Contents Active Skills for Reading Intro 1 2 3 6 Living Online Meeting Friends Scanning Singular and Plural Starting a Blog Online Nouns in English Webpage Active Gaming Predicting from Adding -er or -r to the Title Make New Words Page 11 Magazine Article Study and Doing Something Recognizing Contractions Completing a Education Different Purpose School Webpage Application The Learning Center Skimming -ly Adverbs Form Page 21 College Brochure Work Choices One Man, 2 Jobs Scanning Synonyms for Work Reading a Magazine Article Job Ad Working Holiday Main Compound Nouns Page 31 Information Sheet Ideas Review 1 Fluency Strategy: PRO; Can the Internet be bad for you? Magazine Article Page 1 Fluency Practice: 1. Lifelong Learning Webpage 2. Earning Power Newspaper Article The World of Sepak Takraw Reading for Word Webs Dictionary Sports Reference Article Details Usage: Are Sports Making Inferences Word Families Finding Past Important Tense Verbs Page 9 Online Forum Travel A Postcard from the The Prefix re- Writing an Hong Kong Order of Events Informal Note Postcard Destination: Scanning Adjectives for Singapore Size and Height Page 9 Webpage Comparing Table Manners Identifying Similarities Words for Comparing Recognizing Cultures Reference Article and Differences and Contrasting Common My Homestay Diary Making Inferences The Prefix un- Abbreviations Page 69 Diary Review 2 Fluency Strategy: SQ3R; Special Guests Magazine Article Page 79 Fluency Practice: 3. World Cup Blog Webpage. Tony Wheeler of Lonely Planet Reference Article
7 8 9 10 11 12 Listening to Ask Emma Skimming for the Guessing Vocabulary Advice Main Idea Meaning Written Signs Advice Column Peer Pressure Making and Checking The suffix -ish Predictions Page 87 Magazine Article Remarkable A Real Life Superhero the Synonyms Doing Research People Magazine Article Order of Events Online The Tiffin Men Scanning make + noun Page 97 Webpage That s Artists in Two Languages Cause Feelings Entertainment Magazine Article and Effect Movie Ratings Pilobolus Main Homographs Page 107 Blog Post Ideas Review 3 Fluency Strategy: Dealing with Unknown Words; Help Me Train My Pet Advice Column Page 117 Fluency Practice:. Running the Distance Magazine Article 6. At the Movies: Bollywood Reference Article Fashion and Fashion Focus: Main Verbs Used with Trends Street Style Ideas in Paragraphs Clothing Clothing Labels Magazine Article From Trash to Fashion Reading for Details Word Webs Page 12 Newspaper Article A Mysterious The World s Most Making and Antonyms Dictionary World Mysterious Manuscript Checking Predictions Skills: Choosing Reference Article the Right Into the Night Sky Skimming for the Travel Definition Page 13 Magazine Article Main Idea True Life Face to Face with the Ways of Saying Identifying Stories a Chupacabra Order of Events Things Types of Books Interview Alive to Tell Their Tale Making and The Suffix -ful Page 1 Magazine Article Checking Predictions Review Page 1 Fluency Strategy: Reading ACTIVEly; Style Rookie Magazine Article Fluency Practice: 7. Celebrity Chef Anthony Bourdain Magazine Article 8. Just a Dream? Magazine Article
Contents Active Skills for Reading 1 1 2 3 All About A Restaurant for Predicting Antonyms Reading Food Food Change Labels Let s Make Scanning Irregular Past Blueberry Muffins! Tense Verbs Page 11 Recipe Inventions Computer Beats Reading for Details The Prefixes Dictionary Skills: Champs com- and con- Identifying Parts of Speech The Most Useful Scanning The Suffixes Inventions -ful and -less Page 21 Web forum Studying Want to Study Using Subheadings Compound Words Writing an Abroad Abroad? to Predict Content English Journal Advertisement My Travel Journal Reading for Details Adjectives Ending Page 