You learn phrases one by one so you can study for as little as two minutes a day. Give this book two minutes a day. Or more if you want to improve your English even faster. There's 368 pages packed full of the American English you need to know! This new method uses the tools you need to learn: - You learn over 300 useful phrases one by one - Cartoons show the phrases in real-life situations - Lots of lively examples help you remember - Exercises help you check your new knowledge

The lessons in Easy American Idioms focus on everyday situations: meeting people, expressing likes/satisfaction, expressing dislikes/displeasure, working, shopping, socializing, sports, television, going out, and more. Each section features useful and appropriate idiomatic expressions with dialogues interspersed between lessons.

KEY FEATURES:
• Package includes a booklet and 4 CDs.
• Easy-to-relate-to dialogues that focus on everyday situations and events.
• Simple, clear lessons and dialogues.

About this book:
• Students learn to recognize high-frequency idioms and creatively produce them in meaningful contexts.
• Contexts containing natural language allow students to infer shades of meaning.
• Natural conversations cover a wide range of speech acts and emotions.

About the Author
For many years, Helen Kalkstein Fragiadakis jotted down high frequency expressions and idioms, and taped them to her fridge. As these slips of paper grew and grew, Helen arranged them into meaningful clusters, which became the basis for All Clear!

In examining swearing from this angle the author is able to examine in detail the social functions of swearing with a view to developing a corpus based explanatory account of swearing in English.

Table of Contents
1 Bad language, bad manners
2 'So you recorded swearing': bad language in present-day English
3 Early modern censorship of bad language
4 Modern attitudes to bad language form: the reformation of manners
5 Late-twentieth-century bad language: the moral majority and four-letter assaults on authority
6 Sea change: the society for the reformation of manners and moral panics about bad language
7 Mutations: the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association moral panic

Essential Idioms in English thoroughly defines and illustrates each idiom, then reinforces its meaning and usage with multiple-choice, true-false, fill-in-the-blank, and matching exercises.

Organized by level for beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners, Essential Idioms in English thoroughly defines and illustrates each idiom, then reinforces its meaning and usage with multiple-choice, true-false, fill-in-the-blank, and matching exercises.

New features include:
• Three new sections on collocations to illustrate the frequency of certain usages.
• An expanded Appendix of Equivalent Idioms that adds Portuguese to the French and Spanish translations of previous editions.
• New eight-page section on dictionary skills helps students build their knowledge of vocabulary and usage.

This dictionary is a collection of slang and colloquial expressions in frequent use in the United States in the twentieth century. It contains expressions that are familiar to many Americans and other expressions that are used primarily within small groups of people. The entries represent the language of the underworld, the nursery, the college campus, California beaches, urban back streets, and Wall Street. We hear from prisoners, surfers, junkies, Valley Girls, blacks, weight lifters, and just plain folks. Fad words, metaphors, wordplay, and various figures of speech make up the body of the dictionary.

This dictionary is a compilation of 1,800 phrasal verbs consisting of either a transitive or intransitive verb and its particle or adverb. In many cases, additional prepositional phrases are shown as part of the entry, but the dictionary focuses on phrasal or two-word verbs. This second edition of the basic phrasal verb collection is based on McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. The format of the dictionary is designed to provide the information needed by learners who are attempting to read and write conventional American English.

This third edition contains 2,000 idiomatic phrases. This edition also has a Hidden Key Word Index that allows the user to find a particular idiom by looking up the words found “inside the idiom,” which is useful in finding the key words that do not occur at the beginning of the idiomatic phrase.

This dictionary should prove useful for people who are learning how to understand idiomatic English and for all speakers of English who want to know more about their language.