Unit 1 Identifying Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Education - Measuring Success
Unit 2 Summarizing Ideas
Design and Architecture - Starting with the Land
Unit 3 Understanding Details-Recognizing Time Relationships and Paraphrasing
Engineering - Ethics
in Engineering
Unit 4 Identifying Cause-and-Effect Relationships
Health Sciences - Factors that Lead to Good Health
Unit 5 Recognizing Comparisons and Contrasts
Social Sciences - Placemaking and the Meaning of Community
Unit 6 Interpreting Graphs, Tables, and
Maps
Science - Managing Our Water Resources
Unit 7 Differentiating between Facts and Opinions
Technology - Innovators and Technology
Unit 8 Recognizing Perspective and Tone
Business - Decision Making and Problem Solving
Reading in Context online Teacher's Resource containing Answer Key, Teaching Notes, and additional exercises.
Beverley Payne was the lead instructor for Workplace English as a Second Language at the Thames Valley District School Board in London, ON. Her teaching and administrative portfolio focused on the research and curriculum development of the Language in the Workplace program. Beverley has been
an adult ESL instructor for more than 20 years and a human relations consultant and social worker for more than 35 years. She has a BA in applied social science from the University of Waterloo, an MSW in social work from Wilfrid Laurier University, and a BEd from Western University.
Terry
Webb has been an instructor and administrator for more than 27 years, principally in the development and implementation of workplace programs. For a period of time, she wrote IELTS tests for the North American team and worked as an IELTS tester. Terry was co-developer of a TESL Certification
Training course that ran for more than 10 years at the G.A. Wheable Centre. Terry is also a consultant for the Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks. She has a BA, an MA in anthropology, and a BEd from Western University.