具体描述
Reader's Choice is among the world's best loved and most successful ESL/EFL textbooks for the teaching of academic skills. Based on the theory that proficient reading requires the coordination of a number of skills, this classic text recognizes that the most important of these is the reader's ability to select the proper skills or strategies to solve each reading challenge. The exercises and readings in Reader's Choice help students to become independent, efficient readers.
Each carefully selected reading is accompanied by a wide variety of exercises. Skills-focused units alternate with units centering on full reading passages. Reader's Choice, 5th Edition , preserves this proven format and popular readings while bringing new material and updates to every unit from the previous edition.
Schools with shorter programs may want to consider the split edition (one book) of the 5th edition.
New in this edition of Reader's Choice :
Visual Literacy. Today's students are confronted with a dizzying array and combination of print and graphics. This edition features more activities that develop strategies for gleaning information from combinations of text and graphics.
Web Work. The ability of today's students to evaluate information sources is nowhere more crucial than on the Internet. Extensive Web Work appears in three skills units and additional web-based activities occur throughout the book.
New Readings. Nine new reading selections respond to the changing environment faced by our students, taking up issues of globalization in a multicultural, multigenerational world.
Additional Vocabulary and Additional Skills. New readings bring additional vocabulary with new lexical items topically related across a series of linked readings. Additional skills work includes reading longer passages and creating prose summaries for Paragraph Main Idea work and transferring data from prose to tables and from graphs to prose. Some vocabulary activities have been moved to the companion website.
Users of Reader's Choice will be pleased to find that many of the features they have used with success have been retained: intensive language-based reading practice; realistic literacy tasks based on the use of authentic reading passages; a focus on reading skills but opportunities for speaking, listening, and writing in the context of the issues raised in the readings; activities that support task-based learning; and texts and tasks that stretch and challenge students in meaningful ways.
A companion website featuring interactive vocabulary activities/quizzes is available at www.press.umich.edu/elt/readerschoice/.
作者简介
目录信息
What’s New in This Edition? xv
What Hasn’t Changed? xvi
1 Discourse Focus: Reading for Different Goals—Web Work 1
Nonprose Reading: Menu 7
Word Study: Context Clues 10
Word Study: Dictionary Use 13
Word Study: Stems and Affixes 18
Paragraph Reading: Main Idea 22
2 Reading Selections 1A–1B: Language Policy 29
1A “Can English Be Dethroned?” (United Nations Report) 29
1B “English Seen as Co-Star among Global Languages” (Linguistics) 37
Reading Selection 2: Essay (Memoir) 41
Gate 4-A” 42
Reading Selections 3A–3C: Globalization 45
3A “The Globalization of Tourism” (United Nations Report) 46
3B “The Politics of Travel” (Essay) 50
3C “Learning Holidays: A Thumbnail Guide” (Travel Guide) 57
3 Nonprose Reading: Newspaper Advertisements 59
Word Study: Stems and Affixes 65
Word Study: Dictionary Use 70
Sentence Study: Introduction 75
Sentence Study: Comprehension 77
Paragraph Reading: Main Idea 79
Discourse Focus: Reading for Different Goals—Web Work 86
4 Reading Selections 1A–1C: Educational Policy 95
1A “The Creative Spirit” (Reference Book) 97
1B “American Values in Education” (Textbook) 103
1C “School Violated Student’s Rights, British Court Rules”
(News Report) 105
Reading Selection 2: Fiction 109
“Yolanda” 109
Reading Selection 3: Psychology 117
“The Stereotype of Stereotypes” 117
5 Nonprose Reading: Questionnaire 125
Word Study: Context Clues 131
Word Study: Stems and Affixes 133
Sentence Study: Comprehension 137
Paragraph Reading: Restatement and Inference 140
Discourse Focus: Careful Reading / Drawing Inferences 144
6 Reading Selection 1: Economics 147
“The Wealth of Nations” 149
Reading Selection 2: Essay 160
“Mother Tongue” 160
7 Nonprose Reading: Charts and Graphs 171
Word Study: Context Clues 184
Word Study: Stems and Affixes 186
Sentence Study: Restatement and Inference 190
Paragraph Analysis: Reading for Full Understanding 194
Discourse Focus: Prediction 204
8 Reading Selection 1: Business 209
“New Life for Used Clothes” 209
Reading Selections 2: Economics 219
“The World Turns Gray” 220
Reading Selection 3: Short Story 231
“The Lottery” 231
9 Nonprose Reading: Bus Schedule 241
Word Study: Stems and Affixes 247
Sentence Study: Comprehension 250
Paragraph Reading: Restatement and Inference 253
Discourse Focus: Careful Reading / Drawing Inferences 256
10 Reading Selections 1A–1B: Genetic Engineering 259
1A “Grains of Hope” (Science Report) 260
1B “The Global Food Fight” (Graphic Information) 270
Reading Selection 2: Poetry 275
“How to Eat a Poem” 275
“Unfolding Bud” 275
“This is Just to Say” 277
“in Just-” 278
“Spring and Fall: To a Young Child” 279
Reading Selection 3: Business 281
“Your Career—Getting Ahead: Flying High, Feeling Low” 281
11 Nonprose Reading: Road Map 287
Word Study: Context Clues 298
Sentence Study: Restatement and Inference 300
Paragraph Analysis: Reading for Full Understanding 303
Discourse Focus: Prediction 310
12 Reading Selection 1: Anthropology 317
“The Sacred ‘Rac’” 317
Reading Selections 2A–2B: Business and Sociology 321
2A “The Cross-Generational Workplace” (Business Management) 322
2B “Parlez-Vous Twixter?” (Social Trends) 333
Reading Selections 3A–3B: Family Narratives 336
3A “The Circuit” 336
3B “Fish Cheeks” 347
13 Longer Reading: Psychology 351
“The Milgram Experiment,” Ronald E. Smith, Irwin G. Sarason,
and Barbara Sarason 355
14 Longer Reading: Short Story 365
“The Third and Final Continent,” Jhumpa Lahiri 366
Appendix 393
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