How do some writers craft conversation so authentic, it feels like they've been eavesdropping? What's the secret behind getting characters to talk to each other? How can writers make their dialogue sing?

Answers to all of these questions and more can be found in Gloria Kempton's in-depth look at this crucial component of fiction. Readers will learn how to create dialogue that sizzles, with tips on:

* Creating dialogue for specific genres

* Bringing characters to life with revealing dialogue

* Identifying and fixing common dialogue problems

Each chapter features numerous examples of successful dialogue drawn from bestselling novels, and chapter-ending exercises help readers apply the lessons learned. This is one book that will get readers talking!

Independent scholar DesCamp asks whether contemporary cognitive linguistic blending theory is appropriate in the analysis of first century Judaic texts, and what the stories of women say about that text, the Liber Antiquarium Biblicarum. Convinced that the author of the text is a woman, DesCamp develops a systematic reading of the work

Understanding the terms used in science is important in order to succeed in science - students at all levels need to quickly recognize terminology in order to do well in the lab, on tests, and in the real world of the working scientist. But this terminology can be confusing because so much of it consists of combinations of roots, prefixes, and suffixes from other languages, primarily Latin and Greek, and students are often required to waste precious class time in rote memorization. Science Terms Made Easy is a dictionary of several thousand common science terms that are broken down into their component parts. Students using the work will soon learn the meaning of common suffixes, prefixes and roots, and they will begin to quickly understand the meaning of scientific terminology without resorting to memorization or frequently referring to standard dictionaries. Instead of being overly concerned with precise definitions, Science Terms Made Easy offers simple working definitions that enables students to quickly construct the meanings of these terms.

How We Write combines new explanations of creativity with insights into writing as design. Topics include how children learn to write, the visual design of text, and the impact of technology on writing.
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'This book will help pave the way for a new trend in writing research/learning/teaching in the 21st century - International Journal for Language and Documentation

Long regarded as a peripheral issue, phraseology is now taking centre stage in a wide range of fields. This recent explosion of interest undoubtedly has a great deal to do with the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated the key role of phraseological expressions in language and provided researchers with automated methods of extraction and analysis. The aim of this volume is to take stock of current research in phraseology from a variety of perspectives: theoretical, descriptive, contrastive, cultural, lexicographic and computational.It contains overview chapters by leading experts in the field and a series of case studies focusing on a wide range of multiword units: collocations, similes, idioms, routine formulae and recurrent phrases. The volume is an invitation for experienced phraseologists to look at the field with different eyes and a useful introduction for the many researchers who are intrigued by phraseology but need help in finding their way in this rich but complex domain.

“A convincing case is made in this book for more information on both the internal (co-textual) and external (contextual) situations in which words occur in various combinations as well as for more criteria that are required in their identification, interpretation, classification and codification.”
Reinhart Hartmann, University of Exeter, in International Journal of Lexicography, 2008

“Phraseology – An interdisciplinary perspective is a finely-edited volume, which will provide its readers with a lot of food for thought if they wish to know more about an area of language description which was long neglected and is now undergoing a vivid and welcome revival.”
Thierry Fontenelle, Microsoft Natural Language Group, in the International Journal of Translation, Vol. 21:1-2, Jan-Dec 2009, pp.189-193.

Packed with customizable editing tools--this practical, up-to-date reference includes the latest on writing and editing online

The McGraw-Hill Desk Reference for Editors, Writers, and Proofreaders is an indispensable resource for writers, editors, proofreaders, and virtually everyone responsible for crafting clear, polished writing. Ideal for professionals and novices alike, it guides you through the entire proofreading and editing process and features a CD-ROM with more than 25 interactive tools and checklists.

This all-in-one package offers style sheet templates, a list of editor’s symbols, comprehensive editing and proofreading checklists, and guides to commonly misspelled and confused words. It also presents advice on electronically editing and proofreading for the Web.

