The activities in this Unit are designed to help students increase their vocabulary by studying the meanings of words selected from the text. All definitions provided in these activities are based on the contexts in which the vocabulary words appear, which may not always convey the words’ conventional usage.

It is the goal of this Unit to familiarize students with vocabulary words that they will re-encounter in life and in other readings. The words are carefully selected to meet this goal.

Many unfamiliar words not covered by the Unit are defined in a Glossary following the Activities section; the Glossary may also contains slang expressions and proper nouns.

Rather than matching the book chapter-for-chapter, we have divided the book into segments depending on the number of vocabulary words from each chapter.

While all of the activities
may be completed by students individually, we have had the best results when students
worked on them in pairs or small groups.

Activitites may vary slightly among the various chapters.