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Discovering Fiction

Kay/Gelshenen

Intermediate, Upper-intermediate, Advanced

Discovering Fiction is a two-level anthology of short stories by contemporary and classic American authors such as Isaac Asimov, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sandra Cisneros, Kate Chopin, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes and Shirley Jackson. The texts provide interactive, skill-building tasks around each story.

Academic Listening Encounters: American Studies is a listening, note-taking, and discussion text that focuses on the same content area as the reading, study-skills, and writing book described above. The listening book with student's Audio CD, as well as the complete audio program for the listening book, are both available separately for purchase. The reading book and the listening book may each be used independently or they may be used together to form an integrated four-skills course.

Key Features

• Extensive pre-reading activities capture students' interest.
• Accompanying Grammar exercises help students overcome such troublespots as prepositions, articles and irregular verbs.
• The universal appeal of the stories will touch students and make them think.
• Reading and vocabulary comprehension activities check students' understanding.
• In Level 1, graphic organizers guide students in discovering how literary techniques function.
• Thought-provoking discussion and writing assignments encourage students to share their ideas.
• Review sections offer compare-and-contrast activities that tie the stories together.

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