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= LONGMAN | Proficiency | Reading | Mary Stephens LONGMAN CONTENTS MAP Gece) Concussion) Reading 1: Travel writing. Reading 2: Traveling in China, Wire Witenes Cvs 1 Going places Exam tip: ps “Travel vocabulary, phrasal verbs with go, idiems with {0, prepositions idioms wi adjgctives, expressions with and. Strategy: How to read for gst 2 Larger than life pis Reading 1: Biography of a writer Reading 2: Biography of a businesswoman. Character adjectives, idioms ‘with parts ofthe body, usefel phrases, phrasal verbs with ore, similar words, expressions with come, ‘Strategy: How to deal with uunfamiiar words. 3 Allin a cay’s work p25 Reading 1: How to fird a better Job, Reading 2: An industrial dispute, Vocabulary for jobs, ‘equipment and employment, common work-related expressions, collocations with adjectives, similar but titerent, phrasal verbs with break. Phrasal verbs Strategy: How to recognise reference words and other test links. 1 A visit to the 200, Dolphins and Exam tip 4 Creatures areat and small Collocations 35 ‘Avimal groups, animal hhomes, animal families, parts of an anima's body, fds with animals, similar but different, prepositions, ways of communicating, phrasal verbs with take, Strategy: Recogising the author's style, tone and Feason for writing : Detective fiction. Social history af Exam tip: Expressions 5 Grimes and misdemeanours p45 “Types of crime, verbs and prepositions, adjective and foun callocations, simiar but diferent, prepositions, phrasal verbs with get. Strategy: How to read between the lines EXAM PRACTICE 1 p55 6 Order and choos p59 Reading 1: Development of applied science. Reading 2: Chaos theory. Processes, adjective and ‘noun collacations, similar but oifferent, calocations, phrasal verbs with put, Idioms and expressions with put Exam tip: Similar words Strategy: Paying careful attention to detall 7 A thing of beauty Reading 1: Rembrandt and | Expressions and idioms Exam tip: 9.69 his work. connected with music, Dependent prepositions Reading 2: Children's books. | expressions with te, similar but diferent, cinema and theatre terms, expressions and idiers with make and do, prepositions. Strategy: How to multiple choice questions. I. iene Werte Dineen Cou iusns Csr yoursis 8 Looking ahead Reading 1: Developments in| Expressions with time, Exam ti p79 science prasal yer with tor, Grammatical Reading 2: The last day on phrases with turn, strecturey Strategy: How te distinguish | earth. lxpressions, expressions and the literal from the icons figuratve ‘9 Literary portraits Reading 1: Description of [dams with comparisons, Exam tip: p99 the writer's mother, expressions with pets of the | Prepostonal phrases Reading 2: Description of an | body, similar but different, noun Strategy: How to increase | unusual character and agectve collocation, your speed when reading and phrasal verbs mith fk, arswering questions expressens with look 10 The shadow ofthe past | Reading 1: History on Common expressions, Exam tp 99 television collocation, similar but Auniliary verbs Reading 2: The Stone Age | different, expressens, Strategy: How te answer colours, ‘multiple choice questions. 1 "EXAM PRACTICE 2 p.109 11 The fruits of techrology | Reading 1: A visit to the Descriptive adjectives, Exam tip: p13 dentist's phrasal verbs with give Connectors Reading 2: Mobile phones. | components, tools and Strategy: How to answer ‘equipment, Snir but ‘multiple cheice questions. different, expressions with m1 ive 112 The joys of learning Reading 1: the study ot Similar words, similar but Exam tp: p.123 Latin different, collacations, Related words Reading 2: Starting school. | expressicns, expressions with Strategy: Ieentifying irony. run, looking, moving and speaking, similar but dlifferent. 13 Sign of the times Reading 1: DNA and Prepositions, phrasal verbs | Exam tip: 133 laziness. with fay and set, commen Prepositions Reading 2: Monitoring the | idioms and expressions, Strategy: How to answer cenviconment. simiar but differert, similar ‘multiple choice questions. ‘words, expressions, ly 14 In so many words Reading 1: Euiting, Descriptive adjectives, Exam tip: p43 Reading 2: The ideal similar but diferent, mixed [Discourse markers rnewspaper editor, phrasal verbs, common Strategy: Revision expressions, similes. "EXAM PRACTICE 3 p.153 Phrasal verbs appendix p.187 158 Mini-dictionary 1.159.176

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