Focus on Vocabulary 1: Bridging Vocabulary

by Diane Schmitt, Norbert Schmitt, David Mann

Focus on Vocabulary 1: Bridging Vocabulary is a research-based vocabulary textbook that gives intermediate to high-intermediate students hands-on preparation for understanding mid-frequency vocabulary, such as that found in novels, newspapers, films, and social and workplace settings. Through excerpts from popular material and well-crafted exercises, English learners focus on mid-frequency vocabulary -- 504 word families in all. To help students reach a fuller understanding of the new vocabulary, each chapter provides a series of exercises on word meanings, word families, and collocation. Features Seven units focus on a variety of subject areas, such as the mind, design, celebrity, and the environment.
The start of each main chapter features an Assessing Your Vocabulary Knowledge section, which helps students determine their level of familiarity with that chapter's twenty-four target words. Students reassess their familiarity with the words at the end of the chapter.
Each main chapter carefully recycles the target words a minimum of four times in the reading passage and throughout the sections that follow: Reading Comprehension, Word Meaning, Word Families, Collocation, and Expanding the Topic.
At the end of each unit, a Strategy Practice chapter offers tips for dictionary use, essay writing, and other vocabulary-related tasks.

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 19, 2011

Reviews

[Ghazal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the exercises helped me a lot with making a good practical synonym clusters list.
Also I really enjoyed the way the book tried to teach the vocabulary by putting them in context and making collocations.
Some of the exercises and the overall structure of each chapter kinda makes it boring and hard to keep up with for self-studying student who are using the book without a teacher

[Alireza · Rating 2 out of 5]

خیلی خوب نبود همون حد متوسط ایناست میشه گفت در حد همون کتاب 504
چندتا لغت خیلی خوب داشت.
شما اگه کتاب لغت خوب میشناسید بهم معرفی کنید.
خودم الان قصد دارم 1100 رو شروع کنم یا پیشرفته آکسفورد.

[Ned · Rating 5 out of 5]

اگر سطح زبانتون بالاست، از این کتاب برای افزودن کالوکیشنهای بیشتر و یاد گرفتن لغات less common و ساختارهای پیشرفته استفاده کنید. به جرات یکی از بهترین کتاب‌هاییه که به این منظور طراحی شده و تک تک تمریناتش هدفمند و آموزنده‌ن. از مقالاتش میشه نحوه فرمال نویسی رو هم حتی تا حد زیادی استخراج کرد.