Word Power: Strategies for Acquiring Vocabulary: Teacher's Book (with Key) - Softcover

Cunningsworth, Alan; Ferst, Philippa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333583248 ISBN 13: 9780333583241

Publisher: Macmillan Education, 1994

Synopsis

Approaching the development of vocabulary handling skills by giving practice in deducing meaning, using contextual and linguistic clues, and perceiving relationships between words, this book stresses relationships between words - formal, semantic and collocational. The book contains 12 units on key topic areas including people, places, entertainment, tourism, exploration, sport, advertising, health, work, food and animals. This book uses authentic texts as raw data, emphasizes the existence of lexical patterns, gives practice in different registers of language and connotation, and involves individual, group and whole-class activities. Alan Cunningsworth is the also the author of "Evaluating and Selecting EFL Teaching Materials".

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Education
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0333583248
• ISBN 13: 9780333583241
• Binding: Paperback