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Cambridge University Press Cambridge English Young Learners 2 for Revised Exam from 2018 Starters Students Book
Book SynopsisAuthentic examination papers for learners preparing for the revised Cambridge English: Young Learners from 2018. This collection of examination papers for Starters provides ideal exam practice. It contains three full-colour test papers which contain engaging activities and attractive illustrations to motivate young learners. These papers also provide an excellent opportunity for children, parents and teachers alike to familiarise themselves with the format of the revised test. An Audio CD (which contains the listening sections of the tests) and an Answer Booklet are also available separately.
£18.67
Cambridge University Press Cambridge English Exam Booster for First and
Book SynopsisEssential exam task practice for class or home study for use alongside a coursebook or intensively before the exam. Focus on essential exam practice with the First Exam Booster for First and First for Schools. Maximise learners'' potential with dedicated exam task practice for class or home study. 48 exam tasks practise each part of the exam three times while Exam facts provide practical information about each task. Exam tips provide useful advice on how to approach the exercises and ''Get it right'' boxes highlight typical candidate errors in the exam. This Exam Booster is suitable for both Cambridge English: First and Cambridge English: First for Schools. The downloadable audio is available from www.cambridge.org/firstbooster.
£55.48
Pearson Education Activate B1 Greek Companion
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£23.21
Pearson Education Limited Discover English Global Starter Teacher's Book
Teacher’s book include detailed notes with tips and advice on how to make the most of your programme.
£43.69
Pearson Education Limited Language Leader Advanced Coursebook and CD Rom
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£38.00
Pearson Education Lifestyle Intermediate Workbook and Workbook CD
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£23.38
Pearson Education Limited Choices Intermediate Students Book
Book SynopsisNot all students are the same. Choose the learning pathway that best suits your class. Choices gives teachers the flexibility to adjust the course to their teenage students' individual needs
£30.26
Pearson Education Cosmic Kids 2 Greece Students Book Active Book 2
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£36.10
Pearson Education New Total English Intermediate Flexi Coursebook 2
Book SynopsisNew Total English retains all the popular features of the original edition including clear CEF-related objectives which make lesson planning easy. There is a solid grammar syllabus with regular Active Grammar boxes and Reference and Review sections. It also has a strong focus on vocabulary with attention to collocations and now includes an on-line Vocabulary Trainer. Over 50% new material New DVD material with Film Bank on the Active Book disc New Writing Bank which makes writing a fun and engaging activity &nbs
£29.24
Pearson Education Limited Next Move 2 Students Book
Book SynopsisStudents’ Book contains a host of innovative and motivating features to make classes a real success.
£26.02
Cengage Learning, Inc Grammar Dimensions 4
Book SynopsisThrough clear and comprehensive grammar explanations, extensive practice exercises, and lively communicative activities, Grammar Dimensions provides students with the language skills they need to communicate accurately, meaningfully, and appropriately.Trade Review1. Verb Tenses in Written and Spoken Communication 2. Verbs 3. Subject-Verb Agreement 4. Passive Verbs 5. Article Usage 6. Reference Words and Phrases 7. Relative Clauses Modifying Subjects 8. Relative Clauses Modifying Objects 9. Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses 10. Relative Adverb Clauses 11. Correlative Conjunctions 12. Sentence Connectors 13. Modal Perfect Verbs 14. Discourse Organizers 15. Conditionals 16. Reducing Adverb Clauses 17. Preposition Clusters 18. Gerunds and Infinitives 19. Perfective Infinitives 20. Adjective Complements in Subject and Predicate Position 21. Noun Complements Taking That Clauses 22. Subjective Verbs in That Clauses 23. Emphatic Structures 24. Fronting Structures for Emphasis and Focus 25. Focusing and Emphasizing StructuresTable of Contents1. Verb Tenses in Written and Spoken Communication 2. Verbs 3. Subject-Verb Agreement 4. Passive Verbs 5. Article Usage 6. Reference Words and Phrases 7. Relative Clauses Modifying Subjects 8. Relative Clauses Modifying Objects 9. Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses 10. Relative Adverb Clauses 11. Correlative Conjunctions 12. Sentence Connectors 13. Modal Perfect Verbs 14. Discourse Organizers 15. Conditionals 16. Reducing Adverb Clauses 17. Preposition Clusters 18. Gerunds and Infinitives 19. Perfective Infinitives 20. Adjective Complements in Subject and Predicate Position 21. Noun Complements Taking That Clauses 22. Subjective Verbs in That Clauses 23. Emphatic Structures 24. Fronting Structures for Emphasis and Focus 25. Focusing and Emphasizing Structures
£28.96
Cengage Learning, Inc Mysterious Crop Circles
Book SynopsisSeveral strange signs called 'crop circles' have been discovered in the fields of southern England. These mysterious circles are puzzling to everyone, even scientists. There are several theories about whoor whatmade them. Could it be humans who did it? Or could it be something else
£12.25
Pearson Education Limited Choices Up Int Wkbk Audio CD Pack
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£14.25
Pearson Education Limited New Language Leader Intermediate Coursebook
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£36.19
John Murray Press The Business Writing Coach Teach Yourself
