FOCUS ON VOCABULARY 2 2/E STUDENT BOOK 137617 / Edition 2

by Diane Schmitt, Norbert Schmitt

Overview

Focus on Vocabulary 2: Mastering the Academic Word List is a research-based vocabulary textbook that gives high-intermediate to advanced students the advantage they need to succeed in academic environments. Through excerpts from college texts and well-crafted exercises, English learners study the Academic Word List – the most frequently used words in academic texts. 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 social change, consumer behavior, natural resources, and music.
• Each main chapter carefully recycles the target words four times in reading passages and vocabulary-building exercises.
• NEW! Reading Strategies are designed to give students the tools they need to better comprehend the materials they read. Activities include recognizing an author’s point of view and synthesizing information from multiple readings.
• The collocations exercises – based on the 179-million-word New Longman Corpus – reflect how academic words are actually used in real contexts.
• Expanding the Topic sections provide additional reading, discussion, and writing activities that broaden students’ understanding of vocabulary.
• Strategy Practice chapters offer tips for dictionary usage, information about word roots and affixes, and methods for expanding students’ word knowledge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780131376175
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	01/05/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Unit 1 Our Changing Society

Chapter 1: Technology and Society

Reading : Human Societies — From the Iceman to Us

Chapter 2: Social Experience and Personal Development

Reading : Social Forces That Shape Our Lives

Reading : Emotions in Global Perspective: Do We All Feel the Same?

Chapter 3: The Changing Nature of the Family

Reading : Family Structure

Chapter 4: Strategy Practice

Unit 2 Consumer Behavior and Marketing

Chapter 5: Influencing the Customer

Reading : Marketing’s Impact on the Consumer

Chapter 6: Who Buys What? The Family’s Influence

Reading : Consumer Socialization of Family Members

Reading : Different Views on Purchasing Behavior

Chapter 7: How We See Ourselves

Reading : How Perspectives on the Self Influence Consumer Behavior

Chapter 8: Strategy Practice

Unit 3 Workplaces and Work Spaces

Chapter 9: How Office Space Affects Behavior

Reading : Work Space Design

Chapter 10: The Modern Office: Symbols of Status

Reading : The Meaning of the Chair

Reading: Office Designs That Work

Chapter 11: Sitting Comfortably

Reading : The Ergonomics of Sitting

Chapter 12: Strategy Practice

Unit 4 Use and Abuse of Natural Resources

Chapter 13: Water for Sale

Reading : Exploding Sales for Bottled Water

Chapter 14: The Aral Sea — An Environmental Disaster

Reading : The Dying Lake

Reading : Creating More Fresh Water Through Desalination

Chapter 15: International Conflict over Natural Resources

Reading : Water Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

Chapter 16: Strategy Practice

Unit 5 We Are What We Eat

Chapter 17: Food Roots and Foodways

Reading : Food Habits and Beliefs

Chapter 18: Getting Back to Nature

Reading : Organic Farming Versus Traditional Methods

Reading : Genetically Modified Foods

Chapter 19: Microorganisms: The Spice of Life?

Reading : Food Microbiology

Chapter 20: Strategy Practice

Unit 6 Encounters with Music and Sound

Chapter 21: Music as Social Conscience

Reading : Opposing War Through Music: Classical and Modern Examples

Chapter 22: Noise Hurts

Reading : Noise Pollution

Reading : The Science of Sound

Chapter 23: Ultrasonics: Super Sound?

Reading : Ultrasonics

Chapter 24: Strategy Practice

Unit 7 Animal Nature

Chapter 25: Endangered Elephants

Reading : Saving the African Elephant: Using International Law and Trade

Chapter 26: Animals: How Human?

Reading : Chimpanzees: Our Closest Relative

Reading : Kanzi: A Case of Ape Language Development

Chapter 27: Living Together: Advantage or Disadvantage?

Reading : The Costs and Benefits of Social Behavior

Chapter 28: Strategy Practice

Index of Target Words