Smith Lorraine C., Mare Nancy Nici. Topics for Today 5

3rd Edition. — Heinle, Cengage Learning, 2009. — 315 p.Topics for Today is an ESL/EFL reading skills text intended for advanced, college-bound students. The passages in this book are original articles from periodicals and newspapers. Some have been shortened slightly, but none have been simplified; consequently, students have the opportunity to read actual selections from a variety of publications. The topics are fresh and timely. The issues are global in nature. Experience has shown that college-bound students are interested in modern topics of a more academic nature than is often found in ESL/EFL texts. They need extensive reading in the styles of writing and the vocabulary that they will actually encounter during their university studies. This book provides them with this essential practice. It requires students to not only read an article, but also to extract information from various forms of charts, graphs, and illustrations.