Word Play: 600 Words You Need to Know with Book [Audio Cassette]

Murray Bromberg (Author), Melvin Gordon (Author), Paul Allman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1995 | ISBN-10: 0812083199 | ISBN-13: 978-0812083194 | Edition: Edition Not Stated

This program helps listeners expand their vocabulary by listening to nine four-act dramatizations and discussions of over 600 words with definitions of each. 4 cassettes.

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From the Back Cover

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WordPlay


550+ Words You Need to Know     Second Edition


FIVE AUDIO COMPACT DISCS     with Vocabulary Booklet


SEVEN COMEDY DRAMATIZATIONS TO BUILD YOUR WORD POWER


1. The Rambling Panthers


A high school football team doesn’t have much talent but the players all have high SAT scores


2. Slap Monahan, Private Investigator


A tough private eye gets help from a talking computer


3. The Furious Cook


The world’s most patient chef loses his cool every time something goes wrong during his cooking show


4. High School University


A soap opera flourishes as four romantically involved teens muddle through their misunderstandings


5. Big Mike


News making interviews from the most unlikely places—inside a basketball, behind a refrigerator, under a toupee, and other peculiar locations


6. The Meter is Running


A college professor’s amusing encounter with a cab driver whose English skills are limited


7. City of Gold


Distinguished scholars search across three continents for a fabulous treasure --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; Edition Not Stated edition (July 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812083199
• ISBN-13: 978-0812083194
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,794,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #22 in Books > Books on Cassette > Reference > Vocabulary

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Humerous Stories But Too Many Simplistic Words/Idioms, June 5, 1999

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This review is from: Word Play: 600 Words You Need to Know with Book (Audio Cassette)

+5 for stories but -4 word selection I enjoyed the humerous plays - great writing/acting - and agree that these are words you need to know, but I'd assume you already do unless English is a 2nd lang. If you don't know Technology, Perceive, Compound, Drudgery, Implore, Tinge, Badger, Realm, indiscriminate, (some of the 17 target words from the 1st play, act 1), then this would likely be a good tape for you. Many idioms are also covered. Typical level of difficulty are the 3 from the 2nd play, "cold feet", "keep a stiff upper lip", and "look a gift horse in the mouth". One or two words per story are at a more difficult level like prognosticate, nefarious, pique, but why endure all the definitions of elementary words/idioms when WordBuilders is available? Tip to authors: Lose the idioms, introduce only 7 or 8 words per act, and select more advanced words. Your stories were the best!

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful, May 11, 1999

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This review is from: Word Play: 600 Words You Need to Know with Book (Audio Cassette)

Harsh, annoying, dull. Could not make it through all the tapes. Found it to be a grade school level.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great beginner, September 5, 2002

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This review is from: Word Play: 600 Words You Need to Know with Book (Audio Cassette)

Wordplay was given to my 9th grade son and he enjoyed them. He usually cannot listen to tapes but he found this very entertaining.