Watch Your Tongue: What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean
Phrases, idioms, and clichés—why do we say the things we say? Watch Your Tongue explores weird and wonderful everyday sayings and what they reveal about us. In Watch Your Tongue, award-winning author Mark Abley explores the phrases, idioms, and clichés of our everyday language. With wit and subtle wisdom, he unravels the mysteries of these expressions, illuminating the history, tradition and stories behind everything we say. Pulling examples from Shakespeare’s plays to sports team names, ancient Rome to Twitter, Abley shares samples and anecdotes of the eccentric ways that we play with, parse, and pattern language...
New design: updated, clear and simple with 100% new photos. New structure: 100% new readings, 80% new activities, all integrated in each thematic units as well as more Writing production. New contextualisation: a spiral structure helps contextualise learning, linguistic content and activities. New Projects: each new project can be achieved online or offline. Students will be guided about how to achieve their goals throughout the units. New CLIL and CULTURE sections: every 2 units, one page on social and cultural themes. Students relate to their own experience and local reality.
Visual Guide to Grammar and Punctuation A clear, precise, and comprehensive book that will give children the tools to build confidence in reading, writing, and comprehension through visual explanation. From when to use a preposition or pronoun to how to use a comma or colon, Visual Guide to Grammar and Punctuation covers all the most important grammar topics in DK's signature style. Each example provided is supported by a picture, making it accessible and comprehensible, and clear and simple text and repetition help to solidify knowledge and understanding...
