Page 42 - In Focus (demo)

How a unit works

All units in In Focus are eight pages long and follow a similar format. Where
appropriate, icons indicate that students can access the companion website or app
for additional practice of the material. An audio icon also reminds students that they
have the option of listening to the reading texts (available free from the website).

Unit organization

Objective Section

Warm up
1 Critical cartoons
Schema building
Page 1 Building knowledge
Real world
connection Media link

2 Core vocabulary
Vocabulary
Scanning and skimming
development
Pages 2–3 Words in context: collocations
Reading
Word parts
Speaking
Discussion dictation

3 Reading skills
Pre-reading questions

Reading Reading
Pages 4–5 Reading skills Checking details; Making
inferences; Identifying opinions/
Speaking
purpose/reasons; Cause and
effect; Pronouns; Reference words;

Going beyond the text

Gathering,
comparing, 4 Researching a topic
Page 6 and analyzing Information gathering
information
Interpreting and reporting results
Speaking

5 Critical thinking
Critical thinking
skills Fact or opinion?
Writing Categorizing
Pages 7–8
Discussion
Writing
Presentation
Discussion; Presentation
Presentation skills
Quotable Quotes

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