Ever been lost for words abroad? Impress your friends with a plethora of multi-lingual profanity from this nifty pocket book. Education's never been such fun.
When you go on holiday abroad, it’s important to be able to communicate with the natives. It’s useful to know, for example, whether the policeman who is trying to bundle you into the back of a van with his truncheon up your arse is calling you a b*st*rd or a c*nt. With this book, you will not only be able to understand him, but you’ll also be able to retort in a suitably charming manner.
Many wars have started due to language barriers. Do your bit for international accord and learn to speak in their tongue. Just make sure you wash your mouth out afterwards.
John Banville finally won the Man Booker prize in 2005 with this
beautifully crafted and brief novel (nearly a novella) about the
pleasures and sorrows associated with the play of language, memory and
secrecy. Although Banville is often considered a literary descendant of
Nabokov, with his love of rich mellifluous language and obscure
diction, he might be more comfrotably compared to other great Irish
writers such as James Joyce and Elizabeth Bowen, who also share
Banville's evident pleasure at (and grace with) the pliancy and luxury
of words. THE SEA might be an expected, yet disappointing choice for
winning Banville the Booker, given that its plot so closely apes the
structure of one of the most crowdpleasing of all narrative arcs of
highbrow fiction from the last forty years. Here yet again, a
disappointed elderly narrator looks back to the magical encounter in
childhood that forever fired the imagination but also implicated him
(or her) in guilt when it led inevitably to a terrible and deadly
error. Banville's is an odder variant of this formula -- which goes at
least as far back as L. P. Hartley's THE GO-BETWEEN, and was recently
repeated in Ian McEwan's much loved ATONEMENT -- in the fundamental
dislikeability of all his major characters, a Banville trademark. This
causes the stakes of the life-changing incident, and its effect upon
the narrator, to seem much less shattering than in Hartley's or
McEwan's novels; the repetition of the formula also makes this novel
seem much less fresh than in Banville's other works (which often are
similarly concerned with the encounters between cruelty and innocence).
But Banville is always worth reading if only for his grace with
language and with narrative construction: THE SEA is, as usual,
beautifully crafted in every formal sense.
TEFL/TESL: Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language
This publication was designed for use by Peace Corps Volunteers with no previous teaching experience. It combines general teaching practices with specific language teaching techniques, and outlines and assesses each of the major, commonly used approaches to language instruction. Sessions cover techniques for teaching grammar and the four basic language skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing), including lesson planning and testing. Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Large Multilevel Classes
This manual draws on suggestions from Volunteers working under difficult conditions with limited resources. It offers ideas and activities to help teachers deal with very large classes or a lack of textbooks. It also addresses such issues as student interests and needs, classroom management, theme-based lesson planning, the national curricula, and resistance to group work. It aids Volunteers in creating classrooms where students are given opportunities to think critically, work cooperatively, and enjoy the experience of learning. Volunteer On-Going Language Learning Manual
People learn languages at different rates and in different ways. This book can help individuals develop strategies for increasing their language competency, discover how they learn best, and continue self-directed language learning after formal training.
Все три книги будут хорошим подспорьем для начинающих преподавателей английского языка. Книги выложены в свободный доступ на сайте Peace Corps.
All three manuals were available for free download at from Peace Corps website (not any more), now new download links were added.
Anatomy and Physiology for English Language Learners
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Этот новый учебный курс предназначен для медработников, изучающих английский язык. В нём вы найдёте введение в основы анатомии и физиологии. Каждая глава посвящена отдельной теме, с большим количеством иллюстраций, адаптированным материалом для чтения, списком часто употребляющейся лексики. В конце книги приводятся проверочные тесты.
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Designed for English Language Learners who are entering the health-care field or preparing for college-level science courses, this new text provides an introduction to basic anatomy and physiology.
