The words you need to communicate with confidence. Vocabulary explanations and practice for advanced level (C1 to C2) learners of English. Perfect for both self-study and classroom activities. Quickly expand your vocabulary with over 100 units of easy to understand explanations and practice exercises. Be confident about what you are learning, thanks to Cambridge research into how English is really spoken and written, and remember words more effectively with lots of opportunities for personalised practice.
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.
very useful, but it is very difficult for me since there are so many unseen words, I should have read the intermediate version instead of this advanced one. Never mind, the next time I am going to read it. Futhermore there are answers to the questions, I must do the exercise also so that it is worth spending so much time on it.
3.5, maybe? It was our textbook. I thought I wouldn't learn new words since I was raised bilingual, but I was wrong. This book is literally "advanced." I just don't think some exercises are useful. That's why I don't give it 4 or 5 stars.