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acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
the inside track to academic success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

Unit 1 Recycled Buildings 1

Content Area: Architecture
LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS: Using Abbreviations in Notes;
Signal Phrases in a Speech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4, 8
Pronunciation: Noun Phrases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Vocabulary activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 6

Unit 2 Rethinking City Spaces 13

Content Area: Urban Planning
LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS: Using a T-chart to Take Notes;
Supporting Your Opinion in a Discussion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 20
Pronunciation: Contrasting Old and New Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Vocabulary activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 18

Unit 3 High-Tech Art 25

Content Area: Art and Design
LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS: Comparison and Contrast;
Summarizing Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 31
Pronunciation: Chunking, Intonation, and Sentence Focus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Vocabulary activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26, 30

Unit 4 The Virus Game 37

Content Area: Public Health
LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS: Figurative Language;
Using Idioms to Engage Your Audience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40, 44
Pronunciation: Stress in Phrasal Verbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Vocabulary activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38, 42

Unit 5 Recording Our Lives 49

Content Area: Film Studies
LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS: Listening for Details;
Making a Concise Presentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52, 56
Pronunciation: Stress in Phrasal Verbs and Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Vocabulary activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 54

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Content Area: Engineering
LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS: Annotating Lecture Notes;
Signaling the End of a Speech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64, 68
Pronunciation: Shifting Stress in Two-Syllable Words. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Vocabulary activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62, 66

Unit 7 Our Amazing Brains 73

Content Area: Neuroscience
LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS: The Cornell Method to Take Notes;
Asking for and Giving Clarification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76, 80
Pronunciation: Reducing the h in he . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Vocabulary activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74, 78

Unit 8 Dangerous Gossip 85

Content Area: Psychology
LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS: Listening for Fact and Opinion;
Citing Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89, 92
Pronunciation: Reducing Phrasal Modals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Vocabulary activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86, 90

Unit 9 Franchise Fun 97

Content Area: Business
LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS: Recognizing Persuasive Speech;
Facilitating a Group Discussion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100, 104
Pronunciation: Linking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Vocabulary activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98, 102

Unit 10 Hidden Treasure 109

Content Area: Geography
LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS: Synthesizing Information;
Participating in a Debate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113, 116
Pronunciation: Contrastive Stress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Vocabulary activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110, 114
index : academic word list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

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