, Fun Time
- Visiting thrift stores
- Spirituality and meditation
- Success at surfing
- Backpacking into the wilderness
- Answer Key
