Speakout is a new general English course that helps adult learners gain confidence in all skill areas using authentic materials from the BBC. With its wide range of support material, it meets the diverse needs of learners in a variety of teaching situations and helps to bridge the gap between the classroom and the real world. Speakout has been developed in association with BBC Worldwide and BBC Learning English.
English Teacher's HandbookThis handbook contains advice for finding, tweaking and creating successful resources and teaching ideas, plus tips for organising them so that English teachers aren't in the frustrating, but all too familiar, position of reinventing the wheel that they know they have lying around somewhere from last year. It also tackles the bane of most English teachers' existence: marking.
Max and Millie’s Playbook 1 can be used for teaching elementary English such as numbers, animals and fruits. A variety of activities, including connect-the-dots and matching, ensures that children have fun as they learn!
Key Features: Developmentally appropriate activities and crafts Target language covers everyday objects, shapes, numbers, colors, using English expressions and a limited selection of simple words
English Adjectives of Comparison: Lexical and Grammaticalized Uses
This book is for people studying English linguistics, not for English language learners. The book is concerned with a largely unrecognized grammaticalization process: deictification, or the development from quality-attributing to deictically used adjectives in the English noun phrase. On the basis of the synchronic and diachronic corpus-study of six English adjectives of comparison, deictification is shown to involve unstudied variants of subjectification and decategorialization.
International English is an accessible and entertaining introduction to the main varieties of English spoken throughout the world. The third edition has been expanded and updated to add substantial new information on regional and ethnic varieties of American English. It also examines a wide range of non-native varieties of English, from West Africa to Bangladesh, and Pakistan to the Philippines.
