Grammar as Style is a study of grammatical patterns and the way they work in the hands of contemporary professional writers. It is addressed to anyone interested in stylistic theory and practice. I hope it will find readers among teachers and prospective teachers of English; students of composition, creative writing, grammar, literature, stylistics, and literary criticism; and writers outside the classroom who are interested in studying professional techniques.
Content-Area Conversations: How to Plan Discussion-Based Lessons for Diverse Language Learners is a practical, hands-on guide to creating and managing environments that spur sophisticated levels of student communication, both oral and written. Teachers at any grade level, in any content area, will find a wide variety of strategies in this book to help students simultaneously learn English and learn in English. Drawing both on decades of research data and on the authors real-life experiences as teachers of English language learners, this book is replete with ideas for fostering real academic discourse in classrooms.
A course which bridges the gap between FCE level and the revised Proficiency exam. Towards Proficiency can be used both as an exam preparation course and a general advanced course.
This manual is intended for use by students working alone or as supplementary drill material in a class. The level of difficulty is intermediate. It is assumed that the student has control of the basic grammatical structures of the language but has not attained great fluency. This book and its companion volume (The Key to English Prepositions 2) are designed to acquaint the learner of English with as many as possible of the most useful grammatical patterns and idioms involving prepositions in everyday English. Usages that are restricted to formal or oratorical style have been omitted except where they have been included to point out a contrast.
A new course with a strong focus on student motivation and communicative outcomes.
A MultiROM has interactive listening, vocabulary, and pronunciation practice activities, plus useful self-study documents such as wordlists, learning records, and progress trackers.
It also has all the Workbook listening and pronunciation audio
