The Reading and writing resource books series is a flexible photocopiable resource for teachers.
At each level, you can use the material alongside the natural English student's book as extra topic-related skills work or on its own as a dip-in resource. The lessons are based around topical, authentic texts and practise a range of reading and writing skills ideal for students who are on general English courses, doing academic studies, or working.
This book presents the history of English from its obscure Indo-European roots to its twenty-first century position as the world's first language. It shows how English evolved in the British Isles and how it spread to the United States and through the old British empire to every corner of the world. It examines the different versions and roles of the language in every part of the globe and shows how English rose to international pre-eminence.
With approachable but impeccable scholarship fourteen experts chart the history of written and spoken English in all its rich and protean variety. Their accounts are made vivid with examples drawn from an immense range of documentary evidence including letters, diaries, and private records. They explore and explain the mixture of gradual and rapid change in the words, meanings, grammar, or pronunciation of English at different times and in different places. They examine the three-century rise of standard English and received pronunciation and consider their current status and wellbeing.
This book will appeal to everyone with a keen interest in the English language and its development.
Usually illustrated dictionaries address children, but THIS dictionary is intended for adults, including professionals in many fields of human activity. Over 28 000 illustrations will help you quickly understand how called any portion of an internal combustion engine, the element of Construction, the type of shoes or hair, mythological character, a tool surgeon, Suit card, the type of wiring, plant-and a lot more! Therefore it is useful not only for foreigners to learn English, but also for themselves "media" language.
Telephone Skills - Essential Telephone English (Heinemann) Lower intermediate.
This book is a guide and practice book for people who need to use English on the telephone.
Contains over 30 typical telephone conversations, with key language highlighted in each one. Provides lots of additional telephone practice, and an extensive telephone wordlist for general reference. Ideal for Pre-Intermediate students who need to use the telephone in English in their day-to-day lives. Note: Only the book, sorry.
Origins of the English Language  êíèãå «Ïðîèñõîæäåíèå àíãëèéñêîãî ÿçûêà: ñîöèàëüíàÿ è ëèíãâèñòè÷åñêàÿ èñòîðèÿ» ( Origins of the English Language: A Social & Linguistic History) îí ïðîñëåæèâàåò èñòîðèþ àíãëèéñêîãî ÿçûêà îò ïðîèñõîæäåíèÿ ÷åëîâåêà äî ñåãîäíÿøíèõ äíåé.
A social and linguistic history of the English language is presented in this book. Part 1, "History and Language," discusses such topics as the aims of language history, the beginning of language, grammars, and language meaning. Part 2, "Words and Meanings," explores Old English, Middle English, the establishment of modern English, creating new words, semantic change, and semantic change and its social context. Part 3, "Grammar and Sound," discusses grammatical structure, grammatical change and noun and verb phrases, grammar and phonology, phonological change, and Black English. An index of Modern English words is also included. (TS)
