The Penguin Complete English Reference Collection: Dictionary of english grammar, new penguin dictionary of abbreviations, quickway crossword dictionary, penguin A-Z thesaurus, penguin guide to punctuation, pengiun dictionary of english idioms, concise english dictionary, penguin guide to plain english.
Since 2002, readers all over the world have been enjoying and learning from Michele A. Berdy`s column "The Word`s Worth" in The Moscow limes. In this quirky, opinionated, sometimes hilarious yet always thoughtful and authoritative guide, Berdy looks at Russia`s changing culture, social scene and everyday life through language and the art of translation. She discusses colloquialisms and youth slang, the language of politics, the workplace, and the often comical struggle of expats to feel at home in a foreign idiom and culture. The Russian Word`s Worth is essential reading for students and teachers of Russian, translators, Russia-watchers, expats, and anyone who wants to understand Russia today.
ISBN: 978-5-7172-0087-5
Издательство:
Глас
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
Join the editors of TIME to observe the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War in a richly illustrated chronicle of the confl ict that changed America. It`s an immense subject-a battle between freedom and slavery, waged across the breadth of the still-expanding nation over a period of four years-and TIME has created an oversized volume to tell the story in the grand style it deserves. To bring the tale to life, the book focuses on little-seen photographs and original artifacts from the period: sketches from soldier`s diaries, unusual and rare military and political memorabilia. And it brings us face-to-face with those who lived through the period, presenting scores of excerpts from the letters and diaries of soldiers, offi cers and...
ISBN: 978-1-60320-171-1
Издательство:
Hachette Livre
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The complete times tables from 2 to 12! Learn, memorise and practise all the times tables with these double-sided cards. Also included are 30 fun stickers to reward and motivate.
ISBN: 978-1-4093-0280-3
Издательство:
Ladybird Books
Дата выхода: август 2011
Пособие Tips for IELTS содержит всю необходимую информацию о тех умениях и навыках, уровень владения которыми определяется на экзамене. Пособие включает советы по работе с различными видами вопросов, стратегии работы над правильностью речи, информацию о типичных ошибках и советы, как проверить свой уровень подготовки к сдаче экзамена. Это справочное пособие поможет учащимся повторить материал и проверить...
ISBN: 978-1-4050-9616-4
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: март 2011
The discovery of a treasure map sets young Jim Hawkins in search of buried gold, along with a crew of buccaneers recruited by the one-legged Long John Silver. As they near their destination, and the lure of Captain Flint`s treasure grows ever stronger, Jim`s courage and wits are tested to the full. Robert Louis Stevenson reinvented the adventure genre with Treasure Island, a boys` story that appeals as much to adults as to children, and whose moral ambiguities turned the Victorian universe on its head. This edition celebrates the ultimate book of pirates and high adventure, and also examines how its tale of greed, murder, treachery, and evil has acquired its classic status. The book features an informative Introduction and explanatory...
ISBN: 978-0-19-956035-6
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Updated to reflect questions found on the most recent ESL tests, this book presents 400 common phrasal verbs as they are used in everyday English. Phrasal verbs are verbs combined with prepositions or adverbs. Familiarity with phrasal verbs and understanding their use as nouns ("breakup", "showoff", and many others), or adjectives ("spaced-out", "broken-down", "stressed-out" and many others) is essential to ESL students. This book’s hundreds of examples in context and hundreds of exercises will be extremely useful to ESL students who are preparing for TOEFL or who simply wish to improve their English.
ISBN: 978-0-7641-4120-1
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
- Ideal for teachers getting started in CLIL and exitsing CLIL practitioners in search of new ideas - Presents a broad overview of CLIL essentials for teachers at both primary and secondary level - Contains a wide range of practical ideas
ISBN: 978-0-230-02719-0
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Have your hair cut on the night of the full moon, take a siesta while shopping, make a cast of your foot, top a birthday cake with your own photo, issue your own stamps, take pictures of your aura, visit a designer at home, join an art gallery open 24/24, buy shoes in a theatre, offer your cat or dog a massage or special cookies, relax in a flotation chamber, try out extraordinary Japanese Shopping in Paris has never been so stimulating, although you have to know where to As a change from traditional retailers, here are over a hundred unusual places where you can find really original presents.
ISBN: 9782915807219
Издательство:
Jean-Laurent Cassely
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Take your diving gear along to reach an underwater hotel; stay in a disused US Air Force radar tower in the heart of the equatorial rainforest; slide back the roof of your bedroom to gaze at the stars; sleep in the cabin of a dockside crane that you can rotate, or in chalets hidden in the forest, a survival pod from an oil rig platform, a giant shoe, a coffin, lighthouse, tree, plane, train, chapel, prison, igloo, or even a red cube lost in the countryside... All these strikingly unusual hotels have grown up around the world in the last decade or so. So that you'll never get bored and spoil your holiday, we've taken great pleasure in tracking down and testing some exceptional places to stay that are really out of the ordinary....
ISBN: 9782915807257
Издательство:
Jean-Laurent Cassely
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Escaping the mass market to find unusual hotels, bed and breakfast properties as well as holiday lets, this guide lists UK and Ireland properties providing value-for-money memories that will last long after the bill has been paid. Selected from the award-winning online guide, this selection of properties offers unusual and unique accomodation choices for all budgets, from 25 for singles to suites costing more than 550 a night. Take your pick from vintage Airstream caravans, a converted naval gunboat, an enchanted manor, water towers, windmills, monuments and lighthouses, peaceful retreats in tipis and Mongolian yurts, as well as prisons, chapels and churches. Try staying at a property where you have to be accompanied by a dog. Enjoy the...
ISBN: 9782915807523
Издательство:
Jean-Laurent Cassely
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Observe the stars from the top of the Sorbonne, see a film in a private flat, spend an astonishing night in the company of transsexuals, watch lawyers match wits in an oratory debating contest, go for a swim in the nude, crash celebrity parties, listen to a rock group in a squat, cross Paris in a Zodiac boat, meet Master Jodorowsky in person, discover the Baha`i faith and or theosophy, buckle down at a gathering of fetishists, or sleep in the most astonishing hotel rooms in the French capital. Night-time in Paris has never been so full of surprises, if you know where to go…
ISBN: 9782915807486
Издательство:
Jean-Laurent Cassely
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
is a very successful site that encourages users to define the world with their own unique terms. In Urban Dictionary, site founder Aaron Peckham culls his more than 170,000 definitions for the funniest, wittiest, and most provocative phrases that define the modern slang scene. Within `s lively lexicon are: business provocative - Attire used to provoke sexual attention in the workplace. compunicate - To chat with someone in the same room via instant messaging service instead of in person. dandruff - A person who `flakes out` and ditches their friends. wingman - A guy who takes one for the team by hooking up with a hot girl`s ugly friend so his own friend can hook up with the hot girl. Perfect for those who want to pick up some new slang...
Get Going with Grammar has been specially created to encourage students to practise specific grammar points through games. Teacher`s Notes are provided for every game. There is a built-in adaptability component to these games: you can use the game provided or play one of the suggested variations. For many of the games, templates have been provided that allow the teacher to make his or her own version. Grammar points covered include: Adverbs of frequency; Comparatives and superlatives; Conditionals; Countable and non-countable nouns; Gerunds and infinitives; Modals; Parts of speech; Passive voice; Phrases and clauses; Plurals; Possessives; Prepositions; Present perfect tense; Pronouns; Quantifiers; Suffixes; Tag questions; Verb tenses;
ISBN: 9781859647486
Издательство:
Garnet
Дата выхода: июль 2012
This book features a fun game to develop early reading and grammar skills. Learning basic language and literacy skills to give children a head start as they start school is as easy as A, B, C with this fun game. Colour-coded cards will help your child learn parts of speech and sentence construction with hilarious consequences. The banana jumped over the tree, the cow ate the alarm clock. No sentence is too silly in this addictive game for the whole family. Perfect for 2 to 4 players, and includes one game board and spinner, 4 sentence game boards, 36 word and picture cards, 4 counters and 1 twelve-sided die. It complements the first three years of the National Curriculum.
A three-level vocabulary series for both self-study and classroom use. Now with a revised edition for each level, this best-selling series has been fully updated to give students the support they need to master more than 7,000 words and phrases
ISBN: 978-0-521-12386-0
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
A three-level vocabulary series for both self-study and classroom use. Now with a revised edition for each level, this best-selling series has been fully updated to give students the support they need to master more than 7,000 words and phrases in American English. Following the popular in Use format, new language is taught in manageable two-page units with presentation of vocabulary on the left-hand page and innovative practice activities on the right. Suitable for self-study or classroom use, the books are informed by the Cambridge International Corpus to ensure vocabulary taught is useful, up-to-date, and presented in a natural context. Additional activities for extra vocabulary and listening practice are available on the companion...
ISBN: 978-0-521-12375-4
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
Vocabulary in Use: Upper Intermediate helps high-intermediate to advanced learners consolidate and expand their knowledge of English vocabulary. The book contains 100 lessons that cover approximately 3,000 new vocabulary items. Ideal for self-study, its easy-to-use format presents a content- or grammar-based area of vocabulary on the left-hand page and innovative practice activities on the right-hand page. Firmly based on current vocabulary acquisition theory, this text promotes good learning habits and teaches students how to discover rules for using vocabulary correctly. An edition with an answer key, suitable for self-study, is available; an intermediate level is also available.
ISBN: 978-0-521-57700-7
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
A three-level vocabulary series for both self-study and classroom use. Now with a revised edition for each level, this best-selling series has been fully updated to give students the support they need to master more than 7,000 words and phrases
ISBN: 978-0-521-12367-9
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
For people who want to see more: Sights and attractions rated by the Michelin star system. Suggested driving tours. 44 easy-to-use and detailed maps and plans. Addresses - places to eat, drink, stay and relax for every budget.
Webster"s Third New International Dictionary is the perfect answer to every reference need. Utilizing the resources of more then one hundred years of dictionary publishing, this single volume work covers the current vocabulary of standard written and spoken English as well as incorporating many scientific and technical terms.
ISBN: 3-8290-5292-8
Издательство:
Konemann
Дата выхода: январь 2002
Dictionary contains over 25000 references and over 40000 definitions. Thesaurus contains over 10000 entries and over 135000 synonyms in easy A to Z dictionary format, this is the perfect reference source for everyday usage at home, school, and in the office. Completely up-to-date with idioms and slang, ideal for both the spoken and written word, this is an invaluable tool for better word comprehension and usage.
ISBN: 978-1-84205-385-0
Издательство:
Geddes & Grosset
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Geddes&Grosset English Dictionary&Thesaurus is an invaluable reference tool that includes guidance on English usage and grammar. It is a book that will be welcomed by executives, secretaries, teachers, students and all who wish to use and understand the English language. It is an essential book of reference for all the family. The dictionary is presented in a concise form and contains over 100,000 defi nitions. The thesaurus of over 100,000 synonyms is arranged in alphabetical order for easy reference. The sections on English usage and English grammar will provide the reader with a clear and comprehensive understanding of everyday use of the English language.
ISBN: 978-1-84205-190-0
Издательство:
Geddes & Grosset
Дата выхода: июль 2011