Written in a pragmatic, yet inspirational style, this book provides relevant and useful information on happiness. It includes a brief history of happiness and motivates readers to apply strategies related to happiness in their day-to-day life. It also discusses the benefits of being happy and the consequences of being unhappy. The strategies are listed under the headings - Zany, Zeal, Zest and Zing. Each chapter is unique and will be of great interest to readers.
Language Change is a workbook. From the beginning the reader is presented with interesting data on change in English and in other languages, and is invited to consider these data carefully and to draw suitable conclusions. Each unit consists of a brief introduction to a particular topic followed by a set of exercises expanding the ideas introduced. Among the topics covered are the various types of language change, attitudes to language change, consequences of language change and methods for working backward to reconstruct historical developments. R. L. Trask also covers the most dramatic types of change: the birth and death of languages.
Книга пригодится как преподавателям, так и изучающим английский. В ней объясняются правила 250 (!) популярных игр со словами. Кстати, многи из этих игр имеют свои эквиваленты и в русской культуре.
Book Description
Delve into the pages of this entertaining A-Z, and learn how to play 250 of the most popular word-games including: Blockbusters, Call My Bluff, and Countdown (made famous by TV), old favourites such as Charades, Consequences, Dumb Crambo and Hangman, and a host of other strange and wonderful games, including Aesop's Mission, Beheadments, Grandmother's Trunk, Shouting Proverbs,
Superghosts, and Wild Crash!
