*Interesting activities provide students with a solid foundation and develop their confidence. *All four skills are taught in a balanced approach. 'Let's Get Ready' can be used for review as well as for a warm-up for each unit. *Project activities that are useful for individual or group presentations are contained at the end of the book. Vocabulary gives students the words they need to talk about the things that interest them.
*Interesting activities provide students with a solid foundation and develop their confidence. *All four skills are taught in a balanced approach. 'Let's Get Ready' can be used for review as well as for a warm-up for each unit. *Project activities that are useful for individual or group presentations are contained at the end of the book. Vocabulary gives students the words they need to talk about the things that interest them.
The present volume, originally prepared to celebrate Jan Firbas' 80th birthday, unfortunately is presented only belatedly, to commemorate one of the most outstanding personalities of functional and structural linguistics. Its contributors have been inspired by the richness and penetrating invention of Firbas, contained in his analysis of functional sentence perspective and of many other aspects of sentence and discourse.
The Boxcar Children and Aunt Jane are headed to San Francisco--by train! During the trip, a young woman's portfolio is stolen. She tells the Aldens that it contained valuable old movie posters she had recently inherited. Can the Aldens find the culprit by the end of the trip?
