Synopses & Reviews
Academic Encounters: The Natural World uses a sustained content approach to help students develop the reading, writing, and study skills they need to meet the demands of high school or college academic courses in an English-speaking environment. Academic Encounters: The Natural World engages students with academic readings, photographs, illustrations, and graphics on stimulating topics within the fields of Earth Science and Biology. Tasks that accompany readings develop important reading skills such as reading for detail, skimming, reading critically, and applying what you have read. Students also learn study skills such as highlighting, note taking, and preparing for a quiz. Each chapter ends with a guided writing assignment. Tasks to build academic language and writing skills occur throughout the book. The companion book, Academic Listening Encounters: The Natural World, develops students' listening, note-taking, and discussion skills using authentic interviews and lectures and a variety of pre- and post-listening activities.
Synopsis
Academic Encounters: The Natural World uses a sustained content approach to help students develop the reading, writing, and study skills they need to meet the demands of high school or college academic courses in an English-speaking environment.
Synopsis
The Academic Encounters series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books for each content area. Academic Encounters: The Natural World engages students with academic readings, photos, graphs, and charts on stimulating topics from the fields of earth science and biology. Topics include Earth's systems: the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere; volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis; the human brain and the human heart; and recent medical advances. Students develop important skills such as reading for detail, skimming, reading critically, and applying what you have read. Each chapter ends with a guided academic writing assignment. Vocabulary and academic writing tasks occur throughout the book. The topics correspond with those in Academic Listening Encounters: The Natural World.
Table of Contents
UNIT 1: Planet Earth Chapter 1: The Physical Earth Chapter 2: The Dynamic Earth UNIT 2: Water on Earth Chapter 3: Earth's Water Supply Chapter 4: Earth's Oceans UNIT 3: The Air Around Us Chapter 5: Earth's Atmosphere Chapter 6: Climate and Weather UNIT 4: Life on Earth Chapter 7: Plants and Animals Chapter 8: The Human Body Chapter 9: Living Longer, Living Better? Weights and Measures Map of the World Task Index