Developing Strategies in Reading Comprehension: Book 2

Является второй частью учебного пособия, предназначенного для развития навыков чтения и смыслового восприятия текстов различных стилистических и жанровых видов. Охватывает темы "Работа в жизни человека", "Здоровье и медицинское обслуживание", "Спорт", "У карты мира", "Городская жизнь", "Путешествия по миру", "Этическое учение христианства". Каждая тема содержит 2-3 раздела, которые включают урок для аудиторных занятий и урок на основе внеаудиторной деятельности. Уроки содержат тексты, задания по чтению, восприятию и анализу текста.

Для студентов высших учебных заведений.

Totally suitable for Non-Russian Speakers of English at Upper-Intermediate - Advanced Levels!!!
English Description:

This book is intended for Second-Year University and College students majoring in English (from Upper-Intermediate to Advanced levels). It is aimed at perfecting the students’ reading skills and improving their ability to understand authentic English texts of different stylistic varieties and genres.
Reading in this book, as in Book /, is treated as aself-contained course with its own requirements to the overall structure and the composition of each individual part. At the same time Reading Comprehension is integrated into the general course of speech practice through the lexical-semantical contents and the choice of reading materials. These particularly relate to the following broad areas, or topics: Work in a Person's Life, Health and Medical Care, Sports and Games, At the Map of the World, City Life, Going Places and Seeing the World, Ethical Teaching of Christianity.
According to the number of topics covered, the book contains 7 Sections consisting of several units each. The units are further subdivided into 2 lessons: A and B. Lessons A are based on 'prepared' out-of-class activities and presuppose careful analysis of the essential elements of the text contents and structure. They lay special emphasis on text features such as linking, cohesion, expressiveness and modal-stylistic differentiation. The lessons include three main stages: Reading and Comprehension Tasks; Text Features and Language Focus; Follow-Up Activities or Discussion, each stage providing a variety of exercises and analytical-communicative activities. Lessons B focus primarily on the skills of 'quick' reading and developing reading strategics such as synthesizing, summing up and comparing information, extracting main ideas, identifying topic (key) sentences, completing paragraphs, etc.
Special attention in this book is paid to vocabulary development and reinforcement. Apart from pre-reading vocabulary lists intended as an aid for comprehension there are vocabulary tasks in Language Focus including multiple choice and matching exercises, word-meaning definition and word-building practice as well as Russian-English translation, aimed at implementing new vocabulary in speech.
The purpose of the Discussion and Follow-Up stages is to develop the students' creative speaking and writing skills by providing them with the necessary background information and relevant problematic issues encouraging communicative activity.