This book is intended to develop composition skills. These include producing and developing ideas, choosing and using the most effective forms of expression and checking and improving drafts. Model texts are introduced after the students have tried to do a piece of writing so that the model becomes a resource against which students can compare their own texts and from which they can improve what they have written. There is an Introduction to the teacher and answers where appropriate.
Mam, Dad, I am bored... A parent's guide to entertaining children during the holidays Australia’s largest member-based organisation specialising in education benefit programs, brings parents this guide to reduce their children’s holiday boredom. This guide incorporates ideas for entertaining children during the holidays no matter what the circumstances or financial restrictions. Outdoors or indoors, no-cost or low-cost, excursions, trips, in the car, make-believe, craft, or creative. This guide’s got it covered.
How to Watch the Olympics: The Essential Guide to the Rules, Statistics, Heroes, and Zeroes of Every Sport
This book is an interesting combination of information, including: - 2012 Summer Olympic Guide
- Sports History
- Technical details of each event
- The Olympic history to each event
Thanks to all the historical and technical information included, the knowledge here will not expire after the closing ceremony is complete. The book also includes a nice set of appendices, with such information as discontinued Olympic sports, and a snapshot of each of the 26 previous Olympic games. A comprehensive index is also included.
Walking Dickens' London: The Time Traveller's Guide
Drawing upon Dickens’ life and work, from museums and monuments to hidden alleys, mews and courtyards; from railway stations and riverside taverns to grim slums and gaslight – Dickens’ London : A Timetraveller’s Guide is an indispensable guide for anyone exploring Victorian London.
This book is designed for people who wish to improve their written English. They may be in a job, like a secretary who is required to draft on her own the replies to incoming letters, or evento improve her employer's style. A man may have to prepare sets of instructions for operating a mechanism, or to set out the main points in anawkward insurance problem. Yet others may need to pass an examination in English, andamong these there will be many learners of English as a second language. Some may just want to produce better writing, for the good reason that, for those whose native language itis, the 'subject' is closely bound up with personality.
