Reseña del libro "English Vocabulary Organiser: 100 Topics for Self Study (Ltp Organiser Series)"
Upper Intermediate. This innovative and engaging book offers the passionate learner of English the possibility to acquire thousands of words connected with one hundred topics. Vocabulary is best when given on a need-to-know basis and the topics have been cautiously chosen to suit the needs of a variety of students, from different cultures and backgrounds. In order to meet its goals, the book has been carefully organized in seventeen sections covering such familiar areas as: people and describing people, feelings and emotions, the miracle of the human body, health, things around the house, food and drink, spending your leisure time, sport, the media, the intricate world of technology, money matters, travel and transport, education and work, the social environment, the world around us, and abstract concepts such as time and distance, a total of one hundred of the most common topics for self-study. This organization gives the book total flexibility and the student plenty of freedom: the units can be studied in any order. The value of the book is given, among others, by the fact that its author does not make the same mistake as generations of teachers have done so far: he does not forget that it is not sufficient to know a certain number of words; what really counts, is to know how to master them. This is why he not only organizes words, he also presents them in context. There is a very important consideration to keep in mind while developing vocabulary: collocations, i.e. pairs of words occurring so frequently that when seeing or hearing a word, one strongly expects that the other word appear there too. Students should be aware that collocation is how words interact with each other; how words can be used together in certain combinations, but not in others. This is an extremely important aspect of teaching language and vocabulary and Chris Gough did the best of it. There are five types of exercises intended to a successfully build up a solid vocabulary. Except for the fill-in and fixed expression exercises, all the other deal with the most important types of collocation: verb/noun collocations, adjective/noun collocations, and adverb/verb collocations. There is also an answer key at the end of the book.
