introduction

Collins Webster’s Easy Learning English Vocabulary is designed for anyone who wants to broaden their knowledge of English words in key everyday situations. Whether you need English at  work, at school or college, or for a vacation, Collins Webster’s Easy Learning English Vocabulary offers you the information you require in a clear and accessible format.

This book is divided into 50 subject areas. These cover such topics as “air travel,” “business,” “food and drink,” and “science,” arranged in alphabetical order. This arrangement by subject area  helps you to learn related words and phrases together. In this way, you can always be sure of using the right word in the right context. 
Within each topic, vocabulary is divided into nouns, verbs,adjectives, adverbs, phrases, and idioms. Each word is defined in relation to the topic in question. For example, in “air travel,” the meaning that is given for the word connection is: 
“a plane that leaves after another one arrives and allows you to continue your journey by changing from one to the other.”
In “computers and the internet,” on the other hand, connection is defined in terms of its computer-related sense:

“a link between a computer and a network.”
For each topic, there are plenty of authentic example sentences from the Collins corpus. These show you how words and phrases are used in real English.
At the end of the book, there are additional sections on place names and people, numbers, measurements, times, and dates. There is also an alphabetical index, and a list of irregular verbs. 
We hope that this book will help you to expand your knowledge of English vocabulary in a wide range of situations.