How to Teach Listening is a practical guide to the theory of listening in the language classroom. It includes: * a discussion of key topics such as authenticity, tersting, and using technology for listening * practical ideas for conducting an effective listening lesson * strategies to ensure the long term development of students` listening skills * a task file of photocopiable training activities.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-5310-1
Издательство:
Longman Group UK Limited
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Provides detailed analyses of key topics such as vowels, consonants, stress and intonation, with a variety of sample lessons for each topic. Includes a photocopiable Learner`s Reference Chart of English Sounds, a breakdown of common pronunciation errors, and pronunciation and spelling tables. An audio CD with spoken examples of sounds, words and phrases from the book puts the theories examined into a clear context. Формат: 19 см х 24,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-582-42975-8
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Updated to reflect uses of current word processing software and Internet communication, as well as to review standard business correspondence formats, this book instructs on how to write effective examples of every kind of business letter. It presents about 75 model letters in categories that include credit applications, letters of inquiry, orders of goods and services, formal business announcements, letters of recommendation, and sales promotional letters of the type used by direct marketers. This book also features examples of different letter formatting styles. The newly expanded chapter on e-mail correspondence includes discussion of effective presentation of Internet resumes.
ISBN: 978-0-7641-3539-2
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
First he made five billion dollars. Then he made NBC`s "The Apprentice". Now the real estate titan, bestselling author, and TV impresario shows readers how to make a fortune. Trump reveals the secrets of his success in this candid and unprecedented book of business wisdom and advice.
ISBN: 978-0-345-48103-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
This edition of the TOEIC manual has been thoroughly revised and updated to prepare students for the newly structured Test of English for International Communication, which was introduced in 2006. Presented here are four full-length practice tests that are similar in format and question types to the new TOEIC. The author also provides students with an extensive review of reading comprehension skills. A passing grade on the TOEIC test is required by many businesses and institutions when they are selecting among job candidates whose first language is not English.
ISBN: 978-0-7641-3550-7
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This new 11th edition offers complete and up-to date preparation for the Paper-Based TOEFL and the Computer-Based TOEFL, with a preview of the Next Generation TOEFL test. There is extensive practice—even for students who don’t have access to a computer. The manual includes a review chapter for each section of the TOEFL, including the new Speaking Section, and presents nine full-length model tests for the Computer-Based TOEFL, with questions answered and explained, along with one full-length model test for the Next Generation TOEFL and a practice test for the TOEFL Academic Speaking Test (TAST), with example answers. The optional compact disc-and-book package provides the audio versions for the Listening Comprehension sections of all...
ISBN: 0-7641-2315-7
Издательство:
Barron's
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
The How offers practical teaching ideas within a clear, theoretical framework. Each title includes a photocopiable `Task File` of training and reflection activities to reinforce the theories and practical ideas presented. An analysis of how listening, speaking, reading and writing, as well as grammar and vocabulary, are tested in a range of exams, and a description of appropriate teaching strategies for each. A guide to all the major international English language exams and information on how to keep up-to-date with changes to these exams.
ISBN: 978-0-582-42967-3
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Nowadays, not only has much Hollywood animation and game design become informed by the Japanese manga aesthetic, but these works are increasingly done by computer applications. Indeed, Photoshop and other 3D software have become detailed and versatile enough to be an ideal tool to successfully render the nuances of the human figure and face. "How To Create Virtual Beauties" is a must-have volume for those working in such fields, a comprehensive guide to rendering beautiful characters through computer technology that allows not only for exquisite rendering of complex forms, but also allows for saving, editing, re-editing, animation and manipulation of the created artworks.
Learning a language and being able to speak it do not go hand in hand. This book provides both structured activities to get students speaking and ideas for developing confidence in using English outside the classroom. Essentailly it -Examines the different approaches and activities that can be used for teaching and testing speaking -Covers areas of speech such as articulation, fluency and register -Looks at classroom approaches such as drilling, discussions, drama, dialogues and conversation
ISBN: 978-0-582-85359-1
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
How to Teach English with Technology by Gavin Dudeney and Nicky Hockly offers a clear, comprehensive, confidence-building introduction to the use of technology in the language classroom. *Practical advice on how to use the Internet, email, podcasts, interactive whiteboards etc *Tutorial CD-ROM with guided examples and step-by-step instructions *Advice on how to keep up to date with new technologies
ISBN: 978-1-4058-5308-8
Издательство:
Longman Group UK Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apart, and the ensuing chaos that occurs. This is Gogol`s humour at its best, where the most irrelevant-seeming details and turns of phrase suddenly take on a bizarre life of their own. The second story, Ivan Krylov`s Panegyric in Memory of My Grandfather, has an ingenuous narrator praise the nobility and modesty of a landowner whose actions prove him to be otherwise. The final two stories, by the Russian satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, are satirical attacks on the inability of civil servants to cope with real life, and on Russia`s autocracy. Together, they represent some of...
