Synopses & Reviews
Would you like to know:
- how to live to be 100?
- what economists say about our decision-making?
- where appropriate technologies are changing people's lives?
New Password 4: A Reading and Vocabulary Text is the fourth book in the newly expanded Password series. It helps intermediate to high-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 2
- New Password 3
- New Password 5
Synopsis
Would you like to know:
- how to live to be 100?
- what economists say about our decision-making?
- where appropriate technologies are changing people's lives?
New Password 4: A Reading and Vocabulary Text is the fourth book in the newly expanded
Password series. It helps intermediate to high-intermediatestudents 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 2
- New Password 3
- New Password 5
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Table of Contents
Scope and Sequence
Overview of New Password 4
Unit 1: Into the World of Business
Chapter 1: Dreamers and Doers
Chapter 2: Word-of-Mouth Advertising
Chapter 3: A Language on the Move
Chapter 4: When the Employees Own the Company
Unit 1 Wrap-Up
Unit 2: Health Matters
Chapter 5: Living to 100 and Beyond
Chapter 6: The Placebo Effect
Chapter 7: Tears
Chapter 8: Bionic Men and Women
Unit 2 Wrap-Up
Units 1-2 Vocabulary Self-Test 1
Unit 3: Exploring Technology
Chapter 9: A History of Telling Time
Chapter 10: Put with the Old, In with the New?
Chapter 11: Appropriate Technologies
Chpater 12: Technology in Science Fiction
Unit 3 Wrap-Up
Unit 4: The Environment
Chapter 13: Small Ride, Big Trouble
Chapter 14: Your Trees, My Trees, Our Trees
Chapter 15: Would You Eat Bugs to Save the World?
Chapter 16: A Small Creature with a Big Job
Unit 4 Wrap-Up
Units 3-4 Vocabulary Self-Test 2
Unit 5: Economics
Chapter 17: Economics -- What's It All About?
Chapter 18: Behavioral Economics
Chapter 19: The Economics of Happiness
Chapter 20: Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank
Unit 5 Wrap-Up
Units 1-5 Vocabulary Self-Test 3
Vocabulary Self-Tests Answer Key
Index to Target Vocabulary