This study takes as its point of departure an essential premise: that the widespread phenomenon of expatriation in American modernism is less a flight from the homeland than a dialectical return to it, but one which renders uncanny all tropes of familiarity and immediacy which 'fatherlands' and 'mother tongues' are traditionally seen as providing. In this framework, similarly totalizing notions of cultural authenticity are seen to govern both exoticist mystification and 'nativist' obsessions with the purity of the 'mother tongue
Helping Hands: How Families Can Reach Out to Their Community
Provides real-life examples of ways that young people and their families can reach out as volunteers to help others cope with tragedies or just to make their communities better places in which to live.
The course contains 30 short units which take a fresh approach to a wide variety of topics and exam-related genres useful for the exam. Authentic language examples illustrate a wide range of real English usage and a Grammar Folder appendix provides further examples and explanations. The course is written by experienced authors who have an in-depth knowledge of the CAE exam, and contains material informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus which highlights typical mistakes made by CAE candidates.
A five-level series of children's grammar books with bright and lively grammar practice to be used alongside any primary course. KEY FEATURES * The grammar is presented in topics which are carefully selected to reflect children's interests * The pages which follow the main presentation give a wide variety of exercises in which children practise the vocabulary in context * Children can work through the units systematically or in any chosen order, with consolidation and further practice given in review units throughout the course * The separate Answer Key booklet also includes photocopiable tests
