Vocabulary in use vocabulary reference and practice Third Edition Elementary Michael McCarthy Felicity O’Dell
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ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN USE Vocabulary reference and practice Third Edition Elementary Michael McCarthy Felicity O’Dell 9780521685276 Baker: T ree or Three? Second Edition with CDs CVR C M Y K 9780521685276cvr_9780521685276cvr 28/07/2015 13:23 Page 1 9780521685276 Baker: T ree or Three? Second Edition with CDs CVR C M Y K 9780521685276cvr_9780521685276cvr 28/07/2015 13:23 Page 1 9780521685276 Baker: T ree or Three? Second Edition with CDs CVR C M Y K 9780521685276cvr_9780521685276cvr 28/07/2015 13:23 Page 1 • • • • More than 35,000 defi nitions and hundreds of new words • Defi nitions are written in clear, simple English • Thesaurus boxes help you to expand your vocabulary • Common Learner Error boxes, based on learner errors from the Cambridge • Over 1,000 Word Partner boxes show the important collocations that will CD-ROM • SMART thesaurus – a dictionary and a thesaurus in one! • Spoken British and American pronunciation for every word • ‘Record yourself’ feature helps you with pronunciation practice ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN USE Elementary Michael McCarthy Felicity O’Dell Vocabulary reference and practice with answers Third Edition Contents Thanks 5 Introduction 6 People 1 The family mother, uncle, relatives 8 2 Birth, marriage and death birthday, married, die 10 3 Parts of the body head, foot, shoulder 12 4 Clothes hat, shirt, trousers 14 5 Describing people tall, dark, good-looking 16 6 Health and illness headache, heart attack, exercise 18 7 Feelings love, tired, thirsty 20 8 Conversations 1: Greetings and wishes Good morning, Happy New Year, well done 22 9 Conversations 2: Useful words and expressions I don’t mind, anyway, let’s 24 At home 10 Food and drink rice, tea, vegetables 26 11 In the kitchen fridge, glass, saucepan 28 12 In the bedroom and bathroom wardrobe, shampoo, mirror 30 13 In the living room bookshelf, lamp, remote control 32 School and workplace 14 Jobs secretary, factory, nurse 34 15 At school and university biology, notebook, pass an exam 36 16 Communications address, computer, memory stick 38 17 Your phone apps, voicemail, text 40 Leisure 18 Holidays package holiday, currency, visa 42 19 Shops and shopping chemist’s, department store, credit card 44 20 Online shopping reviews, basket, delivery 46 21 In a hotel single room, key, luggage 48 22 Eating out café, menu, fish and chips 50 23 Sports table tennis, judo, volleyball 52 24 Cinema western, film star, director 54 25 Free time at home gardening, listening to CDs, programme 56 26 Music and musical instruments guitar, jazz, orchestra 58 The world 27 Countries and nationalities Spain, Chinese, continent 60 28 Weather cold, rain, storm 62 29 In the town railway station, bank, town hall 64 30 In the countryside hill, farm, river 66 31 Animals horse, giraffe, pet 68 32 Travelling train, map, flight 70 33 UK culture fireworks, roast beef, Christmas 72 3 English Vocabulary in Use Elementary Social issues 34 Crime murder, prison, guilty 74 35 The media TV channel, magazine, talk show 76 36 Problems at home and work repair, untidy, in a bad mood 78 37 Global problems hurricane, war, strike 80 Everyday verbs 38 Have / had / had have breakfast, have time, have a swim 82 39 Go / went / gone go away, go shopping, go home 84 40 Do / did / done do an exercise, do your best, do the washing 86 41 Make / made / made make coffee, make a mistake, make a noise 88 42 Come / came / come come in, come from, come back 90 43 Take / took / taken take the bus, take a photo, take an exam 92 44 Bring / brought / brought bring something here, bring back, take 94 45 Get / got / got get tired, get better, get married 96 46 Phrasal verbs get up, put on, turn down 98 47 Everyday things watch TV, wash clothes, go for a walk 100 48 Talking say, tell, ask 102 49 Moving walk, drive, fly 104 Words and grammar 50 Conjunctions and connecting words because, only, before 106 51 Days, months, seasons Monday, July, winter 108 52 Time words next year, often, once a week 110 53 Places middle, front, abroad 112 54 Manner fast, loud, the right way 114 55 Common uncountable nouns money, bread, information 116 56 Common adjectives: Good and bad things nice, awful, lovely 118 57 Words and prepositions wait for, belong to, good at 120 58 Prefixes impossible, ex-wife, unsafe 122 59 Suffixes swimmer, useless, sunny 124 60 Words you may confuse quiet / quite, lend / borrow, cook / cooker 126 Answer key 128 Phonemic symbols 158 Index 159 Irregular verbs 170 How to learn vocabulary 172 Acknowledgements 173 