WordPlay: 550+ Words You Need to Know [AUDIOBOOK] (Audio CD)

by Murray Bromberg (Author), Melvin Gordon (Author), Paul Allman (Contributor)

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This popular vocabulary-building program, previously available in audiocassette tape format, is now being issued on compact discs. Based on Murray Bromberg and Melvin Gordon?s bestselling classroom book, 1100 Words You Need to Know, this program presents seven humorous dramatizations designed to build students? word power while preparing them for the SAT, ACT, and ESL tests. Dramatized stories include those of a hapless football team, a private eye, a chef with an accident-prone cooking show, and others. All stories keep their listeners amused while they introduce words and word meanings in the context of informal conversations. A 32-page booklet lists the words-to-learn from each dramatization and provides brief definitions for them all.

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WordPlay


550+ Words You Need to Know     Second Edition


FIVE AUDIO COMPACT DISCS     with Vocabulary Booklet


SEVEN COMEDY DRAMATIZATIONS TO BUILD YOUR WORD POWER


1. The Rambling Panthers


A high school football team doesn’t have much talent but the players all have high SAT scores


2. Slap Monahan, Private Investigator


A tough private eye gets help from a talking computer


3. The Furious Cook


The world’s most patient chef loses his cool every time something goes wrong during his cooking show


4. High School University


A soap opera flourishes as four romantically involved teens muddle through their misunderstandings


5. Big Mike


News making interviews from the most unlikely places—inside a basketball, behind a refrigerator, under a toupee, and other peculiar locations


6. The Meter is Running


A college professor’s amusing encounter with a cab driver whose English skills are limited


7. City of Gold


Distinguished scholars search across three continents for a fabulous treasure

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; 2 edition (August 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764177508
• ISBN-13: 978-0764177507
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #556,717 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Humerous Stories But Too Many Simplistic Words/Idioms, June 5, 1999

By	[e-mail] (Alexandria, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wordplay: 600 Words You Need to Know (Audio Cassette)

+5 for stories but -4 word selection I enjoyed the humerous plays - great writing/acting - and agree that these are words you need to know, but I'd assume you already do unless English is a 2nd lang. If you don't know Technology, Perceive, Compound, Drudgery, Implore, Tinge, Badger, Realm, indiscriminate, (some of the 17 target words from the 1st play, act 1), then this would likely be a good tape for you. Many idioms are also covered. Typical level of difficulty are the 3 from the 2nd play, "cold feet", "keep a stiff upper lip", and "look a gift horse in the mouth". One or two words per story are at a more difficult level like prognosticate, nefarious, pique, but why endure all the definitions of elementary words/idioms when WordBuilders is available? Tip to authors: Lose the idioms, introduce only 7 or 8 words per act, and select more advanced words. Your stories were the best!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Kind of corney, but worth consideration, September 4, 2006

By	Lori Kobz "Lorikobz" (PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This CD will be just one of my vocabulary teaching tools as a home schooling mom. I don't know if my kids would have sat and listened to it, if we had not been on a long drive in the car. The stories are corney and remind me of an old radio program, definitely not the typical entertainment today's kids and teens are used to. My kids laughed at the stories, though, and recognized some of the words from their vocabulary books.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great beginner, September 5, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Wordplay: 600 Words You Need to Know (Audio Cassette)

Wordplay was given to my 9th grade son and he enjoyed them. He usually cannot listen to tapes but he found this very entertaining.