BBC History of Spoken English История возникновения разговорного английского - от BBC One of the best educational BBC shows ever treatig about different kinds of spoken English.
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This is a listening skills book for elementary students based on topics and situations (recorded on an accompanying cassette) specially selected for their level. It aims to develop students' confidence to listen to and understand spoken English. The recorded material includes a variety of topics, conversations, stories, discussions and interviews. It includes a range of different accents and spoken styles to prepare students for the reality of contemporary English, together with graded tasks designed to focus listening and improve students ability to listen for different purposes. Each unit topic also includes a follow-up writing task.
Student Grammar of Spoken nd Written English Workbook Douglas Biber is Professor of Applied Linguistics (English Department) at Northern Arizona University. His books and articles deal with language use in spoken and written discourse.
* Examines patterns of use in the news, fiction and academic English * Takes grammar and vocabulary together and looks at how they interact * Is based on the analysis of 40-million words of British and American, written and spoken corpus text * Uses over 3000 examples of real, corpus English to illustrate the points * Uses frequency tables and graphs to make the new findings of this grammar clear