Book SynopsisBy the end of this book you will have be ready to lead at a higher level Discover your writing strengths and weaknesses Understand the key types of business writing Develop your skills Get the details right Make a positive impact on your business Other books help you talk the talk. The Teach Yourself Coach books helps you walk the walk. Who are you? * Anyone who wants to impress more and achieve more with their written communication at work Where will this book take you? * You will have new skills and knowledge, and be fully ready to use it in a specific writing project How does it work? * A combination of practical tried-and-tested advice, and unique interactive exercises When can you do it? * In your own time, at your own pace What else do you get? * Access to free online videos and printable resources Why Teach Yourself? * Teach Yourself books are truste
£11.24
Broadview Press Ltd American English: An Introduction
Book SynopsisThis book is a cultural-historical (rather than purely linguistic) introduction to American English. The first part consists of a general account of variation in American English. It offers concise but comprehensive coverage of such topics as the history of American English; regional, social and ethnic variation; variation in style (including slang); and British and American differences. The second part of the book puts forward an account of how American English has developed into a dominant variety of the English language. It focuses on the ways in which intellectual traditions such as puritanism and republicanism, in shaping the American world view, have also contributed to the distinctiveness of American English.Trade Review“American English is an admirable piece of work. It provides an informative and up-to-date survey of the variety of English spoken in the United States. The discussion of historical developments is excellent, the summaries of scholarship accurate and readable, and the many examples throughout the book (of regional variations, of business jargon, of American sex-talk, and of much else) are consistently illuminating.” — Donald Wesling, University of California, San DiegoTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsA phonetic alphabet for English pronunciationChapter 1 Why study American English?The “British vs. American” issueThe American “mind” and intellectual traditionsWhat to teach: British or American?Can American English reflect culture and the American “mind”?Properties of American English: a previewExplaining American EnglishWhich materials are used in this book?Structure of the bookStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 2 American English: a brief historyThe historical backgroundElizabethan EnglishArchaic features of American EnglishThe influence of languages of the colonial periodThe influence of later immigrantsStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 3 A new nationThe task of namingThe naming of thingsThe frontier and the WestLanguage and technological developmentsSetting up new institutionsPeople and their homesStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 4 Linguistic geography in the United StatesSome historyLanguage, dialect, and idiolectLinguistic geographyGeneral assessment of linguistic geographyStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 5 Regional dialects of American EnglishThe study of American regional varietiesThe Northern dialectThe Coastal SouthThe Midland dialectThe West as a dialect regionSome general regional markersReasons for uniformity and variation in American EnglishStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 6 Social dialects of American EnglishSocial vs. regional variationFactors in social variationStandard and nonstandard American EnglishAttempts at standardizing American EnglishAttitudes toward dialects of American EnglishDialects and social problemsStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 7 Ethnic dialects of American EnglishHispanic American EnglishThe Black English vernacularStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 8 Style in American EnglishSettingSubject matterMediumAudienceMixing stylesStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 9 American slangHistory of the study of English slangThe emergence of American slangSources of American slangThe subject matters of American slangDistinctive properties of American slangImpact of American slang on other varieties of EnglishStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 10 Vocabulary differences between British and American EnglishWords of American originVocabulary differences: some questionsThe main subject areas of British and American English lexical differencesThe interaction between British and American English vocabularyStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 11 General accounts of British-American linguistic differencesThe “linguistic geography” approachA collection of British archaismsSocial historyParallel lists“Form-referent” typologies“Intellectual traditions” approachStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 12 Economy in American EnglishThe historical contextSpelling reformEconomyStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 13 Rationality in American EnglishWhat is rationality?Linguistic economy: the elimination of redundancyLinguistic economy: one value, one formRegularityIconicityStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 14 The “straightforward” AmericanSincerityClear languageThe causes of directnessBusiness talkThe tension between plain and “unplain” languageStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 15 The democratic nature of American EnglishStandardizationAvailability of Standard American EnglishToleranceThe language of democracyAntisexism in America: the linguistic fightStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 