New Password 4 A Reading and Vocabulary Text (with MP3 Audio CD-ROM)

by Butler, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780132463058
• ISBN10: 0132463059
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2009-08-21
• Publisher: Pearson Education ESL

Summary

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 Textis the fourth book in the newly expanded Passwordseries. 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 Passwordseries also includes: New Password 1 New Password 2 New Password 3 New Password 5

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