Hot
Topics
HOT
TOPICS is guaranteed to engage readers, stimulate thinking, and provoke
conversation while developing vocabulary and reading skills. The controversial
topics explored in the text all have more than one side to them, thus
encouraging debate and classroom discussion.
• Three
readings per chapter explore the same hot topic from different points of view.
The readings in each chapter vary by genre and increase in difficulty to support
reading development.
• A focus
on reading skills and reading comprehension through pre-reading questions,
skimming and scanning activities, the use of context clues, vocabulary analysis,
and the development of critical thinking skills helps students increase their
reading fluency.
•
Open-ended questions at the end of every chapter encourage students to voice
their opinions and defend their viewpoints either through discussion or in
writing.
Hot
topics 3 differs from the preceding two levels in that the majority of readings
are authentic or only slightly adapted from sources such as the New York Times.
CNN, and the BBC.
The
Instructor's Manual supports Hot Topics 1-3 through teaching notes with
additional classroom and Internet activities, answer keys, video scripts and
video clip summaries, theme and chapter summaries, cultural and historical
background information, and audio tracking for each
reading.
Hot Topics 2
Book
Audio
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Audio
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Brief Contents ( Hot Topics 2 )
Contents iv
To the Teacher vi
Chapter 1 Reality TV: Would you be a survivor?
1
Chapter 2 Violence in Sports: When is a game not a game?
10
Chapter 3 Advertising: We know what you want before you
do! 21
Chapter 4 Fashion: You mean you're wearing THAT!
34
Chapter 5 Work: Is it interfering with your life?
44
Chapter 6 Internet Dating: Is this really YOUR photo?
56
Chapter 7 Anger: I'm not angry/ You're angry!
67
Chapter 8 Psychics: What do they know that we don't?
79
Chapter 9 Beauty: Mirror, mirror, on the wall .. .
91
Chapter 10 Lying: What's THAT on your resume?
103
Chapter 11 Intelligence: How important is it?
115
Chapter 12 Graffiti: You call this ART! 127
Chapter 13 Child Labor: Who made your sneakers?
139
Chapter 14 Infidelity: Our cheating hearts 151
Appendix I Guess Meaning from Context-—Matching Exercises
163
Appendix 11 CNN Video Activities
168
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