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Tickets please! Final boarding call! Check out these eight action-packed scenes to see what happens during a full day at a busy airport. In each picture, the airport buzzes with activity. Workers chase dogs and check luggage. Travelers shop and sleep. Famous people come and go. Keep your eye on the clock too. By spending a whole day in the same place, you can watch events unfold from morning to night.
A series of lovely patterns grouped accordingly to popular themes and suitable for multidisciplinary use. Most of them may be used with several different topics or units. Teachers can adapt pattern to create student nametags, bookmarks, or place cards for special days, such as holidays, birthdays, Circus Day, or Wild West Day. This book is ideal for busy teachers who want to cheer up their buttetin boards, notebooks, etc..
Sure you have sometimes run out of ideas to start a conversation in your classroom. This book provides 2000 topics to talk about, divided into several subjects like Health, Jobs, Cultural Misunderstandings or travel. "You are driving your friend somewhere. When you ask her to put her seat belt she refuses". A nice place for showing pre-selected situations for your students to ask or give their opinion. It is also a good source for oral examiners. Over Two Thousand Conversation Topics!
To the astonishment of the bus driver, Henry and Rosie are able to give their complete address, right down to their hemisphere, their planet, their solar system - and beyond. My Place in Space is the perfect way to introduce children to the wonders of astronomy. With fabulously detailed illustrations by bestselling illustrator Roland Harvey and Joe Levine, this book with enthral children and awaken their curiosity about the Universe.
The way we interpret language depends on where the words we are reading are placed in the world. Discourses in Place explores how the physical and material characteristics of language in the world give meaning to communication. In the book Ron and Suzanne Scollon argue that we can only interpret the meaning of public texts like road signs, notices and brand logos by considering the world and culture that surrounds them. Drawing on a wide range of real examples, from signs in the Chinese mountains to urban centers in Europe, Asia and America, the book equips students with the methodology and models they need to undertake their own research in "geosemiotics," this key interface between semiotics and intercultural communication.
