Big Surprise! captivates classes with a rich variety of stories and story-telling options including story cards and animations. Each level has six beautifully illustrated stories that explore different genres from traditional fables and fairy tales to modern action-adventure. Build a solid language base. Extra communication activities and games provide practice in all skills and the real-life photo-stories help bring useful everyday phrases in English to life. Guided writing activities consolidate language, and speaking activities give students the opportunity to personalize language in meaningful contexts. Engaging cross-curricular and culture content.
Filthy English: The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Other | 7 November 2020
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Filthy English: The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing
Peter Silverton gives us a well-researched history of cursing, debunking many myths along the way, so that use of the (very funny) index makes this a handy reference for all those 'Where did the word - come from?' arguments. And who would have thought it of Emily Bronte? There are forays into effing on record (long, long before rap) and blinding around the world (from Canadian churches to the Russian underground).
Watch Your Tongue: What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean
Phrases, idioms, and clichés—why do we say the things we say? Watch Your Tongue explores weird and wonderful everyday sayings and what they reveal about us. In Watch Your Tongue, award-winning author Mark Abley explores the phrases, idioms, and clichés of our everyday language. With wit and subtle wisdom, he unravels the mysteries of these expressions, illuminating the history, tradition and stories behind everything we say. Pulling examples from Shakespeare’s plays to sports team names, ancient Rome to Twitter, Abley shares samples and anecdotes of the eccentric ways that we play with, parse, and pattern language...
Glance inside a few people's lives, and you soon find loneliness and disappointment, self-hate, and despair. The people in these stories are paralysed: locked into the circles of their everyday lives, where they are caught waiting between life and death
