From catching a cold to landing on your feet, idiomatic expressions add color and style to the English language. The latest edition of Essential Idioms in English remains the resource of choice for mastering more than 500 common English idioms, phrasal verbs, and collocations. Essential Idioms in English thoroughly defines and illustrates each idiom, then reinforces its meaning and usage with multiple-choice, true-false, fill-in-the-blank, and matching exercises.

Features and Benefits

• F Three new sections on collocations
• B Illustrates the frequency of certain usages.

• F Expanded Appendix of Equivalent Idioms
• B This adds Portuguese to the French and Spanish translations of previous editions.

• F New eight-page section on dictionary skills.
• B Helps students build their knowledge of vocabulary and usage.

ENGLISH VOCABULARY ORGANIZER is the most comprehensive vocabulary self-study book currently available. It organizes vocabulary into 100 topics and is the ideal book to recommend to all intermediate and upper level students. It will be invaluable to anyone preparing to take an English examination.

PHRASAL VERB ORGANISER is a comprehensive practice book which makes phrasal verbs easier to understand and learn. It does what its title promises: it organises this difficult but essential area of English.

• Over 700 verbs with over 1,000 meanings.
• Verbs are organised by particle, verb, and topic.
• The exercises are varied with all answers given.
• Includes a unique 16 page Mini-Dictionary.

English Vocabulary in Use is a family of self-study and classroom texts for vocabulary development. The books follow the successful format of the English Grammar in Use titles with presentation of new vocabulary on the left-hand pages and practice exercises on the facing right-hand pages. There are currently 4 levels of English Vocabulary in Use from Elementary to Advanced. The Elementary an Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate levels are now available with brand-new CD-ROMs offering additional interactive exercises. Supplementary tests for each level are also available.

All levels of English Vocabulary in Use are informed by the Cambridge International Corpus to ensure that the items of vocabulary selected are current, useful and up to date. The corpus has also been used to ensure that the vocabulary is presented in natural contexts. The books have been designed for self-study and come with a full discursive answer key.

Each lesson in the series is divided into four parts:

• Warm up: Gets the juice flowing by getting you to think about what an idiomatic expression might mean, using picture clues to give hints.
• Dialogue: Dialogue presented in three forms: dialogue using slang and idioms; the dialogue translated into literal speech; and the dialogue as it would be spoken and pronounced by real speakers, with the colloquial sounds that are common in non-formal American speech.
• Vocabulary: A detailed explanation of the word, with examples as it used in a sentence; a literal translation of the sentence; and the sentence as it would be colloquially pronounced.
• Practice exercises: To further cement one's understanding, using approaches like writing stories, word games, crossword puzzles, etc.

• Contextualized vocabulary in every lesson begins with a reading that includes all of the focus words and is followed by a variety of vocabulary development, practice activities, and strategies for leaning and remembering academic vocabulary.
• Complete coverage of the Academic Word List teaches you the most commonly used words in a variety of academic lessons, enhancing your success in academic classes.
• Interactive speaking activities help you increase your retention rate as you develop a link between he focus word and your past experience and knowledge.
• Exercises focusing on word families help you decipher new words and build spelling proficiency.
• Written and spoken exercises give you many opportunities to study vocabulary in a variety of ways: you will encounter the focus words in many different contexts; receive rich instruction about word forms, multiple meanings, idiomatic usage, collocations, and grammar; and employ a variety of strategies to learn and retain words.
• Supplemental series website includes additional activities, self-tests, and assessment.

• Contextualized vocabulary practice
• Exercise variety to increase student interest and motivation
• Review practice
• Online teaching and study centers

• Vocabulary teaching integrated with grammar
• One word per unit, covering 20 of its most important collocations
• Common expressions
• All words taught in context
• Notes on each word
• Full answer key
• Invaluable for examination preparation: Cambridge FCE, CAE, Proficiency and IELTS

•  Features: Games, problem-solving activities, and questions for pair or group discussion, three interrelated activities emphasizing listening, reading, and definitions, A variety of listening, reading, and practice exercises to help students begin using idioms appropriately in different contexts.

Acquiring a strong vocabulary doesn't have to be difficult. Vocabulary Power uses the latest research on memory to make this process simple, effective, and enjoyable.

A three-book series, Vocabulary Power...

