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  • Helps students and teachers expand vocabulary and increase proficiency.
  • Covers spoken and written English.
  • Real-life examples show words in context.
  • Lively examples based on the Longman Lancaster Corpus and the spoken corpus.
  • Concise grammatical patterns and collocations.
  • Vocabulary moves up from a basic key word like "eat" to higher levels like "devour".
  • Example sentences from actual written and spoken sources.
Features
  • Thesaurus boxes help students expand their vocabulary
  • Thousands of collocations show students which words they need to learn as a phrase
  • 3000 Active Words with key information including grammar patterns, allow students to focus on the most important words to learn
  • Colour photos help students understand meanings more easily and make words more memorable
  • 24-page Longman Learner’s Handbook provides more information on subjects such as vocabulary building, collocations, phrasal verbs and writing
  • Clear definitions use only 2000 common words that students can easily understand
  • Full colour throughout
Features
  • Thesaurus boxes help students expand their vocabulary
  • Thousands of collocations show students which words they need to learn as a phrase
  • 3000 Active Words with key information including grammar patterns, allow students to focus on the most important words to learn
  • Colour photos help students understand meanings more easily and make words more memorable
  • 24-page Longman Learner’s Handbook provides more information on subjects such as vocabulary building, collocations, phrasal verbs and writing
  • Clear definitions use only 2000 common words that students can easily understand
  • Full colour throughout
Features
How does the Longman Essential Activator build vocabulary?
  • Students choose a word they already know – such as ‘better’.
  • They use the clear headings to find the right meaning.
  • They look at the different options – clear definitions and plenty of examples make choosing the right word easy.
  • Grammar and common error information help students use the new word correctly.
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  • You and your students will find it easy to understand complex business terms because all definitions are written using just 2000 common words, making even the most difficult business jargon clear and easy to understand
  • Make sure you know the latest buzz-words – this fully revised edition is completely up-to-date
  • Students learn real-world business English with 18,000 example sentences which are taken from authentic business English sources such as the Financial ...
Features
  • Thesaurus boxes help students expand their vocabulary
  • Word Choice boxes explain the differences between commonly confused words, such as library and bookshop
  • Usage, grammar, spelling and pronunciation notes gives students all the information they need to avoid making common mistakes
  • 16-page picture dictionary and over 500 full colour pictures throughout the dictionary help students learn and remember key vocabulary
Features
  • Helps students with over 225,000 pronunciations in both British and American English using the International Phonetic Alphabet
  • Helps students with intonation by showing the stress patterns of thousands of compounds and idioms
  • User-friendly graphs show the preferred pronunciations of British and American speakers, based on extensive research by Professor Wells
Features
  • 230,000 words, phrases, and meanings
  • 165,000 corpus-based examples
  • Integrated Collocations Dictionary with over 65,000 collocations
  • Integrated Thesaurus with over 18,000 synonyms, antonyms, and related words
  • Register notes focus on the differences between spoken and written English
    Table of Contents:
    Part I: The Truth About Preparing for Decisions
    1. Before a major decision
    2. Act from a state of clarity
    3. If you can’t get distance, get perspective
    4. Keep it real
    5. Use a systematic process
    6. Know your decision-making style
    Part II: The Truth About Why Bad Decisions Are Good
    1. To make better decisions, make more mistakes
    2. Be prepared to profit from your mistakes
    3. Learn from your close calls
    4. Learn from the decisions of others
    5. Don’t judge your decisions based on their outcome
    6. Leave yourself room to get back from the pole
    Part III: The Truth About the Limits of Your Mind
    1. Understand common “decision traps”
    2. Giving up something? Get over it!
    3. It’s possible to miss an entire gorilla
    4. You may see only what you’re looking for
    5. You’re not as clever as you think you are
    6. Your view of the world depends on what planet you’re from
    7. Beware of seeing patterns that aren’t there
    8. Different is not always better
    Part IV: The Truth About Complex Decisions
    1. Boil knowledge down to its essence–and then act on it
    2. Decisions are not snapshots but movies
    3. No decision is an island
    4. Build the city around your decision
    Part V: The Truth About Data
    1. Listen for the dog that doesn’t bark
    2. Sorry, Joe Friday. The facts are never “just the facts.”
    3. Recognize the power of intuition
    Part VI: The Truth About Acting Decisively
    1. The wrong decision is better than none at all
    2. Get 80 percent (or less) of what you need, and then act on it
    3. Every decision carries risk. Get used to it.
    4. Not making a decision is a decision
    Part VII: The Truth About Decisions in Groups
    1. Two heads can be worse than one
    2. Use constructive conflict
    3. Surround yourself with people smarter than yourself
    4. Make decision roles clear
    5. Break free from the prisoner’s dilemma
    Part VIII: The Truth About Emotions
    1. A little adrenaline can be a good thing
    2. Understand the impact of emotions
    3. Beware of the attractive new shortcut
    Part IX: The Truth About Ethical Decision Making
    1. Don’t do anything you wouldn’t want seen on YouTube
    2. There are no quiet corners safe from scrutiny
    3. To know where you’re going, know where you stand
    4. Don’t let power or ego sway you from your course
    Part X: The Truth About Big Decisions
    1. Lower the costs of failure
    2. Break down big decisions into smaller ones
    3. Don’t forget the screwdrivers
    Part XI: The Truth About Moving On
    1. Keep your eye on the long term
    2. Belief in your decision can make it come true
    3. Keep a sense of humor
    4. Don’t look back


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788131722930
  • Publisher: Pearson
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 208
  • ISBN-10: 8131722937
  • Publisher Date: 2008
  • Edition: 1
  • Weight: 255 gr

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