Reading and Writing

For class or self-study

Jeremy Harmer
Ana Acevedo
Carol Lethaby
w i t h Cheryl Pelteret

MarshallCavendish
Education
 Contents
Unit 1 A Reading: Holiday postcards 6 U n i t 11 A Reading: Caroline 46
B Writing: Postcards 8 B Writing: In their own words 48

Unit
- A Reading: Stress 10 U n i t 1 2 A Reading: The people quiz
B Writing: because, but, so 12 B Writing: Opinion emails

Unit 3 A Reading: Do the media U n i t 1 3 A Reading: Being intelligent

decide? 14 in different ways
B Writing: Survey report 16 B Writing: Writing about
myself
Unit 4 A Readinq:
- Crocodile hunter 18
B Writing: Small ads 20 U n i t 1 4 A Reading: Zaha Hadid
B Writing: Descriptive
Unit 5 A Reading: The station 22
. - .
paraqraph
B Writing: Direction emails 24
U n i t 15 A Reading:
- A good night's

Unit 6 A Reading: Short-term and sleep

long-term memory 26 B Writing: Ordering important
B Writing: Life story website 28 ideas 64

Unit 7 A Reading: Things to do 30 U n i t 1 6 A Reading: Burning man 66

B Writing: Designing a poster 32 B Writing: Making your story
interesting 68
Unit 8 A Reading: Why do they do it? 3 4
B Writing: Organising a
paragraph 36 Answer key

Unit 9 A Reading: Fixing it 38

B Writing: Using pronouns 40

U n i t 10 A Reading: Culture clash 42

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B Writing: 'Thank you' letters,
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Introduction
For the student
Welcome to Just Reading and Writing. You can use this book
with other students and a teacher, or you can work alone
with it. It will help you improve your reading and writing
skills.
There are 16 units in this book. We have chosen topics
which we hope you will find interesting. You will find articles
and stories, and emails and other text-types too.
This book has many practice exercises to help you with
reading and writing. When you see this symbol ( 0 ,you ) intelligence. These are designed to give students experience of
can find answers in the Answer key at the back of the book.
You can check your answers there.
We hope that you enjoy using this book and that it will
help you progress in English.
For the teacher
This book is part of a series designed to supplement any
course book you may be using. Each book in the series
specialises in either language skills or aspects of the English
language itself. It is designed to be used either in class or by
students working on their own.
Just Reading and Writing consists of 16 units, containing a
variety of reading texts on subjects such as stress, memory,
crocodile hunters, emails from abroad, hobbies and
reading and writing in different styles of English. There are
also exercises which the student will be able to use even if a
teacher is unavailable for explanations or guidance. There is a
comprehensive Answer key, and where free writing is
required an 'example answer' is usually given.
How you use the material in class is up to you, of course.
Our aim has been to provide stimulating texts and tasks
which can lead to any number of different activities once the
exercises in this book have been completed.
We hope you find this book useful and that you will also
try the other books in the series; Just Vocabulary,
Just Grammar and Just Listening and Speaking.
 12 UNlT 2: Writing UNlT 2: Wrltlng 13

1.. B Writing: because, but, so

1 Read the problems from students of English. In a-d write
2B Is learning English stressful? Read the ideas on these two pages about
learning English. Use the ideas to complete the leaflet. Use because,
but and so where necessary.

the word that helps you answer the questions.

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'I get stressed when 'Sometimes I can9% 1 like to speak in want to learn lots
I read in English the grammar exercises, English, but I of words, but I
because there are "
worry about my %
don't know how.' : you are relaxed,
many words I don't Am&, t pronunciation.' KMi, Nagoyd, J c t p a ~ you Lawn more.
know.' I . Fe~ir,Ankara, Turkey
Boris, Moscow, Russia -- .

a Boris gets stressed - what is the reason? ........-& .....h .......~h . . r ! . . ~ ~ .&+'?
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b Arne1 can't do the grammar exercises - what is the result of this? ..w . . . . ~ ~ , . . . s R M . ~ . w . . . . & ~4~
c Fyir likes to speak English - what is the problem? b . 5........~ .......1
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. ...... & @h.~.dher ~Q'*ncr'4i0n
d Koji wants to learn new words - what is the problem? &%.",S%...hL .....hag?.!
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Take the stress out of learning English! ,

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Complete the sentences with because, but or so. Why is learning English a good idea?
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a There are many words I don't know, .................................................... I can use a dictionary. r k d
b I write down new words, ...................... r.12...................I can look at them again and remember them. am'
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c I want to learn English ................ ................. it is important for many jobs.
d English is sometimes difficult, .........b& ............................... I like it.
%I- S.(1............................... it has a Jot of exercises.
e I like having a workbook, ...............
f Sometimes I don't understand, ................4......................... I can ask my teacher for help.