This collection is an important contribution to the semantic and syntactic analysis of the expression of existence. The volume focuses on the three main linguistic constructions expressing existence: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)definiteness. The papers analyze the interaction between the basic notion of existence and pervasive phenomena of natural language, such as quantification and presupposition. The contributions represent state of the art research on theoretical and comparative issues related to the expression of existence, and make extensive reference to the semantic and syntactic facts of English and of various other languages. The richness of new data and the juxtaposition of different theoretical stances bring a number of new questions into focus.

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Comprehension is the ultimate aim of reading and listening. How do children develop the ability to comprehend written and spoken language, and what can be done to help those who are having difficulties? This book presents cutting-edge research on comprehension problems experienced by children without any formal diagnosis as well as those with specific language impairment, autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, hearing impairment, head injuries, and spina bifida. Providing in-depth information to guide research and practice, chapters describe innovative assessment strategies and identify important implications for intervention and classroom instruction. The book also sheds light on typical development and the key cognitive skills and processes that underlie successful comprehension.

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This practical series includes a number of specialist titles which help students communicate more effectively. Each book contains over 60 tests and over 500 key words and expressions. They are ideal for class use or self-study.

The many philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists writing on metaphor over the past two decades have generally taken for granted that metaphor lies outside, if not in opposition to, received conceptions of semantics and grammar. Assuming that metaphor cannot be explained by or within semantics, they claim that metaphor has little, if anything, to teach us about semantic theory. In this book Josef Stern challenges these assumptions. He is concerned primarily with the question: Given the received conception of the form and goals of semantic theory, does metaphorical interpretation, in whole or part, fall within its scope? Specifically, he asks, what (if anything) does a speaker-hearer know as part of her semantic competence when she knows the interpretation of a metaphor? According to Stern, the answer to these questions lies in the systematic context-dependence of metaphorical interpretation. Drawing on a deep analogy between demonstratives, indexicals, and metaphors, Stern develops a formal theory of metaphorical meaning that underlies a speaker's ability to interpret a metaphor. With his semantics, he also addresses a variety of philosophical and linguistic issues raised by metaphor. These include the interpretive structure of complex extended metaphors, the cognitive significance of metaphors and their literal paraphrasability, the pictorial character of metaphors, the role of similarity and exemplification in metaphorical interpretation, metaphor-networks, dead metaphors, the relation of metaphors to other figures, and the dependence of metaphors on literal meanings. Unlike most metaphor theorists, however, who take these problems to be sui generis to metaphor, Stern subsumes them under the same rubric as other semantic facts that hold for nonmetaphorical language.


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Understanding Reading revolutionized reading research and theory when the first edition appeared in 1971 and continues to be a leader in the field. In the sixth edition of this classic text, Smith's purpose remains the same: to shed light on fundamental aspects of the complex human act of reading--linguistic, physiological, psychological, and social--and on what is involved in learning to read. The text critically examines current theories, instructional practices, and controversies, covering a wide range of disciplines but always remaining accessible to students and classroom teachers. Careful attention is given to the ideological clash that continues between whole language and direct instruction and currently permeates every aspect of theory and research into reading and reading instruction. To aid readers in making up their own minds, each chapter concludes with a brief statement of "Issues."

Understanding Reading: A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Reading and Learning to Read, Sixth Edition is designed to serve as a handbook for language arts teachers, a college text for basic courses on the psychology of reading, a guide to relevant research on reading, and an introduction to reading as an aspect of thinking and learning. It is matchless in integrating a wide range of topics relative to reading while, at the same time, being highly readable and user-friendly for instructors, students, and practitioners.

I was standing looking at that horse and aching In some way, I cant tell how, I knew just how Sunstreak felt inside. He was quiet and letting the riggers rub his legs and Mr. Van Riddle himself put the saddle on, but he was just a raging torrent inside. He was like the water in the river at Niagara Falls just before it goes plunk down. That horse wasn’t thinking about running. He don’t have to think about that. He was just thinking about holding himself back till the time for running came. I knew that. I could just in a way see right inside him. He was going to do some awful running and I knew it. He wasn’t bragging or letting on much or prancing or making a fuss, but just waiting.

