Password 2 - Softcover

Butler, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130484679 ISBN 13: 9780130484673

Publisher: Pearson Education, 2004

Synopsis

The Password series uses readings about real people, places, and events to help students develop reading skills and increase their active vocabulary. Each book¿s six theme-based units ¿ including such universal topics as work, travel, and celebration ¿ feature appealing passages, carefully chosen vocabulary, and a variety of exercises to engage and motivate readers.

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 Education
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0130484679
• ISBN 13: 9780130484673
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242