Check Your Vocabulary for Natural English Collocations: All You Need to Improve Your Vocabulary - Tapa blanda

Check Your Vocabulary workbooks are aimed at non-native speakers who want to build essential vocabulary and learn to speak fluent and natural-sounding English. For example, in English we use different words to describe different types of food when they go bad. We can describe meat as rotten, cheese as mouldy, milk as sour and butter as rancid - but we would not say sour meat, or rotten milk. Knowing how words are naturally used together is known as collocation. A good knowledge of these word combinations greatly improves the style of written and spoken language for non-native speakers. Knowledge of collocations is often tested in exams such as IELTS, TOEFL and TOEIC. Containing a range of word games, quizzes and exercises, this workbook will help intermediate learners to develop core language skills in a challenging, yet entertaining way.

Jon Marks has taught English and trained English teachers in several countries, and is now a full-time ELT writer and editor. Publishers of his English language teaching materials include Longman, Thomson and Delta Publishing, and he has also illustrated several of the titles he has written. Most recently he has been developing a suite of courses for use in China. Alison Wooder has taught English and trained English teachers in several countries, and is now a full-time ELT writer. Most recently she has been developing a suite of courses for use in China and developing materials for Wall Street Institutes, one of the the world's largest chains of language schools.