Цель книги - сформировать и развить навыки и умения подбора, перевода и извлечения информации из английских научно-технических текстов. Рассмотрены лексико-грамматические и лексико-семантические особенности научно-технической литературы, дана методика ее аннотирования, содержатся сведения о международных информационных службах, наиболее распространенные английские сокращения, общетехнические термины и другой справочный материал.
This series is specially designed for students from absolute beginner to intermediate level. Each book consists of five modules and provides systematic preparation in all four language skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing - required at these levels. The Student´s Book and the Workbook are designed to be covered in approximately 60 to 80 hours of classroom work.
The Visual Vocabulary Resources book provides teachers photo-word cards that visually introduce specific vocabulary. The photos are intended to preteach vocabulary to English learners and Approaching Level students in grade 1, as well as offer additional, meaningful language and concept support to these students.
A completely new Elementary edition from the world's best-selling adult English course, with new digital resources for 2011. The Fourth edition brings you fully revised and updated texts, topics, and artwork, and the 2011 resources make it the most digital-friendly edition yet. • New texts, topics, and design • Integrated-skills syllabus with a clear grammar focus
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Coursebooks | 6 August 2011
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Gardner's sympathetic On Becoming a Novelist is the novelist's ultimate comfort food--better than macaroni and cheese, better than chocolate. Gardner, a fiction writer himself (Grendel), knows in his bones the desperate questioning of a writer who's not sure he's up to the task. He recognizes the validation that comes with being published, just as he believes that "for a true novel there is generally no substitute for slow, slow baking."
