High-interest tasks support the development of receptive and productive skills while including critical listening and learning strategies.
• Real-life listening practice uses listening passages based on authentic sources. • Starter Unit provides an overview of each book's listening skills and strategies. • In Focus section offers opportunity for cultural comparison and personalization in each unit. • Language boxes highlight key expressions related to each unit • Vocabulary and Expressions Glossary and Listening Skills Index
Whether it's like "a bump on a log" or "a bat out of hell", these expressions have been around forever. Dr. Funk explains over 400 droll, colorful, and sometimes pungent expressions of everyday speech. Derived from classical sources, historic events, famous literature, frontier humor, and the frailties of humankind, each of these sayings have an interesting story behind their origin.
Added by: semyen | Karma: 14.03 | Black Hole | 26 November 2009
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This book goes a long way to helping students to unravel the complexity of multi-word verbs, preposition and adverb collocations. and idiomatic expressions.
English in Color by Dean Curry contains 61 idioms in which color plays a principal role. It also supplemented with practice exercises. The basic intent of the book is to help EFL students increase their knowledge of idiomatic expressions and have fun while doing it.
Added by: bagirchik | Karma: 250.69 | Black Hole | 23 October 2009
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The Innovations Teacher's Book provides further practice and consolidationof the language presented in the coursebook. It includes a glossary of the new vocabulary and idiomatic expressions presented in the Coursebook.
