- a memory-friendly vocabulary workshop for upper intermediate and advanced learners of English who wish to brush up, expand, enrich and update their English vocabulary - memorize effective multifunctional expressions in a meaningful context and learn how to recycle them in new situations - this vocabulary-building handbook is suitable for self-teaching - it can also be used in classroom lessons, in a refresher course, for example
A treasure chest for learners of English and this and that for teachers
Increase Your English Wordpower – Nutzfreundliches Nachschlagewerk und Übungsbuch zur nachhaltigen Verbesserung des Ausdruckes und des Wortschatzes. - Transfer Training: Recycle helpful expressions in a new context. - Best Practice: Learn memory-friendly example sentences and word families. - Choice: Pick and choose freely from the materials, guidlines and excercies. Aufbau des Buches: INTRODUCTION: HOW THIS HANDBOOK WORKS - Basics – focus on multi-purpose expressions - The snowball eff ect – learning word families - Focus on collocations - Word formation – focus on prefixes and suffixes - Text production – examples - The topics – compiling a topic-related language bank APPENDIX - Solutions to the exercises - Iron ration: My top 100 list of ever-ready “evergreens” - Treasure chest: Useful leftovers – pick and choose freely REFERENCES AND RECOMMENDED FURTHER READING