Unit 4 Trends

LISTENING
Campus Conversation A student asks a professor about buying a used car on eBay.
Academic Listening Radio interview: Tipping Points in Fighting Crime

READING
Essay The Story of Silent Spring

WRITING
Integrated Task: Use concepts described in The Tipping Point to explain the
Read, Listen, Write success of Paul Revere

SPEAKING
Independent Task: Express your opinion about the reasons behind the
popularity of a modern technological device, such as the cell
phone.

SKILL FOCUS
Identifying and Using Identifying and using main ideas and details of listening
Main Ideas and Details passages and reading excerpts show that you understand
a writer’s or speaker’s most important point about a topic.
 auction

Public sale where people offer money for items

come across

Find
 a lemon

Something that does not work properly, usually a

car
It is all about
caught on

popular
 Get right down to it

Really think about doing

something
 word of mouth

person to person communication

principles
phenomenal

amazing