This title includes hundreds of English words to get you speaking in your new language with confidence - now! "Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary for Beginning ESL Learners" introduces you to hundreds of essential words and helps you quickly build the skills and confidence needed to use them correctly in conversation. Many useful exercises provide you with word-building practice. You also learn how to rapidly analyze new words you may encounter and incorporate them into your ever-growing vocabulary.

Contents: Introduction How to Use This Book I NOUNS UNIT 1 People and Places... 3 Words for People... 3 Words for Places... 7 UNIT 2 Singular, Plural, and Noncount Nouns... 12 Using Singular Nouns ... 12 Using Plural Nouns... 15 Using Noncount Nouns ... 22 Using Articles,vith Singular, Plural, and Noncount Nouns Using DClllonstrativc Pronouns with Singular, Plural, and Noncount Nouns... 28 UNIT 3 Proper Nouns... 33 UNIT 4 Possessive Nouns and Pronouns... 35 Possessive Nouns... 35 Possessive Pronouns... 36 UNIT 5 Review of Singular, Plural and Noncount Nouns..38 UNIT 6 Verbs Used as Nouns... 42 UNIT 7 More Specific Nouns... 44 Words for people... 44 Words for arts ... 50 Words for Places... 51 Words for Things... 54 Words for Events... 58 PART OF THE ADJECTIVE UNIT 8 MAKING DESCRIPTIONS... 65 Adjectives That Describe People... 65 Adjectives That Describe a Person's Condition73 Adjectives That Describe Objects... 76 Adjectives That Describe Places... 80 Adjectives That Describe the Weather...81 UNIT 9 Comparisons and Superlatives...83 Making an Adjective Stronger or Weaker... 83 Making Coparisons with Adjectives... 85 Expressing Superlatives... 93 UNIT 10 Verbs and Nouns Used as Adjectives... 96 Verbs Used as Adjectives... 96 Nouns Used as Adjectives... 99 UNIT 11 Adjectives Order...104