Аудиокурс, состоящий из диалогов, в которых повторяются простые английские идиомы и грамматические обороты. Удобный материал для дополнительных диктантов и аудирования.
Build reading skills with these readers theatre scripts of charming folktales and fables from around the world. Each of the 20 reproducible scripts has been evaluated using the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale and grouped into first, second, or third grade readability levels.
In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world first came to have a meaning in the minds of animals and how in humans this meaning eventually came to be expressed as language. He reviews a mass of evidence to show how close some animals, especially primates and more especially apes, are to the brink of human language. Apes may not talk to us but they construct rich cognitive representations of the world around them, and here, he shows, are the evolutionary seeds of abstract thought - the means of referring to objects, the memory of events, even elements of the propositional thinking philosophers have hitherto reserved for humans.
Bert and Nan dashed out of the train. The twins pushed their way through the crowd on the platform. "Hurry!" Bert exclaimed. "He went up those stairs!" When Bert and Nan reached the street, they looked around for the burly figure wanted by the police - but he was nowhere in sight.
The Bobbsey Twins - Bert and Nan, Freddie and Flossie - have won millins of fans since their first adventure. Now Grosst & Dunlap are proud to reissue the classic editions of these mysteries.
From the Preface: ROBERT WOODS BLISS began collecting Pre-Columbian art because he was lured by the beauty of the materials, the fineness of the craftsmanship, and the fascination of the iconography of the first Pre-Columbian objects hesaw. The Bliss Collection has been, since its beginning in 1912, primarily an estheticone - probably the first esthetically oriented collection of Pre-Columbian artifacts - so it seemed appropriate to organize a conference that would focus on a cross-cultural,art-historical approach. When we sought for a theme, the first that came to mind was that great unifying factor in Pre-Columbian cultures, the feline. Large cats such as the jaguar and puma preoccupied the artists and religious thinkers of the very earliest civilizations, the Olmec in Mesoamerica and Chaven in Peru. The feline continued to be an important theme throughout much of the New World until the European conquests. We are indebted to Barbara Braun for the title, “The Cult of the Feline.”
