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Скачать книгу (размер 2 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 516) Аннотация: In this remarkably wide-ranging book Professor Lowenthal analyses the ever-changing role of the past in shaping our lives. A heritage at once nurturing and burdensome, the past allows us to make sense of the present whilst imposing powerful constraints upon the way that present develops. Some aspects of the past are celebrated, others expunged, as each generation reshapes its legacy in line with…

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Intonation in Context is for upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English who want to improve their intonation. It aims to make learners aware of the main features of intonation and provides enjoyable activities for both controlled and freer practice in a range of conversational situations. Intonation is presented as a system which has an important communicative function in any interaction…

Скачать книгу (размер 636 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 126) Аннотация: This is a practical guide to designing and using oral tests of language ability. It is for teachers, testers, course designers and educational planners. The organisation follows the sequence of stages in which a new testing programme would logically be carried out. It takes the reader through the testing process, giving practical examples and discussing the issues involved at each stage. Testing…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This is a practical guide for practising teachers of English and teachers in training. It offers teachers a rationale and a variety of imaginative techniques for integrating literature work with language teaching. It is divided into three sections: Part I discusses the questions: Why teach literature? What should we teach? How should we teach it?; Part II outlines and illustrates a wealth of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Recognizing that teachers are often involved in planning and developing courses as part of their responsibilities, the authors of this book have set out to describe the factors which must be considered in constructing courses and materials. They cover: the fact-finding stage, establishing realistic goals, surveying existing programmes, realizing goals through instructional plans, selecting the…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Teachers and writers describe the approaches and techniques they have incorporated into their own teaching. The paperback edition is designed to help classroom teachers make language classes more participatory and communication oriented. A distinguished group of innovative teachers and writers describe, in a collection of essays, the approaches and techniques they have incorporated into their own…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This is a practical guide for teachers on how to select, organise and teach vocabulary to all levels of students. It discusses the linguistic and psychological theories relevant to vocabulary learning, describes with clear examples traditional and current methods of presentation and practice, and suggests ways of assessing and supplementing the vocabulary component of coursebooks. Working with…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 236) Аннотация: This book is designed to give language teachers a basis for introducing a cultural component into their teaching. The paperback edition is a collection of selected essays that attempts to provide language teachers with a basis for introducing a cultural component into their teaching. It includes essays written especially for the volume, as well as some that have been previously published.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This is a practical guide to communication activities in the language classroom, suitable for use with students from elementary to advanced level. Part I contains instructions for over 100 different exercises, including interviews, guessing games, jigsaw tasks, problem solving, values clarification techniques, mime, role play and story telling. For each activity, notes are also provided on the…

Скачать книгу (размер 626 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 124) Аннотация: Provides a wide variety of interesting and up to date reading material from British and American sources. It also offers challenging exercises and concentrates on developing rather than testing reading ability. This is the teacher text which accompanies the student text.

Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: Teaching Listening Comprehension is about developing listening comprehension skills in the language classroom. In Part I, some essential background issues are dealt with. The author defines the characteristics of real-life listening, analyses the problems encountered by language learners, and discusses the considerations involved in planning successful classroom listening practice. Part II…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: In these essays, written (with one exception) between 1978 and 1982, Immanuel Wallerstein elaborates on the political and theoretical implications of the world-systems perspective outlined in his celebrated books The Modern World-System and The Capitalist World-Economy. Whereas those books centred on the historical development of the modern world-system, the essays in this volume explore the…

Скачать книгу (размер 616 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 122) Аннотация: In Foreign and Second Language Learning, William Littlewood surveys recent research into how people acquire languages and considers its relevance for language teaching. He describes the most important studies and ideas about first language acquisition, and how these have influenced and developed into studies of second language acquisition. He considers the background of language theories which…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Cambridge Proficiency Examination Practice 1 contains five complete sets of authentic past papers from the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate issued in recent years for the Cambridge Proficiency Examination. The practice tests are reproduced in exactly the same form as in the examination itself. The accompanying cassettes contain the recorded material and instructions for the…

Скачать книгу (размер 667 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 132) Аннотация: Stories can provide a highly motivating, engaging and realistic source of genuine language interaction in the classroom. They are 'living language' in which the teacher (or student storyteller) becomes the source of language, and the listeners are actively involved in understanding. The authors argue from experience that almost everyone can tell stories convincingly, especially given an outline…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in diffeent places. Volume I provides a synthesizing introduction, which shows how accents vary not only geographically, but also with social class, formality, sex and age; and in volumes 2 and 3 the author examines in greater depth the various accents used by people who speak English as their mother tongue: the accents…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: How can you make a discussion really work? What sort of activities produce genuine and enthusiastic exchanges of ideas? How can you prepare such exercises quickly and easily? These are some of the questions that Discussions that Work sets out to answer. The first part provides some general guidelines on the organisation of successful task-centred activities. The second part consists of some fifty…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: This book is the first critical survey of the development and achievements of 'modern' Arabic poetry, here signifying the period from the latter half of the nineteenth century to the present day. It ranges over the entire Arabic-speaking world and includes a discussion of the work of poets who emigrated to the United States and Latin America. Four main stages are examined in the development of a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 584) Аннотация: The initial steps which led to the founding of the great educational institutions of the world are known in very few instances. Seldom was any record even made of them, their significance not being recognized when the events occurred. The author of this work, Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, was intimately connected with the persons and events involved in the founding of the University of Chicago in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 222) Аннотация: In addition to the traditional emphasis at this level on skills development, The Cambridge CAE Course focuses on other areas of language such as pronunciation, vocabulary extension, functional language and style. The Self-study Student's Book contains introductory notes on the CAE papers and self-study techniques, together with annotated keys and tapescripts.