Description

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Whatever your mother tongue, you are likely to have encountered difficulties with most of the 50 vocabulary items in this book.

Each chapter contains:

• Examples of typical mistakes.
  
• Examples of correct usage.
  
• Rules / explanations.
  
• A short exercise where you can immediately practise what you have learned.
  
• Additional exercises (including false friends)
  

By completing the exercises in this book, you should be able to eliminate some of the most common vocabulary mistakes that non-native speakers of English tend to make.

Easy English is a series of books to help you learn and revise your English with minimal effort. You can improve your English by

• reading texts in English that you might well normally read in your own language e.g. jokes, personality tests, lateral thinking games, wordsearches.
  
• doing short exercises to improve specificareas grammar and vocabulary, i.e. the areas that tend to lead to the most mistakes - the aim is just to focus on what you really need rather than overwhelming yourself with a mass of rules, many of which may have no practical daily value
  

Other books in the Easy English series include:

Wordsearches: Widen Your Vocabulary in English

Test Your Personality: Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases

Word games, Riddles and Logic Tests: Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English

Top 50 Grammar Mistakes: How to Avoid Them

Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them

About the Author

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Since 1984 Adrian Wallwork has been teaching English as a foreign language - from General English to Business English to Scientific English. Although he lives and works in Pisa (Italy), through his university work he has taught students of all nationalities. Adrian is the author of over 30 textbooks for Springer Science + Business Media, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, the BBC, and many other publishers.