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ContentsThanks
Introduction
Efective vocabulary learning
1 Learning vocabulary
2 Organising a vocabulary notebook
3 Using your dictionary
4 Guessing and explaining meaning

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5 Countries, nationalities andlanguages

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7 Describing people: appearance
8 Describing people: personality
9 Idioms describing people
10 Relationships
11 At home
12 Everyday minor problems
13 Global problems
14 Education
15 Higher education
16 Work
17 Business18 Sport
19 Art and literature
20 Theatre and cinema
21 Music
22 Food
23 Physical geography
24 Environmental problems
25 Towns
26 The natural world
27 Clothes
28 Health and medicine
29 Medicine and technology
30 Health and lifestyle

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32 Holidays
33 Science and technology
34 Computers
35 Communications and the Internet
36 Social media
37 The press and the media
38 Politics and public institutions
39 Crime
40 Money
41 Describing objects
Feelings and actions
42 Belief and opinion
43 Pleasant and unpleasant feelings
44 Like, dislike and desire
45 Speaking
46 The six senses
47 What your body does
48 Praising and criticising
49 Emotions and moods
50 Commenting on problematic
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Basic concepts
51 Number, quantity, degree andintensity

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52 Numbers and shapes
53 Time54 Distances and dimensions
55 Obligation, need, possibility andprobability

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56 Sound and light
57 Possession and giving
58 Movement and speed
59 Texture, brightness, weight

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Connecting and linking words
61 Time: connecting words andexpressions

62 Condition
63 Cause, reason, purpose andresult

64 Concession and contrast
65 Addition
66 Referring words
67 Discourse markers in spoken
English68 Linking words in writing
69 Talking and communicating
Word formation
70 Sufixes
71 Prefixes
72 Roots
73 Abstract nouns
74 Compound adjectives
75 Compound nouns 1: noun + noun
76 Compound nouns 2:verb + preposition

77 Binomials
78 Abbreviations and acronyms
79 Multi-word expressions
Words and pronunciation
80 Words commonly mispronounced
81 Onomatopoeic words
82 Homophones and homographs

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Counting people and things
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83 Uncountable nouns
84 Words that only occur in the plural 174
85 Countable and uncountable nouns
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86 Making uncountable nouns
countable

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87 Collective nouns
88 Containers and contents

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Phrasal verbs and verb-based
expressions
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89 Expressions with do and make186
90 Expressions with bring and take
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91 Expressions with get
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92 Expressions with set and put
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93 Expressions with come and go
94 Expressions with other commonverbs

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Varieties and styles
95 Formal and informal words 1
96 Formal and informal words 2
97 Similes
98 Proverbs
99 The language of signs and notices
100 Headline English
101 US English

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Answer key
Phonemic symbols
Index
Acknowledgements

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