Monday, August 17, 2009

Webster's New World Essential Vocabulary

How's your vocabulary? Is it okay, pretty good, or exceptional? Whatever your
answer to these questions, this is the book for you. For those whose vocabulary
ranges from okay to pretty good, here is the opportunity to improve it. The main
content is grouped into sets of words that have been taken from the SAT and GRE
examinations over the past 10 years. These approximately 1,500 words are expected
by the examiners to be familiar in one form or another to college and graduate
school applicants. They need to become familiar to you, too.
Each word comes complete with a label indicating its part of speech, at least one
definition (often more), and usually at least two sentences using the word. Most
entries also include synonyms and other forms of the word, such as past tense and
gerund forms (for verbs) and adverbial and noun forms (for adjectives). Following
each group of vocabulary words is a matching test so that you can check what
you've just studied.

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Timesaver Games

This is a photocopiable resource book for busy teachers. Timesaver Games contains dozens of time-saving and motivating activities for immediate use in the classroom. It also enables you to help your students consolidate newly acquired language whilst having fun with puzzles.


Sunday, August 9, 2009

Learning Teaching

A really practical introduction to teaching English as a foreign or second language, Learning Teaching by Jim Scrivener is the essential guide for your first years as a language teacher and an invaluable resource for teacher training courses. It helps you to understand the basic principles of working in a language classroom, shows you how to plan sucessful activities, lessons and courses and offers hundreds of immediately usable ideas and techniques to involve your students. Whether you are starting out or more experienced, this book helps you to develop the awareness and skills you need to become an even better teacher.


Friday, August 7, 2009

An Introduction to English Phonology


This textbook is designed for use on ten- or twelve-week introductory courses on English phonology of the sort taught in the first year of many English Language and Linguistics degrees, in British and American universities. Students on such courses can struggle with phonetics and phonology; it is sometimes difficult to see past the new symbols and terminology, and the apparent assumption that we can immediately become consciously aware of movements of the vocal organs which we have been making almost automatically for the last eighteen or more years. This book attempts to show students why we need to know about phonetics and phonology, if we are interested in language and our knowledge of it, as well as introducing the main units and concepts we require to describe speech sounds accurately.
 
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Cambridge Practice Tests for IELTS - Book 3

This book has been written for candidates preparing for the revised version of the International English Language Testing System, known as IELTS. This is a test designed to assess the English language skills of non-English speaking students seeking to study in an English speaking country.

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