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Vocabulary in Use Intermediate helps students who have mastered basic words and phrases to consolidate and expand their knowledge of English vocabulary. The book contains 100 lessons that cover approximately 3,000 new vocabulary items. Ideal for classroom use, its easy-to-use format presents a content or grammar-based area of vocabulary on the left-hand page and innovative practice activities on the right-hand page. Firmly based on current vocabulary acquisition theory, this text promotes good learning habits and teaches students how to discover rules for using vocabulary correctly. An edition with an answer key, suitable for self-study, is available; an upper-intermediate level is also available.
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Very Helpful Book.......2000-05-07
This book helped me gain useful techniques for vocablary learning. It also gave me good advice for using dictionary and organizing a vocabulary notebook. When you study with this book, you'll need a dictionary.
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A good knowledge of collocations (typical word combinations) is essential for fluent and natural-sounding English. Using collocations will improve your style of written and spoken English, and knowledge of collocations is often tested in examinations such as Cambridge FCE, CAE, CPE and IELTS. Learning correct word combinations will also help you avoid common learner errors. English Collocations in Use presents and practises hundreds of collocations in typical contexts. It is ideal for students at good intermediate level and above.
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The third in the family of best-selling vocabulary reference and practice books from elementary to advanced level. Vocabulary is clearly presented and contextualised on left-hand pages with practice activities on facing right-hand pages. The perfect choice for upper-intermediate level students wanting to build their vocabulary. English Vocabulary in Use: Upper-intermediate 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 (Test Your English Vocabulary in Use: Upper-intermediate - 0521 66568X) is also available for extra practice.
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English Vocabulary in Use Upper-intermediate is aimed specifically at upper-intermediate level learners. The material has been thoroughly revised following feedback from users of the first edition. The vocabulary presented in this new edition has now been informed by the Cambridge International Corpus of real language to ensure that the vocabulary is current, useful and relevant for learners. - 100 easy-to-use units: vocabulary items are presented and explained on left-hand pages with a range of practice exercises on right-hand pages. - Presents and explains new words in context, shows learners how to use them and how to work out rules for using them. - Contains a comprehensive, learner-friendly answer key. - Includes a detailed index with phonetic transcriptions to help with the pronunciation of difficult vocabulary. - Is beautifully illustrated in full colour.
Customer Reviews:
If you are serious about your English vocabulary buy it!.......2001-03-28
The book will help ESL students extend their vocabulary. The format is very efficient - even pages contain the material, odd pages contain the exercises. The book has 100 units and every unit explains a unique phenomenon of the English language. The Index encounters about three and a half thousand English words which for me is quite a lot. You will find six units on idioms, a unit on slang and much more. The book is for upper-intermediate and advanced students. If you are just a beginner, look for books with the same title for beginners or intermediate students.
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The third in the family of best-selling vocabulary reference and practice books from elementary to advanced level. Vocabulary is clearly presented and contextualised on left-hand pages with practice activities on facing right-hand pages. This top-selling vocabulary book is now available with a CD-ROM offering hundreds of completely new exercises. The CD-ROM has a built-in dictionary with full definitions and example sentences of key vocabulary. Students can listen to audio recordings, create their own tests and make personal notes within the dictionary.
Customer Reviews:
Very much a beginner level.......2007-05-27
Within first week of purchasing this, I had to order English Vocabulary in Use Advanced. The Advanced level was much more useful. Upper-Intermediate seemed more like beginner. On the other hand I have gotten lots of vocab CDs before this, so I think I might be a little more advanced than others. The Vocabulary in Use Advanced was much more to my liking.
Book Description
The second in the family of best-selling vocabulary reference and practice books from elementary to advanced level. Vocabulary is clearly presented and contextualized on left-hand pages with practice activities on facing right-hand pages. This top-selling vocabulary book is now available with a CD-ROM offering hundreds of completely new exercises. The CD-ROM has a built-in dictionary with full definitions and example sentences of key vocabulary. Students can listen to audio recordings, create their own tests and make personal notes within the dictionary.