This title presents an introductory 10-week course for students of English language and linguistics. It aims to give students proficiency in English analysis at sentence, clause and phrase level and have an understanding of the traditional terms and concepts of English syntax. The course book presents exercises with quotations and excerpts from English, American and Australian literature and pop songs. The practice programme contains over 800 exercises, over 700 quotations and has structured chapters with introductions and summaries to each.

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In business making a point and achieving an objective often depends on presenting a polished and persuasive case. This book provides a framework for producing effective written reports, detailing the process from collecting and handling information to the final presentation.

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How closely do the theoretical notions of ""metaphor"" and ""allegory"" developed by ancient rhetoricians reflect the practice of Classical writers? This question is tackled through eleven new papers by a team of distinguished academics. Ancient theories of metaphor are compared with twentieth-century alternatives; theory is tested against practice; and allegory--a distinctive though neglected feature of ancient literature and philosophy--is explored against the background of the rhetoricians' claim that it is one form of metaphor.

Structured Tasks for English Practice (STEP) is a series of programmed workbooks designed to assist deaf adults and young people in writing better English. The books in the series include: Articles; Verbs: Past, Present, and Future; Nouns; Pronouns; Conjunctions; Adjectives and Linking Verbs; Adverb Clauses; Prepositional Phrases; Infinitives and Gerunds; and Writing Sentences. The workbooks are intended to be used in conjunction with classroom lectures or for independent study. The self-instructional format provides opportunities for frequent student response, immediate feedback, and self-pacing.

The STEP Series is based on research which analyzed the errors made most frequently in the writing samples of deaf adults enrolled in the Gallaudet University Adult Basic Education classes during the fall of 1974. Revisions have been made which reflect the feedback from students and teachers using the developmental version of this workbook.

A veritable pallette of words and phrases to choose from if you want to bring colour and texture to the English Language. Essential if you are to understand, or speak as, native English speakers. Equally good if you want to use it personally or as a teaching aid. Organised in every conceivable way for easy reference.

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Making Headway is a supplementary series for teachers and students of English. It is designed to complement the Headway coursebook, but can also be used with other main coursebooks.

Phrasal Verbs and Idioms is for adult upper-intermediate learners who want to study and learn to use English multi-word verbs, prepositions and idiomatic expressions.
Phrasal Verbs and Idioms
- deals systemetically with the four basic types of multi-word verbs
- introduces verbs and idioms in lively and amusing contexts
- is ideal fro class work, self-study, or a combination of both
- contains thirteen self-standing units, tapescripts, and an answer key

Your key to opening doors in the English-speaking world

Read & Think English offers you an innovative, non-intimidating approach to learning English. Compiled by the expert editors of Think English magazine, this book brings together 120 engaging, fully illustrated readings and articles about the life and culture of the United States. Key vocabulary is highlighted, comprehension questions help reinforce your new language skills, and an extensive bilingual glossary on each page allows you to read and learn without having to stop to look up words in a dictionary.

Aprende inglés a medida que descubres la riqueza de la cultura estadounidense
Construye un efectivo vocabulario en inglés sin la carga de aburridas repeticiones o tediosas memorizaciones con Read & Think English. Dentro encontrarás más de cien fascinantes artículos escritos en inglés sobre cosas tales como los apreciados rituales de Acción de Gracias o cómo interpretar el lenguaje corporal y la comunicación no verbal. Cada artículo presenta el nuevo vocabulario en negritas dentro del mismo artículo; en los márgenes encontrarás las traducciones. Aprenderás inmediatemente toda palabra que te sea desconocida.

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Comprenderás el vocabulario en inglés rápida y fácilmente con la ayuda de las traducciones al español
Revisarás y reforzarás el nuevo conocimiento adquirido con preguntas al final de cada capítulo
Aprenderás sobre los Estados Unidos, la diversidad de su gente, y sus tradiciones únicas

¡Elimina lo aburrido de aprender un idioma y descubre una herramienta lingüística innovadora que te mantendrá entretenido/a en tu recorrido hacia el manejo competente del inglés!

A superior resource to help your nonprofit win the grants you deserve

In an increasingly competitive nonprofit world, even top organizations struggle to extend their fundraising reach or simply maintain current funding levels. This thorough guide to crafting winning grant applications takes you through the entire process--from pinpointing the right funding opportunities, to writing persuasive proposals, to following up later.

