Top 10 helps students master the essential grammar they need to produce great writing. Text focuses on improving the ten most common grammatical errors novice writers make.
Brilliant Activities for Grammar is a 6 book photocopiable series to teach basic grammatical and punctuation concepts in a fun and memorable way, which will challenge and stimulate the whole class. Pupils are motivated to think logically about the activities and to share their knowledge and understanding with their peers through working individually, in pairs, groups or, sometimes, in whole class contexts. The sheets are designed for the practice, reinforcement and consolidation of grammar and p...
Brilliant Activities for Grammar and Punctuation for Primary Schools series pack
by Irene Yates
Brilliant Activities for Grammar is a 6 book photocopiable series to teach basic grammatical and punctuation concepts in a fun and memorable way, which will challenge and stimulate the whole class. Pupils are motivated to think logically about the activities and to share their knowledge and understanding with their peers through working individually, in pairs, groups or, sometimes, in whole class contexts. The sheets are designed for the practice, reinforcement and consolidation of grammar and p...
The Writing Power series is unlike most other writing textbooks. Rather than focusing on one area of writing, such as fluency, language use, academic writing, or social writing, the series includes all of them to give students practical skills for writing in many different situations. Each book contains four separate parts that concentrate on four important aspects of writing proficiency. The structure is flexible, allowing the teacher to assign work from different sections of the book concurren...
Philip Howard's legendary 'Lost Words' column has been appearing weekly in The Times newspaper for many years, regularly and wittily illuminating for readers on the meanings of some of the obscurer, more esoteric words the English language has to offer. This unique collection finally brings together the very best of Howard's columns. Only here can we learn the significance of words such as 'maritality'; 'charientism'; 'sardonian'; 'janiform' and 'faticidal' - words which enrich the English lan...
Who still says 'soccer'; why does 'Arsenal' sound so foreign; who was 'sick as a parrot' first; was Shakespeare the game's first clogger; and what makes footballers better wordsmiths than the Eskimos? The answers to all these and more are revealed in Football Talk, football's first linguistic odyssey. Peter Seddon explores how words came about to describe football kit, boots and balls; playing techniques, foul play, girl talk and team terminology; and the language of commentators and footie mags...
The origin of the names of many English towns, hamlets and villages date as far back as Saxon times, when kings like Alfred the Great established fortified borough towns to defend against the Danes. A number of settlements were established and named by French Normans following the Conquest. Many are even older and are derived from Roman placenames. Some hark back to the Vikings who invaded our shores and established settlements in the eighth and ninth centuries. Most began as simple description...
Fundamentals of English Grammar Teacher's Guide
by Betty S Azar and Stacy A Hagen
Using a time-tested approach that has helped millions of students around the world, Fundamentals of English Grammar blends direct grammar instruction with carefully sequenced practice to developspeaking, writing, listening, and reading skills. The fifth edition has been extensively revised to keep pace with advances in theory and practice, particularly from cognitive science. Now more than ever, teachers will find an extensive range of presentations, activities, and tasks to meet the spec...
Focus on Writing is an academic writing program that provides students with essential tools to master not only the key steps in the writing process, but also the grammatical structures, lexical knowledge, and rhetorical modes essential for academic writing. This five-level series progresses with students as they grow in confidence and ability from sentence level (Book 1) through paragraphs (Books 1-3) and essays (Books 3-5). Each unit leads writers step-by-step through the process of prew...
Abraham Ibn Ezra the Book of Reasons (Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval)
by Shlomo Sela
Navigate every situation in modern life with eloquence and grace with this curated list of words featuring witty analysis of their origins, meanings and practical applications. In On the Tip of My Tongue, logophile and television star Tom Read Wilson takes a delicious dive into the etymology and usage of all kinds of words, euphemisms and bon mots. Divided into sections spanning dating, personal development, show business, compliments, curses, complaining without being a Karen and more, discove...
This title provides English-learning pupils with a sound basis of the English grammar syllabus, building on pupils confidence learning a foreign language with grammatical knowledge in an easily accessible and understandable way.
This title provides English-learning pupils with a sound basis of the English grammar syllabus, building on pupils confidence learning a foreign language with grammatical knowledge in an easily accessible and understandable way.
These two volumes are about the forty-five surviving manuscripts and fragments that transmit, and sometimes illustrate, the texts of Chretien de Troyes. Here is presented, for the first time, a photographic corpus of those manuscripts that is as complete as possible and includes all the illustrations of the illustrated manuscripts, organized according to a new interpretation of their chronology and distribution. This visual material is complemented by a catalogue of all the extant manuscripts an...
Praxis English to Speakers of Other Languages 5362 Study Guide 2018-2019
by Praxis II Esol Exam Prep Team
Praxis II English to Speakers of Other Languages Study Guide
by Praxis II Esol Exam Prep Team and Cirrus Test Prep
Bond Up to Speed English Tests and Papers 10-11+ Years
Practice for children not yet working at the level needed for 11+ success. Bond English Up to Speed 10-11+ years includes: *15 Focus tests *carefully levelled questions designed to help acquire and reinforce techniques in all 11+ question types *4 Mixed papers containing a full range of question types *full test practice to help raise your child's potential *motivating progress chart, answers and ideas for improving scores *step-by-step support and advice. Bond is the number one series for...
Dictionnaire Etymologique de la Langue Grecque (Librairie Klincksieck - Serie Linguistique, #20) (Tradition de L'Humanisme)
by Pierre Chantraine