ISBN: 978-1-84749-173-2
Издательство:
Alma Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
How to Negotiate Effectively provides tips, tools and techniques for getting it right. It explores and advises on every aspect of the negotiation process, including: tactics and counter-measures, handling deadlock, making concessions, enhancing your authority and getting the best deal. This new edition also contains material on identifying true decision makers, and how to spot buying signals in negotiations. An essential step-by-step guide, How to Negotiate Effectively will help anyone achieve a balanced `win-win` outcome every time.
In-Depth Preparation Includes: Eight full-length model tests with all questions answered and explained. CD-ROM with a practice TOEFL exam in a computer-adaptive format - exactly the way the actual test is given. In-depthreviews to prepare you for listening, structure, reading, and writing. Study tips and test-taking advice.
ISBN: 0-7641-7500-9
Издательство:
Barron's
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
How to Manage People is a practical book from bestselling author Michael Armstrong. It provides advice to managers and team leaders on how to manage people in their teams - getting the best results from them and dealing with any people problems that may arise. Many managers have to do their job without HR advice and this book is particularly designed to meet their needs. It covers every aspect that involves getting things done through people, including: leadership, motivating people, team building, delegating, interviewing, managing performance, developing and rewarding people, managing change and handling people problems. Concise yet comprehensive, How to Manage People provides vital support for every front line manager and should be...
Chester Howard can see Joe`s project "How to Write Neatly" can only be a disaster. Joe makes a terrible mess of his work, jumbling letters and numbers up together. But a project called "How to Write Really Badly" - now there`s something Joe can do better than anyone else. And Chester is about to find there`s a lot more to Joe than he expected.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3322-4
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: август 2011
Get the most out of your digital camera and your computer by mastering the art of digital photography. Award-winning photographer and best-selling author Dave Johnson shows you why digital photography is truly the visual recording medium of the future. Learn the essentials of photography including composition, exposure, flash, and lighting. Then, push your camera and your PC\'s image editing software to the limits by editing images, adding creative effects, working with file formats, incorporating images into photo projects, prints, and the Internet, and more. How To Do Everything with Your Digital Camera has everything you need to make you a success with your digital camera!
ISBN: 0-07-223081-9
Издательство:
Osborne/McGrawHill
Дата выхода: октябрь 2003
How can you measure the speed of light with chocolate and a microwave? Why do yo-yos yo-yo? Why does urine smell so peculiar after eating asparagus (includes helpful recipe)? How long does it take to digest different types of food? What is going on when you drop mentos in to cola? 100 wonderful, intriguing and entertaining scientific experiments which show scientific principles first hand – this is science at its most popular.
* Looks in detail at the theory of words and at how students learn new vocabulary * Offers practical advice on how to help students build vocabulary in new and effective ways and how to test students` word knowledge * Major developments, such as language corpora and lexical approaches, are clearly explained and related to your needs as a teacher
ISBN: 978-0-582-42966-6
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Updated to reflect the most recent Graduate Record Exams, this manual presents six full-length model tests with answers and explanations. It also offers intensive subject review in all test topics, which include antonym questions, analogy questions, sentence completion, reading comprehension, vocabulary, analytical writing, quantitative comparison, data interpretation, and mathematics. The all-important vocabulary review contains both a GRE high-frequency word list and a 3,500 master word list with definitions. The optional CD-ROM presents a test that is unique to each test-taker (computer-adaptive), based on the way its first question is answered. All of its model test questions are answered and explained, and exam results are scored...
ISBN: 0-7641-7629-3
Издательство:
Barron's
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
Locate this perfect teaching guide to GPS, and master GPS receivers and software. Technology guru Rick Broida, who has written many best-selling books in the How to Do Everything series, maps out the guts of GPS in a friendly, helpful way that shows you how to get the most from this new technology. Master GPS receivers and software, use GPS in cars, PDAs, and laptops, and even go GPS golfing or try geocaching, the new game featuring GPS.
ISBN: 0-07-223171-8
Издательство:
Osborne/McGrawHill
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2003