Practical, reliable, and accessible to seasoned pros and grant-writing greenhorns alike, Webster’s New World Grant Writing Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of:
Different types of foundation and corporate grantmakers
Defining your project, as well as your organization’s mission and goals
Tailoring your applications to each grantmaker’s interest areas
Writing convincing letters of inquiry
Organizing and writing hard-hitting proposals
Following up on proposals after they’ve been submitted
Effective donor cultivation after proposals have been approved

Featuring sample proposals, letters, and application forms; proposal checklists; a glossary of terms; and many illustrative examples, this complete resource is ideal for any nonprofit--whether you’re in a multimillion-dollar university development office or the smallest humanitarian agency.

This work takes an analytical look at the philosophical concept of fallacy and presents an up-to-date critique of its usefulness for argumentation studies.

A new three-level series in which students learn and practise the words and phrases they need to know at Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced levels. Each level of Oxford Word Skills enables students

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Persuasion has intrigued researchers since antiquity; yet, it is a topic which continues to have immense relevance in all human interaction. To quote
Robin Tolmach Lakoff (2000: 7), the question is: “Why do we late-twentieth-century sophisticates, after a century’s barrage of advertising, still find ourselves bedazzled by the language of persuasion, economic and political?” The present volume is dedicated to investigations of the interactive process of persuasion at the dawn of the new millenium. Choosing to focus on the linguistic manifestations of this process, we highlight its several different dimensions, which interact with one another in intriguing ways. Further, we investigate aggregates of the linguistic exponents of persuasion across a number of different genres.

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This accessible and succinct guide will enable students to read and write effectively and efficiently--leading to grades that do justice to the work they put in. Practical hints and suggestions that really work are coupled with insights into academic writing, critical reading, and methods of presentation.

About the Author
Peter Levin is an educational developer at the London School of Economics in the United Kingdom.

A guidebook for ELT teachers and academic managers which aims to promote development by dealing with professional topics in a personal way to raise self-awareness.
Learning Teaching has been one of the most successful guides to English since it was first published in 1994. Not only a superb textbook for initial training courses, it is also a no-nonsense handbook for practising ELT teachers, helping you to succeed from class to class, from week to week and from year to year.

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The power of this book is that it provides a theoretical framework about how children learn science and practical suggestions for how to apply this knowledge to the classroom. Harlen brings her exceptional insights about teaching and learning to weave a rich tapestry that illuminates the use of the process skills of inquiry to develop conceptual understanding and the critical role formative assessment plays to support this endeavor

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What is assessment and how does testing differ from it? Why are performance tests, by themselves, not an adequate system of student assessment? How might we better "test our tests" beyond current technical standards? And why won't increased national testing offer the accountability of schools we so sorely need? In Assessing Student Performance, Grant P. Wiggins explores these questions and clarifies the limits of testing in an assessment system. He analyzes problematic practices in test design and formats that prevent students from explaining their answers.

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A three-level series that teaches students in higher education the skills essential for academic success. New Headway Academic Skills can be used with a general coursebook such as New Headway, or independently. The series focuses on improving students' academic skills by:
* Developing the specific skills required for academic reading and writing through a wide range of topics relevant to higher education.
* Exploring strategies to help students with new vocabulary, and to record, vary, and build their vocabulary.

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This book features creative yet practical ideas for making effective use of newspapers in the language classroom.

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'A superb contribution to language teaching and learning.' - Modern Language Journal

Looks in detail at the theory of words and at how students learn new vocabulary *Offers practical advice on how to help students build vocabulary in new and effective ways and how to test students' word knowledge *Major developments, such as language corpora and lexical approaches, are clearly explained and related to your needs as a teacher


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The Express Picture Dictionary for young learners is a beautifully illustrated, fun-to-use dictionary, designed to present and consolidate basic vocabulary. It can be used both in class as supplementary material for young learners or beginners and at home as a self study kit.


