Hundreds of idiomatic expressions to give an edge in English! Idiomatic expressions are as essential to natural sounding English as strong vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. But they can be challenging to remember, and even harder to use in conversation. This program can help you, through. Easy American Idioms is a simple and straightforward way to master hundreds of useful and common idiomatic expressions. Best of all, you don’t need to use a book, so you listen anywhere and anytime it’s convenient. All you have to do is listen and repeat, and soon your English will sound more natural and confident – it’s piece of cake.
Lexicarry offers a fun, active, conversational approach to language learning. With this book you can learn any language the active way using one of the Lexicarry word lists and/or someone who knows the language. The book has 142 pages of full-color drawings illustrating functional language and vocabulary in 190 situational and topical contexts. This amounts to over 4500 everyday words and expressions. The pictures make conversation and interactive learning easy.
This book examines how people understand utterances that are intended figuratively. Traditionally, figurative language such as metaphors and idioms has been considered derivative from more complex than ostensibly straightforward literal language. Glucksberg argues that figurative language involves the same kinds of linguistic and pragmatic operations that are used for ordinary, literal language.
The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer
Book Description
"Bite the bullet", " get on the stick",
"make no bones about it", " take the cake". The American Heritage(R)
Dictionary of Idioms covers almost 10,000 expressions. Its main fare
is, of course, idioms - groups of two or more words that together mean
something different from the literal meaning of the individual words.
In addition, this book discusses verb phrases such as " act up",
"freeze out", and " get down", figures of speech such as "dark horse"
and "blind as a bat", interjections and formulas like "says who" and "
tough beans", common proverbs like a "bird in the hand", and slang
terms such as "buy the farm" and "push up daisies". Each entry is
defined and has an example sentence showing the expression in context.
Most entries offer an explanation of the expression's literal meaning
or origin and include information about its first appearance in
English.
P.H. Collin “Easier English Student Dictionary"
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 2003-08-18 | ISBN: 0747566240 | PDF | 1024 pages | 9,2 Mb
Level: Upper Intermediate
The fully revised and updated edition of this bestselling general English dictionary is especially useful for those working towards FCE (First Certificate Examination), and IELTS (International English Language Testing System) examinations. The new edition includes 28,000 expressions used in international English. The selection is based on word-frequency counts and analyses of the CAT (Certificate in Advanced English) exam syllabuses. Entries include examples from everyday speech, irregular forms, derived words, differences between English and American usage, and help with confusable words (e.g. insure and ensure). Encyclopedic comments highlight historical and cultural terms (Guy Fawkes, Pancake Day) and technical terms such as the periodic table, the metric system and greenhouse gases.
• 35,000 entries provide clear, up-to-date terms and expressions used in British, American and International English
• Terms defined in clear, simple English, using our 1,500-word limited defining vocabulary
• Each entry includes part of speech, phonetic pronunciation guides and example sentences showing how terms are used.
