The "Practise your" is a series of workbooks designed to give intermediate students practice in particular areas of English. Each book features - contextualised practice to make it easy to see the meanings which determine the choice of a particular form, varied practice, with a mixture of exercise types focusing on both form and meaning, graded practice, from items with simple rules to more complex language uses, a pull-out answer key and material suitable for self-study or classroom use. Practise your Comparatives is the only of its kind providing thorough practice in the many and often confusing varieties of comparative and superlative structures. Real facts are used to make realistic and interesting contexts, and personalisation exercises help students to relate structures to their own experience. WITH KEY
Divided into chapters that concentrate on particular aspects of the deserts, their geology, life forms, history and future, this book describes the hostile and extreme environments that cover more than a seventh of the world's surface. Lavish photographs capture the stark beauty of each desert's colours and light; maps show the varying topography of different regions, and the enthralling text describes some of nature's most remarkable adaptations and humanity's most resourceful communities. The chapters are divided by spectacular picture essays that feature a detailed view of a particular region, such as California's Death Valley, portraying its landscape, natural life and human residents. Throughout the book, boxes highlight fascinating aspects of the story of the deserts, from how sand dunes are formed to how the sidewinder moves, from how the Bedouin cope with the desert to the cave-dwelling quartz miners of central Australia.
Learning at Work underscores the notion that training is a crucial function in an organization. As a learning and performance professional, your job is to support both individual and organizational learning. To do this, you need to understand the needs of your particular industry, business, and personnel.
Examples of the valuing
of friendship abound in Shakespeare’s work, and the best and most satisfying of
his plays show deep bonds of friendship between the leading characters.
Shakespeare’s Friends can be read in two ways. It can be used as a reference
tool for those researching one or another of the friends out of context with
the others. Or it can be read through as a connected narrative.
"Pogue has assembled information from scattered sources into a reference that
readers can use to find out what sort of company Shakespeare kept, or to
research particular people with reference to their connection with him. She
discusses them individually in sections on Stratford, London, work,
collaborators, shareholders and housekeepers, and wives." Reference &
Research Book News
Anyone who wants to write clear and accurate English, using the correct word in a particular context, will find this book helpful, and a useful companion to the Easier English Basic Dictionary.
Groups of similar words are arranged alphabetically under the main word for the particular meaning being illustrated, so words meaning ‘big’ are given at big. The ways in which these similar words are used in different situations are compared. Words with an opposite meaning to the main meaning being illustrated (known as ‘antonyms’) are also given.
