English for Telephoning is the ideal quick course for anyone who needs to make effective telephone calls in a business context. English for Telephoning can be completed in 25-30 hours, so students make progress quickly. Hands-on tasks allow students to use new language immediately.
VARIETIES OF AMERICAN ENGLISH – Teacher’s Handbook
VARIETIES OF AMERICAN ENGLISH is intended to supplement the three-part videocassette series Varieties of American English, which consists of (1) Regional Dialects, (2) Social and Specialized Groups and (3) Stylistic Differences. This handbook has been prepared primarily for teacher trainers who have selected this video for use in seminar, workshop, or classroom presentation. Its independent use by teachers of English, advanced learners of English, and even linguists, sociolinguists and dialectologists is not precluded.
Published simultaneously with Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds and Women in the "Feminist Readings of Shakespeare" series, Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories is the first full-length feminist study of Shakespeare's historical plays.
The size and jurisdiction of English royal government underwent sustained development in the thirteenth century, an understanding of which is crucial to a balanced view of medieval English society. The papers here follow three central themes: the development of central government, law and justice, and the crown and the localities. Examined within this framework are bureaucracy and enrolment under John and his contemporaries; the Royal Chancery; the adaptation of the Exchequer in response to the rapidly changing demands of the crown; the introduction of a licensing system for mortmain alienations; the administration of local justice; women as sheriffs...
