Life in Society Student's Book: Reading, Study Skills, and Writing
by Kristine Brown and Susan Hood
© Cambridge University Press 2002
*As it is shown on the graph above the three books in the series range from Intermediate to Low Advanced level. Academic Encounters Human Behavior. (High Intermediate to Low Advanced) Components: Student's Book Teacher's Manual Class Audio Cassettes Class Audio CDs Academic Encounters Life in Society. (Intermediate to High Intermediate) Components: Student's Book Teacher's Manual Class Audio Cassettes Class Audio CDs Academic Encounters American Studies. (Intermediate) Components: Student's Book Teacher's Manual Class Audio CDs |
Description:
The Academic Encounters series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. Academic Encounters: Life in Society engages students with authentic academic readings, photos, graphs, and charts on stimulating topics from the field of sociology. Topics include peer pressure, the influence of the media, and balancing home and work. Objective: 1)Students develop important skills such as reading critically, examining graphic material, highlighting, note taking, and preparing for a quiz. 2)By completing writing assignments of different lengths, students build academic writing skills, respond to the readings, and incorporate what they have learned. 3) Content focus is in sociology,which provides an introduction to an actual college subject as well as natural opportunities to recycle and expand on vocabulary, language structure, and ideas. 4) Offering a variety of reading, study skills, and writing tasks that expose students to academic discourse. |