Focus on Vocabulary 1

Description

Focus on Vocabulary1: Bridging Vocabulary teaches mid-frequency vocabulary preparing intermediate to high-intermediate students for the kinds of words found in novels, newspapers, films, and social and workplace settings.

Focus on Vocabulary 1: Bridging Vocabulary is a research-based vocabulary textbook that gives intermediate to high-intermediate students hands-on preparation for understanding mid-frequency vocabulary, such as that found in novels, newspapers, films, and social and workplace settings. Through excerpts from popular material and well-crafted exercises, English learners focus on mid-frequency vocabulary — 504 word families in all. To help students reach a fuller understanding of the new vocabulary, each chapter provides a series of exercises on word meanings, word families, and collocation.

Features

• Seven units focus on a variety of subject areas, such as the mind, design, celebrity, and the environment.
• The start of each main chapter features an Assessing Your Vocabulary Knowledge section, which helps students determine their level of familiarity with that chapter’s twenty-four target words. Students reassess their familiarity with the words at the end of the chapter.
• Each main chapter carefully recycles the target words a minimum of four times in the reading passage and throughout the sections that follow: Reading Comprehension, Word Meaning, Word Families, Collocation, and Expanding the Topic.
• At the end of each unit, a Strategy Practice chapter offers tips for dictionary use, essay writing, and other vocabulary-related tasks.

Unit 1 Happiness

Chapter 1: Can We Be Happier?

Reading : Why Are Your Happy?

Chapter 2: Into the Flow

Reading : Getting into the Flow

Chapter 3: Happiness in Bhutan

Reading : Gross National Happiness

Chapter 4: Strategy Practice

Unit 2 Mind

Chapter 5: What Are You Thinking?

Reading : When Did Humans Begin to Think?

Chapter 6: What Color Is Your Laugh?

Reading : Synesthesia

Chapter 7: Did You Have Trouble Getting Up This Morning?

Reading : The Teenage Brain

Chapter 8: Strategy Practice

Unit 3 Design

Chapter 9: Science Fiction into Reality

Reading : Star Trek Technology

Chapter 10: How Choice Architects Can Help You!

Reading : A Nudge I n the Right Direction

Chapter 11: Positive Design

Reading : Easier on the Eye — Easier to Use?

Chapter 12: Strategy Practice

Unit 4 Face It

Chapter 13: What’s Behind an Attractive Face?

Reading : Facial Attraction

Chapter 14: Makeup: Painted Faces

Reading : Face Paint

Chapter 15: Facial Recognition: Do You Know Who I Am?

Reading : I Know That Face

Chapter 16: Strategy Practice

Unit 5 Technology

Chapter 17: Techno-Doping

Reading : Sports Technology: Is It Fair?

Chapter 18: Connected of Disconnected?

Reading : Will they Call Us “Generation Isolation”?

Chapter 19: Evolution v 2.0: Shared Humanity

Reading : Rise of the Machines

Chapter 20: Strategy Practice

Unit 6 Celebrity and Heroes

Chapter 21: What Makes a Hero?

Reading : Who’s a Hero?

Chapter 22: The Appeal of Comic Book Heroes

Reading : Japanese and American Comic Book Heroes

Chapter 23: What’s Your Favorite Brand of Celebrity?

Reading : Balloon Boy Brand Failure

Chapter 24: Strategy Practice

Unit 7 Environment

Chapter 25: Eco-Fashion

Reading : Fashion Victim or Environmental Victory?

Chapter 26: Hunting the Hunters

Reading : Pray for the Predators

Chapter 27: High-Tech Trash

Reading : Waste-Age

Chapter 28: Strategy Practice

Index of Target Words

Focus on Vocabulary 1: Bridging Vocabulary is a research-based vocabulary textbook that gives intermediate to high-intermediate students hands-on preparation for understanding mid-frequency vocabulary, such as that found in novels, newspapers, films, and social and workplace settings. Through excerpts from popular material and well-crafted exercises, English learners focus on mid-frequency vocabulary – 504 word families in all. To help students reach a fuller understanding of the new vocabulary, each chapter provides a series of exercises on word meanings, word families, and collocation.

Features 

• Seven units focus on a variety of subject areas, such as the mind, design, celebrity, and the environment.
• The start of each main chapter features an Assessing Your Vocabulary Knowledge section, which helps students determine their level of familiarity with that chapter’s twenty-four target words. Students reassess their familiarity with the words at the end of the chapter.
• Each main chapter carefully recycles the target words a minimum of four times in the reading passage and throughout the sections that follow: Reading Comprehension, Word Meaning, Word Families, Collocation, and Expanding the Topic.
• At the end of each unit, a Strategy Practice chapter offers tips for dictionary use, essay writing, and other vocabulary-related tasks.