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.
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
