Vocabulary Power 2
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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).
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).
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).
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
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| Subjects | World languages, ESL / EAL, English Language Teaching |