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This straightforward, highly readable handbook is an essential introduction to the theory and practice of teaching English. It examines a variety of teaching methods based on the author's extensive experience in the classroom and with teachers in training. The book offers ideas on lesson planning and textbook use that can be put into practice immediately.-- Explains and gives examples of current teaching methods including the Engage-Study-Activate model-- Contains a basic introductory grammar guide-- Offers practicaThis is an introduction to the teaching of English. Its emphasis is on practical issues and it is appropriate for self-study and for use with classes of trainee teachers. A variety of teaching methods are examined.

Where do dialects differ from Standard English, and why are they so remarkably resilient? This new study argues that commonly used verbs that deviate from Standard English for the most part have a long pedigree. Analysing the language use of over 120 dialect speakers, Lieselotte Anderwald demonstrates that not only are speakers justified historically in using these verbs, systematically these non-standard forms actually make more sense. By constituting a simpler system, they are generally more economical than their Standard English counterparts. Drawing on data collected from the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), this innovative and engaging study comes directly from the forefront of this field, and will be of great interest to students and researchers of English language and linguistics, morphology and syntax.

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"Upon reading Steps, my students usually comment that they are surprised that they can actually understand an English text."

"Wyrick’s strength lies in her ability to write clear, effective explanations."

"I really like the "user-friendly" style and tone, the humor, and the ability of students to use and understand it."

"The direct, straightforward advice, the student-specific examples, and the engaging professional essays make this textbook stand out from the others."

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The informal, student-friendly tone of this rhetorically-organized rhetoric/reader/handbooks provides step-by-step instructions on writing a variety of short, 500-800-word essays. This is a text that both students and instructors can use easily.

Whether you write an occasional professional letter or a daily newspaper column, William Zinsser's On Writing Well should be required reading. Simplicity is Zinsser's mantra: he preaches a stripped-down writing style, strong and clear. He has no patience for excess (most use of adjectives and adverbs, he writes, just adds clutter) or tired phraseology (for instance, he'd like to outlaw all leads involving those "future archaeologists" most often found "stumbl[ing] upon the remains of our civilization"). He recommends that all writers of nonfiction read their work aloud (don't commit something to paper that you wouldn't actually say) and write under the assumption that "the reader knows nothing" (not to be confused with assuming the reader's an idiot). In addition to the chapters on the expected--usage, audience, interviews, leads--Zinsser also focuses on such trouble spots as science and technical writing, business writing, sports, and humor.

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"On Writing Well belongs on any shelf of serious reference works for writers." -- --New York Times

This paperback in the Colloquial Language Learning Series is available individually or as part of a pack. For more information, please refer to the cassette pack listing for this language.

This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past 15 years. Assuming little or no prior background in syntax, Andrew Radford outlines the core concepts and how they can be used to describe various aspects of English sentence structure. This is an abridged version of Radford's major new textbook Analysing English Sentences (also published by Cambridge University Press), and will be welcomed as a handy introduction to current syntactic theory.

Total English responds to the needs of today's English teachers with a complete teaching package that combines an easy-to-use format, engaging material, dynamic resources and effective solutions to the challenges teachers face everyday.

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Total English Upper-intermediate (Student's Book, Workbook, Class Audio CDs)Total English is a new course for young adults and adults. It provides solutions to the challenges teachers and students face every day with a complete package of effective, easy-to-use resources.
Total English Upper-intermediate is correlated to the CEF and covers B2 level. Each lesson guides students to a CAN DO goal in line with the Council of Europe’s CAN DO statements.

This guide to writing compelling, memorable short stories gives you all the essentials without wasted words. It tells you how and where to get ideas, how to establish and sustain excitement, how to create live, colorful characters, and how to plot, develop and bring home your story. It even includes exercises to help you perfect your story-telling skills. Full of tips and techniques that work, it makes an indispensable, reliable collaborator. You'll find it ideal whether you're studying alone or supplementing a creative or fiction writing course, conference or workshop.

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Great short stories the Schaum's way
Write the kinds of stories that keep readers glued to the page from start to finish. Quickly and simply, this concise guide gives you clear explanations, proven tips and techniques--plus dozens of examples from well-known authors--that show you how to come up with dynamic ideas, create living, colorful characters, and develop a unique plot.

