This highly-communicative course for low-level adult strudents delivers practical English for immediate use in the working world. Powerbase focusses on the everyday key vocabulary and phrases needed for work, travel and social situations.
This book includes a wide variety of sample letters you can use or adapt at a minute's notice, with: Business letters; Complaint letters; Community action letters; Job-search letters; Letters to government officials and agencies; Thank-you letters. This book also includes a new section on how to write concise, polite, and effective e-mails easier and faster than ever! It will help you to create the sharpest interview follow-up, the kindest thank you, the most heartfelt condolence, and the most effective complaint letter.
How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life
Scientists are in the business of trying to understand the world. Exploring commonplace phenomena, they have uncovered some of Nature's deepest laws. We can in turn apply these laws to our own lives, to better grasp and enhance our performance in daily activities as varied as cooking, home improvement sports-even dunking a doughnut! This book makes the science of the familiar a key to opening the door for those who want to know what scientists do, why they do it, and how they go about it.
Why does chopping an onion make you cry? How did the grapefruit get its name? Why does pepper make you sneeze?... Everyday Mysteries will help you get the answers to these and many other of life's most interesting questions through scientific inquiry.
