Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | ESP, Linguistics | 24 September 2008
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Becoming a Translator provides the information and advice that translators really need, such as how to translate faster and more accurately, how the job market works, and how to deal with stress. Organized in a user-friendly style, the book provides translators creative activities and exercises designed to speed the learning of both theory and practice.
Pilates Workout for Dummies is , ideal for both the first-time and intermediate Pilates exerciser. In the Basic Workout, well-toned instructor Michelle Dozois clearly and patiently presents 18 classic Pilates mat exercises, first demonstrating and explaining, then doing 6 to 10 repetitions.
Learner-centered and self-exploratory in its approach, this task-based oral skills text examines cross-cultural business practices and values. Its highly successful business case approach and methodology ask students to use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to explain their own cultural values. Each of its units includes language-expansion exercises. Cases (some authentic) present business situations where cross-cultural conflict interferes with the business at hand. Students then explore ways to repair these communication breakdowns.
Each case analysis includes: -Exercises in comprehension and problem solving, discussion/critical thinking, and written reflection
-Worldwide business practices
-Key business vocabulary and language exercises that introduce idioms and expressions related to the topic
This Student Workbook
incorporates interactive reading strategies with core content from the “The
American Vision" textbook written at a lower level than the textbook to
help struggling readers and ELL (English Language Learner) students. Some texts
will also be useful for ESL/EFL reading comprehension exercises on social
studies/American history topics.
Based on a problem-solving approach to language, this second edition has been revised and updated throughout. It contains numerous exercises to encourage in undergraduate and A-Level students the practical skills of sentence analysis, and includes a database and exercises that compare the structure of English with other languages. The book focuses on introducing the evidence for sentence structure and revealing its purpose, teaching the reader how to identify word classes and using simple tree structures to analyze sentences.
