Real Life brings English to life and makes learning English enjoyable and achievable through practical tasks and evocative topics. Real Life gives students English to talk about issues that are important to their lives.
Skills Multi-ROM contains:
Skills practice exercises for each of the twelve units, including interactive communication tasks where students can role play and record their part of the dialogue
Different types of false friends Same or similar word but different meaning Take the German word Mappe. 'Map' exists in English but, while you are talking about something to put papers in, your Englishspeaking business contact thinks you mean a large piece of paper with roads and towns on it (Landkarte). The correct English word for Mappe in this particular case is 'folder'. Other examples are Gift/gift, Kredit/credit, Fabrik/fabric. You will find a list of the more frequently heard false friends in the latter half of this book.
This edition is written in English. However, there is a running Spanish thesaurus at the bottom of each page for the more difficult English words highlighted in the text.
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and his first major literary success.
Gabriel Oak is an up-and-coming shepherd in the prime of life at twenty-eight years of age. With the savings of a frugal life, he has leased and stocked a sheep-farm. He falls in love with a newcomer eight years his junior, Bathsheba Everdene, a proud and somewhat vain young beauty who arrives to live with her aunt, Mrs. Hurst.
This work constitutes an attempt to provide Polish students of English with a succinct and simple account of the external history of the English language. It covers only one of its aspects, i.e the influence of political, military, economic and social factors on the development of language and its functioning in the English speaking world over the centuries.
This work constitutes an attempt to provide Polish students of English with a succinct and simple account of the external history of the English language. It covers only one of its aspects, i.e the influence of political, military, economic and social factors on the development of language and its functioning in the English speaking world over the centuries.
