Easy to understand all definitions are written using the Longman Defining Vocabulary of 2000 common words *Real examples from the Longman Corpus Network *Expands students' vocabulary with thesaurus boxes and topic boxes *Helps students focus on the most important words they need to know by highlighting the 3000 most common words in red *Longman Learner's Handbook includes information about vocabulary building, collocations, phrasal verbs and writing *Extra exam practice on the CD-ROM for KET, PET, FCE and IELTS *Helps students improve their pronunciation with spoken headwords, 9,000 audio examples and a recording function on the CD-ROM *80,000 words, phrases and meanings *Over 36,000 examples.