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The third in the family of best-selling vocabulary reference and practice books from elementary to advanced level. Vocabulary is clearly presented and contextualised on left-hand pages with practice activities on facing right-hand pages. This CD-ROM offers hundreds of completely new exercises based on the key vocabulary from English Vocabulary in Use: Upper-intermediate. It can be used on its own or with the book. In addition to the enjoyable exercises, this CD-ROM has a built-in dictionary with a personal notes section, a test function, a progress check and a wealth of audio material.
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While maintaining the clarity of the first edition, this revised edition contains new illustrations and is published in full colour. This CD-ROM offers hundreds of completely new exercises based on the key vocabulary from English Vocabulary in Use Pre-intermediate & intermediate. It can be used on its own or with the book. In addition to the enjoyable exercises, this CD-ROM has a built-in dictionary with a personal notes section, a test function and a wealth of audio material.
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Did you know that testing your English Vocabulary could be enjoyable? You can use this book alone, or in class, and watch your rapid progress. Each test will build your confidence and help you remember even 'problem' words. You can use Test Your English Vocabulary in Use: Pre-intermediate and intermediate on its own or along with the companion volume English Vocabulary in Use: Pre-intermediate and intermediate.
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Test Your English Vocabulary in Use: Upper-intermdiate is a set of vocabulary tests to accompany English Vocabulary in Use: Upper-intermediate. It highlights the key vocabulary from the units of the book and can be used on its own or with the companion volume of English Vocabulary in Use: Upper-intermediate. * Additional exposure to up-to-date vocabulary. * Easy-to-use tests for convenient revision. * Wide variety of test types make learning vocabulary memorable and fun. * Clear marking system means progress can be checked easily. * Comprehensive answer key for students working on their own. * Suitable for self-study and classroom use.
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- Solving the Riddles of Love
- Excellent historical exploration, but little advice on enacting change
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Love That Works: The Art And Science Of Giving
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"Who taught us our oddly unsuccessful kind of love? Why, the princess and the frog, and a girl who lived with dwarfs, and a sooty young woman who lost a glass slipper that, as luck would have it, was found by a handsome prince. Our society is shot through with fables of romance that we absorb from earliest childhood." -from chapter four
Love That Works is a highly readable book that draws on history, theology, literature, psychology, and sociology to show why romance is a notoriously poor basis for stable, loving relationships. It provides essential background to those studying relationships in their own lives and in our society. Author Bruce Brander illuminates the reasons we find it so hard to find lasting love and he offers insights to guide us to greater emotional health and spiritual maturity. By applying lessons from history to our fast-paced world, we can not only learn to fall in love; we can also learn to rise to love.
Customer Reviews:
Solving the Riddles of Love .......2007-10-18
This book offers the kind of information I wish I'd known when I was 20 years old.
It answers all the perennial questions about love to anyone's satisfaction:
Exactly what is love?
How do I know if I'm in love?
Is this love or infatuation?
And most of all, how can I love in a way that will benefit myself and everyone around me?
Without being preachy or self-helpish, Love That Works approaches its complex topic from a background of broad knowledge and profound ethics. We find the history of love (yes, love has a past), the impotence of modern science to analyze love, and a clear picture of the dreadful trouble love is in today because it has lost its decency.
So what to do? After we fall in love (and FALL we probably shall), we then can rise to higher, more generous forms of love.
Other forms of love? And what are these?
I always thought romance was the only game in town. But it's not. It's really the lowest, least mature form of love, selfish and ill-fated from the start. Romance is only beginner's love. It's positively infantile, crooning, "I want, I need, and therefore I love," It's so much Baby Love. Why do you imagine modern romancers call each other, "Baby?"
The higher loves are largely forgotten in our time of "gimme-gimme what I cry for." They have been well known in other times and places, and they need to be relearned by anyone who wants love that works.
