Rising Star is a lively two- level course that bridges the gap between intermediate level and the First Certificate in English (FCE) course. It introduces teenagers to the exam through carefully graded FCE- type tasks and motivates them to learn with stimulating material.
Those podcasts are made by a group of people to help English learners develop their English in a more interesting way. There are 4 categories: Chatter Box (discussing a topic each episode), Curious Questions (answering your questions), Close Up (analyzing everyday conversations), and Catch Word (explaining words and their uses). The PDF files content the transcrips and the exercises that are relevant.
This volume deals with linguistic purism in its many realizations. In particular, the articles look at the relationship of purism to historical prescriptivism (e.g. the influence of grammarians in the 17th and 18th centuries), to nationhood (e. g. the instrumentalising of purism in the standardisation of Afrikaans or Luxembourgish), to modern society (e. g. the existence of puristic tendencies in computer chatrooms), to folk linguistics (e. g. lay perceptions of different varieties of English), and to academic linguistics (e. g. the presence of puristic notions in the historiography of German or English).
This course is intended for students of computing and information technology with an English level of beginner plus to lower-intermediate. In particular, targeted readers are secondary school and technical college students of 16 + who have studies general English for three years or more. The book is also intended for professionals who have not studies English formally for some time, and wish to refresh their knowledge of the language within the context of their specialism.
English Today is an innovative product for English language learning, designed to gain maximum advantage from the DVD format and aimed at the needs of the target consumer.
It represents a completely new approach: instead of the typical video-lesson structure, a teacher guides the student through a series of narrative episodes arranged as in a sit-com.