31 Diary extract in -ed 6 Review 1 Fluency Strategy: SQ3R; The Freshman Fifteen Page 1 Fluency Practice: 1. Four Funny Inventions Advertisement; 2. My Working Holiday Travel Money and A Student Budget Skimming for The Prefixes Creating a Budgets Main Ideas in- and ex- Personal Budget My Money Identifying Words Web interview Supporting Relating to Money Page 9 Details Our Modern Cell Phone Etiquette Identifying Transition Using Transition Reading Blogs Lifestyle Newspaper letter Words Words Smartphone Apps Making Inferences Word Webs for Travelers Page 9 The Olympics The Olympic Flame Skimming for the The Suffix -ment Main Idea Punctuation Unusual Olympic Reading for Details Words Sports Relating to Sports Page 69 Webpage Review 2 Fluency Strategy: KWL; Not Your Regular Scholarship Student Page 79 Fluency Practice: 3. Real Mail vs. Email ;. Selecting the Olympic Sports Reference Article
7 8 9 10 11 12 Great The World s Oldest Identifying Supporting Expressing Certainty Recognizing Structures Universities Details Survey Question Types Modern Engineering Scanning Superlatives Wonders Page 87 Webpage Language and Which English Will Identifying Loan Words Distinguishing Communication We Speak? Main Ideas American and British Words Sign Language Distinguishing Main Word Families Idea and Supporting Page 97 Details Festivals and How Do You Celebrate? Scanning Prepositions of Time: Reading Tourist Celebrations in, on, at Information Edinburgh Festival Reading for Details Sensory Verbs Journal Page 107 Diary extract Review 3 Fluency Strategy: Dealing with Unknown Words; Amazing Machines! Webpage Page 117 Fluency Practice:. Dying Languages ; 6. Celebrating Chusok Travel Guide Extract Growing Up The Age of Adulthood Predicting The Prefix trans- Choosing the Right Word Firsts in Life Making Inferences The Prefix sub- Page 12 Web interview Look into Are you an Summarizing Phrasal Verbs Doing Research the Future Ophiuchus? on the Internet Predicting Identifying Transition The Suffixes -ness Earthquakes Words Page 13 Newspaper letter The Power A Japanese Recognizing Adverbs of Stories Folktale Sequence Internet Speak Story of Events Internet Hoaxes Identifying Cause Nouns That Are Page 1 and Effect Also Verbs Review Fluency Strategy: Reading ACTIVEly; Young People Are Adults, Too! Newspaper Letter Page 1 Fluency Practice: 7. The Mystery of the Fortune Cookie Webpage; 8. Three Centuries of Hoaxes Reference Article
Contents Active Skills for Reading 2 1 2 3 6 Exam Time For Better Grades Describing Word Webs Reading Test Use Your Brain! a Process Instructions Oh, No! Not Identifying Main and The Suffix -ize Another Test! Supporting Ideas Page 11 Going Abroad We re in Vietnam! Scanning for Details Adjective Endings Reading and Blog posts ed and -ing Safe Travel Predicting The Prefix pre- Immigration Page 21 Forms Movie Makers Behind the Scenes Using Headings to The Prefix dis- Understand Main the Use Ideas of Italics The Rise of J. J. Recognizing Organizing Abrams Sequence Vocabulary Page 31 of Events Review 1 Fluency Strategy: PRO; Are Human Beings Getting Smarter? Page 1 Fluency Practice: 1. The Film and the Novel: Twilight ; 2. Organic Farming: The New Vacation Young Laura Dekker: Previewing Verbs Used to Using Dates Athletes Record-Setter! Talk about Sports and Games The Unbeatable Predicting Adjectives with the Yani Tseng Suffix -ous Page 9 The Amazing You Are Amazing: Identifying Main Nouns Ending in Finding the Right Human Body You Are Human! Ideas within -logy/-ology Doctor Web article Paragraphs Seeing with the Ears Predicting The Suffix -ion Page 9 Vocabulary Leisure Time Scrapbooking Finding Definitions The Suffix -ment Using Key Web interview Words for Moving from Recognizing Facts Word Associations Internet TV to the Web Searches Page 69 Review 2 Fluency Strategy: PQR+E; Movies for the Blind Page 79 Fluency Practice: 3. Raising a Child Athlete ;. The Life of a Professional Gamer