4 English Vocabulary in Use Elementary 90 English Vocabulary in Use Elementary Come / came / come 42 Come and go are diff erent: Come in / out We say ‘ Come in! ’ when someone knocks at the door of a room. Then the person who knocked comes into the room. A go come Come out ( of ) is oft en the opposite of come in ( to ). A woman came out of the shop with two big bags. (I was in the street.) You put your money in and the ticket comes out of the machine. Come back and come home Come back means ‘return to this place here’. She went away for three days. She came back yesterday. (She is here again.) Come back is oft en used with from . They came back from Italy yesterday. Come home is similar; ‘home’ is ‘here’ for the person speaking. MUM : What time did you come home last night? SADIE : Oh, about 3 o’clock. MUM : What! That’s much too late! Other important uses of come A: What country do you come from ? B: I’m from Poland. / I come from Poland. / I’m Polish. We’re going clubbing tonight. Do you want to come along [come with us]? Come and see me some time. [visit me] B C Come in! Common mistakes I come from Poland [ NOT I’m coming from Poland ]. Tip Write down any prepositions you find with come every time you see them. Exercises Fill the gaps in the sentences. 1 I put money in, but the ticket didn’t come the machine. 2 A: I’m going to Thailand tomorrow. B: Oh! When are you coming ? A: In two weeks. 3 The teacher came the classroom and started the lesson. 4 A: Where do you come ? B: I’m Spanish. 5 Come and me at 5 o’clock; we can talk about it then. 6 The children come school at 4 o’clock. What do you think these people are saying? Use words from the box. come from come in come along come here 42.1 42.2 out of Fill the gaps using come in the correct form. 1 Did you for your letters? They’re on the table. 2 She back yesterday. 3 He here every Tuesday. 4 you to the party tonight? 5 Pierre from a small town in Luxembourg. Answer these questions for yourself. 1 What time do you come home every day? 2 What country do you come from? 3 What do you do when you come into your classroom? 42.3 42.4 1 2 4 3 Come in! come We’re going to a party. Do you want to ? I France. Come in! Over to you Look up these verbs in a dictionary. Write down the meaning and one example for each verb. After a week, cover the verbs and examples, look at the meanings and see if you can remember the verbs. Verb Meaning Example come round come across come up Introduction To the student This book will help you learn around 1, 250 new words and phrases. You can use the book yourself, without a teacher. You can do the units in any order you like. Here is what the pages look like: The Answer key at the end of the book is for you to check your answers to the exercises aft er you do them. The Answer key sometimes has more than one answer. This is because there is oft en not just one correct way of saying something. The Answer key also has possible answers for most of the exercises which are open-ended, or where you are asked to talk about yourself. The Index at the end of the book has all the important words and phrases from the left -hand pages. The Index also tells you how to pronounce words. There is a list of phonemic symbols to help you understand the pronunciation on page 158. It is a good idea to have a dictionary with you when you use the book so you can check the meaning of something, or translate a word into your own language. Sometimes, you will also need a dictionary for the exercises; we tell you when this is so. You also need a vocabulary notebook to write down new words. See page 172 for ideas on how to learn and remember these new words. We hope you like this book. When you have finished all the units in this book, you can go to the next book in the series, English Vocabulary in Use: Pre-intermediate and Intermediate , and aft er that, to the higher levels, English Vocabulary in Use: Upper-intermediate and English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced . The left -hand page presents the new vocabulary. Diagrams and pictures show the meaning. The left -hand page is divided into sections. Example sentences show the words in context. A lot of diff erent exercise types are used: gap-fills, answering questions, matching, etc. Common mistakes and learning tips are also given on the left -hand page. The right-hand page practises the new vocabulary. Pictures, tables and diagrams give variety to the exercises. Mini-dialogues show how people use the words in real situations. Over to you tasks give you a chance to do more work on the topic of the unit. Yüklə 64,18 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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