Strategic Reading is a three-level series designed to develop reading, vocabulary-building, and critical-thinking skills. Strategic Reading Level 2 is a reading skills book that contains twelve thematic units, each with three high interest readings. All readings come from authentic sources and have been slightly adapted to be appropriate for study by high intermediate-level students. Exercise material surrounding the readings builds students` vocabulary and develops their reading and critical thinking skills.
ISBN: 978-0-521-28113-3
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Strategic Reading is a three-level series designed to develop reading, vocabulary-building, and critical-thinking skills. The Student`s Book contains 16 thematic units with a selection of engaging topics that motivate learners to relate the reading to their own experiences. Three inviting reading passages in each unit, all adapted from authentic sources, allow students to explore the theme in depth. The variety of original sources - including newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry - expose learners to a wide range of writing styles. Preview pages in every unit introduce new vocabulary and ask thought-provoking questions. There are also pre-reading activities, such as predicting and thinking...
ISBN: 978-0-521-55578-4
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
Strategic Reading is a three-level series designed to develop reading, vocabulary-building, and critical-thinking skills. The Teacher`s Manual provides clear step-by-step notes on how to use the Student`s Book in class. It includes an overview of the series, a model lesson plan, and detailed vocabulary and teaching suggestions for each unit. The Teacher`s Manual offers optional warm-up and extension activities as well as many ideas for additional classroom activities. Also included are culture notes, unit quizzes, and suggested answers for all exercises and quizzes.
ISBN: 978-0-521-55576-0
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Strategic Reading is a three-level series designed to develop reading, vocabulary-building, and critical-thinking skills. The Student`s Book contains 16 thematic units with a selection of engaging topics that motivate learners to relate the reading to their own experiences. Three inviting reading passages in each unit, all adapted from authentic sources, allow students to explore the theme in depth. The variety of original sources - including newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry - expose learners to a wide range of writing styles. Preview pages in every unit introduce new vocabulary and ask thought-provoking questions. There are also pre-reading activities, such as predicting and thinking...
ISBN: 978-0-521-55579-1
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Strategic Reading is a three-level series designed to develop reading, vocabulary-building, and critical-thinking skills. Strategic Reading Level 1 is a reading skills book that contains twelve thematic units, each with three high interest readings. All readings come from authentic sources and have been slightly adapted to be appropriate for study by intermediate-level students. Exercise material surrounding the readings builds students` vocabulary and develops their reading and critical thinking skills.
ISBN: 978-0-521-28112-6
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: июнь 2012
Claudia Walde spent over two years collecting alphabets by 154 artists from 30 countries. Each artist received the same brief: to design all 26 letters of the Latin alphabet within the limits of a single page of the book. The result is a unique typographical sourcebook featuring over 150 specially designed, original alphabets exclusive to this book.
ISBN: 978-0-500-51559-4
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: август 2011
A radical revision of the successful Streetwise course for teenagers, combining new material with the best of the original edition. - It appeals to teenagers through a modern, attractive magazine format and explores issues that teenagers want to talk about. Many of the topics have been revised and updated to keep the material fresh and relevant. - There is a thorough grammar syllabus. Grammar is taught in context - teaching points arise naturally from the reading or listening texts, showing how structures are really used. After every two units `Grammar review` and `Grammar practice` sections provide essential consolidation and further practice. - There is a balance of skills work throughout. Reading exercises have been added which...
ISBN: 978-0-194-33411-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This title is now available in paperback. Get up close and personal with the world`s best street photographers as they capture the drama of everyday life at 1 125 of a second. Prowl pavements and back alleys, encountering comic absurdities, small acts of kindness and scenes of unexpected beauty; let your eye be caught by a witty billboard, a woman dressed as an angel, a businessman sprinting through the crowd: the human carnival is in town and the streets are alive. Street Photography Now presents 46 contemporary image-makers noted for their candid depictions of everyday life. Included are Magnum masters such as Bruce Gilden, Martin Parr and Alex Webb, along with an international cast of emerging photographers whose individual...
ISBN: 978-0-500-28907-5
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: август 2011
This is a lavishly illustrated insider`s guide to street art that is both global in scope and in touch with local scenes. Featuring rare interviews with leading practitioners of the last thirty years, it includes work by artists such as Banksy, Blek le Rat, Futura 2000, Miss Van and Os Gemeos.
The next best thing to a year in Russia! Streetwise Russian with Audio CD offers you a unique opportunity to learn first-hand how Russian is actually spoken. With the help of more than 25 everyday dialogues performed by native speakers, you pick up on the idioms, colloquialisms, slang, and vulgarisms currently used by people from all walks of life. Fascinating features help explain the cultural attitudes behind many expressions. And exercises enable you to flex your comprehension and conversational skills. Includes one 75-minute audio CD.
