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Plan of the book

Unit Title/Topic Reading texts Reading skills Vocabulary
1 The Effects of 1 Advertising & Scanning Identifying a part of
speech: verbs
Consumerism
Skimming
Advertising
Cycle 1 Benefi ts and 2 You Are What You Buy Identifying topic and Word parts: ism
Example: consumerism
main idea
disadvantages of
Identifying unnecessary
advertising
information
Identifying opinions
Pages 1–8
2 Extreme 1 Extreme Athletes Scanning Identifying a part of
speech: verbs and
2 Extreme Sports,
Sports
Skimming
Cycle 1 Why do extreme Extreme Risks Identifying topic and Word parts: para
adverbs
main idea
sports? What are the
Example: parachute
Logical reasoning
risks?
Identifying opinions
Pages 9–16
3 Our Aging 1 Time to Relax? Scanning Identifying a part of
speech: adjectives and
Skimming
2 Growing Old
Population
Cycle 1 Problems of Identifying topic and Word parts: medi
nouns
main idea
Example:
increasing numbers of
Finding supporting ideas
old people
Making inferences Mediterranean
Pages 17–24 Robots in the 1 Living with Robots Scanning Identifying a part of
Cycle 1 4 Home 2 A New Member of the Skimming speech: nouns
Family
Word parts: uni
Identifying topic and

Example: universal
Benefits of personal
main idea
robots
Identifying unnecessary
information
Identifying opinions
Pages 25–32 Animals: Our 1 Animal Testing Scanning Word friends
Cycle 1 5 Research 2 Is Animal Research Skimming (collocations)
Necessary?
Word parts: dis
Identifying topic and
Partners?
Example: disease
main idea

Benefits and the
Logical reasoning
cruelty of animal
Pages 33–40 testing Identifying opinions
6 The Online 1 The Death of the Scanning Word friends
Encyclopedia
(collocations)
Skimming
Information
Cycle 1 Debate 2 The Age of Digital Identifying topic and Word parts: sur
Example: survey
Information
main idea
Benefi ts and
Finding supporting ideas
disadvantages of
digital information Identifying opinions
Pages 41–48
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