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UNIT 1PEOPLELEARNING OBJECTIVESKey Reading Skill

Previewing

Understanding key vocabulary;skimming; scanning to find
Additional Reading Skills
information; reading for details;
taking notes; synthesizing
Language Development

Family vocabulary; nouns andverbs; singular and plural nouns

ACTIVATE YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Work with a partner. Ask and answer the questions.
1

What is your name?

2

Where do you live?

3

Do you have a job? What do you do?

4

Do you study? What do you study?

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UNIT

1

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READING 1
PREPARING TO READ
1

UNDERSTANDING KEY VOCABULARY Read the words and examples in the box.
Then write the bold words from the box in the sentences.

words

exampleslanguages

Spanish, Urdu, Russiancity

New York City, Montreal

date of birth

May 4, 1998

country

United States, Mexico

jobteacher, doctor

hobbiesreading, playing the piano, running

1 London is a very big

in England. Many people live there.

2 I speak three: Turkish, Arabic, and English.

3 Morocco is ain North Africa. It is next to Algeria and Spain.

4 My

is July 7, 1997.

5 I have a great
6 I have many

. I am a teacher.
. I like running, reading, and playing the piano.

What are your hobbies?

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READING 1

1SKILLS
PREVIEWING
Previewing means looking at a text before you read it. When you preview
a text, look at the text and think about these questions:
1 Are there photos?
2 What is in the photos?
3 What is the title of the text?
4 Where is the text from? (a book? a magazine? a web page?)

2Look at the photos and the text on pages 18-19.
Ask and answer the questions with a partner.
PREVIEWING

1 Read the title. What is a profile?
2 Where can you find profiles?
3 What do the photos show?
4 Who do you think Jeremy Lin is?
5 What does he like?

How do you connect with friends?

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MY PR OFILE

Jeremy Lin
MY P E R SONA L INFOR MATIONFirst nameJeremyLast name

Lin

Date of birth
CityCountry

August 23, 1988
Torrance, California
United States

Languages

English, Mandarin

Job

Basketball player(1)

Emailjeremy.lin@cup.org

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READING 11(2)

MotherShirley

FatherGie-Ming
Josh and JosephBrothers(3)

Palo AltoHigh school

Harvard UniversityCollege(4)Hobbies

playing the piano, playing video games

Other interests

helping young people(5)

I’m Jeremy Lin. My mother and father are from Taiwan. I speak two languages:
English and Mandarin. I am a basketball player. I have played on many basketballteams in the United States. My brothers’ names are Josh and Joseph. They likebasketball, too. I also like playing the piano and playing video games.

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WHILE READING
3

Read the text on pages 18–19 quickly. Write the words from thebox in the blank spaces in the text.
SKIMMING

Contact information My hobbies and interests
Education My family My life
4

SCANNING TO FIND INFORMATION

Read the text again. Circle the correct words

to make true sentences.
1 Jeremy is from Taiwan / the United States.
2 Jeremy’s brothers like basketball / video games.
3 Jeremy’s hobbies are playing the piano and video games / playing thepiano and basketball.
4 Helping young people is Jeremy’s other job / interest.
5 Shirley is Jeremy’s sister / mother.
6 Gie-Ming is Jeremy’s brother / father.
7 Jeremy’s email address is cup@jeremy.lin / jeremy.lin@cup.org.
8 He went to Harvard University / Boston University.
5READING FOR DETAILS

Read the summary and circle the correct words.

Jeremy Lin is a (1) basketball player / teacher. He is from(2)Torrance, California / Harvard University in theUnited States. His date of birth is August 23, (3) 1988 / 1998.
He (4) speaks / plays English and Mandarin. He has two(5)sisters / brothers.

Do you play video games?
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CRITICAL THINKING
6 Work with a partner. Ask and answer the questions.

UNDERSTANDAPPLYANALYZEEVALUATE

Who is Jeremy’s
profile for?

What otherinformation do
you want to know
about Jeremy?
Write two questions
to ask him.

What informationfrom the text dothe pictures show?
Do they give otherinformation not inthe text?

Does this profile
do a good job ofshowing Jeremy
Lin’s life? Why or
why not?

COLLABORATION
7 A Complete your partner’s profile below. Ask the questions and write theanswers in the profile.
• What is your name?
• What is your date of birth?
• What country are you from?

• Do you have any brothers orsisters? What are their names?
• What languages do you speak?
• What are your hobbies?

Name
Date of birthCountry
FamilyLanguages
Hobbies
B Think of two photos that are perfect for your partner’s profile. Describethe photos.
C Compare your profiles with another group. Read each person’s profile. How
are you similar? How are you different?

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READING 2
PREPARING TO READ
1UNDERSTANDING KEY VOCABULARY

Read the sentences. Write the bold words next tothe deﬁnitions below.
1 That is an unusual job! I have never heard of it.
2 My brother is a student at an English university. He lives in London.
3 My father is a teacher. He works in a school.
4 Andrea is interested in languages. She wants to learn Japanese.
5 I like to listen to music. I like the sound of the piano.
6 I watch TV at night. I watch basketball games and other sports.
7 On a normal day, I go to work. Then I come home and eat dinner withmy family.
8 My family is big. I have a mother, a father, four sisters, and three brothers.
a(n) a group of people related to each other, such as amother, a father, and their childrenb(adj) usual, ordinary, and expectedc(v) to have your home somewhere

What do you do on a normal day?

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READING 2d(adj phr) wanting to learn more about somethinge(n) sounds that are made by playing instruments or singingf21(adj) different and not usual; often in a way that isinteresting or exciting

g(v) to do a job, especially for moneyh(v) to look at something for some time

You are going to read about an unusual man. Look at the text andphotos on pages 24–25. Then circle the correct answers.
PREVIEWING

1 The man in the photo on the left is …
a at a store.

b in his home.

c in a park.

b basketball player.

c very tall man.

b newspaper.

c web page.

2 The text is about a …
a farm.
3 The text is from a …
a magazine.

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