Practical Faster Reading: An Intermediate/Advanced Course in Reading and Vocabulary

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Practical Faster Reading provides the basis for a reading improvement course lasting a total of 30 class hours and has proved popular with students and teachers in a variety of settings. Thirty passages covering a wide range of topics of general interest and accompanying exercises give practice in the reading skills needed at upper-intermediate and more advanced levels. Substantial increases in reading speed are usually attained with improvements in comprehension and vocabulary. The full answer key for self-checking also makes this useful for the student working alone.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• How to use this book
• 1 Faster effective reading
• 2 Obstacles to faster effective reading
• 3 Hints for reading practice (part 1)
• 4 Hints for reading practice (part 2)
• 5 Money
• 6 Diamonds
• 7 Canning food
• 8 The Olympic Games
• 9 Auction sales
• 10 The planemakers
• 11 Dreams - what do they mean?
• 12 To be or not to be a vegetarian
• 13 Making leather
• 14 Cats
• 15 The history of chemistry
• 16 Electric fish
• 17 Dried food
• 18 The United Nations
• 19 Pottery
• 20 Pasteurization
• 21 Modern surgery
• 22 Smoking and cancer
• 23 Rabies
• 24 Vitamins
• 25 Bringing up children (part 1)
• 26 Bringing up children (part 2)
• 27 Etiquette (part 1)
• 28 Etiquette (part 2)
• 29 Social classes (part 1)
• 30 Social classes (part 2)
• Answers