This is the high intermediate level student book.

This three-level academic, theme-based reading series focuses on cross-cultural content and promotes critical thinking skills.

Features

-Reading selections span fiction, non-fiction, news and magazine articles, interviews, maps, charts, web pages, quotations, and photo captions.
-Reading passages reflect controlled word count and vocabulary and structure progression.
-Skills are continually recycled to build student reading fluency, confidence, and mastery.
-Units open with engaging photographs and questions to introduce the theme, provide academic focus, set chapter goals, and activate prior knowledge.
-Before You Read activities stimulate background knowledge, focus on vocabulary presentation and practice, and introduce important expressions.
-As You Read sections focus students on the main idea, offer timed readings to build fluency, and provide pair work activities to promote topic discussion and information processing.
-A specific section in each unit focuses on Internet reseach.
-Structured speaking activities help students further explore each unit theme.
-Each unit concludes with three writing activities.