Full Description
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.
Contents
Contents Unit OneNo! 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 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 Fiction Wrap-up Vocabulary Self-Test 2 Vocabulary Self-Tests Answer Key Index to Target Words and Phrases
