Discovering discourse

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Reading and Thinking in English is a series of four booksforming a course in reading comprehension for students of English as a foreign language. It prepares the student for the speciálist English met in textbooks, reports, journals etc. The subject-matter is varied, so that the student becomes accustomed to reading and thinking about specialized subject-matter, without being biased towards any one subject. The complete series takes the student from a basic level of English to a level at which authentic, unsimplified texts can be understood. The course is graded but has been designed to allow for entry at any stage. The four books in the series are: (near beginner) (pre-intermediate) Discovering discourse (intermediate) (advanced) Discovering discourse is divided into six units. The first introduces the strategies which are essential to the process of reading. Units 2-6 then deal with certain communicative functions which are common in academic writing;for example, generalizing,... Tovább

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Reading and Thinking in English is a series of four booksforming a course in reading comprehension for students of English as a foreign language. It prepares the student for the speciálist English met in textbooks, reports, journals etc. The subject-matter is varied, so that the student becomes accustomed to reading and thinking about specialized subject-matter, without being biased towards any one subject. The complete series takes the student from a basic level of English to a level at which authentic, unsimplified texts can be understood. The course is graded but has been designed to allow for entry at any stage. The four books in the series are: (near beginner) (pre-intermediate) Discovering discourse (intermediate) (advanced) Discovering discourse is divided into six units. The first introduces the strategies which are essential to the process of reading. Units 2-6 then deal with certain communicative functions which are common in academic writing;for example, generalizing, describing, defining, classifying and hypothesizing. The units show how these functions are expressed in English and give the student opportunities to apply the reading strategies introduced in Uniti. This Teacher's Edition provides a detailed teacher's guide, notes on the units, and keys to the exercises. It alsó contains a self-study guide for students working on their own. Vissza