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:
Contents
Unit One: Starting Out in a Career
Chapter 1 A Dentist? Oh, No!
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
