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Plan of the book

Unit Title/Topic Reading texts Reading skills Vocabulary
1 A World of 1 The Wonder of Scanning Collocations
Language
Word parts: equa /equi
Skimming
English
Cycle 1 English as a global 2 An English-Speaking Checking details Example: equivalent
World
Making inferences
language
Pages 1–8 Identifying opinions

2 Where Are All 1 Population Pyramids Scanning Collocations
Skimming
Word parts: pre
2 Fewer and Fewer
the Babies?
Cycle 1 Graying populations Checking details
Babies
Example: previous
Reference words
Making inferences
Pages 9–16
3 The Price of 1 Sports and Scanning Collocations
Competition
Word parts: pend/pent
Skimming
Excellence
Cycle 1 Drugs in sport 2 The Search for Speed Checking details Example: suspend
Cause and effect
Making inferences

Pages 17–24 The 1 What Is Global Scanning Collocations
Cycle 1 4 Inconvenient Warming? Skimming Word parts: dict

2 Hotter and Hotter
Example: predict
Checking details
Truth of
Reference words
Global
Warming
Solutions to global Identifying opinions
warming 1 Beauty Scanning Collocations
Pages 25–32
Cycle 1 5 Ideals of 2 What Is Beauty? Skimming Word parts: dis
Changing
Example: disagree
Checking details
Beauty
Cause and effect
What makes a person
Making inferences

Pages 33–40 attractive?
6 Vegetarianism 1 A Vegetable Diet Scanning Collocations
Word parts: kilo
2 Vegetarianism: The
Skimming
Why people become
Cycle 1 vegetarians Healthy and Moral Checking details Example: kilogram
Choice
Identifying reasons
Making inferences

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