English Vocabulary in Use Upper-Intermediate with answers (2001)
Michael H. McCarthy, Felicity ODell
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Editora: Cambridge. Número de páginas: 316. Livro em inglês. 2ed, 2001.Comentários
A série English Vocabulary in Use, da Cambridge Press, é um excelente auxílio para ampliar seu vocabulário. Os livro são divididos em unidades, cada unidade contendo 2 páginas, e tratando de um assunto específico (por exemplo: Feriados, Como lidar com dinheiro, Política e instituições públicas, Ciência e tecnologia). Na página da esquerda você tem a teoria e exemplos de uso, e na página da direita uma série de exercícios para você aplicar o que você acabou de aprender. Atente para comprar a versão com respostas, pois você pode verificar o que acertou/errou ao final de cada capítulo.Capítulos
EFFECTIVE VOCABULARY LEARNING1) Learning vocabulary- general advice
2) Learning vocabulary - aids to learning
3) Organising a vocabulary notebook
4) Names of English language words
5) Using your dictionary
6) Revising vocabulary
7) Guessing and explaining meaning
WORD FORMATION
8) Suffixes
9) Prefixes
10) Roots
11) Abstract nouns
12) Compound adjectives
13) Compound nouns (1) noun + noun
14) Compound nouns (2) verb + preposition
15) Words from other languages
16) Abbreviations and acronyms
17) New words in English
WORDS AND PRONUNCIATION
18) Words commonly mispronounced
19) Onomatopoeic words
20) Homonyms
CONNECTING AND LINKING WORDS
21) Time
22) Condition
23) Cause, reason, purpose and result
24) Concession and contrast
25) Addition
26) Text-referring words
27) Discourse markers in speech
28) Discourse markers in writing
COUNTABLES AND UNCOUNTABLES
29) Uncountable words
30) Words that occur only in the plural
31) Countable and uncountable nouns with different meanings
32) Collective nouns
33) Making uncountable nouns countable
34) Containers and contents
TOPICS
35) Countries, nationalities and languages
36) Weather
37) Describing people (1) appearance
38) Describing people (2) character
39) Relationships
40) At home
41) Everyday problems
42) Global problems
43) Education
44) Work
45) Sport
46) The artss
47) Music
48) Food
49) The environment
50) Towns
51) The natural world
52) Clothes
53) Health and medicine
54) Travel
55) Holidays
56) Numbers and shapes
57) Science and technology
58) Computers
59) The press and the media
60) Politics and public institutions
61) Crime
62) Money - buying, selling and paying
FEELINGS AND ACTIONS
63) Belief and opinion
64) Pleasant and unpleasant feelings
65) Like, dislike and desire
66) Speaking
67) The six senses
68) What your body does
BASIC CONCEPTS
69) Number, quantity, degree and intensity
70) Time
71) Distance and dimension
72) Obligation, need, possiblity and probability
73) Sound and light
74) Possession, giving and lending
75) Movement and speed
76) Texture, brightness, weight and density
77) Success, failure and difficulty
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
78) Idioms - general
79) Everyday expressions
80) Similes
81) Binomials
82) Idioms describing people
83) Idioms describing feeling or mood
84) Idioms describing problematic situations
85) Idioms connected with praise and criticism
86) Idioms connected with using language
87) Miscellaneous idioms
88) proverbs
PHRASAL VERBS AND VERB-BASED EXPRESSIONS
89) Expressions with do and make
90) Expressions with bring and take
91) Expressions with get
92) Expressions with set and put;
93) Expressions with come and go;
94) Expressions with other verbs;
VARIETIES OF ENGLISH
95) Formal and informal words (1)
96) Formal and informal words (2)
97) US English
98) Other Englishes
99) Headline English
100) The language of signs and notices