La Grammaire pour le dire was written with two basic principles in mind: minimizing grammatical jargon and maximizing the use of authentic French through exposure to some of the best examples of French and Francophone literature. Wherever possible, the exercises are built on the use of excerpts from well-crafted literary texts that clearly exhibit the grammatical structures which are covered in a typical French grammar review course. The text reviews the verb conjugation concepts of voice, mood, and tense. It covers determiners, adjectives and adverbs, comparatives and superlatives, prepositions, conjunctions, and pronouns. Students can review direct and indirect reported speech and learn literary tenses. This second edition features a more concise presentation of material, fresh literary excerpts and exercises, and new images. La Grammaire pour le dire enhances the language learning experience by giving students exposure to the language as it is used by native speakers. The literary excerpts not only model grammatical structures, but also convey cultural knowledge.

A private detective is following the girl he is in love with. A former air force pilot, he is discovering some sides in the human nature he can't deal with. This book makes use of the ALARM Method to efficiently teach its readers Spanish words, sentences and dialogues. The audio tracks are available inclusive on www.lppbooks.com/Spanish/

Forensic science was one of Damien Morin's passions. However, the first real crime that he investigated led him to his own past. The audio tracks are available inclusive on www.audiolego.com/Spanish/Lopez/En/

Allez! Foundations in Beginning French uses a simple, innovative, and completely interactive method to teach elementary French. The goal is for students to become comfortable speaking and understanding the target language through a personal, highly engaged learning experience. Based on the premise that students learn a language best through direct communication with others, the book steers students away from audio recordings, videos, and online learning. Instead, it provides numerous opportunities for students to converse with each other through a variety of activities, such as dialogues, stories, cultural readings, tongue-twisters, word games, and famous quotes. Each chapter features Les Conversations Francaises, a series of student-directed, easy-to-evaluate, in-class skits that encourage students to have fun and experiment with the language without feeling intimidated by the need to be grammatically perfect. The second edition includes new content and improved pacing throughout, based on extensive class testing. More cultural material helps acquaint students with the French language as encountered in French-speaking countries other than France, and a completely refreshed layout highlights updated, enhanced images as well as a reorganization of content and topics. Allez! provides students with the information and practice they need to successfully master written and spoken beginning French. The text is ideal for introductory French classes at the community college or undergraduate level.

Successful communication in business requires more than the mastery of another language.Mohssen Esseesy's Al-Munjiz helps learners cultivate strategies for increasing language proficiency while building strong cultural awareness. It merges language instruction with lessons on how to design an appropriate resume, respond to a job advertisement, analyze energy and fuel markets, and otherwise navigate Arab business contexts. Through this thoughtful exposure to Arab professional life and culture, Esseesy crafts a well-rounded content-based textbook that promotes crucial critical thinking and problem solving skills for business competency. With chapter-modules that can be taught in any sequence, Al-Munjiz develops core competencies for advanced Arabic learners through six key business topics: Islamic banking, geography, employment, fuel and energy, e-commerce, and tourism. The textbook features authentic materials, case studies, business sources, and provides video interviews with prominent Arab business experts that enrich the comprehension of targeted topics (available on the publisher website). Al-Munjiz includes diverse types of exercises and activities, making the textbook ideal for linking the classroom with commerce for school, college and university, government, and private and professional language group instruction.

First German Medical Reader will give you the words and phrases necessary for helping patients making appointments, informing them of their diagnosis, and their treatment options. Medical specialties range from ENT to dentistry. The ALARM method utilize natural human ability to remember words used in texts repeatedly and systematically. The author composed each sentence using only words explained in previous chapters. Supplementary resources include the German/English and English/German dictionaries, audio tracks, the 1300 important German words. Use this book to take your German knowledge to the health professional's level. The audio tracks are available inclusive on www.lppbooks.com/German/FGMR/

In the process of second language acquisition, the ability to interact effectively is critical. But what does it mean to be interactively competent? This book addresses this question by presenting research on the development of interactional competence among learners of Japanese as a second language. Qualitative data collected on learners studying abroad in Japan is evaluated to explain changes in their interactional competence and provides specific insights into the learning of Japanese. The situated analysis of multiple data sets generates meaningful interpretations of the development of interactional competence in the development of interactional competence and the learner-specific factors that shape developmental trajectories. Moreover, the context of the research provides insights into the types of learning resources and experiences that study abroad provides to assist learners' in their progress towards becoming a competent speaker in the target community.

