Increase Your English Wordpower – Nutzfreundliches Nachschlagewerk und Übungsbuch zur nachhaltigen Verbesserung des Ausdruckes und des Wortschatzes.

• Transfer Training: Recycle helpful expressions in a new context.
• Best Practice: Learn memory-friendly example sentences and word families.
• Choice: Pick and choose freely from the materials, guidlines and excercies.

Aufbau der Lernhilfe / Unterrichtseinheit:

Introduction: How this handbook works:

• Basics – focus on multi-purpose expressions
• The snowball eff ect – learning word families
• Focus on collocations
• Word formation – focus on prefixes and suffixes
• Text production – examples
• The topics – compiling a topic-related language bank

Appendix:

• Solutions to the exercises
• Iron ration: My top 100 list of ever-ready “evergreens”
• Treasure chest: Useful leftovers – pick and choose freely

Preferences and recommended

Further reading

Prologue: The secret of getting ahead is getting started. – Mark Twain