Dictionaries

New dimensions beyond words

Zsolt Magnucz
Oxford University Press

18 August 2015
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
NEW 9th Edition

How many new words does it contain?

700 new words in the print book

An additional 200 new words on the DVD-ROM

and online
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
NEW 9th Edition

New words:

glamping glocal

to misremember to photobomb

spendy to vape
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
NEW 9th Edition
glamping:
a type of camping, using tents and other kinds of accommodation,
facilities, etc. that are more comfortable and expensive than those
usually used for camping

glocal:
having features or relating to factors that are both local and global
As a glocal enterprise, we market different products in different parts
of the world.

to misremember:
to remember something in a way that is not accurate or true
People often misremember their vacations as more idyllic than they
actually were.
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NEW 9th Edition

to photobomb:
to spoil a photograph by suddenly appearing or doing
something unexpected as the picture is taken
My dog is always photobombing my pictures.
spendy:
1 expensive It's a really fun restaurant but a bit spendy.
2 spending a lot of money He's spendy—he buys luxury cars
new.
to vape:
to suck vapour from an electronic cigarette into your mouth
and let it out again Are you allowed to vape at work?
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
NEW 9th Edition

What is the most difficult about learning

English?

Speaking
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
NEW 9th Edition

Speaking

Where do students need most help?

• Pronunciation
• Conversation skills
• Everyday expressions
• Exam preparation
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
NEW 9th Edition

The new Oxford iSpeaker and Oxford

Speaking Tutor

give students all the help they need

NEW 9th Edition

Oxford Speaking Tutor

• Covers typical exam-style tasks

(negotiating,discussing
opinions,talking about a topic)
• Provides model texts
• Highlights useful language
• Includes tips for exam success
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• watch sound videos
• record and play back your own pronunciation
• assess yourself

• watch video dialogues

• study models and useful language [book + digital]
• take part in the dialogues, record and play back
your own speaking

• watch videos of typical speaking exam tasks

• study models and useful language [book + digital]
• record and play back your own speaking
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New features
NEW 9th Edition

Visual Vocabulary Builder

56 pages of typical topics in the

print book

Topic Dictionaries
(My Topics)
Online and on the DVD-ROM
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ONLINE

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Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
NEW 9th Edition
• Book + DVD-ROM + online access code
• Buy access code online

• Website: www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com

• OALD9e app
- iOS September 2015
- Android December 2015
Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic
English

Intermediate to Advanced (B1-C2)

This is the only learner’s dictionary to focus

exclusively on academic English

Designed for learners studying, or preparing

to study, academic subjects on English-
medium university courses

Helps students learn the words and phrases

used in academic writing, and how to use
them in their own academic written work.
Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic
English

The dictionary includes hundreds of academic usage notes.

.

Which Word? notes

explain difficult or confusing words.
Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic
English

.
Language Banks give
useful phrases for
particular language
functions, such as ordering
points, describing trends
or making a
counterargument.
Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic
English

.
Grammar Points
deal with tricky
points of academic
grammar.
Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic
English

Thesaurus notes help

learners distinguish
between close
synonyms and choose
the most appropriate
one for their context.
 48-page Oxford Academic
.
Writing Tutor includes:

•Tips about expressing ideas

in different ways

•Help with grammar, for

example tenses, for specific
types of writing
Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Academic
English

Oxford Academic iWriter to develop writing

skills
.
Explore the Academic Word List and subject
area word lists in the dictionary

Consolidate Academic Word List vocabulary with

practice exercises

Create your own word lists with the ‘My Lists’

feature

Explore the reference section and a

bibliography of all the texts in the Oxford Corpus
of Academic English
 Oxford Wordpower Dictionary 4th edition

The dictionary that gets

results

Intermediate to Upper-Intermediate
B1 – B2

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 Oxford Wordpower Dictionary 4th edition
New for the 4th edition

• Over 500 new words

• New 16-page Oxford Writing Tutor
• Oxford iWriter on CD-ROM
• iGuide on CD-ROM – an interactive
tutorial that helps students explore
dictionary entries
• New link on CD-ROM to two free
online
practice tests (PET and FCE) on
www.oxfordenglishtesting.com

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 Oxford Wordpower Dictionary 4th edition
New for the 4th edition

30 Exam Tips offering practical help with

exam preparation

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 Oxford Wordpower Dictionary 4th edition

New for the 4th edition

New Topic notes are full of

information and include the
most useful vocabulary related
to the topic.

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 Make words work for you -
You can with Oxford Word Skills

Basic Intermediate Advanced

(Elementary and (Intermediate and C1-C2
Pre-Intermediate) Upper-
A1-A2 Intermediate)
B1-B2
Oxford Word Skills
Key Features

• Each level covers 2,000 words. Almost all of the

Oxford 3000™ words are included in the Basic and
Intermediate levels.

• Each level contains 80 units- most units are a double

spread
Study and work
42 I can talk about my school
43 I can talk about university
44 I can name jobs
45 I can describe a job
46 I can talk about using a computer
47 I can use email and the internet
Review
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Key Features

Oxford Word Skills provides plenty of practice of the

target language in the unit, reinforces it in the review
unit, and provides additional practice exercises on the
CD-ROM.

Super-Skills CD-ROM with over 400

additional exercises, including listening and speaking
activities

- matching words and pictures

- joining in dialogues
- working with texts
- correcting mistakes
Oxford Word Skills
Key Features

A ‘test yourself’ cover

card is included in each
Pack. The page design
makes it easy for
students to ‘cover and
check’ to make sure
they have learned the
new vocabulary.
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