Upgrade Your English Vocabulary Skills

Upgrade Your English Vocabulary Skills is your best study aide if you need a richer word power for greater career success. Always make a memorably first impression with the right word at the right time to impress your friends, colleagues (the boss!), and clients. Thankfully, Upgrade Your English Vocabulary Skills is your valuable combination of 3 texts to sharpen your lexicon. The 3 books are: Book 1: Top 75 Misused English Word Pairs Book 2: 303 Words You Need to Know Book 3: 181 Best English Collocations, Idioms, and Phrasal Verbs Each text is written by a veteran CELTA-certified English teacher who has helped candidates just like you reach their career goals. This comprehensive volume gives you a broad exposure to English vocabulary in three accessible books full of lessons to: use commonly confused terms expertly study thematic lists organized by category, and finally ease your fear of collocations, idioms, and phrasal verbs. All come with quizzes to test your progress. Professor Winn shares his own advice given to his own students so you are better able to get that promotion, sell more to clients, or ace the IELTS or TOEFL exam. Be better prepared for a rewarding career whether at university or the office with stronger writing skills in our global economy. Get your copy of Upgrade Your English Vocabulary Skills today!

Writing academic prose in English is especially difficult for non-native speakers, largely because the standard vocabulary used in this genre can be quite different from colloquial English. Expand Your English: A Guide to Improving Your Academic Vocabulary is a unique and invaluable guide that will enable the reader to overcome this hurdle. It will become the favourite go-to reference book for both beginners and for intermediate learners struggling with the complexities of English-language academic writing. Steve Hart covers 1,000 vocabulary items that are essential for good academic writing. The first section describes 200 key terms in detail, grouping them into logical sets of 10. Through careful repetition, the reader will find it easy to retain, retrieve, and reuse these essential phrases. The second section explains a further 800 terms, grouping them according to function, meaning, and the areas of an essay where they are likely to be used. The expansive scope of Expand Your English gives non-native speakers all the vocabulary tools they need to master this difficult style of writing.

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Let Upgrade Your English Writing Skills immediately impact your written English. You know how important crisp communication skills enhance your career in the global economy. Thankfully Upgrade Your English Writing Skills is your valuable combination of 4 books to sharpen your written communication skills starting today. The 4 books are: Book 1: 17 Keys to Better English Writing Book 2: 27 Keys to Better English Grammar Book 3: Top 75 Misused English Word Pairs Book 4: 303 Vocabulary Words You Need Each text is written by a veteran CELTA-certified English teacher who has helped candidates just like you reach their career goals. This comprehensive volume gives you expert advice so you gain an unfair advantage over the competition in the ruthless international job market. Professor Winn shares his own wisdom regarding English writing, vocabulary, and grammar in this complete 4-book collection. Be better prepared for a rewarding career whether at university or the office with stronger writing skills in our global economy. Get your copy of Upgrade Your English Writing Skills today!

“As clever and witty a novel as anyone has written in a long time . . . Robbins takes readers on a wild, delightful ride. . . . A delight from beginning to end.”—Buffalo News Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-age stepsister (only to become equally enamored of a nun ten years his senior). Yet there is nothing remotely wishy-washy about Switters. He doesn’t merely pack a pistol. He is a pistol. And as we dog Switters’s strangely elevated heels across four continents, in and out of love and danger, discovering in the process the “true” Third Secret of Fatima, we experience Tom Robbins—that fearless storyteller, spiritual renegade, and verbal break dancer—at the top of his game. On one level this is a fast-paced CIA adventure story with comic overtones; on another it’s a serious novel of ideas that brings the Big Picture into unexpected focus; but perhaps more than anything else, Fierce Invalids is a sexy celebration of language and life. Praise for Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates “Superb.”—New York Post “Dangerous? Wicked? Forbidden? You bet. . . . Pour yourself a bowl of chips and dig in.”—Daily News, New York “Robbins is a great writer . . . and definitely a provocative rascal.”—The Tennessean “Whoever said truth is stranger than fiction never read a Tom Robbins novel. . . Clever, creative, and witty, Robbins tosses off impassioned observations like handfuls of flower petals.”—San Diego Union-Tribune

Introduces 3,000 words to expand and improve vocabulary, 300 fun and challenging quizzes test your progress, helps students prepare for standardized test.

This series of books focusses on rapid progress in learning English. Becoming fluent and having a good working knowledge of the language is most likely your goal and you will need systems to achieve this goal. These books contain systematically organised vocabulary to assist you. The average adult English speaker has a vocabulary of approximately 20,000 words that they know well and use and a further 15,000 to 20,000 words that they can recognise and know the meaning of when they encounter them. By using these resources to become familiar with the most frequently used words in the English language you will be able to concentrate your learning efforts where they will pay the most return. The first one or two thousand words will comprise the bulk of most books, articles and newspapers but the 35,000th piece of vocabulary for an English speaker will only be encountered quite rarely. Therefore it is well worth your while to concentrate your learning efforts on becoming familiar with these 1,000 most frequently encountered words.