English Idioms in Use Intermediate

English Vocabulary in Use

by Michael McCarthy, Felicity O'Dell

This book presents and practises over 1000 of the most useful and frequent idioms in typical contexts. This reference and practice book looks at the most colourful and fun area of vocabulary - idioms. This book will appeal to students from intermediate level upwards who want to understand the English really used by native speakers. Over 1,000 of the most useful and frequent idioms which learners are likely to encounter are presented and practised in typical contexts, so that learners using this book will have hundreds of idioms 'at their fingertips'.

Genres: Language, Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published September 26, 2002

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Eastofoz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book. Very good explanations for idioms that are not often found in dictionaries. Very good exercises. For the intermeditate-advanced level.

[Achara · Rating 2 out of 5]

interesting

[Trần Thiên Thanh · Rating 4 out of 5]

This Idiom list is suitable for real conservations. If you are looking for an academic idiom list for technical paper writing, this book is not for you.