This volume offers a state-of-the-art picture of work undertaken in the field of computer-aided corpus linguistics. While the focus is on English, central insights can be generalised to other languages, as well. As a work intended to mark the Silver Jubilee of ICAME, the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English, the book combines surveys of the discipline by some of its major pioneers, including founders of ICAME itself, with cutting-edge work by younger scholars. It is divided into three sections: “Overviewing years of corpus linguistic studies”, “Descriptive studies in English syntax and semantics”, and “Second Language Acquisition, parallel corpora and specialist corpora”. The link provided by oscarlaroca
20 short stories - each on two pages in authentic English with exercises.
Короткие истории (очень короткие - одна на разворот) для чтения. В конце книги - глоссарий, упражнения, вопросы для обсуждения. Here are 20 stories, and they're so short you don't even have to turn over the page!
These very, very short stories are especially written for students who want to enjoy good, easy-to-read fiction in authentic English. They are an entertaining variety of comedy, romance and fantasy, all about people in countries such as Africa, Turkey, China, and the USA.
'Happy Days' is about a school play with very young children in it - of course, everything goes wrong!
Penguin Very Short Stories are specially written to give students practice in authentic English. They provide excellent reading enjoyment and can easily be read in a single sitting. Each story contains useful language, idioms, and everyday expressions. A section at the back of each book contains a useful glossary, lots of language practice exercises, and many questions for discussion and conversation practice.
This includes more than 1,800 of the most frequently used idioms in contemporary British English, each with at least two example sentences. Compiled with non-native speakers in mind, the entire collection is compressed into a pocket-size edition.
