Full Description
Acquiring a strong vocabulary doesn't have to be difficult. Vocabulary Power uses the latest research on memory to make this process simple, effective, and enjoyable.
A three-book series, Vocabulary Power:
teaches the most important words from the General Service List (500 words) and Academic Word List (400 words)
presents each word in eight different contexts to help students learn and remember the word easily
encourages students to apply the words to their own lives, making vocabulary more relevant and useful
can be used in class or as a self-study text
Each Vocabulary Power book features:
300 new words -- 10 per chapter
high-interest readings adapted from articles on a variety of up-to-date topics
exercises on word families, multiple meanings, collocations, and expressions that expand students' knowledge of the words
engaging discussion questions and writing topics that elicit natural use of the words
quizzes to check students' progress and minimize teacher prep time
Word Builder exercises and charts in the Appendix to help students focus on the meaning and use of word parts
The Vocabulary Power series includes Vocabulary Power 1 (Low Intermediate), Vocabulary Power 2 (Intermediate), and Vocabulary Power 3 (Advanced).
Contents
CHAPTER 1 Key Words: analyze, assist, construct, debt, distribute, intend, master, reflect, rival, witness
Readings: Personal Finance for Teenagers
CHAPTER 2
Key Words: available, concentrate, consultant, data, edit, issue, obvious, stiff, term, trial
Readings: Putting a Stop to Teenage Hacking Crimes
CHAPTER 3
Key Words: accurate, classic, critic, encourage, exhibit, firm, label, prejudice, process, tempt
Readings: Salsa Music Energizes Japan
QUIZ 1
Key Words from Chapters 1—3
CHAPTER 4
Key Words: benefit, contrast, convenience, insure, lessen, locate, logic, rate, require, scale
Readings: Setting Up Operations in Sunny Spain
CHAPTER 5
Key Words: attitude, contribute, establish, fade, identify, pressure, quote, reputation, spare, wander
Readings: Family Dinners: A Surprising Anti-drug
CHAPTER 6
Key Words: appoint, astonish, calculate, challenge, concept, drag, extend, extreme, mere, passage
Readings: Space Elevator
QUIZ 2
Key Words from Chapters 4—6
CHAPTER 7
Key Words: aim, approach, current, custom, generation, influence, moral, preserve, regard, style
Readings: Professor and Students Help Ancient Culture Live On
CHAPTER 8
Key Words: broad, comment, effective, focus, goal, mercy, neglect, otherwise, scene, tear
Readings: The Photography of Edward Burtynsky
CHAPTER 9
Key Words: accuse, authority, bribe, brief, graceful, immense, involve, root, seek, visible
Readings: How Common Is Bribery around the World?
QUIZ 3
Key Words from Chapters 7—9
CHAPTER 10
Key Words: affect, crush, declare, export, instant, precious, publish, scatter, severe, wound
Readings: Saving the Amazon
CHAPTER 11
Key Words: acquire, bitter, consume, dare, discipline, humble, inspect, participate, remedy, yield
Readings: Healing Art for Children in Hospitals
CHAPTER 12
Key Words: alternative, boast, boundary, community, liberty, media, network, tradition, variety, weave
Readings: Rocketboom: A Model for Video Blogs
QUIZ 4
Key Words from Chapters 10—12
CHAPTER 13
Key Words: assume, bar, conscience, deceive, display, omit, qualify, solemn, thorough, volume
Readings: The Model Who Became a Monk
CHAPTER 14
Key Words: deserve, elect, ensure, essential, lack, manage, method, purchase, task, unite
Readings: Home Schooling
CHAPTER 15
Key Words: coarse, colony, dust, empire, march, psychology, rejoice, revenge, tremble, valley
Readings: How Skiing Changed Norwegian History
QUIZ 5
Key Words from Chapters 13—15
CHAPTER 16
Key Words: absence, associate, bend, drama, limb, oppose, positive, propose, slight, struggle
Readings: Sumo Is Spreading Around the World
CHAPTER 17
Key Words: behave, excessive, expert, fierce, investigate, joint, migrate, outcome, roar, track
Readings: Students Get Polar Bear Cyber Visit
CHAPTER 18
Key Words: consist, defi ne, exclude, formula, govern, imitate, license, nest, poverty, tend
Reading: Living Long, Living Well
QUIZ 6
Key Words from Chapters 16—18
CHAPTER 19
Key Words: administration, claim, credit, earnest, heap, key, option, restrict, sacrifice, strike
Readings: How Hurricanes Changed History
CHAPTER 20
Key Words: aid, basis, caution, conscious, culture, deed, distinguish, idle, profit, worth
Readings: Traveling Abroad with a Purpose
CHAPTER 21
Key Words: agriculture, fate, mend, occur, quantity, region, relate, rid, stem, urge
Readings: Diversity Protects the Health of the World
QUIZ 7
Key Words from Chapters 19—21
CHAPTER 22
Key Words: burst, commerce, creep, descend, harbor, major, odd, prompt, roast, suspect
Readings: New Zealand: On and Off Camera
CHAPTER 23
Key Words: achieve, constant, corporation, latter, nuisance, pale, represent, sting, sweat, wreck
Readings: iPods Not Helping Music Sales
CHAPTER 24
Key Words: bear, delicate, individual, legal, offend, previous, prohibit, pronounce, reasonable, seize
Readings: Working Without an Accent
QUIZ 8
Key Words from Chapters 22—24
CHAPTER 25
Key Words: branch, coward, district, guarantee, justice, kneel, merchant, punctual, temper, vain
Readings: Exploring Ancient Inca Trails
CHAPTER 26
Key Words: accord, desert, efficient, gap, income, injure, resign, scarce, stock, survey
Readings: Government Help for Parents
CHAPTER 27
Key Words: assign, awkward, decay, gender, lean, peculiar, pump, seed, shield, swear
Readings: Native Americans Choose New Habits to Fight Diabetes
QUIZ 9
Key Words from Chapters 25—27
CHAPTER 28
Key Words: decade, fault, feature, judge, labor, pack, rank, respond, swell, tender
Readings: Film Review: Coppola's The Outsiders
CHAPTER 29
Key Words: debate, draft, glory, hollow, ink, mental, refer, scold, soul, virtue
Readings: How Do You Picture The Life of Pi?
CHAPTER 30
Key Words: ambition, character, conquer, despair, image, minimum, pinch, pride, scorn, series
Readings: Cooking with Rachel Ray
QUIZ 10
Key Words from Chapters 28—30
APPENDIX:
Understanding Word Parts
WORD INDEX
