Introduction
This book is intended to develop basic reading skills and expand general vocabulary as a step towards reading, understanding, and using college texts. The passages represent a wide range of subject matters which expose the students to various content demands of very general reading materials. The collection comprises 14 lessons. Each lesson consists of a reading selection followed by different types of reading comprehension and vocabulary exercises. The passages in this book have been carefully graded and arranged in order of difficulty from the easiest to the most difficult. The 14 reading selections start from elementary and gradually reach a low- intermediate level. The grammar part helps students learn some of the fundamentals of English grammar so that they can better engage with a wide variety of texts
Mahdieh Jamali & Alireza Ahali Abadeh(January 2024)
Contents
INTRODUCTION
PHONETIC SYMBOLS.
SPECIAL SYMBOLS
LESSON 1
WHY DO WE COOK FOOD?
Present continuous
LESSON 2
EID UL-FITRA SPECIAL OCCASION IN ISLAMIC
COMMUNITIES
Present simple
LESSON 3
YALDA NIGHT
Past simple.
LESSON 4
TEA
Past continuous
LESSON 5
CELL PHONE ETIQUETTE.
Adverbs of frequency
Adverbial expressions of place and time
LESSON 6
THE WORLD'S OLDEST UNIVERSITY
Will and going to
LESSON 7
SATELLITES
Subject pronouns
Object pronouns
Possessive adjectives
Possessive pronouns
LESSON 8
DEHKHODA
WH-questions
LESSON 9
HAPPY PEOPLE
Present perfect
LESSON 10
THE SECRET TO A LONG LIFE
Enough and too
LESSON 11
WHAT IS SUCCESS?
Modal verbs 1
LESSON 12
CAN YOU LIVE FOREVER?
Modal verbs 2
LESSON 13
THEY KNOW WHAT YOU WANT
Passive sentences
LESSON 14
A LONG WALK HOME
Conditional sentences
Appendix 1 Multiple choice grammar tests
Appendix 2 Irregular Verbs
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