Unit Four: Check Your Reference

Lesson 1: Introducing a Table of Contents

A. Look at the table and talk about it in groups.

Contents

• To the Instructor vii
• Context Clues 3
• Unit 1
• The Kiwi 6
• The Camel 9
• The Polar Bear 12
• The Hippopotamus 16
• The Dolphin 21
• Word Study 26
• Extension Activities 29
• • QM Video Activity: Dolphins in Honduras 29
• • Activity Page 31
• • Dictionary Page 32
• Unit 2
• Why Are Elevators Important? 36
• Why Is the Sea Salty? 41
• How Can a Plant Kill? 46
• How Can We Have Farms in the Sea? 52
• How Do Hearing-Impaired People Talk? 57
• Word Study 62
• Extension Activities 65
• • QM Video Activity: A New Kind of Tourism in Brazil 65
• • Activity Page 67
• • Dictionary Page 68
• Unit 3
• Context Clues 7
• The Date Palm 72
• The Water Hyacinth 77
• Rice 82
• Oranges 87
• Word Study 92
• Extension Activities 95
• • QM Video Activity: Rice Farming in Thailand 95
• • Activity Page 97
• • Dictionary Page 98

B. Now, answer the questions below.

1. Is the table familiar to you?
2. Where do you find it?
3. What is the table about?
4. What is this table called?

C. Read the text and discuss in groups. Then try to find answers to the following questions.

You get a new book in hand. You see the title of the book, and you want to read it. But does the title only give you enough information about what the book is all about?

You also find the book divided into a few parts. Suppose you want to read a certain part of the book. Certainly, you will not like to waste time looking for it in the whole book.

1. How do you know which page to look for it? What do you do?
2. Do you think the table in A can help you? How?

D. Look at the table of contents in Section A. Then, ask and answer the questions below.

1. What are the topics at page numbers vii, xiii, xv?
2. If you want to read about the Hippopotamus, what unit and page numbers should you go to?
3. What is the content at page number 65?
4. What page does Unit 2 start at, and where does it end?
5. Which topics appear between pages 26—28?

E Open the table of contents page of your English Textbook. Work in pairs and find out the answers to the following questions.

1. What is the title of the page?
2. What are the column heads?
3. Which page numbers contain the topics?
4. Which topic starts in page 44?
5. How many units are there?
6. How many page numbers are there in the book?

F Now, give information about the following.

• Name/title of the table of contents page:
• Names of column heads:
• Numbers of units:
• Total number of pages:
• Title of the first unit:
• Page number where the first unit starts:
• Title of the last unit:
• Position of the page numbers:
• Position of the chapter titles:
• Others, if any: