Скачать книгу (размер 2 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 484) Аннотация: In 1843, after three years of voyaging in the South Seas, Melville signed up as an ordinary seaman on the man-of-war United States, and headed for home. What he observed on that trip formed the basis of White-Jacket, a success both as a story and as an expose of certain naval practices of which the public was only dimly aware. Melville's subtitle, The World in a Man-of-War, points to its broad…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: A moving tale of a young woman caught between the attractions of two very different men, set in the time of Napoleon, against the tensions of wartime. As the author depicts Sylvia's fateful decision to marry one man while loving the other, she deftly interweaves the eternal themes of jealousy, unrequited love, and the consequences of individual choice.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 476) Аннотация: Wilkie Collin's intriguing story about a blind girl, Lucilla Finch, and the identical twins who both fall in love with her, has the exciting complications of his better known novels, but it also overturns conventional expectations. Using a background of myth and fairy-tale to expand the boundaries of nineteenth century realist fiction, Collins not only takes a blind person as his central…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 524) Аннотация: This is a reissue of the previous World's Classics edition in the new, larger format and with the series name changed to Oxford World's Classics.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Sybilla considered beauty as all in all. And this child — her child and Angus's, would be a deformity on the face of the earth, a shame to its parents, a dishonour to its race. First published in 1850, Olive traces its eponymous heroine's progress from her ill-starred birth to maturity as a painter and wife. The crippled child of parents who are disgusted by her physical imperfection, a curvature…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: A five-level course for 10-15 year olds, based on the highly popular and innovative Project English, incorporating a new structure and design, complete revision of the original material, plus substantial new material.
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: A five-level course for 10-15 year olds, based on the highly popular and innovative Project English, incorporating a new structure and design, complete revision of the original material, plus substantial new material.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This work gives detailed examples of classrom activities that exploit the language-learning opportunities the Internet offers. They include searching on the Web, evaluating Web pages, creating language learning material and communicating using the Internet. A companion website provides regular updates to the information and ideas in the book.
Скачать книгу (размер 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 156) Аннотация: This accessible book examines issues such as test design, the rating process, validity, measurement, and the social dimension of language testing. It looks at both traditional and newer forms of language assessment, and the challenges posed by new views.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Phelim was the only one, they said, the only one who could save the world from the Hatchlings of the Stoor Worm. The Stoor Worm, who had been asleep for aeons, since it was vanquished by the hero, Assipattle, was beginning to waken. It was the booming of the guns, the cries of the wounded, the dreadful sounds of war that had woken it, and now its Hatchlings were abroad to terrorize the people who…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: A story-based course that introduces young children to English first through listening and speaking, and then provides a gentle introduction to reading and writing.
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Happy Street is a two-level course for children starting English at the beginning of the school system. Together with songs, chants, games, and listening activities, Happy Street 1 offers an accessible introduction to reading and writing and is suitable for use either as the children's first contact with English or after an oral-aural introduction. The Activity Book offers a wide range of aural…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Happy Street is a two-level course for children starting English at the beginning of the school system. Together with songs, chants, games, and listening activities, Happy Street 1 offers an accessible introduction to reading and writing and is suitable for use either as the children's first contact with English or after an oral-aural introduction. The Class Book uses appealing songs, chants, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: Happy Street is a two-level course for children starting English at the beginning of the school system. Together with songs, chants, games, and listening activities, Happy Street 1 offers an accessible introduction to reading and writing and is suitable for use either as the children's first contact with English or after an oral-aural introduction. The Teacher's Book provides full, clear teaching…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 350 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 266) Аннотация: This book advocates a new approach to pronunciation teaching, in which the goal is mutual intelligibility among non-native speakers, rather than imitating native speakers. It will be of interest to all teachers of English as an International Language, especially Business English. It proposes a basic core of phonological teaching, with controversial suggestions for what should be included.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 228 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 242) Аннотация: This book has two related purposes. The first is to demonstrate the extent and importance of language play in human life; the second is to draw out the implications for applied linguistics and language teaching. Language play should not be thought of as a trivial or peripheral activity, but as central to human thought and culture, to learning, creativity, and intellectual enquiry. It fulfils a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This book discusses the need for foreign language programmes to teach literacy. It suggests approaches to curriculum development using a wide range of modern media texts such as newspapers, music videos, and film as a basis for cultural analysis.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This student text complements the revised edition of Literature, Criticism, & Style by focusing on the skills of analysis and close reading which are necessary for work with unseen texts. To reflect the new emphasis on topic areas or perspectives, the material is organized thematically. Mini-anthologies of prose, poetry, drama and non-fiction, including some written pre-1770, are accompanied by a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: What's the singular of paparazzi? Is graffiti singular or plural? What about kudos? Should I say empathic or empathetic? Is it a couple of dozen or a couple dozen? What's the correct pronunciation of concierge? Or schism? Or flaccid? In this book of crisp, precise, and often witty pronouncements on modern American English, Bryan Garner decisively answers these and thousands of other questions…
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