"Unlock is a five-level academic skills course that combines carefully scaffolded exercises, a comprehensive approach to critical thinking and motivating video.

Unlock Reading and Writing Skills Level 3 provides 60-90 hours of classroom material. Access to the Online Workbook is provided via a code packaged with the Student's Book.

Critical Thinking sections give students frameworks to formulate their own opinions and express themselves effectively in the end-of-unit academic tasks.

Unique research into common learner errors (using the Cambridge English Corpus) focuses the language used in Unlock on those areas learners find most challenging.

Videos from Discovery Education™ (accessible via the Cambridge Learning Management System and supplied on the Teacher's Book DVD) provide new angles on a range of academic subjects." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS

Map of the book / Introduction

Introduction / Teaching tips

UNIT 1 - Animals
Reading 1: Endangered species (zoology)
Reading 2: Losing the battle for survival (zoology)

VIDEO: Sharks

READING - Key reading skill:
Reading for main ideas
Using your knowledge to predict content
Reading for detail
Working out meaning from context
Using visuals to predict content
Skimming
Making inferences from the text

VOCABULARY: Academic adjectives 1 (e.g. common, healthy, endangered)

GRAMMAR: Comparative adjectives
Grammar for writing: Word order, using and, but and whereas

CRITICAL THINKING: Analyze a diagram for information; Evaluate information from a diagram

WRITING - Academic writing skills:
Punctuation: capital letters, full stops, commas
Writing task type: Write two comparison paragraphs
Writing task: Compare and contrast the two sharks in the diagram

UNIT 2 - Customs and Traditions
Reading 1: Customs around the world (Sociology)
Reading 2: A British wedding (Cultural studies)

VIDEO: Customs in Dagestan

READING - Key reading skill:
Reading for detail
Scanning to predict content
Reading for main ideas
Making inferences from the text
Understanding key vocabulary
Previewing
Skimming
Understanding discourse

VOCABULARY: Academic adjectives 2 (e.g. brief, certain, obvious)

GRAMMAR: Avoiding generalizations with can and tend to; Adverbs of frequency
Grammar for writing: Adding detail for interest; Prepositional phrases

CRITICAL THINKING: Analyze a description; Identify the structure of a description

WRITING
Academic writing skills: Essay structure
Writing task type: Write three descriptive paragraphs.
Writing task: Describe the laws and traditions concerning weddings. Have there been any changes in recent years?

UNIT 3 - History
Reading 1: Museum brochures (History)
Reading 2: Should we teach history? (Education)

VIDEO: Egyptian archaeology

READING - Key reading skill:
Identifying purpose and audience
Using your knowledge to predict content
Understanding key vocabulary
Scanning to find information
Skimming
Reading for detail
Making inferences from the text

VOCABULARY: Academic vocabulary (e.g. display, document, period)

GRAMMAR: Making suggestions
Grammar for writing: Stating opinions; Linking contrasting sentences with but, however, although and on the other hand

CRITICAL THINKING: Analyze different opinions; Evaluate the importance of information; Organize ideas in a chart

WRITING
Academic writing skills: Write an introduction
Writing task type: Write a balanced opinion essay.
Writing task: Should museums be free or should visitors pay for admission? Discuss.

UNIT 4 - Transport
Reading 1: Masdar: The future of cities? (Transport management)
Reading 2: Solving traffic congestion (Urban planning)

VIDEO: Indian transport

READING - Key reading skill:
Using visuals to predict content
Understanding key vocabulary
Reading for main ideas
Reading for detail
Making inferences from the text

VOCABULARY: Collocation (e.g. traffic congestion, public transport, rush hour); Academic synonyms (e.g. prevent, select, consider)

GRAMMAR - Grammar for writing: First conditional; Using if ... not and unless

CRITICAL THINKING: Analyze an essay question; Evaluate advantages and disadvantages; Create your own list of advantages and disadvantages

WRITING
Academic writing skills: Write a conclusion
Writing task type: Write a problem-solution essay based on a map.
Writing task: Describe the traffic problems in this city and outline the advantages and disadvantages of the suggested solutions.

UNIT 5 - Environment
Reading 1: Our changing planet (Physical geography)
Reading 2: What are the causes of deforestation and what are its effects on the natural environment? (Natural sciences)

VIDEO: Alaskan glaciers

READING - Key reading skill:
Scanning to find information
Using your knowledge to predict content
Reading for main ideas
Reading for detail
Identifying purpose
Previewing
Understanding key vocabulary
Making inferences

VOCABULARY: Academic vocabulary (e.g. annual, issue, predict); Topic vocabulary (e.g. deforestation, climate change, flood)

GRAMMAR - Grammar for writing: Cause and effect; Using because and because of

CRITICAL THINKING: Evaluate ideas and examples using an ideas map; Create your own ideas and examples/evidence

WRITING
Academic writing skills: Write a topic sentence
Writing task type: Write two cause-effect paragraphs.
Writing task: Outline the human causes of climate change. What effects will these have on the planet?