7 8 9 10 11 12 A World Sounds from the Past Predicting The Prefix ex- Dictionary Usage: of Music Choosing the For the Record: Noticing Patterns Easily Confused Words Right Word Album Reviews Page 87 Career Paths College Start-Ups Making Inferences Compound Nouns Searching for a Job Online The Right Job for your Skimming for Adjective Endings Personality General Ideas Page 97 The Story of A Brief History of Recognizing Identifying Part of Dictionary Chocolate Chocolate Sequence Speech Usage: of Events Choosing the The Truth about the Synonyms Right Definition Chocolate Main Ideas Page 107 Review 3 Fluency Strategy: KWL; Will Shortz: Puzzle Maker Page 117 Fluency Practice:. The People Behind the Music ; 6. Savory Chocolate The Secrets Ads Are Everywhere! Scanning for Proper Prefixes in-, im-, Advertising of Advertising Nouns and un- and Psychology Brand Engagement Making Inferences Word Families Gone Wrong Page 12 Food and the Engineering a Better Distinguishing Adverbs Environment Burger between Main and Units of Supporting Ideas Measure Is Your Diet Destroying vit/viv the Environment? Cause and Effect Page 13 Living for the Clean Up Australia, Scanning for Names The Prefix re- Reading Future Clean Up the World and Numbers Numbers Web article in Text Resources for Skimming to The Prefixes over the Future Assess a Passage and under Page 1 Review Page 1 Fluency Strategy: Reading ACTIVEly; Billboards that Recognize You Fluency Practice: 7. The Life of a Food Critic ; 8. The Urban Gardener
Contents ACTIVE Skills for Reading 3 1 2 3 6 Travel Page 11 Fashion Page 2 Disappearing Animals Page 39 Review 1 Page 3 Big Money Page 6 Celebrations Around the World Page 79 It s a Mystery! Page 93 Review 2 Page 107 Travel and Technology Web article Selling India s Rainy Season The Color of Fashion Reality TV: Good or Bad for Fashion? Endangered Species Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth? Scanning Predicting Skimming for the Main Idea Identifying Main and Supporting Ideas Identifying Main Ideas within Paragraphs Organizing Vocabulary The Prefix -off dic/dict The Prefix mis- The Prefixes en- and em- The Suffix -ize Fluency Strategy: DRTA; Ecotourism Fluency Practice: 1. The Globalization of Fashion 2. Endangered Animal Success Stories What Does a Million Dollars Buy? Lottery Winners: Rich but Happy? Wedding Customs Travel Diary: Yanshuei Fireworks Festival Journal entry The Lost World of South America Is Spontaneous Human Combustion Possible? Identifying Cause and Effect Previewing Using Subheadings to Predict Content Recognizing Sequence of Events Making Inferences Identifying Main Ideas within Paragraphs The Prefixes in-, im-, il-, and ir- The Suffixes -ent and -ant Word Families Homophones spec + Prefixes Collocations Planning a Trip Online Clothing Sizes Dictionary Usage: Choosing the Right Word Money and Banking Terms Accepting and Declining Invitations Researching Mysteries Online Fluency Strategy: KWL; America s Biggest Lottery Winner Fluency Practice: 3. That Unique Japanese Holiday Called... Christmas!. Natural Mysteries
