DEVELOPMENT OF LISTENING AND READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS THROUGH THE MEDIA TEXTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART 1. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Unit 1. Avoiding Addiction When It Is in Your DNA
Unit 2. Is Technology Wiring Teens to Have Better Brains?
Unit 3. Can Sleep Make You Smarter?
Unit 4. Digital Technology Helps Researchers Hear Earliest Recordings Better
Unit 5. How Are Arts Organizations Using Digital Technologies?
Unit 6. The Future of Technologies
Unit 7. How Apple, Other Tech Companies Take
Unit 8. How to Protect Against the Dangers of Mobile Apps That Gather Kids’ Data
PART 2. THE WORLD ISSUES
Unit 1. In India’s Crowded Capital Crisis Looms
Over Water Scarcity
Unit 2. Russia’s Shrinking Population Mars Putin’s
Superpower Ambitions
Unit 3. India’s Rape Problem Needs a Rewiring of
Society’s Attitude
Unit 4. Climate Change Sceptics No Longer Doubt
Human Role in Global Warming
Unit 5. The Urban Farms of Today
Unit 6. The Era of Cheap Food is Over:
Unit 7. In Response to Sanctions, Russia Aims to Bar U.S. Adoptions of Russian Children
Unit 8. Under Austerity, Greeks Feel Unfolding Social and Humanitarian Crisis
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