| ISBN |
9781133307990 (paperback) |
| Name |
Anderson, Neil J. author. |
| Title |
Active skills for reading. 1, student book / Neil J. Anderson. |
| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Published |
Boston, MA, USA : National Geographic Learning : Heinle Cengage Learning, ©2013. |
| ©2013 |
| Description |
176 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm + +2 audio CDs. |
| Notes |
CEF level: B1/B2. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Unit 1 All about food -- A restaurant for change -- Newspaper article -- Predicting -- antonyms -- Reading food labels -- Let's make blueberry muffins! -- Recipe -- Scanning -- Irregular past tense verbs -- Unit 2 Inventions -- Computer beats champs -- Newspaper article -- Reading for details -- The prefixes com- and con- -- Dictionary skills: identifying parts of speech -- The most useful inventions -- Web forum -- Scanning -- The suffixes -ful and -less -- Unit 3 Studying abroad -- Want to study abroad? -- Advertisement -- Using subheadings to predict content -- Compound words -- Writing an English journal -- My travel journal -- Diary extract -- Reading for details -- Adjectives ending in -ed -- Review 1 -- Fluency strategy: SQ3R; The freshman fifteen magazine article -- Fluency practice -- 1. Four funny inventions advertisement -- 2. My working holiday travel magazine article -- Unit 4 Money and budgets -- A student budget -- Magazine article. |
| Summary |
'Active skills for reading' is an exciting five-level reading series that develops learners' reading comprehension and vocabulary skills. Written by reading specialist Neil J. Anderson, the new edition of this best-selling series uses an ACTIVE approach to help learners become more confident, independent and active-readers. ACTIVE Reading A = activate prior knowledge, C = cultivate vocabulary, T = think about meaning, I = increase reading fluency, V = verify strategies, E = evaluate progress. |
| Subjects |
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers |
| Reading comprehension -- Problems, exercises, etc |
| Vocabulary -- Problems, exercises, etc |
| Reading -- Problems, exercises, etc |
| Vocabulary -- Study and teaching |
| Easy to read (yellow : starters) |
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