ue iey i ISSUES READING FOR TODAY ene ee DLT LON LORRAINE C. SMITH AND NANCY NICI MARE English Language Institute Queens College The City University of New York NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LeESA UR NileNeG Australia + Brazil * Mexico + Singapore « United Kingdom + United States NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LEARNING Reading for Today 3: Issues © 2017, 2011, 2004, National Geographic Learning, a Cengage Learning Fifth Edition Company Lorraine C. Smith and Nancy Nici Mare ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright herein may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, except as Publisher: Sherrise Roehr permitted by U.
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National Geographic Learning, a Cengage Learning Company, has a mission to bring the world to the classroom and the classroom to life. With our English language programs, students learn about their world by experiencing it. Through our partnerships with National Geographic and TED Talks, they develop the language and skills they need to be successful global citizens and leaders. Locate your local office at international.com/region Visit National Geographic Learning online at NGL.com/ELT Visit Our corporate website at www.com Printed in the United States of America Print Number: 02 Print Year: 2017 CONTENTS Scope & Sequence v Preface viii Introduction xi Acknowledgments xvi UNIT1 ThelmportanceofTime 2 CHAPTER 1.
Our Internal Clock: It’s about time 4 CHAPTER2 IsitOKtobelate? 18 CHAPTER3 Technology competes with family time 32 UNIT2 Issues in Today's Society 50 CHAPTER 4 Sign Language for Everyone 52 CHAPTER5 Ourkids are growing up too fast! 68 CHAPTER 6 Loneliness: How can we overcome it? 82 uniT3 JusticeandCrime —«s-» 98'—swVXH CHAPTER 7 Solving Crimes with Modern Technology 100 CHAPTER 8_ The Reliability of Eyewitnesses 116 CHAPTER9 Innocent until Proven Guilty: The Criminal Court System 132 CONTENTS | iil uniT4 Advancesin Science 150 ° CHAPTER 10 Saving Lives with New Organs 152 CHAPTER 11 Objects from Space: Hits and Misses 168 CHAPTER 12 Medicine Today: Improving Surgery with Robotics 184 Index of Key Words and Phrases 202 Skills Index 204 Credits 206 Notes 207 iV. CONTENTS UNIT 1 CHAPTER 1 Using a chart to answer questions ieicranaine meaning from context shcieniha | a survey Our Internal Clock: Comparing results The It's about time Previewing a reading Word Forms: _Importance Page 4 Identifying reasons Recalling information Identifying parts of of Time _ Evaluating sleep patterns ; : : speech: nouns and Page 2 Scanning for information | verbs Summarizing information — Understanding Reading Skill Focus: _ synonyms Using a Venn diagram | ms CHAPTER 2 Previewing a reading Understanding Explaining opinions - meaning from context — Is it OK to be late? Recalling information Comparing cultural Page 18 Word Forms: _ differences Scanning for information Recognizing the suffix Discussing adaptation to Summarizing information -ing new places Reading Skill Focus: Understanding Creating a flowchart | antonyms CHAPTER 3 Previewing a reading Undeecnding Discussing effects of meaning from context technology Technology Recalling information _ competes with Word Forms: Analyzing changing Scanning for information family time technology Identifying parts of Page 32 Activating prior _ speech: nouns and Creating and comparing knowledge verbs lists Summarizing information Understanding Comparing electronic and Reading Skill Focus: words with multiple personal communication meanings Understanding a Venn diagram Choosing the correct dictionary definition - CHAPTER 4 Previewing a reading Understanding Describing non-verbal UNIT 2 _ meaning from context communication Sign Language for Recalling information Issues in Everyone Word Forms: Describing reasons _Today’s Scanning for information Page 52 Understanding word Evaluating information Society Summarizing information forms: nouns and Page 50 Assessing advantages Reading Skill Focus: adjectives and disadvantages ofan Using headings to create Choosing the correct operation an outline dictionary definition SCOPE & SEQUENCE SCOPE & SEQUENCE CHAPTER 5 Previewing a reading Understanding Discussing and comparing _ meaning from context reasons Our kids are _Scanning for information growing up too Word Forms: Writing about personal | Recalling information experiences fast! | Recognizing the suffix Page 68 Summarizing information -ment Discussing social changes /Reading Skill Focus: and pressures Understanding : Organizing information in © synonyms |. | a chart i a t _ CHAPTER 6 _ Previewing a reading Understanding Surveying classmates | meaning from context _ about loneliness Loneliness: How |Scanning for information _can we overcome Word Forms: Analyzing survey results Recalling information “it? Recognizing the suffix Writing about personal Page 82 / Summarizing information -ness experiences | | Reading Skill Focus: Recognizing sentence Talking about obstacles Creating a flowchart connectors — —_ _ CHAPTER 7 _ Previewing a reading Understanding _ Explaining opinions UNIT 3 meaning from context _ Solving Crimes Scanning for information Creating a list Justice and with Modern Word Forms: Crime Recalling information Analyzing information Technology — Page 98 Recognizing the suffix Page 100 Summarizing information _ Researching fingerprint -ment ~ matching Reading Skill Focus: Recognizing the prefix Understanding line re- graphs CHAPTER 8 Previewing a reading Understanding _ Writing about a crime or meaning from context an accident The Reliability of Scanning for information Eyewitnesses Word Forms: Discussing the reliability of | Recalling information Page 116 eyewitness testimony Recognizing the | Reading Skill Focus: suffixes -ence and Organizing importance of Using headings to create -ance details an outline Recognizing the prefix Analyzing information in- Ranking information vi SCOPE & SEQUENCE _SCOPE & SEQUENCE ills, aeVocabulary kills CriticalThinking Skills # Bs TURE oe aE i ete as ee es Bae)SBS SB Ala Ne Be CHAPTER 9 Previewing a reading Las ieianin Interpreting symbolism ; meaning from context — Innocent until Scanning for information — Evaluating a process Proven Guilty: The | } : Word Forms: : Tees Understanding questions | Applying current events : Criminal Court bce benncnceete cue nizin uffix _ System Recalling information | it : vuole Considering advantages Page 132 Bhs Fs, wie} y and disadvantages Summarizing information : Understanding ~ Comparing legal systems | Reading Skill Focus: | antonyms | ; Creating a flowchart | CHAPTER 10 _ Previewing a reading / Understanding Discussing ethics of organ — UNIT 4 ; ; fs ni meaning from context and cell transplants Saving Lives with Predicting content Advances in A New Organs : : : Word Forms: Using graphs Science Page 152 Scanning for information | oe 24 : Recognizing the _ Discussing reasons _ Page 150 Recalling information ee 9 _ suffixes -tion and A | a 4 ; Writing about scenarios Summarizing information ) -ation Reading Skill Focus: Recognizing sentence | connectors Understanding a bar graph CHAPTER 11 Previewing a adie Understanding Presenting research Objects from Predicting content meaning from-coptextakindings Space: Hits and. P : Word Forms: Creating a plan of action Mien Scanning for information | Page 168 pecallinennrornearen _ Adverbs: recognizing Describing an experience the suffix -ly ; S ina inh font Evaluating types of natural The be a Recognizing the prefix disasters Reading Skill Focus: _un- , _ Discussing reasons Understanding graphics | CHAPTER 12 Previewing a reading / Understanding Writing about medical ing f Medicine Today: Scanning for information ea ina trom context yptecong logy Improving Surgery Word Forms: Considering uses of robots with Robotics Recalling information | R Ay aks h ; “ t ’ Page 184 stniiialtciainteratien tae the suffix Preparing a repor , é Describing a procedure : peace np ocuss Choosing the correct Creating a list of interview Understanding a line dictionary definition questions graph SCOPE & SEQUENCE Vii PREFACE Issues for Today, Fifth Edition, is a reading skills text intended for intermediate, academically-oriented, English-as-a-second or foreign-language (ESL/EFL) students.
The topics in this text are fresh and timely, and the book has a strong global focus. As students work with the materials in each chapter, they develop the kinds of extensive and intensive reading skills they will need to achieve academic success in English. Issues for Today is one ina series of five reading skills texts. The complete series, Reading for Today, has been designed to meet the needs of students from the beginning to the advanced levels and includes the following: e Reading for Today 1: Themes for Today beginning e Reading for Today 2: Insights for Today high-beginning e Reading for Today 3: Issues for Today intermediate ¢ Reading for Today 4: Concepts for Today high-intermediate e Reading for Today 5: Topics for Today advanced Issues for Today, Fifth Edition, provides students with essential practice in the types of reading skills they will need in an academic environment.
It requires students not only to read text but also to extract basic information from various kinds of charts, graphs, illustrations, and photos. Beginning-level students are rarely exposed to this type of reading material. In addition, they are given the opportunity to speak and write about their own cultures and compare their experiences with those of students from other countries. The text includes real-life activities that give students tasks to complete outside the classroom.
These tasks provide students with opportunities to practice reading, writing, speaking, and listening to English in the real world. Thus, all four skills are incorporated into each chapter. Issues for Today, Fifth Edition, has been designed for flexible use by teachers and students. The text consists of four units.
Each unit contains three chapters that deal with related topics. At the same time, though, each chapter is entirely separate in terms of content from the other chapters in that unit. This gives the instructor the option of either completing entire units or choosing individual chapters as the focus in class. Although the chapters are organized by level of difficulty, the teacher and students may choose to work with the chapters out of order, depending on available time and the interests of the class.
The activities and exercises in each chapter have been organized to flow from general comprehension—including main viii PREFACE ideas and supporting details—through vocabulary in context to critical thinking skills. However, the teacher may choose to work on certain exercises in any order, depending on time and on the students’ abilities. The opening photos and the Prereading section before each reading help activate the students’ background knowledge of the topic and encourage them to think about the ideas, facts, and vocabulary that will be presented in the reading passage. In fact, discussing photos in class helps lower-level students visualize what they are going to read about and gives them cues for the new vocabulary they will encounter.
The exercises that follow the reading passage are intended to develop and improve reading proficiency, including the ability to learn new vocabulary from context and better comprehend English sentence structure. The activities also give students the opportunity to master useful vocabulary encountered in the reading passages through pair work and group discussions that lead them through comprehension of main ideas and specific information. Intermediate-level language students need considerable visual reinforcement of ideas and vocabulary. Therefore, this text includes many photos and graphics that illustrate the ideas and concepts from the reading passages.
In addition, many of the follow-up activities enable students to manipulate the information from the reading passages and other content from the chapter.