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Konular |
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Introduction to the course
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| 2. Hafta |
Chapter 1 What is Creative Thinking?
Content: Suggestions for learning to think creatively
Reading Skill: Identifying main ideas
Building Vocabulary: Figures of speech
Language Focus: Noun clauses |
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Chapter 2 Why I Ouit the Company
Content: Explanation of an employee's decision to resign
Reading Skill: Distinguishing Fact From Opinion
Building Vocabulary: Phrasal verbs
Language Focus: Past conditional sentences |
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Chapter 3 The Body Shop
Content: Using tissue engineering to repair the humanbody
Reading Skill: Inferencing
Building Vocabulary: Using context to guess meaning
Language Focus: Modals of possibility |
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Chapter 4 And the Big Winners Were...
Content: Impact of World Cup soccer on players, fans, and host countries
Reading Skill: Supporting main ideas
Building Vocabulary: Using prefixes to determine meaning
Language Focus: Direct quotations |
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Chapter 5 Listen Up
Content: Becoming an effective listener
Reading Skill: Recognising sentence transitions
Building Vocabulary: Using adverbs and intensifiers
Language Focus: Using punctuation: dashes, colons, and semicolons |
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Chapter 6 Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgment
Content: Harmful effects of stereotyping
Reading Skill: Recognising Sources
Building Vocabulary: Using verbs as adjectives
Language Focus: Relative Clauses with who, which and that |
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Midterm |
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Chapter 7 East Meets West on Love’s Risky Cyber highway
Content: Finding a partner via the Internet
Reading Skill: Recognising Diverse Points of View
Building Vocabulary: Using modifiers
Language Focus: It’s (not)+verb+ing |
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Chapter 8 Students Won't Give Up Their French Fries
Content: American students' obsession with food
Reading Skill: Scanning for specific information
Building Vocabulary: Idiomatic expressions
Language Focus: Reported Speech |
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Chapter 9 Getting Into the Game
Content: Appreciating the social and educational value of electronic games
Reading Skill: Following a storyline
Building Vocabulary: Compound words
Language Focus: Gerunds as complements |
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Chapter 10 Call of the Riled
Content: Cell phone etiquette
Reading Skill: Recognizing paragraph transitions
Building Vocabulary: Slmonyns and antonyrns; using suffixes –ful and -less
Language Focus: Reduced Relative Clauses |
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Chapter 11 The Art of Reading
Content: Suggestions for becoming a skillful reader
Reading Skills: Recognising analogies
Building Vocabulary: Word forms
Language Focus: Expressing similarity and difference |
| 14. Hafta |
Chapter 12 When E.T. Calls
Content: Exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial life
Reading Skill: Recognising scenanos
Building Vocabulary: Nouns derived from adjectives
Language Focus: Future perfect |