English Phrasal Verbs in Use Intermediate Book with Answers Vocabulary Reference and Practice

English Phrasal Verbs/Collocations/Idioms in Use

by Michael McCarthy

Explanations and practice of approximately 1,000 phrasal verbs, written for intermediate-level (B1 to B2) learners of English.

Perfect for both self-study and classroom activities. Learn phrasal verbs in context, with lots of different topics, including 'Mobile devices', 'Academic writing' and 'Socialising'.

Be confident about what you are learning, thanks to Cambridge research into how English is really spoken and written, and get better at studying by yourself, with study tips, follow-up tasks and an easy to use answer key.

Genres: Reference, Language

208 pages, Paperback

Published August 4, 2017

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

[Gracia · Rating 4 out of 5]

As an ESL student, I had often found difficulties to use phrasal verbs. Although this book is marked as an intermediate level, phrasal verbs is an advanced subject for ESL students. Most ESL students are not familiar with the concept of phrasal verbs, let alone to use them in the right context. Having this book around really has helped me to improve my English.

This book is divided into 70 units and it covers approximately 1000 phrasal verbs. There is one exercise page for each unit that helps students to remember the phrasal verbs learnt, and answer key for each exercise is also provided. However, the number of the exercises can easily overwhelm ESL students. It will take a lot more time to finish this book if the students have to do all the exercises. In addition to that, these exercises are better used as a way to practice using phrasal verbs in the right context than a way of remembering them, as the time will always make the students forget them if they don't use the phrasal verbs often enough.

The first five chapters in this book teach the basic of phrasal verbs, which are strongly recommended to be finished first before continuing to the remaining chapters. The rest of the chapters teach a great deal of phrasal verbs in different topics. However, there are many specific British or American phrasal verbs that are not marked as such that can mislead the students. There are also more British phrasal verbs than American phrasal verbs, which for me is a drawback as I'm more interested in learning American English.

A good point of this book that is worth mentioning is there are many good tips and follow-ups for learning phrasal verbs. There is also a mini dictionary in the last few pages of the book. Even so, students are still advised to use a phrasal verb dictionary when learning with this book. (Consider what I said in previous paragraph about specific region's phrasal verbs. Students can always spot this, after looking up the words in the dictionary). Overall, this book is a good addition reference to ESL students. Every serious ESL student should consider reading one.

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