Collocations

Task 36. Make a presentation of the book and the review of it you have found to exchange the information with other students.

Reference to the book The author (year) Title of the book, published by (city and name of the organization) Who wrote a review, when
What and who is this book written for (main idea)?
Positive features mentioned by the author of the review? Do you agree with them or not?
Criticism of the author of the review. Do you agree with it or not? Why?
A list of useful words (5) and collocations (5) you can recommend to your peers

PART 5: LISTENING for ACADEMIC PURPOSES

Task 37. a)What do you think of e-textbooks? Read the script of the the VOA Special English Education Report. Try to get the main idea of what it is about.

b) Insert the topic sentences into the text of the report:

c) Listen to the recording and check your answers.

1. So what do students think of e-textbooks?

2. downloading the books from the Internet was easy

3. electronic textbooks now represent just two to three percent of sales.

4. administrators are disappointed with the e-textbooks now available because the majority are not interactive.

5. that cost could be a big influence.

6. using e-textbooks did not change their study habits.

7. The average college student in America spent an estimated seven hundred dollars on textbooks last year.

8. Online versions are now available for many of the most popular college textbooks.

9. growth will come when more digital books include video, activities, games and other ways to interact with the information.

10. The university is unusual.

Going Digital: The Future of College Textbooks?

____________________________________________________________________________. The National Association of College Stores reported more than five billion dollars in sales of textbooks and course materials.

Association spokesman Charles Schmidt says ____________________________________________. But he says that is expected to reach ten to fifteen percent by two thousand twelve.

________________________________________________________________________. E-textbooks can cost half the price of a new print textbook. But students usually lose access after the end of the term. And the books cannot be placed on more than one device, so they are not easy to share.

__________________________________________________________. Administrators at Northwest Missouri State University wanted to find out. Earlier this year they tested them with five hundred students in twenty classes.

_______________________________________. It not only provides laptop computers to all seven thousand of its full-time students. It does not require students to buy their textbooks either. They rent them to save money. The school aims to save even more by moving to e-textbooks.

The students in the survey reported that_______________________________________. They liked the idea of carrying lighter backpacks. And fifty-six percent said they were better able to find information.

But most found that_________________________________________. And sixty percent felt they read more when they were reading on paper. In all, almost half the students said they still liked physical textbooks better.

But the survey found______________________________________. Fifty-five percent said they would choose e-textbooks if using them meant their textbook rental fee would not increase.

Roger Von Holzen heads the Center for Information Technology in Education at Northwest Missouri State. He tells us that _________________________________________________________________.

He thinks ________________________________________________________________. The technology is improving. But for now, most of the books are just words on a screen.

PART 6: GRAMMAR REVIEW