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For Your Information 2 Karen Blanchard

For Your Information 2 By Karen Blanchard

For Your Information 2 by Karen Blanchard


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For Your Information 2: Reading and Vocabulary Skills by Karen Blanchard

The new edition of For Your Information 2, by Karen Blanchard and Christine Root, helps high-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 2, Second Edition: New and updated reading selections motivate students to explore different aspects of each topic and develop a range of critical thinking skills. Expanded reading comprehension and skill-building exercises help prepare students for academic competency and standardized testing A variety of new vocabulary-building skills and word-attack activities increase students' vocabulary. A companion DVD of ABC News excerpts, with accompanying activities, expands on the themes. To order the Audio CDs, click on the Resources link on the left side of this page.

About Karen Blanchard

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.

Table of Contents

Unit 1 TUNE IN TO TECHNOLOGY Chapter 1 New Robots on Display Chapter 2 Online Shopping is Big Business Chapter 3 Florida Family Gets Computer Chips Tie It All Together Unit 1 Vocabulary Self-Test Unit 2 TRAVEL TALK Chapter 1 Sailing Around the World Chapter 2 A Suitcase Story Chapter 3 Flying High but Feeling Low Tie It All Together Unit 2 Vocabulary Self-Test Unit 3 ANIMALS IN OUR LIVES Chapter 1 Can Animals Think? Chapter 2 Crazy About Cats, or Just Crazy? Chapter 3 Call the Medicine Man Tie It All Together Unit 3 Vocabulary Self-Test Unit 4 SETTING GOALS AND FACING CHALLENGES Chapter 1 People with Disabilities Find Challenge on Ski Slopes Chapter 2 Breaking Records Chapter 3 Sounds of Bali Tie It All Together Unit 4 Vocabulary Self-Test Unit 5 BRAIN POWER Chapter 1 Do You Know Your Right Brain from Your Left Brain? Chapter 2 Albert Einstein: The World's Most Famous Scientist Chapter 3 How Good Is Your Memory? Tie It All Together Unit 5 Vocabulary Self-Test Unit 6 COMPANIES THAT CARE Chapter 1 The Body Shop: A Success Story Chapter 2 The Scoop on Ben & Jerry's Chapter 3 A New Use for Old Bottles Tie It All Together Unit 6 Vocabulary Self-Test Unit 7 FOOD FOR THOUGHT Chapter 1 Space Muffin Wins Contest Chapter 2 Chocolate: A Taste of History Chapter 3 Do TV Commercials Affect Eating Habits? Tie It All Together Unit 7 Vocabulary Self-Test Unit 8 HOW'S THE WEATHER? Chapter 1 Are You SAD? Chapter 2 Tornado Chaser Chapter 3 Climate and Weather Tie It All Together Unit 8 Vocabulary Self-Test Vocabulary Self-Tests Answer Key Glossary Map of the United States Map of the World Reader's Journal

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CIN0131991825G
9780131991828
0131991825
For Your Information 2: Reading and Vocabulary Skills by Karen Blanchard
Used - Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
20070314
224
N/A
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