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To the student

Welcome to In Focus, a three-level course for university and college students. We
have designed this series to help you build your vocabulary and improve your
reading skills as well as your discussion and presentation skills. In Focus will also
help you think critically, which is a very important general academic skill. In each
Student’s Book you will find 12 topic-based units. In addition to the Student’s Book,

there is a range of free online components, which will help you focus on what you
really need and so learn more quickly.

For In Focus, we have created a unique vocabulary syllabus containing the most
important vocabulary words for learners of English. This syllabus has a total of
about 3,800 words, which are nearly all the words you will ever need – if you know
these words, you will understand 92 percent of the words in most English academic
texts (not bad, if you think that English has over 600,000 words!). You will learn 120
of these words in each book, 10 per unit. You can use the website and smartphone
apps developed especially for In Focus to learn the rest of the 3,800 words effi ciently
and enjoyably. We have designed a special vocabulary learning system for you to

do this. Online, you will also find hundreds of interesting videos related to the unit
topic, audio recordings of the reading texts, and other activities. At the back of each
Student’s Book, there is a code, which will give you free access to all the online
elements (www.cambridgeinfocus.org).

In Focus 1 is designed for students at a pre-intermediate level. Each unit will help you
build your knowledge about a wide range of interesting topics as well as help you
think critically about these topics. You will learn about advertising, sports, population
changes and living longer, robots, how people use animals, and the Internet and
news. In every unit, we have given you useful language where you need it to guide
and help you express yourself.

We wish you good luck using In Focus. We are sure that the book and the online
materials will help you learn English quickly and in a fun way!

Charles Browne Brent Culligan Joseph Phillips

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