Beginning students will learn some 1,200 basic English vocabulary items in Basic Vocabulary in Use, which is designed for both classroom and self-study use.
The book contains 60 units that cover approximately 1,200 new vocabulary items. It also offers an index with phonetic transcriptions, a complete answer key, and an Audio CD. An edition without answers, suitable for classroom use, is also available.
MIchael McCarthy is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is also Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Pennsylvania State University and at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is the author of many titles of interest to teachers, including Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics. Well known as an expert on the teaching and learning of vocabulary, he is a co-author of the basic and upper-intermediate levels of Vocabulary in Use, and is also Academic Consultant to the Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs and the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms. He is co-author of the 2 latest successful corpus-informed publications by Cambridge University Press: Touchstone and Cambridge Grammar of English.