Pictures of English Tenses - Level 3

Designed for teaching at Council of Europe language level CEF - B1/B2. Where CEF is Common European Framework.

As a subject of universal appeal, spatial demonstratives have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplines. What marks the present study as distinct is that it is an English-Chinese comparative study set in a cognitive-linguistic framework and that the methodology features a parallel corpora-based, discourse analysis approach. The framework illuminates the nature of the demonstratives’ basic and extended meaning and use, the connections between them, and the mechanisms that govern and constrain their trends of extension.

A description of the CEF. 12 pages PDF color.

Contents

Part 1: Framework and how did it evolve? What is the CEF ?

Part 2: How can teachers make use of the CEF to help achieve their classroom goals?

Part 3: How can the CEF help students reflect on their learning?

Part 4: Further suggestions

An inventive framework for making sound business decisions.

Corporate decision-making requires a radical overhaul. Analysis and judgment are no longer enough because it's often a clash of values that causes disputes and conflicts. This groundbreaking book from a world authority on creative thinking provides a basis for values assessment
" an essential tool in corporate decision-making in the new century.

This book offers a concise, readable explanation of the theory of dysphagia and bridges that with material on clinical application. Covering both adult and paediatric swallowing assessment, treatment and management, the book will provide clinicians with common clinical presentations of dysphagia and a framework for a problem based learning approach.