14 lectures, 35 mins each Baseball has been celebrated as "America's National Pastime" for more than one hundred and fifty years, and recalls what, at least in retrospect, seems to be an earlier, more innocent age- long summer afternoons and sandlot ball, fresh rural air or brownstone stoops. In part, this is because most of those who love the game played as children and followed their favorite bigleague teams as children.
This reference book offers a systematic and comprehensive treatment of prepositions and adverbial particles and is at the same time, by means of the inclusion of examples of usage throughout the book, a practical guide to the subject. Brief explanations accompany the examples where necessary. The key words in the phrases dealt with are arranged in alphabetical order and the book is divided into six chapters (thus achieving some classification of the complex question of usage): 1, Common Prepositions; 2, Prepositional Phrases; 3, Nouns preceded by Prepositions; 4, Phrasal Verbs; 5, Verbs followed by Prepositions; 6, Words (other than Verbs) followed by Prepositions.
HorizonsHORIZONS offers students of English in their last year of school or first year at university the chance to develop their skills in reading and writing while working with topical, illustrated material specially related to the Middle East. The book has ten units, each of which contains two passages of literature or journalism, followed by exercises in comprehension, vocabulary development précis , and composition. 1978
The Business Trip is an English dialog series with questions and answers for beginning learners. It is about Mr. Tanaka, who travels to the United States on a business trip. It contains 54 short episodes, followed by a series of questions and answers.
Judge Crowdy Lobbett knew too much about the sinister Simister gang. So Simister had him followed wherever he went and tried to kill him. He followed him across America across the Atlantic to the heart of England to mystery mile where he encountered Albert Campion.
