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Intermediate Level

Intermediate Level

‘wage’

Intermediate Level Should it be ‘at 979, King’s Road’ or

‘on 979, King’s Road’?

This book is a practical guide to the use of prepositions, a

difficult area which is common to English learners

Each chapter gives detailed explanations on the usage of

prepositions when using with nouns, adjectives, etc.

Easy-to-understand English and Chinese explanations are

given

A large number of practical examples with concise and

precise Chinese translations are provided

Useful notes help readers to understand the different usage

of prepositions and to learn the correct usage

Helping you write and speak English in a more lively way!

It aims at helping learners to understand and use idiomatic English such as English idioms, phrasal verbs, etc., which they find confusing

Over 2,200 entries, with 2,500 cross references

Explanations and example sentences are given in both English and Chinese, written in simple language for easy

understanding

Intermediate Level

Intermediate Level

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Academic Word List An Introduction to the Academic Word List Averil Coxhead, Massey University, New Zealand What is the Academic Word List The Academic Word List (AWL) is a list of 570 word families that are commonly found in academic texts. This list was selected by examining a large corpus (or collection) of written academic texts and selecting the words that occurred: 1In texts from all four academic faculty sections: Arts, Commerce, Law and Science. 2Over 100 times in the corpus overall. 3At least 10 times in each academic faculty section. 4Outside the 2000 most frequent words on Michael West’s General Service List (GSL). The GSL includes everyday words such as I, house and do. These principles ensured that only words that occurred reasonably frequently in a variety of study areas were selected. The AWL targets vocabulary that occurs most often in written academic texts. These words also occur in newspapers but not as often as they do in textbooks. The AWL words appear even less in fiction. If your focus is learning academic vocabulary, you need to make sure you read academic textbooks so that you encounter these words in context. How is the AWL organized The AWL is organized into Word Families. Word families are made up of the ‘parent word’and ‘f amily members’.Take for example the word maximise. Its family members include inflections of the verb such as maximised, maximises and maximising as well as the noun maximum. The word family also includes the British spelling of the noun maximisation, as well as maximization, the US spelling.

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朗文定义词表 66 @ 090918 A. ability about above abroad absence absent accept acceptable accident accordance according according to account ache acid across act action active activity actor actress actual add addition address adjective adjective admiration admire admit admittance adult advance advantage adventure adverb advertise advertisement advice

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1 LONGMAN COMMUNICATION 3000 Longman Communication 3000 The Longman Communication 3000 is a list of the 3000 most frequent words in both spoken and written English, based on statistical analysis of the 390 million words contained in the Longman Corpus Network – a group of corpuses or databases of authentic English language. The Longman Communication 3000 represents the core of the English language and shows students of English which words are the most important for them to learn and study in order to communicate effectively in both speech and writing. Analysis of the Longman Corpus Network shows that these 3000 most frequent words in spoken and written English account for 86% of the language. This means that by knowing this list of words, a learner of English is in a position to understand 86% or more of what he or she reads. Of course, “knowing” a word involves more than simply being able to recognise it and know a main meaning of it. Many of the most frequent words have a range of different meanings, a variety of different grammatical patterns, and numerous significant collocations. Nonetheless, a basic understanding of the Longman Communication 3000 is a very powerful tool and will help students develop good comprehension and communication skills in English. ‘This [frequency] information is gold dust for the language learner. LDOCE shows in graphic and immediate form which words are really worth learning and knowing how to use.’ Jeremy Harmer, EL T author T o ensure that users have access to the appropriate information, the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English marks all the words that are in the Longman Communication 3000 in red accompanied by special symbols: W1, W2, and W3 for words that are in the top 1000, 2000 and 3000 most frequent words in written English, and S1, S2 and S3 for the top 1000, 2000 and 3000 most frequent words in spoken English. Nowadays, many learner’s dictionaries include information about the most frequent words in English, but Longman dictionaries are the only ones to highlight the differences between spoken and written frequency.These frequency markers added to the headwords in the dictionary give users access to a wealth of information that can help the selection of the appropriate word or phrase in a variety of situations. Not only are the words and meanings given descriptive labels, for example formal or informal, AmE (American English) or BrE (British English), humorous, old-fashioned, but now they have the added information about relative frequency in spoken and written language. T ake for example the verb book (in the meaning of book a table at a restaurant). It is marked as S2 – one of the top 2000 words of spoken English. Note that is has no marker for written English because according to corpus analysis, it is not part of the top 3000 most frequent words in written English. However, the entry also indicates that a synonym for book is reserve which is in the top 3000 most frequent words in written English. The conclusion to be drawn from this is that in speaking (for instance when phoning a hotel or restaurant), book is the most appropriate verb to use when asking for a room or table to be kept for you. In writing, however, it would be more appropriate to use reserve. ‘There are two distinct modes of English: thoughtful, accurate and more formal, reflected mostly by written English; and spontaneous, real-time, less formal language, typified by spontaneous speech and some informal writing.’ Professor Geoffrey Leech, Emeritus Professor of English Language and Linguistics – University of Lancaster Learning a language can be exciting, but also sometimes difficult and frustrating because there are so many things to learn and it is difficult to know what to focus on. The frequency markers that identify the Longman Communication 3000 help students see clearly which words are frequent in written and spoken English, and enable them to focus more attention on mastering the meanings, grammatical patterns and collocations of these words.