Must For class or self-study Reading and Writing Jeremy Harmer Hh. Marshall Cavendish London ¢ Singapore * New YorkThe Just Series The Just series is an integrated series of books that can be used on their own of, when used together, that make up a complete course with a consistent methodological approach. The Just series is designed for individual skills and language development either as part of a classroom-based course or @ self-study programme, The approach is learner-centred, ‘and each unit has clear aims, motivating topics ‘and interesting practice activities. ‘The Just series is for adult intermediate leamers and can be used as general preparation material for exams at this level. The Just series has four titles: Just Listening and Speaking 0 462 00714.6 Just Reading and Writing 0 462 00711 1 Just Grammor0 452 00713 8 Just Vocabulary 482 00712 X © 2006 Marsa Cavendish Ls Fiat pubished 2004 by Marsal Cavendish Lit [Marsal Cavendicn sa member ofthe Times Publishing Group ‘Al rights reserved; po part ths pubetion may be reproduce, stored ins rete! system rareited in any for, o by any means, tectonic, mechani, photocopying recording or otherwise without the pro ten persion a he pushers Marshall Cavendish XT 119 Wardour Svest London WiFOUW Designed b Har MeLeod, Cambridge ustratians by Yore Civstansen, Rod Hunt ard Jenifer Ward Printed and bound ty ines Ott (Sn Be Miatayia Photo acknowledgements 8 All pictures by Ronald Grant Archive; p12 Rex Features; ‘p14 The Argus, Brighton [chard Grange; p21 PRoyalty- Free(Corbis; p22 °S0 Hing-Keuna/Cobis; 923 top °Martin PeterslimageState/Alamy: 923 Topham Ficturepoint; 124 Pitures Colour Library; p26 By permission of Penguin Books; 125 Ronald Grant Archive: p27 Ronald Grant Archive; £28 topfoottom Robert Harding World Imagery/Robert Harding Picture Library LtdjAlamy; p30 Tim Heatherington/Network Photographers; p36 Bettman/Corbs; p36 Rex Features; 137 Corbis; p38 Marshall Cavendish Archive; p38 The Bridgeman ‘Art Library, Forrait of An Boleyn{ 1507-36), Second wife of Henry Vil of England, 1534 by English School (16th centur) Hever Caste td, Kent, UX; p38 The Bridgeman Art Library Portrait of Catherine Howard (e1620-4.1642) Sth Queen of Henry Vil from ‘Memoirs of the Court of Qucen Elizabeth’, ‘published in 1825 (w/e and gouache on paper by Sarah Countess of Essex id. 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Text acknowledgements 14 based on Pane crashes into house, Sally Mail 02/04/01; 18 based on Shopping by John Cree, “Guarian; 124 Backpackrland, based on an article by Jason Burke, Observer Newspapers p25 Extract from The Beach, Alex Garland (Viking, 1896) Alex Garland, 1986; p30 No Home, No ob, No Worries °C) Stone, from The Big Issue 1117 August 1987; 12 The Confession Brian Patten; p23 | Am Completely Different, transiation James Kirkup, original Karoda Saburo; 142How to make those New Year's resolutions tick, Or Pauline Wallin; pa4 Marathon marcage just the tp of the feberg, based ‘Angel of the Bridge "Daly Mail 22/08/01; p62 Neighbour bites dag in fence dispte, Sleremy Harmer, reprinted by permission ‘of Pearson Education Limited; p60 Wired? Not worth i! based ‘on Dumbing Us Down Theodore Rosenak, News Internationalist issue 26, December 1996; p68 Extract from All| want Margaret Johnson; p74 Not just a man's game, based on Something fr the Laies Stephanie Mert, Gbserer Sports Monthly, Apel 2001; 84 Rachel, taken from Trumpet Voluntary, Jeremy Harmer; 26 Is This Love? A Closer Look, based on an article by Bob NarindraContents Unit 1A Check your character B The story of Eugene Onegin C Personal reports Unit 2 A Overalls B Not a very ordinary day C Headlines and newspapers Unit 3 A Supermarkets B Shopping and the Internet C Paragraph construction Unit 4 A Backpacking B The Beach € Text coherence Unit 5 A The von B Poems C Letter writing Unit G A Three women B A dangerous husband C Biography Unit 7 A Resolutions B The best place to get married? € Invitations 10 2 4 16 18 20 23 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 46 Unit 8 A Graffiti B From graffiti to art fame Making text work Unit 9 A Talking bodies B Surviving an interview C Summarising reports Unit 10 A the case against computers B Loving technology € txt msgng Unit 11 A Who wrote Shakespeare? B All| want C First lines Unit 12 A In the manager's office B The women of Fulham LFC C Using acronyms Unit 13 A the cellist B The story of Vedran Smailovie € Correcting and ordering Unit 14 A Rachel B How do you know it's love? C ‘Small ads’ Answer key 48 50 52 54 56 58 62 aes 2 74 76 78 84 86 88 89