Reading Train is a three-level reading series for young learners of English. In each book, carefully graded reading passages are supported by a variety of exercises. By completing these exercises, students build vocabulary, extend grammatical knowledge, and progressively consolidate their reading skills. To make the passages and exercises appealing, the authors have created fun, same-aged characters for the fictional passages. In student books 2 and 3, these fictional passage are interspersed with a small number of non-fiction passages that reflect the varied interests of elementary school students.
Keep your eyes wide open. You will be taken through fictional stories and nonfiction texts. In the fictional stories you will find narrations in the form of imaginative or invented short stories. In the non-fiction texts you will find also narrations now offering information about facts and reality. As you make your way along the stories, study their content and characteristics closely. The activities at the end of each text will help you do this. And then, the glossary on some pages will give you the meaning of difficult words.
Through close readings of select stories and novels by well-known writers from different literary traditions, Fictional Translators invites readers to rethink the main clichés associated with translations.
Fictional Translators provides stimulating material for reflection not only on the processes associated with translation as an activity that inevitably transforms meaning, but, also, on the common prejudices that have underestimated its productive role in the shaping of identities. This book is key reading for students and researchers of literary translation, comparative literature and translation theory.
This book draws on the tools of literary analysis and cultural geography to investigate Ernest Hemingway's sophisticated construction of physical environments. In doing so, Laura Gruber Godfrey revises conventional approaches to Hemingway’s literary landscapes and provides insight about his fictional characters and his readers alike.
The nineteenth century was the heyday of travel, with Britons continually reassessing their own culture in relation to not only the colonized but also other Europeans, especially the ones that they encountered on the southern and eastern peripheries of the continent. Offering illustrative case studies, Katarina Gephardt shows how specific rhetorical strategies used in contemporary travel writing produced popular fictional representations of continental Europe in the works of Ann Radcliffe, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, and Bram Stoker.
