Название: Another Word A Day: An All-New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English
Автор: Anu Garg
Издательство: Wiley
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 241
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic wordsIn this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.org), presents an all-new collection of unusual, intriguing words and real-life anecdotes that will thrill writers, scholars, and word buffs everywhere. Another Word A Day celebrates the English language in all its quirkiness, grandeur, and fun, and features new chapters ranging from "Words Formed Erroneously" and "Red-Herring Words" to "Kangaroo Words," "Discover the Theme," and "What Does That Company Name Mean?" In them, you'll find a treasure trove of curious and compelling words, including agelast, dragoman, mittimus, nyctalopia, quacksalver, scission, tattersall, and zugzwang

Название: A Year In the Life of an ESL
Автор: Edward J. Francis
Издательство: Trafford Publishing
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 308
Размер: 40 MB
Язык: English

A Year in the Life of an ESL Student is an essential addition to the advanced level ESL classroom. By studying the varied and interesting dialogues and completing the challenging exercises, students will dramatically improve their comprehension and usage of everyday idioms and advanced vocabulary.The book follows Andre, a student from Switzerland, as he spends a year completing his English studies at a private language school in North America: from his arrival at the airport, to getting around the city, to attending school, to hanging out with his classmates

Название: Oxford English for Computing. Student's Book. (Lernmaterialien)
Автор: Keith Boeckner, P. Charles Brown
Издательство: Cornelsen & Oxford University Press
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 212
Размер: 24 MB
Язык: English

A course for people studying computer science or working with computers. It covers a wide range of computing areas, giving practice in all four language skills. Particular emphasis is placed on the vocabulary and grammar of the English used in computer science

Название: A Semantic Approach to English Grammar (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics), Second Edition
Автор: R. M. W. Dixon
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 562
Размер: 4 MB
Язык: English

This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. The author starts from the notion that a speaker codes a meaning into grammatical forms which the listener is then able to recover: each word, he shows, has its own meaning and each bit of grammar its own function, their combinations creating and limiting the possibilities for different words. He uncovers a rationale for the varying grammatical properties of different words and in the process explains many facts about English - such as why we can say I wish to go, I wish that he would go, and I want to go but not I want that he would go

Название: The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage
Автор: Pam Peters
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 924
Размер: 6 MB
Язык: English

The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage is an up-to-date, evidence-based account of the variable points in Australian usage and style, in alphabetical format. Its description of Australian English uses a wealth of primary sources (linguistic corpora; the internet; public surveys of usage, conducted through Australian Style) as well as the latest editions of English dictionaries, style manuals and grammars. With all this input the Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage provides in-depth coverage of the currency of alternative usages in spelling, punctuation and word choice in Australia, while showing the influence of British and American English here as well

Название: An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction
Автор: Anatoly Liberman
Издательство: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 412
Размер: 7 MB
Язык: English

This work introduces renowned linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman’s comprehensive dictionary and bibliography of the etymology of English words. The English etymological dictionaries published in the past claim to have solved the mysteries of word origins even when those origins have been widely disputed. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology by contrast, discusses all of the existing derivations of English words and proposes the best one

Название: Legal English: How to Understand and Master the Language of Law
Автор: William R. McKay, Helen E. Charlton
Издательство: Pearson\/Longman,
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 197
Размер: 3 MB
Язык: English

More and more law students seeking a legal qualification find that their English language skills let them down. Legal English will enable students to confidently write on and discuss legal topics as well as conduct legal work -- such as drafting legal documentation, negotiating, litigating, advising, presenting, writing and acting as an advocate.

Название: Teaching children with English as an additional language: A programme for helping your pupils move into English quickly
Автор: Caroline Scott
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2008
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 206
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

Here is a typical classroom scenario: out of the thiry children, two-thirds speak a different language at home and only speak English at school. Even though many pupils’ English skills are almost non-existent, teachers are expected to provide the national curriculum for every child in the class. Teaching Children English as an Additional Language solves this problem with a ten-week teaching programme of units and lesson activities for children aged seven–eleven (Key Stage 2) new to English

Название: Brighter Grammar 3: An English Grammar with Exercises
Автор: C.E. Eckersley, M. Macaulay, Revised by D. K. Swan
Издательство: Longman
Год: 1987
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 46
Размер: 1 MB
Язык: English

This ever popular four-book series Brighter grammar helps students understand the key points of English grammar, using only essential technical terms. Graded exercises allow teachers to monitor development, and lively illustrations enhance the text and retain the students' interest.

Название: American Accent Training - A Guide to Speaking and Pronouncing American English
Автор: Ann Cok
Издательство: Barrons
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 185
Размер: 2 MB
Язык: English

The second edition of the highly acclaimed American Accent Training, now on 5 audio CDs, is for foreign-born students and business people working, traveling or studying in the United States and Canada. Through extensive intonation and pronunciation exercises, students learn how to speak with a standard American Accent. At the same time, listening comprehension improves dramatically