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The new edition of For Your Information 1: Reading and Vocabulary Skills, by Karen Blanchard and Christine Root, helps beginning students become engaged, thoughtful, and confident readers of English. Each thematic unit features high-interest readings and an assortment of activities to increase students' vocabulary base and build reading skills.
Features of For Your Information 1, Second Edition:
0132626462 / 9780132626460 For Your Information 1: Reading and Vocabulary Skills (Student Book and Classroom Audio CDs)
Package consists of:
0131991868 / 9780131991866 For Your Information 1: Reading and Vocabulary Skills
0136135641 / 9780136135647 For Your Information 1: Reading and Vocabulary Skills, Audio CDs
Karen Blanchard has an M.S.Ed in English Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and Christine Root has an M.Ed in English Education from the University of Massachusetts. Both authors have more than twenty-five years of experience working with English language learners at the university level. Karen has also taught at the American Language Academy at Beaver College, in addition to tutoring students at many levels. Christine has taught in the Harvard ESL program and is a founder, coordinator, and guide in the ESOL tour program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Karen and Christine continue to enjoy working together to create English language textbooks for students around the world.
Karen and Chistine first met when they were teaching at the University of Pennylvania. It wan't long before they began working on their first book, Ready to Write. They have continued their successful collaboration, producing more than seventeen popular reading and writing textbooks.
Unit 1 ALL IN THE FAMILY
Chapter 1 A Family Bike Trip
Chapter 2 What’s in a Name?
Chapter 3 The Jim Twins
Tie It All Together
Unit 1 Vocabulary Self-Test
Unit 2 LET’S EAT
Chapter 1 A Peanut Butter Restaurant
Chapter 2 The Tokyo Fish Market
Chapter 3 A Cookie with a Surprise Inside
Unit 2 Vocabulary Self-Test
Unit 3 KEEPING IN TOUCH
Chapter 1 Sending E-Cards
Chapter 2 Easy Ways to Keep in Touch
Chapter 3 Sending Cyber-Hugs
Unit 3 Vocabulary Self-Test
Unit 4 THE WORK WORLD
Chapter 1 What’s New?
Chapter 2 A Job Change
Chapter 3 A Popular Cartoonist
Unit 4 Vocabulary Self-Test
Unit 5 LANGUAGE AND LIFE
Chapter 1 Languages of the World
Chapter 2 Hangul Day
Chapter 3 Students Save Their Native Language
Unit 5 Vocabulary Self-Test
Unit 6 ANIMAL TALES
Chapter 1 Friends with Four Legs
Chapter 2 A Baby Panda Gets a Name
Chapter 3 A Lost Cat Comes Home
Unit 6 Vocabulary Self-Test
Unit 7 SPORTS STORIES
Chapter 1 A Marathon Marriage
Chapter 2 Who Is Tiger Woods?
Chapter 3 The “Ultimate” Game
Unit 7 Vocabulary Self-Test
Unit 8 CITY SIGHTS
Chapter 1 Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar
Chapter 2 An Ice Hotel
Chapter 3 Sister Cities Exchange Gifts
Unit 8 Vocabulary Self-Test
Vocabulary Self-Tests Answer Key
Glossary
Map of the United States
Map of the World
Reader’s Journals
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