ACADEMIC TEXTS


From Norbert & Diane Schmitt, Focus on Academic Vocabulary

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This book is the best, most interesting, most principled exposure to the AWL that your learners can get. It presents all the AWL words in interesting, sequenced readings from various social sciences (family structure, advertising, the world of work, animal thought and behaviour, ecological disaster, etc). It covers the whole AWL; it re-cycles AWL words enough times for learning - through both text re-writing and releated themes. [See book VP]

Strategy exercises at the end of each unit assume learners have the Longman Learner Dictionary - you can print out relevant pages for these online here or build Lextutor exercises with direct link here.

Title Page

TopicReading +
Exercises
Reading
Only
Unit review +
Strategies
Unit 1
Our Changing Society
Human societies -
From the Iceman to us
Unit 1, Ch 1 Reading
Social experience and
personal development
Unit 1, Ch 2 Reading
The changing nature
of the family
Unit 1, Ch 3 Reading Unit 1, Ch 4 (strategies)
Unit 2
Consumer Behaviour and Marketing
Influencing the consumer Unit 2, Ch 5 Reading
Who buys what?
The family's influence
Unit 2, Ch 6 Reading
How we see ourselves
& what we buy
Unit 2, Ch 7 Reading Unit 2, Ch 8 (strategies)
Unit 3
Workplaces & Work Spaces
How office space
affects behaviour
Unit 3, Ch 9 Reading
The modern office:
symbols of status
Unit 3, Ch 10 Reading
The egonomics
of sitting
Unit 3, Ch 11 Reading Unit 3, Ch 12 (strategies)
Unit 4
Use & Abuse of Natural Resources
Water for sale Unit 4, Ch 13 Reading
The Aral Sea:
environmntal disaster
Unit 4, Ch 14 Reading
International conflict
over natural resources
Unit 4, Ch 15 Reading Unit 4, Ch 16 (strategies)
Unit 5
We Are What We Eat
Food roots and foodways Unit 5, Ch 17 Reading
Getting back
to Nature
Unit 5, Ch 18 Reading
Micro-orhganisms:
the spice of life?
Unit 5, Ch 19 Reading Unit 5, Ch 20 (strategies)
Unit 6
Encounters with Music and Sound
Music as social conscience Unit 6, Ch 21 Reading
Noise hurts Unit 6, Ch 22 Reading
Ultrasonics:
super sound?
Unit 6, Ch 23 Reading Unit 6, Ch 24 (strategies)
Unit 7
Animal Nature
Endangered elephants Unit 7, Ch 25 Reading
Animals: How human? Unit 7, Ch 26 Reading
Living together:
advantage or disadvantage?
Unit 7, Ch 28 Reading Unit 7, Ch 28 (strategies)