Password 2 » (1st Edition)

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.

Scope and Sequence

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 The Inventor of the Telephone

Chapter 12 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 Ficton

Wrap-up

Vocabulary Self-Test 2

Vocabulary Self-Tests Answer Key

Index to Target Words and Phrases