Developing writing skills by reading example essays

This text aims to develop students’ writing abilities through reading of 300-word model texts accompanies with a wide variety of exercises. Each unit is structured around Focus Points of grammar items and expressions, and the graded practice exercises include comprehension questions, gap-fill outlines, slash writing, word ordering and translation. The teacher’s manual contains a mini-test for each unit.

Contents

Fast Food: Nothing New under the Sun! (Why) / When Was It Invented? (When) / Never Give Up: An Anti-Bullying Song (How) /The Migration of the Monarch Butterflies (Where) / Isaac Lufkin: The Armless Football Player (Gerund and present participle) / Atlantis, the Lost Empire: Fact or Fiction? (Present perfect) / Malala: Champion of Education (Subjunctive), etc. (Total 15 units)