Join In 3 Class CDs

The series that develops communication skills by focussing on what language to use and how to sound natural.
Each lesson follows a clear, easy to follow format that provides students with plenty of opportunities to listen to natural English and practise in pairs and groups. A Conversation Strategy section in every unit gets students to notice features of spoken English employed by English speakers in conversation, before practising it themselves.

Using English: Your Second Language

Using English: Your Second Language is intended as a main or supplementary textbook for college students or adults who have completed basic courses in English as a second language and are well on their way to effective communication in speech and writing. Students with a fairly high level of proficiency in English should be able to cover the material in a 40 to 50 hour course of study; students who still need considerable oral and written practice of basic structures will possibly need twice that amount of time. Although we expect that most intermediate and advanced students will be reasonably proficient in the language, we have nonetheless aimed at fairly complete coverage.

Pray for Silence

In the quiet town of Painters Mill, an Amish family of seven has been found brutally murdered on their farm. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder and her small force have few clues, no motive, and no suspect. Formerly Amish herself, Kate is no stranger to secrets, but she can’t get her mind around the senseless brutality of the crime.

An action story about Granny Fixit, a sad pirate and a crowd of multi¬coloured parrots.
When Jill and Ahmed find themselves by magic on a pirate ship they meet sad Pirate Bill. He has no pirate hat, treasure or parrot! But with Granny Fixit around no one stays sad for long!

In this Reader you will find:
-    Games and language activities
-    An audio recording of the story and the song
-    A picture dictionary

Level: below A1

 

Semantic Primes and Universal Grammar: Empirical evidence from the Romance languages

This volume is part of a research program which started with the publication, in 1972, of Anna Wierzbicka’s groundbreaking work on Semantic Primitives. The first within the program to focus on a number of typologically similar languages, it proposes a French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian version of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) elaborated over the years by Wierzbicka and colleagues. Repetition is avoided through teamwork: a number of authors working on the languages under examination have had equal input in a set of five papers dealing with distinct parts of the metalanguage.