UNIT 6 - Health and Fitness
Reading 1: Keep fit (Medicine)
Reading 2: Tackling obesity (Nutrition)

VIDEO: Cycling

READING - Key reading skill:
Reading for detail
Understanding key vocabulary
Using your knowledge to predict content
Skimming
Reading for main ideas
Using key vocabulary
Making inferences from the text

VOCABULARY: Academic verbs and nouns (e.g. injure, suffer, encourage); Collocation (e.g. life expectancy, serious illness, junk food)

GRAMMAR - Grammar for writing: Giving reasons; Giving examples with such as, for instance, for example, especially

CRITICAL THINKING: Understand and subdivide arguments; Apply subdivided arguments to the organization of an essay plan

WRITING
Academic writing skills: Write supporting sentences.
Writing task type: Write a problem-solution essay.
Writing task: What can people do to live longer? What can a government do to increase the average life expectancy of its country's citizens.

UNIT 7 - Discovery and Invention
Reading 1: The magic of mimicry (Science and technology)
Reading 2: The world of tomorrow (Product design)

VIDEO: Robots

READING - Key reading skill:
Scanning to predict content
Using your knowledge to predict content
Skimming
Reading for detail
Making inferences from the text

VOCABULARY: Understanding prefixes (e.g. misunderstand, underperform, unsafe)

GRAMMAR: Making predictions with will, could and won't
Grammar for writing: Relative clauses; Advantages and disadvantages

CRITICAL THINKING: Remember ideas clearly by listing advantages and disadvantages; Understand an issue by finding reasons and evidence to support ideas

WRITING
Academic writing skills: Edit for common errors
Writing task type: Write an advantage-disadvantage essay.
Writing task: Choose one new era of technology or invention and outline its advantages and disadvantages.

UNIT 8 - Fashion
Reading 1: Is fast fashion taking over? (Retail management)
Reading 2: Offshore production (Human resources)

VIDEO: Missoni Italian fashion

READING - Key reading skill:
Distinguishing fact from opinion
Using your knowledge to predict content
Reading for main ideas
Reading for detail
Making inferences from the text
Understanding key vocabulary
Skimming

VOCABULARY: Hyponyms (e.g. fashion and clothing, beauty products and cosmetics); Homonyms (e.g. approach, volume, goal)

GRAMMAR - Grammar for writing: Prepositional phrases (e.g. apart from, rather than, along with); Counter-arguments (e.g. argue, claim, insist, state)

CRITICAL THINKING: Evaluate arguments and counter-arguments)

WRITING
Academic writing skills: Cohesion; Coherence
Writing task type: Write a balanced opinion essay.
Writing task: Fashion is harmful. Discuss.

UNIT 9 - Economics
Reading 1: How should you invest your money? (Business)
Reading 2: How times have changed (Economics)

VIDEO: The Russian economy

READING - Key reading skill:
Skimming
Understanding key vocabulary
Reading for main ideas
Identifying purpose
Reading for detail
Making inferences from the text
Using your knowledge to predict content

VOCABULARY: Academic vocabulary (e.g. economy, finance, industry); Synonyms (e.g. purchase and buy, domestic and household)

GRAMMAR - Grammar for writing: Describing graphs - noun phrases and verb phrases; Using prepositions and conjunctions to add data; Writing approximations of numerical data (e.g. nearly, more than, approximately)

CRITICAL THINKING: Understand and interpret visual information; Analyze a graph

WRITING Academic writing skills: Write a description of a graph
Writing task type: Write an explanatory paragraph describing a graph
Writing task: Describe both graphs and explain the data.

UNIT 10 - The Brain
Reading 1: Tricks played by the brain (Psychology)
Reading 2: Mind control (Neurology)

VIDEO: The amazing brain

READING - Key reading skill:
Previewing
Skimming
Reading for detail
Making inferences from the text
Scanning to predict content

VOCABULARY: Medical language (e.g. surgery, vaccination, treatment); Academic verbs (e.g. recover, care, confirm)

GRAMMAR - Grammar for writing: Passive (in narrative tenses and with modal verbs)

CRITICAL THINKING: Analyze a diagram to understand a process

WRITING
Academic writing skills: Write a description of a process
Writing task type: Write a process paragraph
Writing task: Explain how the body responds to changes in temperature.

Glossary / Review tests answer key

Video script / Review tests

Acknowledgements / Model answers and additional writing tasks

Level: Intermediate (B1)