Vocabulary in Use High Intermediate Student's Book with Answers

Michael McCarthy, Felicity O'Dell, John D. Bunting

Cambridge University Press, Mar 22, 2010 - Foreign Language Study - 304 pages

A three-level vocabulary series for both self-study and classroom use. This best-selling series gives students the support they need to master words and phrases in American English. New language is taught in manageable two-page units with presentation of vocabulary on the left-hand page and practice activities on the right. Suitable for self-study or classroom use, the books are informed by the Cambridge International Corpus to ensure vocabulary taught is useful, up-to-date, and presented in a natural context. Firmly based on current vocabulary acquisition theory, this series promotes good learning habits and teaches students how to discover rules for using vocabulary correctly. The High Intermediate level teaches approximately 3,500 vocabulary items.

Contents

• general advice: 2
• specific techniques: 4
• Organizing a vocabulary notebook: 6
• The names of English language words: 8
• Using your dictionary: 10
• Reviewing vocabulary: 13
• Guessing and explaining meaning Word formation: 14
• Suffixes 9 Prefixes 10 Roots 11 Abstract nouns: 22
• Compound adjectives: 25
• noun + noun 14 Compound nouns verb + preposition 15 16 Words from other languages: 30
• Abbreviations and acronyms: 32
• New words in English: 34
• Words and pronunciation 18 Words commonly mispronounced: 36
• Onomatopoeic words: 38
• Homonyms: 40
• Connecting and linking words 21 2222 Time: 42
• Condition: 44
• Cause reason purpose and result: 46
• Concession and contrast: 48
• Addition: 50
• Textreferring words: 52
• Discourse markers in speech: 54
• Discourse markers in writing: 56
• Countable and uncountable nouns Uncountable nouns: 59
• Nouns that are usually plural: 60
• Countable and uncountable nouns with different meanings 29 30 31: 62
• Collective nouns: 64
• 33: 66
• Containers and contents: 68
• Countries nationalities and languages: 70
• The weather: 73
• Describing peoples appearance: 74
• Describing peoples character: 76
• general: 78
• Relationships: 79
• At home: 80
• Binomials: 81
• Everyday problems: 82
• Global problems: 84
• Education: 87
• Work: 89
• Sports: 91
• The arts: 93
• Music: 95
• Food: 97
• The environment: 99
• Towns: 100
• The natural world: 102
• Clothes: 105
• Health and medicine: 106
• Transportation: 108
• Vacations: 110
• Numbers and shapes: 112
• Science and technology: 114
• Computers and the Internet: 116
• The media and the press: 118
• Politics and public institutions: 120
• Crime: 122
• Money and finances: 124
• Feelings and Actions 63 Belief and opinion: 126
• Pleasant and unpleasant feelings: 128
• Likes dislikes and desires: 130
• Speaking: 133
• The six senses: 134
• What your body does: 136
• Basic Concepts 69 Number quantity degree and intensity: 138
• Duration of time: 140
• Distances and dimensions: 142
• Obligation need possibility and probability: 144
• Sound and light: 146
• Possession giving and lending: 148
• Movement and speed: 150
• Texture brightness density and weight: 152
• Success failure and difficulty: 154
• Idioms describing people: 156
• Idioms describing feelings and mood: 166
• Idioms connected with problematic situations: 168
• Idioms connected with praise and criticism: 170
• Idioms connected with using language: 172
• Miscellaneous idioms: 174
• Proverbs: 177
• Phrasal verbs and verbbased expressions 89 Expressions with do and make: 178
• Expressions with bring and take: 180
• Expressions with: 182
• Expressions with set and: 185
• Expressions with come and: 186
• Miscellaneous expressions: 188
• Special Topics 95 Headline English: 190
• The language of signs and notices: 192
• Words and gender: 194
• Formal and informal words: 196
• Varieties of English: 198
• American English and British English: 200
• Pronunciation symbols: 202
• Index: 203
• Answer key: 236
• Making uncountable nouns countable This: 249

About the author

Michael McCarthy worked for the Wall Street Journal for twenty-two years, as a reporter and then as an editor on feature stories. He is the author of The Sun Farmer and Ashes under Water: The S. S. Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Vocabulary in Use High Intermediate Student's Book with Answers; Vocabulary in Use
• Authors: Michael McCarthy, Felicity O'Dell, John D. Bunting
• Contributor: John D. Bunting
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0521123860, 9780521123860
• Length: 304 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Spelling & Vocabulary