Product Description

A good knowledge of collocations (typical word combinations) is essential for fluent and natural-sounding English. This book presents and practises hundreds of collocations in typical contexts ¿ ideal for intermediate level students and above who want to take their English to the next level. 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #80813 in Books
• Published on: 2005-09-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 190 pages

Customer Reviews

Absolutely one of the best
ok, here are the contents

a. Learning about collocations
b. Grammatical aspects of collocations
c. Special aspects of collocation
d. Topics: Travel and the environment
e. Topics: People and relationships
f. Topics: Leisure and lifestyle
g. Topics: Workd and study
h. Topics: Society and institutions

*Basic COncenpts
including;time, sound, distance and size, colour and light, texture, taste and smell, number and frequency, movement and speed, change, ways of speaking and ways of walking.

*Functions
including; Starting and finishing, talking about success and failure, talking about cause and effect, remembering and sensing, agreeing and disagreeing, talking about beliefs and opinions, deciding and choosing, claiming and denying, liking and disliking, praising and criticising.

The book has 60-two page units. The units are organised into different sections. First, we start with important informations about collocations in general. Then there are sections looking at grammatical and other special aspects of collocations. The rest of the book deals with collocations that relate to particular topics such as Weather and Business, concepts such as Time or Change and functions such as agreeing or Liking and disliking.

Studying collocation is highly recommended if you want to make a good imporession with your natural and accurate use of English.

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