This simulating guide will help you to start confidently, write freely, finish strongly, and make the most of your talent.
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Clear explanations and practical how-to's
Checklists and exercises for fast skill-building

Total English provides new solutions for your English classroom offering unbeatable choice and flexibility, a complete range of dynamic resources and engaging material. The Workbooks are a perfect self-study tool, with a built-in vocabulary builder section and a free CDROM with further exercises and pronunciation work.The workbook includes a CDROM featuring interactive self-study ‘catch-up’ material for busy students who miss lessons.

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English Grammar, Third Edition, now has new practice sections with drills to help students grasp tricky grammatical structures. An introductory glossary defines all the most important grammatical elements and concepts. Exercises demonstrate and demystify every grammatical topic and reinforce students' skills. A complete answer key for all problems and exercises makes this outline a must for students of every discipline. Includes:

New practice sections with drills help students grasp tricky grammatical structures
Introductory glossary defines all the most important grammatical elements and concepts
Many exercises demonstrating every grammatical topic reinforce students' skills
Updated and clarified explanations of parts of speech and usage
Complete answer key for all problems and exercises

The perfect choice for advanced-level students wanting to build their vocabulary skills. English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced includes over 2,000 new words and expressions which are presented and practised in typical contexts appropriate to this level. The book is informed by the Cambridge International Corpus to ensure that the vocabulary selected is useful and up to date. A test book is also available for extra practice. Ideal for self study or classroom use.


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Introducing Metaphor is an accessible introduction to the different ways in which metaphor permeates all areas of language, and other methods of communication, covering both theoretical and practical approaches to the analysis of texts.
Combining a variety of approaches to this widely studied subject, the book provides a thorough grounding in metaphor and word meaning, theories on the processing and understanding of metaphorical language, and metaphor in other languages and translation.
Moon and Knowles draw on a wide selection of examples to explore metaphor in relation to text, discourse and society. Linguistic metaphor and literary metaphor are examined in a range of contexts such as politics, sport and advertising, while literary metaphor is demonstrated through authentic extracts from fiction and poetry. A final section covering non-verbal metaphor looks at metaphor in art, cinema and music, further demonstrating metaphor theory in practice.
Featuring suggestions for further reading on topics in each chapter, and an appendix for small-scale research investigations on metaphor, Introducing Metaphor will be invaluable to undergraduate students of English Language, Linguistics and Literature.

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Phrases such as "go with the flow" and "hang around" are easy as pie with this fun and memorable guide to idioms for English-language students. Often a difficult aspect to master in a nonnative language, expressions that cannot be deduced from their individual words become fun to learn with the included word games, quizzes, and puzzles.

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Rawdon Wyatt is the author of numerous other vocabulary preparation books, including ones for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and the First Certificate in English (FCE) exams.

This workbook is organized around the individual particles of phrasal verbs, rather than the verbs themselves. This enables students to perceive broader categories of meaning and so makes the task of learning phrasal verbs more manageable. The workbook focuses on the most important phrasal verbs, with around 300 different meanings being covered. Almost half of these are formed with 18 common verbs. There are ten units of material, each following a similar format. The first nine units each deal with one of the most important particles; the final unit covers a further seven particles. The units can be studied in any order. Each unit has an introductory page giving the important meanings of the particle being studied, with lists of phrasal verbs to be practiced in each section of the unit. At the end of each unit there is a separate section of revision exercises.

A fun way to build vocabulary and boost SAT scores

Word puzzles are a proven tool for building vocabulary. They nudge the puzzler gently toward shades of meaning, synonym recognition, contextual interpretation, and making educated guesses--all the mental tricks needed to do well on the SAT verbal section. In SAT Vocabulary Express, a top test-prep coach teams up with a leading crossword puzzle author to offer students a fun, effective alternative to standard vocabulary builders.

A unique learning tool for breaking the code in the SAT verbal section, this book features:

*Dozens of crosswords, anagrams, acrostics, cryptograms, and other fun, skill-building puzzles
*Brainteasers that stimulate vocabulary mastery
*Tips and techniques for using the puzzles to pump up vocabularies to unprecedented levels--painlessly!