Newsademic nr 226 – British and American English edition (with activities) 26 June 2014
Newsademic is an easy-to-understand international newspaper, written and edited in a style that assists English Language teaching and learning. Newsademic is a fortnightly publication (20 articles) and associated website. Both British and American English versions of the newspaper are available. The easy-to-read newspaper features the top world news stories that have made headlines during the previous two weeks.
A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists is an invaluable tool for all learners of American English, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language. The dictionary is based on data from a 385-million-word corpus
Popular genre fiction written by Asian American women and featuring Asian American characters gained a market presence in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These “crossover” books—mother-daughter narratives, chick lit, detective fiction, and food writing—attempt to bridge ethnic audiences and a broader reading public. In Asian American Women's Popular Literature, Pamela Thoma considers how these books both depict contemporary American-ness and contribute critically to public dialogue about national belonging.
The Longman Photo Dictionary of American English uses clear, contemporary color photos to make new words easy to remember! More than 3,000 words are grouped contextually in 94 different topics from everyday life.
This collection of stories, poems, scenes from hit plays, parodies, and feuds, lovingly compiled by a recognized authority in the field, happily intermingles the best humor of recent years with a few rib-ticklers from the past.Major wits and raconteurs too numerous to mention here enliven these pages.The pleasure is all yours.
