American Accent Training: Grammar (eBook+Audio)

Title: American Accent Training: Grammar
Author(s): Ann Cook
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
ISBN-10: 0764196510
ISBN-13: 9780764196515
Date: 2009
Pages: 314
Size: 235 Mb
Format: PDF + MP3
Quality: High
Language: American English

This book and audio compact disc program instructs students of English as a second language in the elements of grammar, presenting a grammar review that emphasizes speech and correct pronunciation. The compact discs include spoken dictations for each of the book's ten chapters. Students start by writing out what they hear, and then comparing what they have written with the book's printed version. In the process, they begin learning the elements of grammar, staring with the simple present tense of the verb "to be" and progressing to all other tenses and parts of speech. Students gradually learn how to use English words and pronounce them properly in grammatically correct sentences. [+/-]

Following each chapter's introductory sentence, they are given a brief story. A short test at the end of each chapter helps them determine their learning progress. The dictations start out quite simple and become progressively more difficult from one chapter to the next. The book is filled with charts and illustrations to facilitate students' learning progress.

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Vocabulary Expansion

Title: Vocabulary Expansion
Author(s): Dorothy Rubin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0024042455
Date: 2012
Pages: 83
Size: 1.08 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This book gives you different words that you can use when you are writing or speaking about three important topics - those of communication, emotions and movement. Each section takes a 'core' word that you probably know well and gives you the most useful synonyms for it, as well as related words with a different part of speech. There are also notes that highlight some differences of register, grammar, and collocation. Some of the words are shown together with their opposites, e.g. satisfied and dissatisfied. [+/-]

C O N T E N T S
Words that describe communication
Answer Say Tell
Argue Speak
Ask Talk

Words that describe emotions
Angry Excited Satisfied/dissatisfied
Bored Feeling Shocked
Disappointed Frightened Surprised
Embarrassed Happy Worried/not worried
Enthusiastic/not enthusiastic Sad

Words that describe movement
Arrive Move Travel
Fast Run Walk
Leave Slow

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Grammar Lessons and Strategies that Strengthen Students’ Writing

Title: Grammar Lessons and Strategies that Strengthen Students’ Writing
Level: Grades 4-8
Author(s): Laura Robb
Publisher: Scholastic Professional Books
ISBN: 0439117585
Date: 2001
Pages: 128
Size: 1.18 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Engaging, explicit lessons using mini-excerpts from books and students’ writing show you how to teach grammar strategically. Zero in on the common grammar glitches, and model for students how to use nouns, verbs, and adjectives effectively, catch mismatched pronoun references; make prose lively with clauses and phrases, use the active voice, and more. From learning the parts of speech to the skill of paragraphing, this book covers it, and gives you what you need to teach grammar in the context of reading and writing. For use with Grades 4-8.

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Understanding Morphology, 2nd Edition

Title: Understanding Morphology
Author(s): Martin Haspelmath and Andrea D. Sims
Publisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 9780340950012
Date: 2010
Pages: 383
Size: 2.5 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

This new edition of Understanding Morphology has been fully revised in line with the latest research. It now includes 'big picture' questions to highlight central themes in morphology, as well as research exercises for each chapter. Understanding Morphology presents an introduction to the study of word structure that starts at the very beginning. Assuming no knowledge of the field of morphology on the part of the reader, the book presents a broad range of morphological phenomena from a wide variety of languages. [+/-]

Starting with the core areas of inflection and derivation, the book presents the interfaces between morphology and syntax and between morphology and phonology. The synchronic study of word structure is covered, as are the phenomena of diachronic change, such as analogy and grammaticalization. Theories are presented clearly in accessible language with the main purpose of shedding light on the data, rather than as a goal in themselves. The authors consistently draw on the best research available, thus utilizing and discussing both functionalist and generative theoretical approaches. Each chapter includes a summary, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. As such this is the ideal book for both beginning students of linguistics, or anyone in a related discipline looking for a first introduction to morphology.

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A Girl Like You by John Locke

Title: A Girl Like You
Author(s): John Locke
Publisher: Smashwords
ISBN: 9781935670490
Date: 2011
Pages: 105
Size: 1.2 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

When Rachel Case goes to the doctor for a routine blood test, scientists are astonished to learn she possesses a gene no one else on earth seems to have—a gene that holds the key to protecting the world from the deadliest pandemic in history. When government operatives kidnap Rachel in order to develop a vaccine, her lover, Donovan Creed, realizes the only way he can find Rachel is to enlist the help of her current husband, Sam.

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The Familiars by Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson

Title: The Familiars
Author(s): Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780062009630
Date: 2010
Pages: 132
Size: 2.2 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Magic isn't just for wizards anymore! Finally off the tough streets, Aldwyn thinks he’s got it made. He just has to convince the other familiars—the know-it-all blue jay Skylar and the friendly tree frog Gilbert—that he’s the telekinetic cat he claims to be. But when Jack and two other wizards in training are captured by a terrible evil, it will take all of Aldwyn’s street smarts, a few good friends, and a nose for adventure to save the day.

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