Make Your Way 6, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

The right dictionary for the job “Words are all we have” The right dictionary for the job Use your dictionary Fun with words Becoming familiar with … Take an English-German/German-English dictionary and look up an English word, e.g. “mark”. Now choose one of the German equivalents, e.g. “Spur”, and look it up in the German-English section; then choose one of the English translations, e.g. “track”, and turn back to the English-German section again. Continue until you have got 12–15 words. What conclusions can you draw about using dictionaries after doing this exercise? 1 Read through the following article and take notes about the different dictionaries to complete the table. 2 Book Description Dr Johnson’s “Dictionary of the English Language” “The Oxford English Dictionary” “Roget’s Thesaurus” Longman’s “Lexicon of Contemporary English” Longman’s “Dictionary of Contemporary English” “COBUILD” Longman’s “Dictionary of English Language&Culture” Longman’s “Language Activator” 156 3 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv