A two-colour workbook with exercises designed to accompany the new Macmillan English Dictionary, suitable for both self-study and classroom use. DICTIONARY SKILLS. The workbook helps students to develop basic reference skills by providing exercises that cover all essential aspects of dictionary use: - looking up words in the dictionary; - understanding pronunciation and stress; - using the grammatical information; - finding and exploring meanings; finding collocations, idioms and phrasal verbs; - choosing the right word for the context. ADDITIONAL FEATURES: - Concordance exercises allow students to work with real English, getting them to look at language closely for meaning and usage; - Challenging crosswords provide vocabulary practice and extension; - Photocopiable activities section includes classroom resources and hints on dictionary work in the classroom.