INTRODUCTION

جامعة الكويت
كلية الآداب
قسم اللغة الإنجليزية
مقرر علم المعاجم د.حشان العجمي
اعداد الطالب: احمد حسن
2008/2007


Children Bilingual Dictionary is a lively, colourful dictionary for children aged five years upwards. Younger readers will use this dictionary to see how familiar words are spelt, while more confident readers will look up a word for meaning.

This dictionary includes More than 1200 word!! also it includes more than 750 picture to illustrate the examples and definitions given.

This dictionary also intrudeces children to simple grammar. It helps them to recognize that some words have plurals

eg: Frog (frogs)

some change their endings according to their tense

eg: ask (asking; asked)

and other have comparative and superlative forms

Bad (worse, worst)

They may also discover that a word can have several meanings
Chest (chests) 1- A big, strong box 2- The top part of your body

or that the same word can be used in quite different ways

drop 1 (drops) A tiny amount of liquid drop 2 (dropping, dropped) If you drop something you left it fall


This dictionary will develop early dictionary skills, as well as an interest in the english language.

There is a special picture section:
1 Colours.
2 Fruits and vegatables.
3 Transports
4 Days and Months.