FROM THE EDITOR
In this Issue
Contributors
Letters to the Editor
Write to Us
Spread the Word
Back Issues
Index

FEATURE
Getting around in American
and British English

Birthday Greetings
MED Magazine celebrates
its first birthday

COLUMNS
Metaphor
What we talk about
when we talk about
money

Focus on Language
Study:

Introduction
Text types

Narratives and descriptions
UK version ¦ US version

New word of the month
Festive food and drink
alternatives

Top Tips for the CD-ROMs
Vocabulary building with
word families

onestopenglish.com

 

Focus on Language Study

The Language Study pages in the Macmillan Essential Dictionary have been designed to help you to improve your knowledge and use of the English language. They contain information on how words are formed (Word formation) and how new meanings develop (Metaphor), how words relate to each other (Collocation, Register, Text types) and how they are pronounced (Pronunciation).

Increasing your vocabulary is an essential part of learning a foreign language – and remembering new words and phrases is often the hardest part. We have included a separate section (Topic vocabulary) that brings together words and phrases that will help you to talk and write about key topic areas.

Throughout this section there is advice on how to improve your learning strategies, activities to practise these strategies, and exercises to test what you have learnt. We hope that you will find these pages informative, useful – and, above all, enjoyable.

This month we look at the characteristics of two frequent text types: narratives and descriptions. You can read the article in British or American English.