Practical English Usage

How do I explain articles to my students?
Big, large or Great?
When do we use a past tense with a future meaning?
How do I read out an email adress on the telephone?
Haven't you see my glasses anywhere?
why doesn't this sound right?
AID CUTS ROW' What do newpaper headlines mean?

With over one and a half a million copies sold worldwide, practical English Usage is the indispensable reference book on language problems in English for teachers and higher-level learners.
- Over 600 entries - listed alphabetically - cover all the important problems
- Information on grammar, vocabulary, idiom, style, pronunciation, spelling
- Clear simple explanations
- Examples of everyday usage and common mistakes
- British-American differences

New in the 3rd edition

- Updated entries and examples based on corpus data and users' comments
- Explanations even clearer and more focused
- New contents list and improved index for easier, faster reference
- Many new topics, inclusing emails, standard English and dialects, correctness, politeness, differences between spoken and written english, changes in English
- Don't say it! section - 130 common mistakes in English and how to avoid them.

Didáticos / Técnico / Línguas Estrangeiras