When we corrected the homework last week, some people "complained" that the dictionary wasn't useful because it gave the same translation for different words, e.g. "gain"/"win" - "ganar".
That happened because you were using a bilingual dictionary. In a monolingual dictionary, you have a lot more information, such as the contexts where each word is used. I've been surfing the Internet and I've found the online version of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (monolingual), so you don't have to buy it. Please, start using it little by little.
I've also found the Oxford Collocations Dictionary, which you'll find extremely, extremely useful!! To have an idea of what in consists of, here you have part of the entry for the word "weight" (click on the image to enlarge it):
As you can see, it gives you a list of the adjectives, verbs and prepositions that collocate with that word. Use this dictionary and you'll be able to do the exercises in the book much more quickly, and your writing will also considerably improve.
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