BL Ideal for all ages of German language learners especially 11-16 years BL Links to the OCR examination board requirements, fulfils the new Programme of Study for KS3 and GCSE BL Key curriculum words are highlighted to help prepare for exams BL Full colour thematic section focuses on vocabulary relating to jobs and work places, leisure and holidays, media and communications, restaurants, cafes and shops, family and friends, travel, transport and more BL Easy navigation with outstandingly clear translations, language support, and colour alphabet tabs on every page BL Bite-size information boxes give cultural information and support on tackling tricky language issues BL Student -level example sentences to illustrate how the language works and to help with sentence building BL Comprehensive verb tables decline key German verbs in full BL Extended entries in tinted panels for important function words, with clear explanations of usage and footnotes throughout

 

This book is suitable for Key Stage 3. KS3 covers school years 7, 8 and 9, and ages 12-14 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 704 pages in this book. It is a dictionary. A dictionary is a single-volume or multivolume reference work containing brief explanatory entries for terms and topics related to a specific subject or field of inquiry, usually arranged alphabetically (example: Dictionary of Neuropsychology). The entries in a dictionary are usually shorter than those contained in an encyclopedia on the same subject, but the word "dictionary" is often used in the titles of works that should more appropriately be called encyclopedias (example: Dictionary of the Middle Ages in 13 volumes). This book was published 2009 by Oxford University Press .

Susan Rennie has worked on many dictionaries for both children and adults, including the Oxford Primary Dictionary, Oxford Primary Thesaurus , the Oxford English Thesaurus for Schools and the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. She also writes books in Scots for children, and has translated the first Scots edition of Tintin . Susan is currently a Lecturer in English Language at the University of Glasgow where she teaches lexicography and the history of Scots and English.