7 8 Health and Fitness Page 119 Space and Flight Successful Dieting Web forum Barefoot Running Human Adaptation to Space Scanning Creating Word Webs Common Health Predicting The Prefix fore- Terms Identifying Main and Supporting Ideas The Prefixes disand de- Dictionary Usage: Identifying Parts of Speech Page 133 Pioneers of Flight Making Inferences Idioms with time: Inferring Meaning 9 The Changing Family Is an Only Child a Lonely Child? Recognizing Facts and Opinions Compound Nouns Describing Family Relationships Page 17 Changing Roles: The Rise of Stay-at-Home Dads Previewing s pater, mater, and juv 10 Review 3 Page 161 The Future of Education Fluency Strategy: SQ3R; Modern Fitness Trends Fluency Practice:. Space Travel and Science Fiction 6. Single Parent Families: Changing Views Internet Learning: The Future? Web article Arguing For and Against a Topic ven/ vent Identifying Common Academic Abbreviations 11 Page 173 The Mystery of Memory Plagiarism and the Internet The Mysteries of Memory Loss Identifying Main Ideas within Paragraphs The Suffix -ism fic/fice Using Spelling Rules 12 Page 187 Comics Words to Remember The Evolution of Batman Scanning Recognizing Sequence of Events Vocabulary-Recall Strategies Compound Adjectives Reading Online Movie Reviews Page 201 Review Page 21 Graphic Novels Come to Life Identifying Main and Supporting Ideas Antonyms Fluency Strategy: Thinking Actively While Reading; Homeschooling: A Better Way to Learn? Fluency Practice: 7. You Can Be a World Memory Champion! 8. Manga, Manhwa, and Manhua
Contents Active Skills for Reading 1 2 3 6 The World of Work Page 11 Computer Culture Page 2 Travel Adventures Page 39 Review 1 Page 3 Haunted by the Past Page 6 A Good Read Page 79 A New Generation of Thinking Page 93 Review 2 Page 107 Not Your Typical 9-to- Job Job Interview Types Web article Unmasking Virus Writers and Hackers Female Virus Writer Packs Punch Into the Heart of a Family in Casablanca Travel for Good Predicting Skimming for Content Inference Inferring Personality ten/tain Homophones plic graph/graphy Reading Job Ads Reading Computer Advertising Scanning Adverbs of Emotion Choosing a Travel Guidebook Previewing ject Fluency Strategy: Muscle Reading Getting That Job Using Social Media Web article Fluency Practice: 1. White Hat and Black Hat Hackers 2. A Kenyan Safari Journal entry The Vanishing Hitchhikers The Bell Witch What Exactly IS a Short Story? An Interview with J.K. Rowling Web interview Emotional Intelligence Left Brains, Right Brains, and Board Games Skimming for Main Ideas Recognizing Simile and Metaphor Scanning mort pos/pon scribe Phrasal Verbs Types of Stories Literary Terms Skimming tend Determining Your Intelligence Identifying Main and cap Supporting Ideas Fluency Strategy: SQR; The Ghost Hunter s Bookstore Webpage Fluency Practice: 3. So, You Want to Be a Fiction Writer?. The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
7 8 9 It s Dinner Time! Page 119 Beyond Planet Earth Page 133 Unearthing the Past The Mediterranean Diet Genetically Modified Food Solar Storms Star Struck The Search for Cleopatra Arguing For and Against a Topic Inference Scanning Identifying Fact Versus Opinion Numerical Root Words: mono, dec, cent, and mill sist rupt vac The Prefix ob- Punctuation Remembering What You Read Using a Thesaurus 10 11 12 Page 17 Review 3 Page 161 Language and Life Page 173 Wildlife Conservation Page 187 Global Beats Page 201 Review Page 21 Where Inca Kings Lie mit Fluency Strategy: PARCER; Trans Fats in Trouble Fluency Practice:. Changes in Our Solar System 6. Archaeological Methods and Techniques The Exodus of Languages Life with the Tarahumaras The Race to Rescue Koalas Rhino Wars Brazil: A Musical Melting Pot Hip-Hop Planet Identifying Cause and Effect Identifying Main and Supporting Ideas Inference Scanning for Names and Numbers Identifying Main Ideas Within Paragraphs The Suffix-al s lit and lex s viv/ gen/nat/bio The Prefix non- The Prefix ad- Phrasal Verbs with up and out Fluency Strategy: Reading ACTIVEly; Language Survivors Fluency Practice: 7. Living on the Edge 8. Music and Advertising Using a Pronunciation Key Animal Terminology The Orchestra