NEW EDITION Elementary | Vocabulary | | B J THOMASPearson Education Limited Edinburgh Gate Harlow, Essex CM20 2IE, England and associated companies throughout the world. wwww.iongman-elt.com © B4 Thomas 1990 First published by Edward Arnold, a division of Hodder and Stoughton Ltd Fourth impression 2000 Second and subsequent editions first published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd 1990 ‘This (revised) edition published by Addison Wesley Longman Limited 1996 ISBN 0-17-557128-7 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, fr transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publishers. Printed in Malaysia, ACM Illustrated by Gillan Martin, Dave RemnantContents Introduction Dictionary Practice 1 Topics The Family 3, Transport 4, Parts of the Body 5, Clothes 6, Bathroom and Bedroom 7, Living Room 8, In the Street 9, The Seaside 10, The Country 11, The House 12, The Weather 13, Going Shopping 14, Work 16, Education 18, Money 20, A Life 21, Sport 23, Free Time and Holidays 25, Illness and the Doctor 27, In the Morning 29, The Telephone 31, Watching Television 32 How To Do Things How to do the Washing up 33, How to make an English Breakfast 34, How to do Keep-fit Exercises 35, How to use a Radio Cassette Player 36 Related Word Groups Basic Adjectives 37, Basic Adjectives: opposites 38, Verbs 40, Action Verbs 41, Adjectives describing Character 42, People’s Appearance 43, Materials 45, Geographical Words 45 Word Building “full and ‘less’ 46, ‘Interesting’ and ‘Interested! etc, 46, ‘er’ and ‘or’ 47, ‘ist’ and ‘an’ 47, ‘Hourly’, ‘Daily’ etc. 47, ‘en’ 48, Number + Noun 48, ‘un’, ‘dis’, ‘in’, im’, ‘il, ‘i’ 49, Adverbs of Manner 50, Compound Nouns 51, Word Forms 52 Idioms Verb Phrases 55, Touch 57, Prepositional Phrases 57, Pairs 59, Time 59, ‘Mind 59, Things we Say 60 Miscellaneous Abbreviations 61, Reading Dates and Numbers 62, Punctuation Marks 63, Punctuation 63, Spelling: noun plurals 66, Spelling: verbs ending in ‘y' 67, Spelling: ‘ing’ form and regular ‘ed’ past tense/past participle 68, Spelling: miscellaneous points 69, The British Isles 72 Word Games 73 Key 76