Электронная литература: English language teaching (ELT)

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This is a book which does exactly what it says on the cover. It provides a huge instant repertoire of teaching ideas, none of which requires photocopying. It includes both classroom classics that all ELT teachers come to know and love, and new activities, at a range of levels from elementary to upper intermediate. The clear organisation of the book makes it easy to cross refer and supplement your coursebook or syllabus. All the ...

Retold by F. H. Cornish for beginner students of English. Tom was in trouble and so unhappy that he was planning to run away forever. "e;Nobody loves me! I'm leaving home."e; This story tells the humorous adventures of a young orphan boy who lives beside the great Mississippi River in 1844.

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ability. Alex is a thirty-year-old art gallery assistant and hopelessly in love with her boss, Brad. Then, an incident at the gallery means they have to spend a few days at Brad's country house. This is Alex's opportunity to impress ...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ability. Journalist Kate Jensen is shocked when her friend Max is found murdered in Amsterdam. She goes there to search for her friend's killer and starts asking questions at the football club he owned. It soon becomes clear that som ...

Retold by Margaret Tarner for upper-intermediate students of English, this is the timeless story of Anna's forbidden love for the dashing Count Vronsky. Recommended for older readers.

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ability. Liz teaches archaeology in Athens. She works too hard and her doctor tells her she needs to take a holiday. So she goes to the beautiful and peaceful Greek island of Sifnos. But the peace does not last long when a local man ...

This new edition surveys the major approaches and methods in language teaching. This new edition is an extensive revision of the first edition of this successful text. Like the first edition, it surveys the major approaches and methods in language teaching, such as grammar translation, audiolingualism, communicative language teaching, and the natural approach. This edition includes new chapters on topics such as whole language ...

Retold by Maria Jose Lobo and Pepita Subira as a picture story for starter students of English. Phileas Fogg makes a bet with his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days. This is the wonderful story of Phileas' adventures as he travels from country to country with his servant Passepartout.

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ability. Detective Flick Laine meets handsome Dr Jack Daly at a party in Denver, USA. When Daly calls later, inviting her to meet him to 'talk about something', she accepts. But before they can talk, the doctor is found dead in an ap ...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ability. Talk in the local pub is of strange deaths of sheep and rumours of the return of the legendary Beast of Brynmawr. Susie and Charlie are taking a break from work in London and renting a cottage in Brynmawr, where events grow ...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ability. The right place at the right time? Photographer Ken Harada thinks so when he gets a fantastic photo of a famous sumo star who is visiting Tokyo. However, it becomes clear that somebody wants that photo badly and will do anyt ...

First published in 1986, The Bilingual Family has provided thousands of parents with the information and advice they need to make informed decisions about what language policy to adopt with their children. This second edition contains updated references and new entries to the alphabetical reference guide.

Retold by Margaret Tarner for beginner students of English. Summer 1797, and the officers of the British Navy fear a mutiny amongst its sailors. Billy Budd is handsome, strong, reliable, efficient and loyal. But he is victimised by Claggart, the vindictive and cruel master-at-arms. This tragic tale, by one of the most popular American novelists of his day, was made into an opera and a film.

Written specially for elementary students of English, this is an action-packed detective story. Salahadin El Nur is an inspector in the Antiques Department of the Egyptian police. After the death of a European archaeologist, Salahadin looks for a priceless statuette. He is soon on the trail of a gang of international smugglers.

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ability. Rarotonga, in the beautiful Pacific Cook Islands, is the setting for a daring robbery. When master-thief Wolfgang Peters arrives on the island, Inspector Janet Hunter of the New Zealand Police is waiting for him. Will Peters ...

Retold by Margaret Tarner for upper-intermediate students of English."e;Your mother, Esther, was your disgrace and you are hers."e; These words were Esther's earliest memory. But who was Esther's mother? And what was the disgrace? And why did the ghost walk at Chesney Wold? Three young people meet for the first time in the High Court of Chancery. They are the latest victims to be caught up in the court case of Jarndyce ...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ability. Diamonds smuggled from the bloody civil-war zones of Africa and traded illegally for weapons are known as 'blood diamonds'. London journalists Harley Kirkpatrick and Annie Shepherd sense the scoop of a lifetime when they try ...

From credit crunch to golden parachute, barking up the wrong tree to storm in a tea cup in this book, Gordon Jarvie explains all you need to know about these and 3,000 other common English idioms. Packed with nuggets of fascinating information, the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Idioms traces the origins of these phrases, explains meanings and gives examples of up-to-date usage. Ideal for word buffs and English students alike, this b ...

Written specially for intermediate students of English. Peter, a long distance lorry driver, gives a lift to a 16-year-old hitch-hiker outside Bristol. As they talk, Peter discovers that John has run away from home after a violent row with his uncle. The police are searching for John. His uncle has been found dead and the police want to question the boy.

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ability. Alex Forley had everything: good looks, money, a beautiful house in London, an attractive girlfriend and a close group of friends. But now he is dead - an apparent case of suicide. Detective Inspector Rod Eliot isn't sure Al ...

Retold by Stephen Colbourn for elementary students of English. Here are three short stories by one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century: The Canterville Ghost, The Model Millionaire, and Lord Arthur Saville's Crime.

This workbook provides material to learn English with marketing vocabulary. It contains 47 activities, including word games. puzzles and quizzes to help improve specialist English vocabulary.

This workbook has been designed to help students at lower-intermediate level improve and build their English vocabulary, and is particularly appropriate for those studying towards the popular PET (Preliminary English Test) examination. It can be used to test and improve general English vocabulary, and includes both self-study exercises and practical speaking activities for classroom use.Includes a range of activities to help st ...

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Insightful, practical and engaging methodology based on academic research and hands-on experience.

Phraseology, as explored in corpus linguistics, is important to the study of evaluative language. Corpus techniques reveal this phraseology and so assist in, for example, identifying modal meaning and intensifying phrases. The patterns identified by corpus techniques can be used in identifying and parsing instances of evaluation.

This volume seeks to illustrate the fundamental role of language in political action, focusing on the war in Iraq. It combines quantitative methods, based on a sophisticated modular corpus that was queried through special software with the aim of identifying regularly occurring lexical and semantic patterns, with classical discourse analysis, which seeks to investigate naturally occurring language in the context in which it is ...

This volume represents the first book-length corpus-based contrastive studies of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet distinctly different world languages in the 21st century, on the basis of large matching corpora of authentic spoken and written data in the two languages.