Welcome 1, 2 and 3 are designed for children learning English at primary level. The moderate grading of the syllabus enables pupils to use English effectively while developing all four language skills.
Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore (for Babylon)
Dragons to Mother Goose, May Day to Michaelmas, this reference work is an absorbing and entertaining guide to English folklore. It is also an authoritative reference source on such legendary characters as Cinderella, Jack the Giant Killer, and Robin Hood. It gives entertaining and informative explanations of a wide range of subjects in folklore: oral and performance genres such as cheese rolling, morris dancing, and rushbearing; superstitions such as crossing fingers and wishbones; beliefs like fairy rings and frog showers; and calendar customs from April Fool's Day to St. Valentine's Day.
Crazy English by Richard Lederer
Fun with English language. Lederer books are the best the popular linguistics can offer. A journalist, teacher at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and public-radio commentator, Lederer ( Anguished English ; Get Thee to a Punnery ) again adroitly mixes instruction with hilarity by showing that English, though the richest and most widely used of all the world's languages, is "crazy." The text is a dazzling collection of anagrams, alliterations, idioms, illogical spelling rules (bough, ghost, honor, rhyme) and larky oxymora (Chaucer's classic "hateful good," today's "military intelligence," "postal service") . Verses, quizzes and anecdotes accompany Lederer's essays on "the antics of semantics," greatly expanding the pleasure of what he correctly claims is "the ultimate joy ride through our language." Doubleday Book Club and Literary Guild alternates; author tour.
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Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our LanguageAnguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed Up Metaphors...from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers, here is an outrageous treasury of assaults upon our common language that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter.
Children learn English while having fun! Three TELL ME MORE Kids titles, developed for children ages 4 - 12, are based entirely on speech recognition technology, making the program very interactive, progressive and amusing for children. 3 adventures adapted to the child's age Two friendly mascots will guide children through three different adventures and help them become acquainted with English while entertaining themselves.
