Enjoying Stories 1 is the first in a three book series for junior-middle secondary.
It provides a rich and varied selection of contemporary and classic short stories for junior secondary students. Each story is accompanied by questions and activities that focus on the content of the story and explore particular features of short story writing.
Existentialism is commonly associated with Left-Bank Parisian cafes and the 'family' of philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir who gathered there in the years immediately following the liberation of Paris at the end of World War II. One imagines offbeat, avant-garde intellectuals, attached to their cigarettes, listening to jazz as they hotly debate the implications of their new-found political and artistic liberty. The mood is one of enthusiasm, creativity, anguished self-analysis, and freedom – always freedom.
Quick Work is a short course in Business English that providels material for approximately 30 hours of classroom teaching. Is very suitable for an intensive course and focuses on user's practical needs. Topics covered: Organisations, visitors and visits, sharing ideas (at the meeting), exchanging information (e-mails, phone calls), solving problems (products, advertising). Grammar brush up exercises.
This volume is designed to present biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on Hemingway's best-known or most important short stories. Following Harold Bloom's editor's note and introduction is a detailed biography of Ernest Hemingway, discussing major life events and important literary accomplishments. A plot summary of each short story follows, tracing significant themes, patterns, and motifs in the work, and an annotated list of characters supplies brief information on the main characters in each story.
