New Password 2: A Reading and Vocabulary Text, 2nd Edition

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

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