Password 1: Reading for Vocabulary Development

Would you like to know:

• how to make movies?
• if you could be a food critic?
• what it’s like to be a mystery shopper?

New Password 1: A Reading and Vocabulary Text is a new addition to the Password series. It helps beginning 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

• New Feature! 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; please click on the Resources link on the left side of this page..

The New Password series also includes:

• New Password 2
• New Password 3
• New Password 4
• New Password 5

What’s it like to ...

·         visit Antarctica?

·         sleep on a bed of ice?

·         live the life of a singer/songwriter?

·            fall in love with someone from another culture?

Password 1: A Reading and Vocabulary Text, by Linda Butler, helps beginning 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 500 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.