Vocabulary

New Oxford Picture Dictionary

The Oxford Picture Dictionary is an extremely useful tool for all beginning students of English. Its colorful pictures and scenes can help anyone learn English, and is perfect as an ESL reference for classroom or home study. It can be used alone as a self-study tool or with a certified ESL instructor. When students begin to learn a new language there is a crucial need to develop a basic core vocabulary. Without this basic vocabulary, even day-to-day survival is very difficult.

English Basic Synonyms

When several words seem to have almost the same meaning, how do you choose the right word so that you express exactly what you want to? This book groups words with similar meanings (known as ‘synonyms’) together and gives each a definition and example so that the similarities and differences are made clear. 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.

High impact IELTS academic module - Student and Teacher book with Audio file

High Impact IELTS' is a comprehensive book aimed at helping students pass the Academic Models of the IELTS exam. From an overall guide to the IELTS exam right up to suggestions for preparation the night before. High Impact IELTS Teacher's Guide is designed to be used in conjunction with the student text which offers 250 hours of tuition in 108 lessons, clearly divided between Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking, giving a clear focus to every lesson.

Dictionary of Architecture and Construction

This Fourth Edition of the Dictionary of Architecture & Construction defines more terms in architecture and  building construction than any other dictionary in the English language.

Exercise 56: An Observation and an Explanation

It is worth looking at one or two aspects of the way a mother behaves towards her baby. The usual fondling, cuddling and cleaning require little comment, but the position in which she holds the baby against her body when resting is rather revealing. Careful American studies have disclosed the fact that 80 per cent of mothers cradle their infants in their left arms, holding them against the left side of their bodies.

Exercise 55: Royal Dutch/Shell Group

Royal Dutch/Shell Group is an international producer of petroleum, gas, and chemicals. The Royal Dutch/Shell Group comprises a loose federation of more than 1700 associated companies controlled by two parent companies: the Shell Transport and Trading Company based in London, England, and the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, based in The Hague, Netherlands.

Exercise 54: Teaching English with Video

So far we have discussed what there is in the way of video equipment and materials and we have looked at how we can use the machine. It's time now to turn our attention to how video can fit into our teaching as a whole. This chapter examines reasons for using video in language teaching and considers when and how we could introduce it into the syllabus and into the lesson.

Exercise 53: Overseas Students in Higher Education

The United Kingdom' s higher education system has changed dramatically during the past decade. Government has decreed that the life and work of universities and colleges should become increasingly accountable to public scrutiny.

Exercise 52: Statistics in Language Studies

Until now we have been considering how to describe or summarise a set of data considered simply as an object in its own right. Very often we want to do more than this: we wish to use a collection of observed values to make inferences about a larger set of potential values; we would like to consider a particular set of data we have obtained as representing a larger class.

Exercise 51: Educational Research

It is perfectly possible to undertake a worthwhile investigation without having detailed knowledge of the various approaches to or styles of educational research, but a study of different approaches will give insight into different ways of planning an investigation, and, incident

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