The level above hungering romance is a sweet and devoted camaraderie, where people look out for each other's interests, happiness and welfare as much as for their own. People whose marriages succeed rise to this level of mutual concern.
Of course, the highest level of love is no-strings-attached giving, the lofty unconditional love we see exemplified in Jesus and Gandhi and good mothers and can rise to ourselves if we try.
As we aim for these higher forms of love, we find ourselves growing and maturing in our emotional-spiritual well-being. We become healthy, happy, warm and giving people and are successful not only in love but in life itself.
What a message! What a revelation! I thank the author for his 30 years of research and treasure this well-written, informative and valuable book.
Love,
Doris Blanchard
Excellent historical exploration, but little advice on enacting change.......2006-10-16
This short book is an engaging exploration of both historical and modern factors that have shaped the way we view the concept of love. What is most enjoyable about this work is the skillful interweaving of history, sociology, philosophy and psychology. This integration creates a book that, despite its brevity, captures what seem to be the key issues about the negative consequences of our modern treatment of the nebulous concept of love.
While tightly written, the first half of the book is disheartening. Part I is entitled "Love in the Dark", and the darkness of the author's view of modern love most certainly does prevail. The author guides the reader through the key factors that contribute to the decline of committed relationships. By extension the author delineates how this demise can be interpreted as one of the central causes in the deterioration of child welfare and is the core factor that creates what the author literally terms a "Sick Society".
Those astute scientific sticklers among us who crave well balanced arguments highlighting the weaknesses of research findings will certainly want more detail than is summarized in this text. However, this exploration of modern love but it still holds solid value as a well-written and researched primer on the many facets of modern life that influence the concept and delivery of love. As a book intended for non- scientific audiences, this work is refreshingly different from many other works on loving that one might pick up from a local big-box bookstore.
The second half of the book, Love for Life, is focused on what we are called upon to develop if we desire a brighter future than the gloomy future alluded to in the first half. I found myself less impressed with the second section of the book, as it reiterates the age-old concepts of eros, philos and agape. Agape, of course, as presented as the ideal that we should all strive for, and if we are all successful, will enable us to heal our sick society. While updated with modern observations that support the division of tripartite love with agape at the apex, there doesn't seem to be much presented that is new. I am genuinely sorry to say that if you are well familiar with the concept of agape, the second half of this book has little to offer.
The most prominent message of this book is how fragile, underrated and misunderstood healthy loving has become in our modern world. But despite its title, there is comparatively little information that is provided to the reader about how to actively construct a "Love that works". This may be one of its strengths, for this saves it from being yet another empty book of self-help promises, but it also leaves the reader wanting more. I found this book disappointing because like far too many books in the popular press, there is a strong explanation of the problem, but a comparatively weak address to the possible solutions. Once modern love has been dethroned, and the idealized concept of love has been presented, very few pages are devoted to helping the reader comprehend how one can effect the transformation from unhealthy to healthy ways of loving. While the cover indicates that Brander presents a plan to lead us to a better way of loving, the only plan I could find is a slightly more eloquently worded version of the infamous Nike slogan: "Just mature into it".
Despite my criticisms, I enjoyed this book for a variety of reasons. It is an unusually well written book on relationships, which is a refreshing change. The integrative approach of the entire book successfully conveys the author's great knowledge on this subject. Sometimes we do need to be reminded of the wisdom of the ancients- and this book certainly does this in an engaging manner. However, in the end I was left wanting for more synthesis and for more concrete suggestions on how to grow emotionally toward healthier loving.
For therapists: this is a book that would be an excellent recommendation for a client struggling to understand their views on loving relationships, romantic altruism, and the personal and interpersonal consequences of selfish love. It is most certain to trigger a flood of grist for the therapy mill. And while I believe that this book would help enable potentially powerful self exploration, I would also expect clients to come away feeling unsure of where to start working toward this "love that works".
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