Password : a reading and vocabulary text
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Password : a reading and vocabulary text
Longman, c2003-
- 1 : Student book
- 2 : Student book with audio CDs
- 3 : Student book
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3 : Student book: Lynn Bonesteel
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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1 : Student book ISBN 9780131101258
Description
With an emphasis on systematic vocabulary acquisition, this series includes engaging readings about real people, places, events, and ideas. Students are able to develop the reading skills essential for a solid reading foundation. The series uses carefully controlled sentence structure and targets the high-frequency vocabulary that will get students from the 600- to the 2,000-word level. Features *Pre-reading questions and tasks get students thinking about the topic band introduce relevant vocabulary. *Post-reading exercises help students with comprehension and strengthen such skills as scanning, summarizing, discussion, and writing. *Expansion activities include word families and collocations, word puzzles, and building dictionary skills. *Vocabulary self-tests.
Table of Contents
Scope and Sequence
Unit One: Free Time
Chapter 1 A Student and a Dancer
Chapter 2 Making a Dream Come True
Chapter 3 A Long-Distance Runner
Chapter 4 Playing with Words
Wrap-up
Unit Two: Places Around the World
Chapter 5 Antarctica
Chapter 6 The Galapagos
Chapter 7 San Marino
Chapter 8 Mount Fuji
Wrap-up
Unit Three: Our Bodies
Chapter 9 Your Sense of Taste
Chapter 10 Bones
Chapter 11 Blood
Chapter 12 Can You Give Me a Hand?
Wrap-up
Unit Four: Working
Chapter 13 Going Her Own Way
Chapter 14 From Play to Work
Chapter 15 Listening for the Truth
Chapter 16 Trying to Understand
Wrap-up
Vocabulary Self-Test 1
Unit Five: Celebrations
Chapter 17 Songkran
Chapter 18 Quebec's Winter Carnival
Chapter 19 Celebrating a New Baby
Chapter 20 Graduations
Wrap-up
Unit Six: Food
Chapter 21 Comfort Food
Chapter 22 Garlic
Chapter 23 Wedding Cake
Chapter 24 Slow Food
Wrap-up
Unit Seven: Changes
Chapter 25 Teaching and Learning
Chapter 26 "It Was Love, So Strong and So Real"
Chapter 27 To Live as an Artist
Chapter 28 An Amazing Woman
Wrap-up
Vocabulary Self-Test 2
Vocabulary Self-Tests Answer Key
Index to Target Words and Phrases
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2 : Student book with audio CDs ISBN 9780131408920
Description
The Password series uses high-interest readings about real people, places, and events to help students develop reading skills, increase their active vocabulary, and gain fluency. Each book's 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.
Table of Contents
Contents
Unit One: Starting Out in a Career
Chapter 1 A Dentist? Oh, No!
Chapter 2 A Cool Job
Chapter 3 Ready for Action
Chapter 4 Life Is Full of Surprises
Wrap-up
Unit Two: It's All in Your Head
Chapter 5 Food for Thought
Chapter 6 Your Memory at Work
Chapter 7 Sleep and the Brain
Chapter 8 In Your Dreams
Wrap-up
Unit Three: Communication
Chapter 9 Who Does It Better?
Chapter 10 When and Why We Laugh
Chapter 11 Going Online
Wrap-up
Vocabulary Self-Test 1
Unit Four: Into the World of Business
Chapter 13 A Family Business
Chapter 14 When the Employees Own the Company
Chapter 15 She Finally Did It
Chapter 16 A Language on the Move
Wrap-up
Unit Five: Health Matters
Chapter 17 Living to 100 and Beyond
Chapter 18 The Placebo Effect
Chapter 19 Tears
Chapter 20 Bionic Men and Women
Wrap-up
Unit Six: Exploring Technology
Chapter 21 A History of Telling Time
Chapter 22 Out with the Old, In with the New?
Chapter 23 Appropriate Technologies
Chapter 24 Technology in Science Fiction
Wrap-up
Vocabulary Self-Test 2
Vocabulary Self-Tests Answer Key
Index to Target Words and Phrases
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3 : Student book ISBN 9780131408937
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Scope and Sequence
Introduction
References, Acknowledgments, and Credits
Unit One: Artistic Innovations
Chapter 1 What is Anime?
Chapter 2 The Scientist and the Stradivarius
Chapter 3 The History of Rap
Wrap-up
Unit Two: The Challenges of Youth
Chapter 4 Sleepy Teens
Chapter 5 Growing Up Gifted
Chapter 6 School Bullies
Wrap-up
Unit Three: Genetics: The Science of Who We Are
Chapter 7 The Science of Genetics
Chapter 8 Designing the Future
Chapter 9 A Drug to Match Your Genes
Wrap-up
Vocabulary Self-Test 1
Unit Four: Getting Emotional
Chapter 10 Can You Translate an Emotion?
Chapter 11 Japanese Trying Service with a Smile
Chapter 12 Road Rage
Wrap-up
Unit Five: Man and Beast
Chapter 13 Is Music Universal
Chapter 14 Our Dogs are Watching Us
Chapter 15 The Mind of a Chimpanzee
Wrap-up
Unit Six: The People Behind the Science
Chapter 16 A Woman's Fate
Chapter 17 The Father of Vaccination
Chapter 18 A Nose for Science
Vocabulary Self-Test 2
Vocabulary Self-Tests Answer Key
Index to Target Words and Phrases
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