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Understanding Ideas Advanced Reading Skills
This advanced level reading skills and comprehension course teacher in a systematic and progressive way the reading techniques all students of english need to master. The course covers subjects such as how to read a test, guessing unknown words, special forms of english (telegram and newspaper headlines) and also provides practice in summary writing.
Texts cover a wide range of topics, chosen for their intrinsic interest and as useful material for comprehension practice and the development of reading skills. Special texts are included for use as progress texts or for examination practice.
Section A: Basic Reading Technique
Teaching unit 1 How to read a text
Teaching unit 2 Guessing unknown words
Section B: Open-Ended Texts and Summary-Writing
Teaching unit 3 Open ended tests
Teaching unit 4 Introduction to summary
Teaching unit 5 Writing summaries
Section C: Practice Tests
1 Factory life - a student's experience
2 Who's crazy?
3 Control Units
4 American finds real world
5 Women's prison goes pop
6 The politics of housework
7 Violence
8 How the west as lost
9 Goodbye to the cane
10 Schoolbooks and the female stereotype
Section D: Special Forms of English
1 Telegrams
2 Instruction
3 Newspaper headlines
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