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    Easy Learning English Vocabulary: Your essential guide to accurate English
    Easy Learning English Vocabulary: Your essential guide to accurate English
    Easy Learning English Vocabulary: Your essential guide to accurate English
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    Easy Learning English Vocabulary: Your essential guide to accurate English

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    Collins Easy Learning English Vocabulary is designed to help learners of all ages build their vocabulary. This easy-to-use, topic-based book is an invaluable resource for students and teachers, and is ideal for use in the classroom and for home study.

    Collins Easy Learning English Vocabulary is a topic-based vocabulary book, covering over 50 topics, from everyday themes such as family, friends, and hobbies, to topics for travel, work, business and study.

    The words within each theme are listed alphabetically so that they are easy to find. Each word has a definition, written in simple language, and phonetics, to help the user learn how to say the word.

    An 'Examples' section has corpus examples from real English showing important collocations, as well as useful phrases and idioms.

    Collins Easy Learning English Vocabulary contains all the vocabulary a learner needs to communicate effectively in English, and is the perfect resource for users who want to build their vocabulary in a methodical way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateDec 9, 2011
    ISBN9780007461325
    Easy Learning English Vocabulary: Your essential guide to accurate English

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      Easy Learning English Vocabulary - HarperCollins UK

      Pronunciation guide

      In this dictionary the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is used to show how the words are pronounced. The symbols used in the International Phonetic Alphabet are shown in the table below.

      IPA Symbols

      Vowel sounds

      Consonant Sounds

      Notes

      Primary and secondary stress are shown by marks above and below the line, in front of the stressed syllable. For example, in the word abbreviation,/ə,briːviˈeɪʃən/, the second syllable has secondary stress and the fourth syllable has primary stress.

      We do not normally show pronunciations for compound words (words which are made up of more than one word). Pronunciations for the words that make up the compounds are usually found at their entries at other parts of the dictionary. However, compound words do have stress markers.

      air travel

       NOUNS 

      EXAMPLES

      Most low-cost airlines do not serve food.

      We checked in early and walked around the airport.

      Please do not leave bags in the aisle.

      The police said the incident occurred last weekend in arrivals at Terminal 3.

      We went to a bureau de change to change the Euros back into Sterling.

      We had seats in business class on the flight from London to Los Angeles.

      EXAMPLES

      Ask cabin crew or see leaflet for details.

      The price includes flights, car hire and accommodation.

      We got to the airport and went straight to check-in.

      My flight was late and I missed my connection.

      We walked through customs.

      The government has reduced customs duty on imported machinery.

      You must pay customs duty on these goods.

      Please go to departures.

      You must keep your mobile phone switched off for the duration of the flight.

      Margarita sat in economy class on the flight to Bucharest.

      EXAMPLES

      Take the escalator to the second floor.

      Our flight was delayed by three hours because of fog.

      There were no direct flights to San Francisco, so we had to change planes.

      I asked the flight attendant for a glass of water.

      He is on flight number 776 from Beijing.

      How many pieces of hand luggage can I take on the plane?

      This piece of luggage will have to go in the hold.

      EXAMPLES

      I had terrible jet lag for three days after my holiday.

      How many pieces of luggage are you checking in?

      Why does Ingrid need so much luggage for a short stay?

      Could I see your passport and boarding card, please?

      EXAMPLES

      You are in seat 35C.

      Please fasten your seat belts during take-off and landing.

      World leaders have announced plans to tighten up airline security.

      We made a stopover in Bangkok to break up the journey between London and Brisbane.

      What time is take-off?

      We left the airport terminal and looked for the taxi rank.

      Terminal 1 will handle Air Canada’s domestic flights.

       VERBS 

      EXAMPLES

      I’m taking a short trip to France.

      I pushed my luggage trolley towards the ‘Nothing to Declare’ green route.

      Can I have a window seat, please?

      I boarded the plane to Dubai.

      British Airways cancelled several flights because of the bad weather.

      Flight BA201 will depart from gate 21 in 30 minutes.

      We are flying over London.

       ADJECTIVES 

       ADVERBS 

       PHRASE 

      EXAMPLES

      The Boeing 737 was hijacked after taking off from London yesterday.

      The plane landed on time, at eleven thirty.

      The plane took off twenty minutes late.

      the animal world

       NOUNS 

      ANIMALS

      EXAMPLES

      Where did you catch the fish?

      EXAMPLES

      We don’t have any pets.

      PARTS OF ANIMALS

      EXAMPLES

      He heard the sound of horses’ hooves behind him.

      Cat hair makes me sneeze.

      The kitten was black, with white paws.

      PLACES WHERE ANIMALS ARE FOUND

      OTHER ANIMAL NOUNS

      EXAMPLES

      A canary was singing in a cage.

      How do you treat a wasp sting?

      The rabbit was caught in a trap.

       VERBS 

      NOISES ANIMALS MAKE

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