This is a comprehensive textbook centered on the skills needed to efficiently decipher English texts. It consists of two parts. Part 1 focuses learners’ attention on strategies they can use to comprehend English texts, such as skimming, scanning, predicting, using background knowledge, understanding chunks, understanding paragraph structure, and summarizing. In Part 2, students will learn how to use paragraph structure to better understand the content while also learning ways to expand support sentences and typical connecting words for each type of paragraph structure. Teacher’s materials contain a mini-test for each unit.

Contents

UNIT 1    Steve Jobs  (Skimming)

UNIT 2    Guggenheim Museum and Online Art  (Scanning)

UNIT 3    High-tech Robot to Milk Cows  (Predicting)

UNIT 4    IT for Schools in the UK  (Using Background Knowledge)

UNIT 5    Powerchair Football  (Chunked Reading)

UNIT 6    The Culture of Cosplay in Asia  (Topic Sentence and Supporting Sentences)

UNIT 7    Leading-edge Technology for Athlete Training and Health  (Summarizing)

UNIT 8    Digital Detoxing  Review for Part 1

UNIT 9    Abbey Road  (Time-order Paragraph)

UNIT 10   Biofuel  (Comparison and Contrast Paragraph)

UNIT 11   NY High Line  (Cause and Effect Paragraph)

UNIT 12   The Science behind Falling in Love  (Process Paragraph)

UNIT 13   On the Forefront of Alzheimer’s Disease  (Classification Paragraph)

UNIT 14   Laughter Yoga  (Illustration Paragraph)

UNIT 15   Obesity among the More Affluent in India  Review for Part 2

（Total 15 Units）