Focus on Vocabulary 1 : Bridging Vocabulary / Diane Schmitt, Norbert Schmitt, and David Mann.
Par : Schmitt, Diane.
Collaborateur(s) : Schmitt, Norbert | Mann, David.
Collection : Focus on Vocabulary. Éditeur : White Plains, NY : Pearson Education, 2011Édition : 1st ed.Description :255 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.ISBN : 9780131376199 (Student Book).Sujet(s) : English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers | English language -- Studying and teaching -- Foreign speakers | English language -- Studying and teaching -- Vocabulary | English language -- Vocabulary -- Problems and exercises | VocabularyRessources en ligne : Publisher's Website.| Type de document | Site actuel | Collection | Cote | Numéro de copie | Statut | Date d'échéance | Code à barres |
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Includes index.
"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 word families in all. To help students reach a fuller understanding of the new vocabulary, each chapter provides a series of exercises on word meaning, word families, and collocation.
Features:
Seven units focus on a variety of subject areas, such as the mind, design, celebrity, and the environment.
Seven units focus on a variety of subject areas, such as the mind, design, celebrity, and the environment.
Each main chapter carefully recycles target words a minimum of four times in the reading passage 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" (Book Cover)
CONTENTS:
UNIT 1 HAPPINESS
Chapter 1: Can We Be Happier ? Reading: Why Are You 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 Begins to Think?
Chapter 6: What Color is Your Laugh? Reading: Synesthesia
Chapter 7: Did You Have Your 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 in 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 Unfair?
Chapter 18: Connected or 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 Favourite 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 meaning, 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 target words a minimum of four times in the reading passage 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" (Book Cover)
CONTENTS:
Unit 1: HAPPINESS
Chapter 1: Can We Be Happier?
Reading: Why Are You 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 in 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 Unfair?
Chapter 18: Connected or 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
Intended for English language learners at the intermediate to high-intermediate levels.
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