Test Your Personality: Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases Personality tests are relatively quick and easy to read, and are thus great for improving your English vocabulary and knowledge of idiomatic expressions.
This book is NOT intended to be an amateur psychology book or self-help book. Neither the quizzes nor the explanations should be taken any more seriously than you would take a horoscope in a newspaper or magazine.
Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid ThemWhatever your mother tongue, you are likely to have encountered difficulties with most of the 50 vocabulary items in this book.
Each chapter contains:
Examples of typical mistakes.
Examples of correct usage.
Rules / explanations.
A short exercise where you can immediately practise what you have learned.
Research shows that reading comprehension improves when students have a strong oral and print vocabulary. By providing students with word-study opportunities, students are encouraged to develop a love of language and an ongoing curiosity about words, their origins, and their multiple meanings and usages. The vocabulary word lists, skills-practice exercises, reviews, and tests provided in these Vocabulary Power Workbooks may be used for systematic vocabulary instruction, enabling students to expand their vocabularies, develop a deeper understanding of language, and improve their reading comprehension.
Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the works of Shakespeare and Dickens. It has been recorded since at least 1500 AD, and today's vocabulary, taken from every major English-speaking country, runs to over 125,000 slang words and phrases.
The coursebook combines the advantages of the direct and communicative methods. The direct method lets the young student master the most essential skills – speaking and listening comprehension – in a fast and attractive way. The communicative method helps consolidate English grammar and vocabulary in real everyday life contexts.
