IntroductionFor the studentJust Reading and Writing (Upper Intermediate) is one oftwo skills books designed for you to study on your own,or together with other students and a teacher. It will helpyou improve your reading and writing skills in English.We have chosen the texts and tasks carefully to offeran interesting and challenging mix of topics andlanguage styles. We have included contemporary uses ofEnglish such as email and the Internet.This book has a lot of practice exercises to helpyou with reading and writing. When you see thissymbol () at the end of an exercise it means thatyou can refer to the answer key at the back of the bookand check your answers there.Although we encourage the use of dictionaries, ouradvice is not to use one until you have done all theexercises in a section. If you use your dictionary too earlyyou may find it more difficult to understand the generalmeaning of the text.We are confident that this book will help you progressin English and, above all, that you will enjoy using it.For the teacherThe Just skills books at the Upper Intermediate levelcan be used on their own or in combination, or assupplementary material to support other materials.They have been written and designed using a consistentmethodological approach that allows them to be usedeasily together. They are designed in such a way thatthey can be used either in class or by the studentsworking on their own.Just Reading and Writing consists of 14 unitscontaining a variety of reading texts and activitieson subjects such as money, photography, anger, diets,poems, appearance and hobbies of all kinds. These aredesigned to give students experience of reading andwriting in different styles and genres of English. Theresa comprehensive answer key at the back of the book.Our aim has been to provide texts and tasks that arethemselves stimulating and that could lead to anynumber of student activities once the exercises in thisbook have been completed.We are confident that you will find this book a realasset and that you will also want to try the other title atthe Upper Intermediate level, Just Listening and Speaking.
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'What big teeth you've got, grandmother!', she says, and the wolf, disguised as her grandmother,... eyed me warily as I eased open the door At the end of the corridor my mother was sitting in the kitchen with acup of coffee She turned and stared And stared And carried on staring Then her jaw really did drop And after that there was some running and hugging and tears, and I thought: the 13,000 miles to Australia is avery long way to go to surprise your mother, but worth it My 16-year-old brother tried... Linking words and phrases 1 a Read the question opposite and the student composition which answered it Is the student generally in favour of zoos or not? Write a composition discussing the statement b In formal writing, we use more sophisticated words than and, but and so Replace the words in blue in the student's composition with the following words and phrases Use each one once only as a result and furthermore... it is They stand on the edge of the board and look down, far far down, and then they launch themselves twisting into the air No matter how many times you do it, Dustin and his colleagues say, you never lose the fear just before you jump So how come Colombian Orlando Duque, who has just beaten Dustin to become the latest cliff diving champion, looked so still and God-like as he stood above a seawater... as we both slumped in front of the television and our mother cooked us dinner, which I love because it happens so rarely I was in Australia for nine days and it wasn't long enough Most of the time I mooched around looking miserable about my divorce and then apologising for it I didn't want to talk about it I just wanted my dinner cooked and my washing done and to stay up late watching bad telly While... sentences (a-n) and then write the number of the correct definition (1-17) of the words in blue at the end of each sentence a I crept up to the back door, dodging some animals that might give me away b Then her jaw really did drop c And after that there was some running and hugging and tears d I've never seen him lost for words before e He had a pudding-basin haircut f My runaway husband wouldn't stand a chance... years later, she and her victim met face to face d He called for greater understanding between races, a call which echoes down the years in the wake of misunderstandings between different peoples and religions of the world e The phorographs Counts took that day were soon published all over America and the world f William Counrs had been a student at the Cenrral High School himself g And so there was... say that zoos are not pleasant places and the animals are in cages and don't have their freedom And if you deny animals their freedom and keep them in enclosed spaces, they become ill and psychologically disturbed But people who support zoos say that the animals are well looked after and fed, something that does not always And zoos have started happen to them in the wild many breeding programmes... skilled and extremely dangerous Many of them suffer injury and, on occasions, death if they land in the water on their stomachs or their backs 'From 25 metres up, you fall a bit like a grand piano: Dustin says cheerfully They have been known to break their legs if they land on a fish or a piece of seaweed When you watch cliff divers, you get a real sense of how absolutely terrifying it is They stand on . other students and a teacher. It will help you improve your reading and writing skills in English. We have chosen the texts and tasks carefully to offer an interesting and challenging mix of topics and language styles. We have included contemporary uses of English such as email and the Internet. This book has a. other materials. They have been written and designed using a consistent methodological approach that allows them to be used easily together. They are designed in such a way that they can be used either in class or by the students working on their own. Just Reading and Writing consists of 14 units containing a variety of reading texts and activities on subjects such as money, photography, anger, diets, poems, appearance and hobbies of all kinds. These are designed to give students experience of reading and writing in different styles and genres of English. There's a comprehensive answer key at the back of the book. Our aim has been to provide texts and tasks that are themselves stimulating and that could lead to any number of. poems 99 Unit: 7 A The effect of colour 44 B Why Cat and Dog are 101 B Six thinking hats 47 no longer friends C Comparing and contrasting 50 C Films 104 Answer key 106 I ntrod uction For the student Just Reading and Writing (Upper Intermediate) is one of two skills books designed for you to study on your own, or together