All students want to succeed. All teachers want to create great lessons. Success gives them the opportunity. Students will…. enjoy their course with the inspiring and up-to-date topics and ‘Culture Shocks’ sections. be motivated and confident with activities that help learners both understand and internalise grammar rules and avoid common mistakes be able to speak easily with a syllabus that focuses on communication in real-world contexts and vocabulary. are extensively prepared for school-leaving exams with a clear syllabus sup.
Syndicated columnist and grammarian, Don Ferguson is an inveterate note-taker, recording mistakes in grammar or word usage and when observing an incorrect punctuation mark. It seems that people make the same mistakes over and over again. Accumulating a small mountain of short, cryptic notes, Ferguson wondered how they might be made useful, perhaps to his children in the years to come. Out of these thoughts, Ferguson's column "Grammar Gremlins" was born and now this book.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 10 October 2011
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest runs down bandits, traitors, and killers. Why is he so successful?After many years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it.
The stories included are "The Paradise of Thieves," "The Duel of Dr. Hirsch," "The Man in the Passage," "The Mistakes of the Machine," "The Head of the Caesar," "The Purple Wig," "The Perishing of the Pendragons," "The God of the Gongs," "The Salad of the Colonel Cray," "The Strange Crime of John Boulnois" and "The Fairy Tale of Father Brown."
For the benefit of the improving player, Andrew Soltis--New York Post chess columnist and author of 'Pawn Structure Chess' and other books--reviews the major types of chess errors. Using typical game situations drawn from Master play, the book concentrates on teaching recognition patterns for the major mistakes--and how to avoid those mistakes.
