Added by: senechka | Karma: 27.18 | Black Hole | 6 December 2009
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As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word ‘set’ has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly...
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Reading Extra: A Resource Book of Multi-Level Skills Activities
Added by: dovesnake | Karma: 1384.51 | Black Hole | 4 December 2009
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Reading Extra is a photocopiable resource book designed for use with young adults (16+) and adults. It contains over 50 easy-to-prepare activities for elementary, intermediate and upper-intermediate level. The material offers teachers a refreshing approach to 18 familiar topics and can easily be used to supplement existing coursebooks.
There are many types of listening and speaking activities in the book. Most of the units include word pairs that contrast two sounds. Word pairs are pairs of words, such as night and light, that are the same except for one sound. If your first language does not have one or both of the different sounds in the word pair, practicing the word pairs can help you learn to hear - and produce - the two different sounds.
Who's Whose?: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words
Added by: annabelle_lee | Karma: 428.14 | Black Hole | 26 November 2009
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Have you ever been fazed by the spelling of phased, or fretted over the difference between anxiety and angst, stationery and stationary? If so, you are not alone: the English language is a minefield, full of words that look and sound alike but mean different things in different places.
Who’s Whose? is an entertaining and essential A to Z guide to the most commonly confused words in English today, with real examples of good and bad usage to make differences crystal clear.
This book uses many authentic sources such as factual texts, newspaper articles, features and TV schedules, instruction manuals, everyday signs, stories, quizzes, emails and diary entries. Students are encouraged to read material on different levels and in different ways, such as reading for gist, scanning, skimming, comprehension, analysing structure, summarising and shadow reading.
Not only for reading comprehension - but for extra creativity during lessons.
