Description
Book SynopsisLEAP 1 Reading and Writing includes three texts per chapter. Students practise high-frequency vocabulary and learn academic words through focused vocabulary tasks. They review grammar notions that they apply in writing tasks. Reading and Writing focuses introduce students to strategies in a step-by-step fashion that students apply in warm-up and final assignments. A critical thinking focus helps students reflect and synthesise ideas. A models chapter serves as a handy reference for the writing types included in the book.
Access to MyLab and eText allows students to consolidate what they learn in class. MyLab provides students with extra online resources and practice in reading, writing and listening. All activities are self-graded, allowing students to get instant feedback and to track their personal progress. Teachers have access to a gradebook to view students' results and progress.
Table of Contents
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CHAPTER 1 • the learning brain
- READING 1 Never Too Late to Learn
- READING 2 Ten Tips and Tricks to Learn Any Language
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Write a List of Goals
- READING 3 How Do You Study?
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write Your Goals in a Paragraph
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CHAPTER 2 • new ways of thinking
- READING 1 Significant Positive Change
- READING 2 Electric Dreams
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Describe an Innovation
- READING 3 Changing the World
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write a Descriptive Paragraph
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CHAPTER 3 • finding success
- READING 1 A Woman’s Business
- READING 2 A Billionaire Dropout
- WARM-UP ASSIGMNENT Write a List of Events
- READING 3 We’re Wrong
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write a Chronological Paragraph
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CHAPTER 4 • disrupting business
- READING 1 From Horses to Email
- READING 2 Disrupting the Classroom
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Write an Informal Message
- READING 3 Learning from Short-Term Setbacks
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write a Formal Email
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CHAPTER 5 • a personal world
- READING 1 Smaller, Faster, Cheaper
- READING 2 After the Storm
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Create a Venn Diagram
- READING 3 Three Ways Technology Has Changed our Lives for the Better
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write a Comparison Paragraph
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CHAPTER 6 • living codes
- READING 1 Are You Shaped by Nature or Nurture?
- READING 2 Some Winners Know When to Quit
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Write a Table of Facts and Opinions
- READING 3 Authors Reveal Algorithms to Live By
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write an Opinion Paragraph
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CHAPTER 7 • robots, ai, and the future
- READING 1 A Robot That You Can Swallow
- READING 2 How Do Artificial Intelligence Programs Work?
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Write Steps in a Process
- READING 3 Give Us a Hand: It’s Time for Robots to Get Physical
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write a Process Paragraph
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CHAPTER 8 • look into the future
- READING 1 Predicting the Future
- READING 2 Question the Questionnaire
- WARM-UP ASSIGNMENT Write a Short Questionnaire
- READING 3 Humans Will Live Underwater in a Hundred Years’ Time
- FINAL ASSIGNMENT Write About Your Findings
- MODELS CHAPTER
- APPENDIX 1 VOCABULARY
