Synopses & Reviews
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.
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