16 The “casual” AmericanThe beginnings of American informalityForms of addressSome informal speech actsInformality in pronunciation and spellingStyle “mixing”Informality in writingStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 17 American prudery in languageThe social and historical contextSwearingDeath and some related areasThe human bodyStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 18 Tall talk and grandiloquenceTall talkGrandiloquence, or dignifying the not-so-dignifiedStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 19 The inventiveness of American EnglishInventiveness as a major property of American EnglishMaking new words in American EnglishWhere were neologisms created?The causes of American inventivenessStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 20 The imaginativeness of American EnglishThe nature of imaginativenessWhy items are borrowed from American EnglishInformalityVerbal pruderyTall talkInventivenessSome major metaphorical domains in American EnglishSome conceptual metonymiesBritish and American attitudes to imaginativenessStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 21 Action and success in American EnglishThe components of American successLinguistic reflections of success in American EnglishBritish and American differencesStudy Questions and Activities Chapter 22 A new mindThe effects of social history on American EnglishProperties of American EnglishAmerican English and the American characterAmerican intellectual traditionsTensionsAmerican English and modernityStudy Questions and Activities ReferencesIndex
£42.26
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Russian Folk Tales: A Reader
Book SynopsisRussian Folk Tales: A Reader is designed for English-speaking students of Russian language and literature. Each of the eight texts, which are graded from simple to more advanced, provides important pieces of original Russian, a glimpse into the culture of Russia through folktales and an understanding of basic and idiomatic grammar. It includes an introduction to the work or genre, vocabulary, and a variety of pedagogical materials to facilitate classroom discussion.
£21.59
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co START: An Introduction to the Sounds and Writing
Book SynopsisSTART explains the fundamental concepts of Russian pronunciation and writing to first year English-speaking students. Pronunciation by native speakers is given with reference to English sounds and words: hard and soft consonants, voiced and voiceless consonants, regressive assimilation, and the reduction of unstressed vowels. Self-quizzes and dictations are included at the end of every chapter. Online audio and video files that correspond to sections and selected lessons in the book are available for purchase ($19.95 for a 12 month subscription) on the Focus Online Courseware website, courses.hackettpublishing.com. The online audio and video files are a replacement to the START CD-ROM which is no longer availble.
£17.99
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co START CD-ROM: An Introduction to the Sounds and
Book SynopsisCD-ROM to accompany START: An Introduction to the Sounds and Writing Systems of Russian.
£24.84
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Lingua Latina: Transparency Masters: Transparency
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£24.95
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co De Pelicula!: Spanish Conversation through Film
Book SynopsisBased on the pioneering text Cinema for Spanish Conversation, De Pelicula! uses recent feature films with a PG or PG-13 rating to build Spanish language skills in listening, speaking, and reading. The text also provides a unique method to explore the cultural concepts depicted in the films. As with the parent text, De Pelicula! provides a context for listening to the film through previewing exercises, background information, vocabulary, cultural material, and post-viewing exercises, including student exercises to be done in small groups. This version covers eight films and may be used as a primary or ancillary text in fourth year high school courses, for community college coursesespecially those language courses taught in the eveningor in single-semester courses at most colleges. All films are new to this edition and come from a range of Spanish-speaking countries, All may be easily obtained for classroom viewing or language labs, or for students to purchase or rent on their own.Films covered:La misma luna (Under the Same Moon), Danzon, De eso no se habla (I Don''t Want to Talk About It), Un lugar en el mundo (Place in the World), Machuca, Guantanamera (Guantanamero), Nueba Yol (Nueba Yol: Vol 1 & 3), El viaje de Carol (Carol''s Journey).Features: Preliminary vocabulary 4 Segmented film study sections: Preparación, Los personajes, Exploración, Notas culturales Conversation exercises for the whole class, small groups, or pairs Short composition exercises
£30.59
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Cinéphile: Intermediate French Language and
