English for Engineering, Reading Skills, Intermediate Level

ENGLISH FOR ENGINEERING, READING SKILLS, is a two level

reading course designed for engineering students at the intermediate level.

It focuses on the needs of students at that level for vocabulary expansion and

reading skill-building. It is designed for use in EFL adult-education programs,

universities, engineering colleges, and technical schools.

ENGLISH FOR ENGINEERING, READING SKILLS,

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL, Second Edition, has undergone major

improvements and is made up of twelve thematically-based units and four

progress tests, each covering three preceding units. Vocabulary-building and

skill-building exercises accompany each reading. Each unit consists of a brief

pre-reading exercise and an exercise on skimming or scanning. Following

the reading passage itself, there are post-reading exercises that focus on

important reading skills: getting the main idea, understanding the reading

structure, understanding meaning from context, recognizing contextual

reference, finding the topic and topic sentence, understanding general and

specific ideas, summarizing, understanding signal words, making an outline,

understanding cause and effect, comparison and contrast, classification,

inference, exemplification, understanding chronological order, etc.40