Skills

• Finding the main idea of a reading (19)
• Inferring information from a reading (6,7)
• Knowing when to use a dictionary (9-11)
• Guessing the meaning of words from context (14 and 15)
• Narrowing a topic (31-32)
• Identifying and writing a topic sentence (31-32)
• Brainstorming (30-31)

Vocabulary

• the prefixes, stems and suffixes on page (21)
• infer, inference, inferred (16)
• imply, implication, implied (16)
• context (9)
• ethnocentrism (16)
• misconceptions (16)
• economic infrastructure (19, 20)
• social infrastructure (19,20)
• financial infrastructure (19,20)
• globally (14)
• value (16, 18)
• adapt (17, 18, 20)
• material culture (19)
• customs (18, 19)
• manners (16, 18, 19)
• (the conjunction) but
• (the conjunction) so
• (the conjunction) yet
• (the conjunction) for
• skimming (17)
• topic (17, 31)
• topic sentence (bottom of 33)
• brainstorming (30 - 31)
• simple present tense (23)
• simple past tense (23)
• adjective clause (26)
• coordinating conjunctions (28)
• indent (34)
• capital letter (34)
• draft (34)

Grammar use

• Simple present and simple past tenses (23, 24) (Swan Grammar reference sections 261 and 241)
• the subject "you" (bottom of 25) (Swan Grammar reference section 229)
• modals of advice (24, 25)(Swan Grammar reference section 295)
• adjective clauses (also called relative clauses) (26,27) (Swan Grammar reference sections 277 through 280)
• coordinating conjunctions (28 - 30) (Swan Grammar reference section 89)