English for Health Sciences, Reading Skills, Elementary Level. Fifth Edition
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English for Health Sciences: Reading Skills, Elementary Level! This new edition has undergone major improvements and is the product of constant revision and evaluation, not only by myself and my students, but by the many instructors who, along with their students, have used the previous edition and have contributed valuable suggestions and comments.
English for Health Sciences: Reading Skills, Elementary Level! This new edition has undergone major improvements and is the product of constant revision and evaluation, not only by myself and my students, but by the many instructors who, along with their students, have used the previous edition and have contributed valuable suggestions and comments.
The success of the previous edition has been due, in large measure, to the honest and careful appraisal given by language instructors and their students.
English for Health Sciences: Reading Skills, Elementary Level is an English language text constructed for use in health colleges and institutes and adult English Language training programmes. The aim of the series is to prepare students to participate in health science courses. This text is structured at the elementary level of students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). It focuses on reading skills with the aim of facilitating the leap from basic English to academic English and preparing students to handle health science materials with confidence.
Unit Organization
English for Health Sciences: Reading Skills, Elementary Level is made up twelve units and three progress tests. To do the tests, the student has to login on to professorsuleimanmazyad.com using his/her username and password which he/she can create using the code that appears on the back cover of the book.
Because the book’s primary purpose is to develop one’s reading ability, it offers a large variety of exercises and activities directed at 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 stems and affixes, using a dictionary, increasing one’s reading speed, etc.