The words you need to communicate with confidence. Vocabulary explanations and practice for upper-intermediate level (B2) learners of English. Perfect for both self-study and classroom activities.

Quickly expand your vocabulary with over 100 units of easy to understand explanations and practice exercises. Also inside the book is a code for an ebook. This is the same as the printed book, but with audio so that you can listen to new words as well as reading them.

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De 'Prisma Voorzetsels' laat door middel van duidelijke voorbeelden zien hoe voorzetsels gebruikt worden in combinatie met andere woorden.

Het gebruik van voorzetsels is vaak best lastig. Is het 'een mooie aanleiding voor een tentoonstelling' of '...tot een tentoonstelling' of kan het allebei? Heb je affiniteit met of voor iemand? Soms kan hetzelfde woord verschillende voorzetsels bij zich hebben. Vaak is er dan sprake van betekenisverschil. We zeggen bijvoorbeeld: 'Piet is op het journaal', m...

Thoroughly updated and revised, the ninth-edition of the highly-regarded British Civilization: An Introduction continues to be the ideal textbook on Britain, its country and people, religion, politics and government, international relations, legal system, economy, education, media and culture for students of British studies.

Understand and be understood in English with the best-selling English Pronunciation in Use. This book, with over four hours of free downloadable audio, includes 60 units of explanations, examples, practice exercises and answers for intermediate level (B1-B2) learners of English. You will become confident with all areas of English pronunciation, including individual sounds, word stress, connected speech and intonation, and can practise with simple 'listen and repeat' activities, modelled with ...

Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and virtual world requires the skills to navigate through cultural differences and decode cultures foreign to your own. Renowned expert Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain where people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together.When you have Americans who precede anything negative with three nice comments French, Dutch, Israelis, ...

The tenth edition of the Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary has been revised and updated to include detailed coverage of today's English in a clear, attractive format. Ideal for upper intermediate and advanced learners of English, this dictionary covers all the words, phrases, and idioms that students need to master in order to speak and write effective English. New to this edition is the inclusion of CEFR levels, helping learners to focus on the words that are most important.

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With this dictionary students learn the most important collocations they need to know. The dictionary also guides them to the right word combination for their context. The CD-ROM includes the complete dictionary and practice exercises.

The word combinations are based on analysis of the Oxford English Corpus, a collection of three billion words of text from the English-speaking world that show the words that really do go together.

Jubileumeditie: nieuwe Dikke Van Dale

Op dinsdag 22 maart 2022 verschijnt de zestiende editie van de Dikke Van Dale. In deze jubileumeditie kijken we terug op de historie van onze taal. Verspreid over drie delen geven 150 taalverhalen een prachtig inkijkje in 150 jaar Nederlands. Hoe veranderde de taal in die 150 jaar en hoe ging de

redactie van de Dikke Van Dale daarmee om? De taalverhalen zijn geïllustreerd met infographics, tijdlijnen, afbeeldingen van oude woordenboekartikelen en leuke l...

Longman dictionaries are compiled using the Longman Corpus Network - a huge database of 430 million words of spoken and written English - collected from both British and American English sources. They are easy to use and easy to understand: they are written using a limited vocabulary of just 2000 words - the Longman Defining Vocabulary - ensuring that they all have clear and understandable definitions.

In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite; a military hero whose dying wish was to ...