Word Games with English 3. [antikvár]

About this book Word Games with English is a series of 3 books of carefully graded language activities designed to stimulate learners to practise, activate and extend their English vocabulary. Pedagogical Basis Book 3, for intermediate students who have completed a beginners' course in English, presupposes a vocabulary corresponding to Threshold level as designated by the Council of Europe. It enriches and extends this basic general vocabulary, enabling the learner to understand and express a wider variety of ideas. The words have been taken from intermediate grades of the Cambridge English Lexicon (R. Hindmarsh), based on 4 major frequency counts, and also from the most widely-used English as a Foreign Language textbooks. There are over 1,500 lexical items in this book, allowing the learner to meet a variety of situations in an English-speaking context and providing a solid basis for further study up to examination level. The teacher will find it a useful and interesting way of presenting, revising and testing vocabulary. Presentation • The vocabulary concentrates on a wide variety of topics: health, politics, leisure, consumer affairs, statistics, human relationships, crime and punishment etc. • The games develop an awareness of different language forms: prefixes and suffixes, prepositional phrases, plural-form nouns, phrasal verbs etc. • A cultural element is introduced: proverbs, comparisons, feast days, American English etc. • There is a built-in revision and recycling of certain lexical items in different contexts. • The book is suitable for all ages, for teaching and testing, for class and group work and for varied further exploitation. • There is a full answer key and word list, enabling the book to be used for self-study and revision.