vocabulary

Which word does not go with the others?

Accelerator, intersection, junction or roundabout?

Adopt a word

Dagmar Taylor asks: "What's your favourite word? Would you pay to adopt it?"

Look back at 2011 - Medium

Look back with us at the events of 2011. Which words were in the news this past year? Test your knowledge in our 2011 news quiz.

Pat-a-cake

Learn baking vocabulary in this activity from our free newsletter for teachers.

Which of these could you normally not do in a game of cards?

Capture, draw or discard?

Read and succeed

We’re talking about reading longer texts, like novels, in English. Language editor Joanna Westcombe explains that this kind of “extensive reading” can help you improve your English in many ways.

Tool idioms

On page 19 of our exercise booklet, Spotlight plus, this month, we look at English idioms to do with tools. You’ll hear lots of these in everyday situations.

A secretary at a hotel in Grodno, Belarus. Photo: Jan Stuermann

Grodno, Belarus: A secretary fills out the registration forms all foreigners must submit to state authorities within three days of arrival. Grodno lies near the border of Poland and Lithuania. How many words do you know for "border"?

The tools you need

Learn the names for tools and idioms that use them.

Singing idioms

On page 19 of our exercise booklet, Spotlight plus, we’re looking at idioms that have to do with singing. There are a lot of these in English, and you can use them in many everyday situations. Let's try some now.

Login

Spotlight jetzt testen!
Die aktuelle Zeitschrift kommt kostenlos zu Ihnen nach Hause.

Free newsletter

Friend us on Facebook:

CASIO EX-Word EW-G6100C

Die neuen elektronischen Wörterbücher der EX-Word-Serie überzeugen durch logisch strukturierte Inhalte bewährter Partner wie PONS, Oxford und Duden.