Without English to English to help you, could you*... 1. Receive a stiffie in Stamford? 2. Buy some broadloom in Bradford? 3. Get gazumped in Galveston? 4. Eat aragula in Aberdeen? 5. Go to the carsey in Cleveland? 6. Get your bangs trimmed in Belfast? This handy A to Z brings you bang up to date on over 2,000 commonly used English words that can cause confusion, chaos, red faces and even cost you money if you use them in the wrong way, in the wrong country ... especially for business and social purposes. So stick this guide in your pocket, briefcase or on your favourite electronic device ... and avoid ever making embarrassing goofs in this international English of ours, ever again. * (1.Yes, a stiffie is a formal invitation card. 2.Yes, as long as you called it fitted carpet. 3.Possibly: gazumping is a real estate term. 4. Yes, provided you asked for rocket (salad.) 5. Yes, as long as you want to go to the washroom. 6. Yes, but you'd need to ask them to trim your fringe.)

Carl Orff's selections of twenty-four "cantiones profanae" from the Middle Ages are explored in this illustrated, dual-language edition featuring the original Latin poems with facing translations and vocabulary, complete vocabulary, bibliography, and study materials. Also included is a literary translation by Jeffrey M. Duban. This new edition contains an additional seventeen original illustrations by Thom Kapheim.

This title has more than 80 engaging exercises, including exercises on 'correction of errors'. It treats language use exhaustively, especially on 'Concord' and 'punctuation'. It provides exciting, thought-provoking topics for all 'speech' activities. It includes Live Samples of day-to-day language use from famous novels. It includes a list of mannerism to avoid, Sample Electronic CV in addition to several others, and topical events and activities such as RTI, stress, self-esteem.

This book presents a comprehensive review of previous research on lexical inferencing, co-authored by Kirsten Haastrup, and a major new trilingual study of lexical inferencing by both first (L1) and second language (L2) readers. Research since the 1970s on this apparently universal cognitive process in L2 reading and vocabulary learning is surveyed, including the kinds of knowledge and textual cues L2 readers use when inferring unknown word meanings, factors influencing their success and knowledge retention, and relevant theory. A comparative study of L1 and L2 lexical inferencing by Persian and French and English speakers is then presented, focusing on evidence of L1 transfer in the L2 inferencing process, its success and readers' gains in L2 word knowledge. Influences of the specific L1 are distinguished from those of native versus non-native proficiency, relative cultural familiarity of texts, readers' L2 proficiency, text language features and other factors. The relative typological distance between readers' L1 and L2 is reflected in systematic differences between L1 speakers of Persian and French in their L2 lexical inferencing. Implications are drawn for L2 instruction at advanced levels.

Based on participant observation in a California English as a Second Language family literacy program, this ethnographic study examines how the complexly gendered life histories of immigrant adults shaped their participation in both the English language classroom and the education of their children, within the contemporary sociohistorical context of increasing Latin American immigration to the United States. Through outlining the connections between (gendered) identity work and language learning, this study builds theoretical and empirical justification for teachers to negotiate classroom practice with each community of learners, responding to students' individual goals, histories, and lives outside the classroom.

First time in book form! A successful program for teaching 3,500 vocabulary words that successful people need to know, based on America's #1 bestselling audio vocabulary series.

"People judge you by the words you use." Millions of Americans know this phrase from radio and print advertising for the Verbal Advantage audio series, which has sold over 100,000 copies. Now this bestselling information is available for the first time in book form, in an easy-to-follow, graduated vocabulary building program that teaches an outstanding vocabulary in just ten steps.

Unlike other vocabulary books, Verbal Advantage provides a complete learning experience, with clear explanations of meanings, word histories, usages, pronunciation, and more. Far more than a cram session for a standardized test, the book is designed as a lifetime vocabulary builder, teaching a vocabulary shared by only the top percentage of Americans, with a proven method that helps the knowledge last.

