Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog: On Writers and Writing
In Where the Southern Cross the Yellow Dog, award-winning author Louis D. Rubin, Jr., discusses writing and writers based on his own experience as a writer, editor, teacher, and publisher. Only ten years old when he wrote his first article for publication and eighty-one when he completed the preface to this book, Rubin skillfully incorporates more than seventy years of knowledge and experience into this comprehensive and highly readable work.
Incorporating a wealth of practice exercises and high-interest readings, READING FOR THINKING focuses on improving reading skills at the "micro-level" and moving on to the "macro-level." Over half of the book is devoted to evaluating, drawing inferences, and identifying tone, bias, and purpose. The Seventh Edition continues to focus on developing students' comprehension and critical-thinking skills.
This book consists of collocations, that is words that go together. It is a very important book which teaches us that it would be incorrect to say " hire a house" because we usually "rent a house". There are three books of "Key words for fluency". This one is intermediate but it will be interesting for all level students, I am sure.
Англо-русский словарь современной деловой разговорной лексики
Словарь содержит около 18000 сленговых и разговорных слов и выражений современного английского языка, используемых в деловой среде общения. Словарь предназначен для бизнесменов, имеющих тесные контакты с зарубежными коллегами, переводчиков, а также будет полезен всем тем, кто интересуется английским языком для делового общения.
Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge, and principles necessary to understand and construct language tests.This intensely practical book gives guidelines on the design of assessments within the classroom, and provides the necessary tools to analyze and improve assessments, as well as deal with alignment to externally imposed standards. Testing is situated both within the classroom and within the larger social context, and readers are provided the knowledge necessary to make realistic and fair decisions about the use and implementation of tests.
