Pete and Nicky are staying at Oldstone Hall. It is midnight, and they are sleeping. There is a noise. "What is it?" says Pete. Pete and Nicky go upstairs. Two men suddenly run past them. One man drops a book. "Look as this book", says Nicky.
The book tells about a secret room. But where is it? And why do the men want to find it?
The stories The Secret of Oldstone Hall are carefully graded and are written for young teenagers.
This essential resource contains 24 picture stories each accompanied by a variety of mixed-skills tasks, culminating in the students writing their own version of the story. The stories cover various genres including reportage, human interest stories and comedy. A CD with transcripts and interviews is also provided. Those act as models for the students before preparing their own interviews and stories.
Ideal for improving fluency, this title also offers vocabulary building exercises such as cloze tests, word puzzles and matching tasks.
Terence Gargiulo's 'breakthrough' communications and storytelling are
amply demonstrated with dozens of corporate examples. And the best
part? Gargiulo shows us, step by step, how to create this storytelling
communication magic in our own organizations. The competencies assessed
by the instrument represent the nine essential communication behaviors
that need to be developed and cultivated in all of today’s leaders and
managers: Modeling, Telling, Selecting, Indexing, Synthesizing,
Reflecting, Eliciting, Listening and Observing.
Once Upon a Time
will show you how to develop exceptional communication skills, and it
will serve as an invaluable resource for helping others do the same.
Stories are a natural part of how we communicate. Yet many of us are
unaware of the different ways we use stories. This book will take the
intuitive aspects of communicating through stories and break it down
into repeatable practices and essential competencies. The story-based
activities in the second half of the book will give you powerful, easy
to lead, structured, experiential exercises that can be used in a
variety of settings and for lots of different purposes that go beyond
training.
Added by: peterpan216 | Karma: 22.07 | Fiction literature | 20 March 2008
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The Sprawl trilogy (also Neuromancer trilogy, Cyberspace trilogy) is William Gibson's first set of novels, composed of Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986) and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988).
The novels are all set in the same fictional future, and subtly interlinked by shared characters and themes (which are not always readily apparent). The Sprawl trilogy shares this setting with Gibson's short stories "Johnny Mnemonic", "New Rose Hotel" and "Burning Chrome", and events and characters from the stories appear in or are mentioned at points in the trilogy.
Трёхлетний мальчик случайно падает в клетку с гориллой и его спасает мама. Мама-горилла!
Официантка в кафе вместо чаевых получает выигрышный лотерейный билет - на 6 миллионов долларов!
Четырнадцать исключительно интересных, смешных, весёлых, трогательных историй, написанных простым языком и сопровождаемых понятными иллюстрациями, тщательно отоборанных из журналов и газет и максимально адаптированных для начинающих - всё в настоящем времени. Все истории - правдивы!
Предтекстовые стимулирующие интерес вопросы и задания, собственно истории, где практически к каждому предложению дана картинка, задания на закрепление, на понимание, на спеллинг, на письмо, на обсуждение прочитанного... Рекомендую в качестве первой книги для чтения на английском для тех, кто учил язык "мало, но давно" :)
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A three-year-old boy falls 18 feet into a gorilla cage and is saved by a mother - a mother gorilla, that is!A waitress finds a lottery ticket for a tip, instead of cash. And she wins six million dollars! Fourteen very low-level stories of high-level interest?humorous, poignant, astounding?and all true! Selected from newspapers and magazines, and adapted for the beginning student, the stories are told as simply as possible - exclusively in the present tense. First, students see a series of captioned pictures so the meaning is clear. Then, students read the story in text form for real reading practice. Finally, students do exercises following each story to develop very basic reading skills as well as build pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary proficiency. VERY EASY TRUE STORIES is an ideal first text for students with little or no experience with EnglishThe universal appeal of these real-life, human-interest stories engages beginning ESL students with humor, poignancy, or astonishment, and helps them to become fluent readers
