1.1 Recreational reading
1.2 Surveying, skimming, and scanning
1.3 Reading for gist
1.4 Reading for detail
2. Purposes
2.1 Reading as process: reacting, reflecting, responding for different purposes
2.2 Reading for personal response: commentaries, reflections
2.3 Reading for informacion: locating main ideas and details
3. Text Types
3.1 Narrative texts
3.2 Expository texts
4. Vocabulary Topics
4.1 Study Units from Vocabulary for First Certificate:
4.1.1 Physical appearance, personality
4.1.2 Family and relationships, celebrations, friends
4.1.3 Leisure time, hobbies, and games
4.1.4 Cities and towns, facilities, traffic
4.1.5 Ages, school, university
4.1.6 Houses and homes, household problems
4.1.7 Clothes, shopping money
4.1.8 Feelings
4.1.9 The past, time
4.1.10 Climate, weather, geography
4.2 Vocabulary contained in assigned readings
B. WRITING
1. Using a dictionary
1.1 Types of dictionaries
1.2 Information provided in dictionary entries
1.3 Important concepts and abbreviations
1.4 Practical strategies
2. Punctuation
2.1 Periods and commas
2.2 Dashes, colons, semi-colons
2.3 Apostrophes
3. Spelling
3.1 General rules
3.2 British vs. American spelling
4. Structure: Coherence and cohesion
4.1 Relating structure to purpose and audience
4.2 Paragraph structure: organization and cohesion
Text structure:
4.3 Coherence of expository “5 paragraph theme” and other expository structures
4.4 Coherence of narrative structures
4.5 Linguistic cohesion