• teaches the most important words from the General Service List 500 words and Academic Word List 400 words
• presents each word in eight different contexts to help students learn and remember the word easily
• encourages students to apply the words to their own lives, making vocabulary more relevant and useful
• can be used in class or as a self-study text

Each Vocabulary Power book features

• 300 new words -- 10 per chapter
• high-interest readings adapted from articles on a variety of up-to-date topics
• exercises on word families, multiple meanings, collocations, and expressions that expand students' knowledge of the words
• engaging discussion questions and writing topics that elicit natural use of the words
• quizzes to check students' progress and minimize teacher prep time
• Word Builder exercises and charts in the Appendix to help students focus on the meaning and use of word parts

The Vocabulary Power series includes Vocabulary Power 1 Low Intermediate,

The Just Vocabulary series is fully-customised for North American English learners. The North American English Edition uses the same comprehensive syllabus and has the same learner-friendly approach as the British English Edition.

• Pronunciation syllabus based on General North American pronunciation
• Audio CDs with a variety of realistic American accents
• North American English vocabulary, grammar and usage
• Reading passages with typical North American scenarios
• Contexts relevant to North American English learners

AGAINST ALL ODDS uses semantic groupings of idioms and interactive activities to help students develop their abilities to speak and understand authentic English. Every effort has been made to include idioms that students will find useful in their everyday lives and will often encounter in conversation with native English speakers. The number of idioms per chapter has purposely been limited to 15 - 17 so that students can truly acquire them for active use.

• Idioms in everyday communicative contexts.
• Ample role plays, problem solving, and discussions based on detailed situations.
• Pre-listening and listening exercises.
• Organized by semantic groupings.

The revised edition of this vocabulary text continues to teach students to analyze, understand, and remember vocabulary by developing word attack strategies. New readings, collaborative exercises, and contextualized activities enhance the text.

• Readings, collaborative exercises, and contextualized activities present vocabulary.
• Suffixes, prefixes, and roots are grouped into manageable units according to meaning.
• Contextual exercises demonstrate language in use.

Focus on Vocabulary Mastering the Academic Word List is a research-based vocabulary textbook that gives high-intermediate to advanced students the advantage they need to succeed in academic environments.

Through excerpts from college texts and well-crafted exercises, English learners study the Academic Word List -- the most frequently used words in academic texts. To help students reach a fuller understanding of the new vocabulary, each chapter provides a series of exercises on word meaning and word families. In addition, collocations exercises develop students' ability to form natural partnerships between the target vocabulary and other words.

• The Academic Word List, 24 words per chapter, are featured first in an authentic academic text, then in a variety of exercises to reinforce meaning, usage, form and collocation.
• Seven units focus on a variety of subject areas, such as social change, consumer behavior, natural resources, and music.
• Each chapter carefully recycles the target vocabulary four times in reading passages and vocabulary-building exercises.
• The collocation exercises -- based on the 179-million-word New Longman Corpus -- reflect how academic words are actually used in real contexts.
• Strategy Practice chapters offer tips for dictionary usage, information about word roots and affixes, and methods for expanding students' word knowledge.
• An Expansion section at the end of each chapter provides additional reading, discussion, and writing activities that broaden students' understanding of vocabulary.

High intermediate

In the Know: Understanding and Using Idioms is based on extensive research in the Cambridge International Corpus. The book has 40 four-page units that deal with idioms in contexts such as communicating, money, and relationships; idioms that describe concepts such as danger, honesty, and success; and idioms based on keywords such as colors and parts of the body.

Idioms in each unit are usually presented in a short dialogue or story. The practice pages that follow are divided into three sections—Focus on Meaning, Focus on Form, and Focus on Use—that provide dozens of different exercise types to help students master the phrases. An Audio CD features recordings of the presentation section from each unit. A reference section gives definitions and examples from the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms to give students a resource for checking the idioms they've learned. An answer key is also included.

An essential supplement to any program, Practice: Vocabulary provides abundant opportunities for students to develop and master skills.

• Practice: Vocabulary is divided into 12 chapters, each of which opens with a reading passage or conversation. Reading and vocabulary development strategies lead into application activities that provide students with practice and help them develop personal vocabulary lists.
• Ideal for standardized test practice

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ability. The right place at the right time? Photographer Ken Harada thinks so when he gets a fantastic photo of a famous sumo star who is visiting Tokyo. However, it becomes clear that somebody wants that photo badly and will do anything to get it. Life suddenly becomes very dangerous for Ken and when he develops the photo he realises why.

Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CD including complete text recordings from the book.

This book presents a unique medley of fun and creative high-impact activities specifically for the ESL student. It encompasses all FOUR areas of learning: reading, writing, listening and speaking.

The text includes:

• 525 common idiomatic expressions and phrases
• 21 chapters, each with its own universally identified theme
• 19 engaging activities per chapter offering appreciation for varied learning styles
• A complete answer key and reference guides

Includes CD for enhancing pronunciation practice!