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Published in 2007 |
| Paperback & CD-ROM: ISBN 9781405025263; List Price: HK$309 |
| Hardcover & CD-ROM: ISBN 9780230025462; List Price: HK$358 |
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Bloomsbury Books is delighted to announce the publication of a brilliant piece of research and a superb learning and teaching tool – . It contains a wealth of new material, while building on the innovative features that won it two prestigious awards in the ELT world: Duke of Edinburgh English-Speaking Union English Language Book Award 2002 ; and the British Council Innovation Award 2004.
Macmillan English Dictionary is the only advanced learner's dictionary that highlights effectively the most important and frequently used 7,500 words an advanced learner needs to be able to use in red. The explanations are broken up into easy-to-read paragraphs. It indicates not only information about meaning, but also about how words combine, what registers they usually appear in, and what they tell us about the speaker's attitude. It uses the 2,500 most common words for the vocabulary definitions, making the definitions very easy to understand.
This helps giving learners confidence and ability to write and speak good English.
Besides important features such as thousands of new words, subject-specific vocabulary, collocations, thesaurus, vocabulary building, this new version of CD-ROM contains sound search, over 200 interactive writing exercises and pronunciation for use while viewing web pages or writing documents and emails.
The new printed edition, together with the CD-ROM, is definitely your ideal companion that provides specific support to help learners becoming more confident writers in professional and academic context. Order your copy from Bloomsbury now! |
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Key Features include:
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Red Star System makes it easy to pick out important words to learn and remember. This unique visual coding alerts the learner to the important words in English. It highlights the most important and frequently used 7,500 words an advanced learner needs to be able to use in red and ranked with stars.
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Collocation Boxes show which words are typically used together in natural English. Essential collocates are shown in the body of the dictionary entry but the MED also lists thousands of strong collocates in 500 special collocation boxes.
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Metaphor Boxes, the unique feature in MED, shows how many ordinary words and phrases have metaphorical meanings. Over 60 boxes throughout the dictionary, together with a 4-page in-depth article, provide deeper understanding.
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- Expand Your Vocabulary help learners choose the right word for the right occasion in their everyday English.
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Get It Right Boxes help users to find out their common mistakes and show them how to correct them. They also present alternatives to over-used words and state the differences between words that are easy to confuse.
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Improve Your Writing Skills Section contains 50 pages. It gives advice on writing in 18 areas that often causes confusions and difficulties. This section indicates vocabulary and grammar problems, compares the use of a particular word or phrase through presenting graphs. It teaches learners how to write effectively in different professional and academic contexts.
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- Clear & Attractive Illustrations not only explain the meaning of words, but provide an excellent way of showing the differences between close synonyms.
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Language Awareness Section , contains up-to-date information on topics that are relevant to everyone who has any interest in the way the English language is being used at the beginning of the 21st century.
Written by well-known experts such as Frank Boers, Michael Hoey and Scott Thornbury,
is intended to give you a deeper understanding of areas such as Spoken Discourse, Metaphor, and Pragmatics, all of which are crucial for users of the English language.
There is a lot of room for thought in this section, and teachers will find there is plenty of scope in these topics for classroom activities and discussion.
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- Menu Boxes provide the clearest way to navigate - entries with five or more senses have a special "meaning menu" at the top for rapid access to the correct meaning.
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New Version of CD-ROM is a great complement to the printed dictionary. It makes the whole set user-friendly to everyone in office and home. It also gives a fast and effective way of searching. Besides familiar features like, British and American sound recordings, recording facilities for pronunciation practice, it contains new facilities such as: Thesarus function which suggested a list of synonyms and antonyms, 200 interactive writing excercises, Sound Search, Quick View and Web Link.
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- Free Online Access. Visit http://www.macmillandictionaries.com for a wide range of ideas and fascinating articles about words and language. Macmillan Dictionaries online services include:
- Word of the Week. Each week the dictionary team search the media to find the newest and most interesting words being used in the English Language.
- Tips for developing dictionary skills
- Interactive games
- Dictation exercises
- Glossaries of terms used in dictionaries, ELT, the Internet and texting
- News of dictionary events
- Competitions
- Free e-mail service is available from the Macmilland Dictionaries website. It provides you with Dictionary e-Lessons, worksheets complete with teacher's notes and tips; MED Magazine, a free monthly webzine covering a wide range of topics on English language. It includes articles by leading authors in the dictionary field and TEFL, useful hints and tips by teachers and trainers, activities focusing on special features of the CD-ROM, and the opportunity to explore the latest additions to the English language.
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