The function of this book is to enhance the English proficiency of non-native speakers, while at the same time introducing them to some distinctive aspects of the American background. This approach serves the purpose of helping to adapt them both to the language and to the environment. This language material is designed so as to help students to apply what they have learned to their own speech and writing. In addition, turns-of-phrase and idioms as well as vocabulary are presented in such a manner as to alert students to connotations and to considerations of the situational appropriateness of a word, a pattern, or a particular expression.
This free textbook introduces the reader to what being an outstanding communicator is all about. Understanding what effective communications actually are, how information is processed by your brain, how to get your point across in a concise and effective manner, how to build effortless rapport and much more besides.
Added by: koji0777 | Karma: 58.05 | Black Hole | 28 September 2010
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Learning English: The Teacher (Food Idioms)
The Teacher is one of BBC's Award winning series of learning English. Every Episode discusses a specific context with idoms related to it. The idioms are explained in a very funny yet creative manner which makes learning appealing and fun
Videos with Transcripts
You'll Find Idioms about Tea, Pie, Egg, Beans, Fruit and vegetables
The Teacher is one of BBC's Award winning series of learning English. Every Episode discusses a specific context with idoms related to it. The idioms are explained in a very funny yet creative manner which makes learning appealing and fun.
Idioms about all parts of the body such as Head, Foot, Leg, Eye, Arm and Hair.
Added by: JustGoodNews | Karma: 4306.26 | Fiction literature | 1 September 2010
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Sparks - Laura Bickle
WITHOUT A TRACE Anya Kalinczyk is the rarest type of psychic medium, a Lantern, who holds down a day job as an arson investigator with the Detroit Fire Department—while working 24/7 to exterminate malicious spirits haunting a city plagued by unemployment and despair. Along with her inseparable salamander familiar, Sparky, Anya has seen, and even survived, all manner of fiery hell—but her newest case sparks suspicions of a bizarre phenomenon that no one but her eccentric team of ghost hunters might believe: spontaneous human combustion.