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This workbook is designed to help students practice and review general study skills. This is a content-based text, and all the examples, readings, and exercises are based on the topic of blizzards. Each unit features activities that teach and practice a new study skill and then review skills taught in previous units. Study skills featured in this workbook are: pre-reading strategies like brainstorming and mental mapping; SQRW (Survey-Question-Read-Write); understanding word meanings; understanding timelines, maps, tables, and charts/graphs; outlining; summary writing; reading for a purpose; and test-taking strategies. The reading passages also reinforce reading development, and because of the importance of reading to overall academic success, according to the research, several study skills focus on developing reading skills. Because all readers--no matter what they read--will encounter passages that are difficult and words they do not know or text that they do not understand, students need to have a variety of strategies at their disposal to help them. This book gives students practice in these basic and important strategies as well as other skills necessary for academic success.

This integrated reader and multi-skills workbook is designed to teach, review, and expand students' reading skills, study skills, vocabulary, and grammar. A major focus of "Forces of Nature, Wildfires" is on writing skills, and each unit contains one free-writing activity and one major writing task. Grammar is reviewed in writing activities and in Language in Use sections. Each reading passage is supported by pre-reading activities, including a vocabulary preview and post-reading activities. Vocabulary is recycled throughout the exercises in the book. Many speaking and pair work activities round out this skills review text. The "Forces of Nature "workbooks combine high-interest readings with skills development activities. Each of the five workbooks features a different skills focus--reading, vocabulary, grammar, study skills, and multi-skill review with writing activities. Each content-based workbook also focuses on a different force of nature--earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes and floods, blizzards, and wildfires. These events were selected because they allow students to develop an understanding of natural events that threaten property, ways of life, and lives. Because information about preparing for a disaster is sometimes unavailable or not at a level that is understandable to some of today's students, tips for surviving each "force of nature "are presented at the end of each workbook.

This book features an ideal linguistic and cultural preparation for anyone planning to study Spanish abroad, covering culture, society, education, young people, work and health. "Pasaporte al Mundo Hispano Segunda Edicion" is an advanced Spanish language course designed specifically to prepare students linguistically and culturally for their year abroad. The chapters and exercises build up students' linguistic competence by working with texts and voices from different parts of the Spanish speaking world, as well as developing traditional linguistic skills.The second edition of this bestselling textbook has been completely rewritten. Each chapter includes exercises based on: authentic Spanish and Latin American texts; a variety of grammatical topics; English texts for translation into Spanish; audio and video recordings of different Hispanic voices; and, a range of simulations, role plays, debates, etc.Chapters cover themes of the Hispanic World such as culture, society, education, young people, work and health. Using a variety of primary sources, "Pasaporte al Mundo Hispano Segunda Edicion" is the ideal practical textbook for advanced students of Spanish.

Reading and Speaking about Russian Newspapers is a textbook for advanced-level Russian language students. Newspaper articles of general interest serve as the basis for numerous exercises intended to help the student gain an active knowledge of the vocabulary and phraseology characteristic of written and spoken Russian and essential for reading and communicating in Russian at an advanced level. Special attention is devoted to word formation and the use of new vocabulary and phraseologies in their typical contexts.

A review vocabulary list at the end of each lesson indicates words the student is expected to master in each lesson, and a cumulative vocabulary list at the end of the text shows where each item occurs. The grammatical supplements to the text (the basic meanings of verbal prefixes, the basic types of Russian verbs, and a thorough review of the formation and use of verbal adverbs and adjectives) provide the necessary reference material for this text.

The accompanying workbook contains written homework exercises for the reinforcement of new material in each lesson. Previous editions of this text have been received favorably by Russian language instructors both in the USA and in Russia.

Active learning for speaking, reading, and writing in French Theme et Variations: An Introduction to French Language and Culture provides functional instruction for first-year French students. Teaching basic speaking, listening, reading, and writing, each lesson is built around a theme to provide context for new skills. Mini-dialogues and oral exercises are supported by English grammar explanations, and examples and exercises illustrate proper usage while encouraging student practice. This Fourth Edition has been revised for clarity relevancy, providing an immersive real-world experience that facilitates language retention.