Book SynopsisCinéphile: Intermediate French Language and Culture through Film 2/e is a textbook for the second year college level course as taught in most colleges and universities, taught immediately following a complete first year. The text facilitates a review of linguistic concepts in the context of the whole language as well as expands vocabulary skills and skills in listening, speaking, writing and reading French. The use of film is fully integrated into the course, providing content as well as high interest motivation to the student and experience in a variety of real linguistic contexts. Features: Provide 2nd-year undergraduate French professors with a French language and culture textbook which integrates the study of language and culture with the study of films. Provide contextualized and structured pre-/post-viewing activities which maximize student comprehension of the films. Increase language proficiency through review of 1st-year grammar structures and vocabulary and through the progressive acquisition of 2nd year vocabulary and grammar structures necessary for the successful communication of ideas and opinions about the films. Break-down cultural barriers through the study of contemporary films. Increase student interest in French courses by integrating contemporary films that generate a greater appreciation of French culture, music, etc. New to this Edition: Reorganized flow of chapter content and activities More grammar activities including closed- and open-ended exercises Updated and expanded cultural content and activities Student's workbook includes a reading section Instructor's Composition & Exams provides new composition topics and an oral production for each chapter, designed to test the student's oral proficiency.
£69.69
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Cinéphile Manuel du Professeur: Intermediate
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£69.69
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co A la recherche d'un emploi: Instructor's Resource
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£52.69
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Cinema for French Conversation
Book SynopsisAn exciting book for incorporating French cinema and culture into a French language course, structured around 18 feature films.
£63.74
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Cinema for Spanish Conversation
Book SynopsisCinema for Spanish Conversation, Fourth Edition , engages students in Spanish-language study through the use of feature films from across the Spanish-speaking world. Sixteen films, four new to this edition, motivates students in conversation, writing, and listening skills in addition to providing them with a broad and real-world experience with the culture of the Spanish-speaking world. New to the Fourth Edition: Four new critically-acclaimed films , including the groundbreaking documentary Presunto culpable (2008) about the Mexican criminal justice system and the Oscar-nominated No (2012) about the 1988 Chilean national referendum on Pinochet's presidency Updated information about each film, its actors, and directors Color screen shots of the characters in the film to help students remember who's who and to help them discuss the actions and qualities of the characters A new section of questions (Opiniones) at the end of each chapter that ask students for their opinions on themes related to the film, sometimes on controversial ones, in order to facilitate active conversation A filmography appendix , which provides a list of additional films for each chapter that have similar themes or are from the same region
£63.74
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co El cine documental: Spanish Language and Culture
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£65.44
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Ekstase Und Elend: Deutsche Kulturgeschichte 1900
Book SynopsisEkstase und Elend is an intermediate/advanced textbook for German studies courses that presents the cultural history of German-speaking Europe from roughly 1900 to the present. Compiled by a team of scholars of German studies, applied linguistics, and history, it offers the historical, political, and social context necessary for engaging with recent cultural products from German-speaking Europe while cultivating the vital skills for doing so in German. A companion website featuring an annotated interactive timeline, media from a variety of sources, and suggested research projects can be accessed via a link on the Ekstase und Elend webpage on the publisher's website.Features of the book: Inclusive cultural history of German-speaking Europe from ca. 1900 to the present Full-color illustrations of authentic cultural artefacts Chronological organization, with brief timeline for each chapter Glossary, comprehension checks, and vocabulary activities for each chapter subsection Discussion questions for each chapter and useful phrases for facilitating oral production
£43.34
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co Cinema for Spanish Conversation
Book Synopsis"Cinema for Spanish, Fifth Edition, engages students in Spanish-language study through the use of feature films to motivate students in conversation, writing, and listening skills and to expose them to the culture of the Spanish-speaking world. The fifthedition features three new films (Roma, Yuli, and El âultimo verano de la Boyita), and expanded activities and reading exercises for each of the 16 chapters"--
£63.74
IBEX Publishers,U.S. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam for Students of Persian
Book SynopsisSince leaving his homeland after the Iranian revolution in 1979, Kuros Amouzgar witnessed his children and many other second generation Iranians who were eager to learn more about their own heritage, but who were unable to read the language of their parents. He decided to use the quatrains of Omar Khayyam as a vehicle to introduce a small section of Persian literature, philosophy and culture to his children and grandchildren''s generation. Khayyam''s poems are well-known both in the Persian original and in the English speaking world through the translations of Edward FitzGerald. Unfortunately, for the student, FitzGerald''s literary and inspirational poem are not exact translations of the Persian. In this volume, each poem is presented in the original Persian in both the Persian and Latin alphabet. In addition a literal translation and the corresponding poetic translation by FitzGerald are given. The more difficult terms are further explained. Also included is a Persian-English glossary.
