Vocabulary For Practice Book 2

Description

Learning words that are thematically linked in some way is a convenient and helpful way of gaining a knowledge and understanding of more words. With this in mind, this book contains a series of 15 units, each dealing with a list of words that are thematically linked in some way.

Each unit provides a short passage together with an exercise based on this to test the students’ understanding of the words used in the passage. Then there are two other sets of exercises which test the students’ understanding of the other words featured in the unit. Answers to all the questions are given at the back of the book. After the exercises there is a list of the words covered in the unit, together with a clear explanation of the meaning and example sentences. In some cases additional information is given.

Table of Contents

1. Unit 1 Of interest or not?
2. Unit 2 Taking other people’s possession
3. Unit 3 What kind of building is that?
4. Unit 4 Eating and drinking
5. Unit 5 Getting better or getting worse?
6. Unit 6 Famous and infamous
7. Unit 7 People at the top
8. Unit 8 What’s their profession?
9. Unit 9 Coming apart
10. Unit 10 Violent death

Author Biography

Betty Kirkpatrick has had a long and distinguished career as editor, publisher and writer of English reference books. She was the editor of the Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary, the editor of Roget’s Thesaurus and the compiler of the Oxford paperback Thesaurus. She now writes mainly for Learners Publishing.