Password 2: A Reading and Vocabulary Text - Softcover

Butler, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131408925 ISBN 13: 9780131408920

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2003

Synopsis

Would you like to know:

• what it's like in Antarctica, the Galapagos, and on Mount Fuji?
• how your body works?
• the ways people celebrate around the world?

New Password 2: A Reading and Vocabulary Text is the second book in the newly expanded five-book series. It helps low-intermediate students develop reading skills and increase their active vocabulary through engaging readings about real people, places, events, and ideas. Students benefit from a systematic, corpus-informed approach to learning more than 300 high-frequency words, expressions, and collocations.

Features

• Useful, high-frequency vocabulary selected through extensive corpus-based research
• Careful recycling of vocabulary in readings and exercises
• Activities that highlight collocations and word grammar
• Discussion and writing activities that reinforce learning
• Unit wrap-ups that help students review vocabulary and practice dictionary skills
• Vocabulary self-tests that help students assess their progress

The Student Book comes with an Audio CD-ROM containing the entire Student Book audio program in MP3 format.

There is also an edition of the Student Book without the Audio CD-ROM; click on the Resources link on the left side of this page..

The New Password series also includes:

• New Password 1
• New Password 3
• New Password 4
• New Password 5

About this title

From the Back Cover

Would you like to know ...

·         why people laugh?

·         how to live to 100 or more?

·         what appropriate technologies are?

·         how one secretary became a millionaire?

 

Password 2: A Reading and Vocabulary Text, by Linda Butler, helps low intermediate students develop reading skills and increase their active vocabulary through engaging readings about real people, places, events, and ideas. Students benefit from a systematic, corpus-informed approach to learning more than 400 high-frequency words, expressions, and collocations.
 
Features:

·         Target word choices based on analyses of authentic language data in various corpora, including the Longman Corpus network.

·         An emphasis on systematic vocabulary acquisition, including recycling of vocabulary.

·         Activities that highlight collocations and word grammar.

·         Discussion and writing activities reinforce learning.

·         Periodic vocabulary self-tests.

          Unit wrap-ups that review vocabulary and practice dictionary skills.

·         A Teacher’s Manual with an answer key for all student exercises, six unit tests with answers, and a Quick Oral Review for rapid vocabulary drills.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0131408925
• ISBN 13: 9780131408920
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 242