£18.89
Nova Science Publishers Inc New Developments in Foreign Language Learning
Book SynopsisIt has been estimated that some 60% of today''s world population is multilingual. Living in a multilingual world makes language learning essential and the foreign language teaching profession even more valued to guarantee communication in a wide spectrum of languages, thus promoting mobility around the world and ensuring the continuity of the translation industry. This book provides current research and examines new developments in foreign language learning. The first chapter presents illustrations of the latest trends and practices in language learning, demonstrating that technology-enhanced language learning enables innovative foreign language delivery and empowers learners to acquire the chosen language in a more independent yet effective way. Chapter two describes the results of an experiment in building an online platform for learning foreign languages that allows people to teach their native language without being professional instructors. Chapter three studies secondary EFL learners'' extracurricular L2 contact and their self-beliefs concerning oral narrative competencies. Chapter four examines how a learner who learns Japanese as a foreign language (FL) at an Australian university develops a positive FL self-concept to overcome her anxiety about speaking the FL during the transition period from secondary school to university and then to a Japanese study abroad. Chapter five argues that the under-resourcefulness'' of an ELT context is misguided, as it is derived from the conception of what is believed to be standard'' and not on the concept of adequacy and sufficiency; and hopes to demonstrate that the under-resourced'' conception of contexts is the result of the inapplicability of Centre-driven methodologies in contexts that are only different and not actually under-resourced per se. Chapter six studies the implementation of the CLIL approach in a foreign language project. The final chapter systematically and critically reviews a variety of factors which influence lexical inferencing strategy use and incidental vocabulary acquisition among foreign language (FL) learners. It concludes with some directions for researchers to consider in the future research.
£163.19
Huia Publishers Reo Ora - Ko Te Weu Level Three: A Maori Language
Book SynopsisThis language course follows on from the Level 1 and 2 course for beginners that taught thirty sentence patterns and commonly used words, giving learners basic conversational Maori. This intermediate level course introduces another twenty sentence patterns that are primary sentence structures of te reo Maori. The book steps through modules that teach the grammar and sentence patterns and show these used in examples. Learning is reinforced through repetition of sentence patterns and written exercises, and in each module learners also access an online episode of a short movie where characters use the sentence structures in the story.
£18.95
Macmillan Education Ready for Advanced 3rd Edition Key Ebook Ready
Book SynopsisThe Student's Book Pack focuses on thorough preparation for the Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) exam. The end of unit Review sections and the practice exam papers develop exam confidence. An access code to Macmillan Practice Online (MPO) provides students with extra material, and an eBook version of the Student's Book is also included.
£58.38
Foxton Books The Winter Olympics - Foxton Readers Level 1 (400
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£10.31
Foxton Books Into the Wild - Foxton Readers Level 2 (600
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£10.31
Foxton Books The Fossil Find - Foxton Readers Level 3 (900
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£10.31
Foxton Books A City at War - Foxton Readers Level 3 (900
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£10.31
Foxton Books Warrior for the Crown - Foxton Readers Level 3
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£10.31
Foxton Books The Sign of Four - Foxton Readers Level 1 (400
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£10.31
Foxton Books Robin Hood - Foxton Readers Level 1 (400
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£10.31
Foxton Books Night Drive - Foxton Readers Level 1 (400
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£10.31
Foxton Books The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Foxton Readers Level
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£10.31
Foxton Books The Emperor and the Nightingale - Foxton Readers
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£10.31
Foxton Books The Little Mermaid - Foxton Readers Level 1 (400
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£10.31
Foxton Books Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Foxton Readers
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£10.31
Foxton Books Call of the Wild - Foxton Readers Level 3 (900
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£10.31
In Print Publishing Ltd Teaching English in Spain
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£4.99
New Academic Science Ltd A Book for IELTS academic Module
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£18.57