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. Dr Mark Latto travels to California
ISBN: 978-0-521-69393-6
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Dr Mark Latto travels to California USA to learn about an alternative medical treatment from Deborah Spencer. But on arrival he finds that Deborah has died and the book she was writing about
ISBN: 978-0-521-69394-3
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: август 2011
This book features Grimshaw’s work from the late 1980s onwards, which has included some of Europe’s most prestigious commissions; in Berlin he is planning a new Stock Exchange, while in London he has built on the success of his printing plant for the Financial Times with his stunning new international railway terminal at Waterloo, which has been completed to wide acclaim.
ISBN: 0714834572
Издательство:
Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999
This groundbreaking undergraduate textbook on modern Standard English grammar is the first to be based on the revolutionary advances of the authors` previous work, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002), winner of the 2004 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award of the Linguistic Society of America. It is intended for students in colleges or universities who have little or no previous background in grammar, and requires no prior knowledge of linguistics.
ISBN: 978-0-521-61288-3
Издательство:
Cambridge
Дата выхода: август 2011
This volume forms part two of the two-stage successor to Sigue!. It shares the same aim of providing a practical, motivating and lively progression to Advanced Level Spanish. It is the student`s book, and features varied task formats, texts, and progression from a realistic starting point. The second edition also contains: a new unit on advanced study skills; regular development of study skills throughout; new units on the themes of modern Spain in the European context, education and career opportunities, work and technology, community relationships in the Hispanic societies, law and order, the environment, a dossier case study of Catalunya, and Spanish as a world language; factual background on aspects of Hispanic life and culture;...
"Chambers Students` Dictionary" gives lower intermediate learners of English the help they need, without overwhelming them with unnecessary information or too many details. Over 20 000 words and phrases and 23 000 examples of current English, supported by the British National Corpus. Over 1000 usage notes help students avoid common errors, and give opposites. Clear illustrations aid explanations, and help show the difference between words that can easily be confused.
ISBN: 0550107320
Издательство:
Chambers
Дата выхода: декабрь 1997
Concise and engaging, this book provides students of law with the fundamental knowledge, skills and techniques required to succeed on their course. Essential reading for both specialists and students on inter-disciplinary courses, the new edition incorporates changes resulting from the Treaty of Lisbon and the creation of the Supreme Court.
This is a complete course in study skills for students in further and higher education institutions. Skills taught include: improving reading efficiency; note-taking; preparing for seminars; research techniques; essay organization and presentation; exam preparation. One unit also deals with the social aspects of studying in Britain. The emphasis is on student activity and realistic practical work. To make the course as flexible as possible, suggestions are given in the Tutor`s Book for `full-time` and `minimum time` allocations within each unit. Full-time allocations give about 90 classroom hours; the shorter programme can be completed in about 50 hours. The Tutor`s Book also provides suggestions for further reading and answers to the...
ISBN: 978-0-521-46908-1
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Designed for beginners, this best-selling textbook provides a lively introduction to the study of language. Starting from the basics, it provides a solid foundation in all of the essential topics, and introduces the analysis of the key elements of language - sounds, words, structures and meanings. A wide range of fascinating questions are explored, such as how conversation works, how children learn language, why women and men speak differently, and how language varies between regions and social groups. This third edition has been extensively revised to include new sections on important contemporary issues in language study, including language and culture, African American English, sign language, and slang. A comprehensive glossary...
ISBN: 978-0-521-54320-0
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This course enables students from intermediate level upwards to develop the skills needed for English-medium study at post-secondary level. The main features of Study Tasks in English are: * A task-based approach. Whenever possible, students learn the skills they need through discovery and induction rather than telling. * Study skills and study competence. The course helps students to develop the underlying competence necessary for successful study - eg problem solving, thinking critically and creatively. * Awareness-building. Each unit ends with a self-assessment and application section, to help learners actively draw together the skills which they have focused on in the unit. * Study Practice in English. The Study Practice section...
ISBN: 978-0-521-42614-5
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge in the subject, Yule presents information in short, bite-sized sections, introducing the major concepts in language study - from how children learn language to why men and women speak differently, through all the key elements of language. This fourth edition has been revised and updated with twenty new sections, covering new accounts of language origins, the key properties of language, text messaging, kinship terms and more than twenty new word etymologies. To increase student engagement with the text, Yule has also included more than fifty new tasks, including thirty involving data analysis, enabling...
ISBN: 9780521749220
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Studying Law provides an introduction to law and demonstrates in a structured way the key skills needed to study the subject. This book introduces both the fundamental legal skills to the successful study of law and provides an overview of the key classifications of English law. It makes the material accessible through clarity of explanation rather than through the dilution of content. It covers both written and oral skills. It includes the reproduction of the relevant part of a law report, together with detailed analysis of its structure and how it should be and engaging, the text not only introduces the fundamental legal skills essential to the study of Law, but also provides an overview of the key classifications of English law. The...
Photographs from the Internet phenomenon clearly demonstrate the alphabet from A-Z by identifying all the stuff that is on the cat! This is the first Stuff on My Cat book for children!