Macmillan School Dictionary

Macmillan School Dictionary

The Macmillan School Dictionary is a two-colour dictionary for intermediate-level students whose curriculum subjects are taught through the medium of English. Strong curriculum content with special emphasis on school subject vocabulary and subject-specific words highlighted throughout. The School Dictionary word selection is based on the 200 million-word World English Corpus and supplemented with words taken from curriculum coursebooks. KEY FEATURES Helpful reference section containing information on the periodic table, irregular verbs, pronunciation, geographical names and nationalities, and expressions using numbers Information on grammar patterns, collocations, phrases and phrasal verbs Clear layout and clear, simple definitions using a restricted defining vocabulary Information on spelling with inflections for irregular and semi-regular verbs, adjectives and nouns Special help boxes on word families, synonym sets and vocabulary building