WELLMAN, GUY / BARRACLOUGH CAR
The Heinemann ELT English Wordbuilder is made up of 60 units. Eachunit focusses on one vocabulary area. It starts with a referencesection which shows you the words (in bold print) at work, that is tosay in context. This is followed by a practice section of exercisesand ideas for further written or spoken practice with space for you to add any other expressions you know or meet. The Index at the end ofthe book contains every word and phrase and so acts as a quickreference guide for you. Some words have a star beside them. Youshould be careful how you use these. A brief note on each is includedin the Key at the back of the book. You will find there are passagesto read, some long, a few quite difficult, and many full to the brimwith the target vocabulary. There are often checking exercises afterthem to make sure the words have ´gone in´, that is to say that youhave remembered them. There are other exercises, too: matching,gap-filling, defining, ordering, etc. many of which have the answerson the page, which you are asked to cover. The advantage of this isthat you can do the exercises again and again if you like, to checkhow your vocabulary is growing. There are games and quizzes, notreally to test your general knowledge but rather to motivate you tostudy the language under review. (I, personally, would rather be asked to guess - or work out from given data - when, why or in what ordercertain things happened in Siberia than just read a page of historical facts, for instance. Wouldn?t you?)
