The story cards each contain one frame from the Island Adventure story, with accompanying teaching notes comprising ‘Before listening’ and ‘After listening’ activities, as well as the audioscript for the story frame. The story cards are on A4 cards, making them easy to use, even in large classes.
An Introduction to International Varieties of English
Added by: aidsami | Karma: 1659.02 | Black Hole | 16 September 2019
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An Introduction to International Varieties of English
The title of this book, International Varieties of English, requires some comment. It might be expected that this would refer to varieties of English which arc used internationally, but this is not its normal field of use. Instead, it is a well-established label for varieties of English which are used nationally in different places in the world. Although ‘national varieties of English’ might be a more transparent term, this widely accepted though slightly peculiar use of‘international varieties’ is maintained in this book...
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These reading comprehension tasks are centred around topics of interest to children in the 4-6 year age group.. Some of the stories are short (‘‘Anna’’s New Bike’’ has 40 words) while others are much longer (‘‘The Ram and the Rainbow’’ has 157 words).. The passages are graded (in levels) according to how students are required to answer the questions and there are 10 stories for each level..
This book proposes a socio-pragmatic exploration of the discursive practices used to construe and dynamically negotiate positions in news interviews. It starts with a discursive interpretation of ‘positioning’, ‘role’ and ‘challenge’, puts forward the relevance of a distinction between social and interactional roles, demonstrates how challenges bring to the fore the relevant roles and role-components of the participants, and shows that in news interviews speakers constantly position and re-position themselves and....
Argues that Englishes beyond the inner circle (e.g. Indian English) have already been codified and firmly established
Problematizes the terminologies currently used for certain World Englishes and calls for the need to distinguish, for example, between ‘Chinglish’ and ‘China English’
Addresses the contentious terms such as: native speakers, foreign varieties, glocal, Englishes and English as an International Language
Provides classroom exercises which demonstrate how World Englishes can be used in the EFL Classroom
