A guide to communicating effectively at work. Tips for using e-mail, faxes, and the Postal Service. Includes Forms of Address, a Guide to Punctuation and Style, and Grammar Glossary. Offers a wealth of practical advice and easy-to-follow examples showing how to prepare effective memos, reports, letters, and more. DLC: Commercial correspondence.
Learn and practice useful English language for everyday situations with the BBC 6 Minute English. It’s your instruction manual for saying or doing something in English. Each programme is six minutes long and contains examples and explanations to help you improve your knowledge of the English language across a wide range of topics.
This CD is intended to stimulate teachers' creativity by offering you the resources you need to create your own classroom materials. *images from Jolly Phonics' bank of pictures which you can use to make flashcards, worksheets, etc. *a word bank and dictation sentences for use in compiling new material for literacy lessons. *examples of activities which you can do to teach children to read and write and blank templates which you can adapt for your own versions of the activities.
The key to developing and improving your writing is to commit to the revision process, which involves both editing and proofreading your work. In this book, you will learn, understand, and apply the principles of grammar and how to manipulate your words until they fit just right. The introductory diagnostic test will help you find your strengths and weaknesses; the examples and models throughout will provide you with benchmarks for your own work; and the post-test will help you measure what you have learned.
Dramatic galactic views illustrate this comprehensive title in the new Worlds Beyond series. A cursory description of how the ancients observed and measured the stars leads into chapters about the sun, varieties of stars and the spaces between them, the Milky Way and surrounding galaxies, and theories about how the universe began and how it will end. Miller's text is thorough and substantial, yet his clear examples make the concepts accessible; he refers to the rising of a loaf of baking bread to explain how stars move apart in an expanding universe.
