Password 2: A Reading and Vocabulary Text

by Butler, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780131408920
• ISBN10: 0131408925
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

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

Scope and Sequence	v
Introduction	ix
References, Acknowledgments, and Credits	xiii
Unit One: Starting Out in a Career	1	(37)
A Dentist? Oh, No!	2	(8)
A Cool Job	10	(8)
Ready for Action	18	(8)
Life Is Full of Surprises	26	(12)
Wrap-up	33	(5)
Unit Two: It's All in Your Head	38	(38)
Food for Thought	39	(8)
Your Memory at Work	47	(8)
Sleep and the Brain	55	(8)
In Your Dreams	63	(13)
Wrap-up	71	(5)
Unit Three: Communication	76	(43)
Who Does It Better?	77	(9)
When and Why We Laugh	86	(8)
The Inventor of the Telephone	94	(8)
Going Online	102	(17)
Wrap-up	110	(9)
Vocabulary Self-Test 1	115	(4)
Unit Four: Into the World of Business	119	(37)
A Family Business	120	(8)
When the Employees Own the Company	128	(8)
She Finally Did It	136	(8)
A Language on the Move	144	(12)
Wrap-up	152	(4)
Unit Five: Health Matters	156	(40)
Living to 100 and Beyond	157	(8)
The Placebo Effect	165	(8)
Tears	173	(9)
Bionic Men and Women	182	(14)
Wrap-up	191	(5)
Unit Six: Exploring Technology	196	(43)
A History of Telling Time	197	(9)
Out with the Old, In with the New?	206	(8)
Appropriate Technologies	214	(9)
Technology in Science Fiction	223	(16)
Wrap-up	231	(8)
Vocabulary Self-Test 2	235	(4)
Vocabulary Self-Tests Answer Key	239	(1)
Index to Target Words and Phrases	240