<P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B><I>Focus on Vocabulary 1: Bridging Vocabulary </I></B>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.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Features</B> </P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Seven units focus on a variety of subject areas, such as the mind, design, celebrity, and the environment.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">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.</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">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.</DIV> <LI>At the end of each unit, a Strategy Practice chapter offers tips for dictionary use, essay writing, and other vocabulary-related tasks.</LI></UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P>