Get That Word 2

‘Get That Word 2’ is one of the series of three reading comprehension books with a variety of exercises.

As of Unit Format, each unit consists of a dialogue or reading passage followed by comprehension work and exercises. The exercises have the following aims:

• to help students understand how a written or spoken text is organized
• to give practice in recognizing and using ‘text organization’ words like this, that, it, also and anyway
• to practice ‘grammar words’ such as all, not, back, other and another
• to teach conjunctions and other ways of combining clauses and sentences
• to teach students the ways in which extra information can be added to a sentence using commas, brackets, and dashes
• to teach punctuation
• to teach summary writing.

There are also exercises for oral practice and model dialogues in which students practice important features of informal spoken English.

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