American Accent Training: Grammar (eBook+Audio)

Title: American Accent Training: GrammarAuthor(s): Ann CookPublisher: Barron's Educational SeriesISBN-10: 0764196510ISBN-13: 9780764196515Date: 2009Pages: 314Size: 235 MbFormat: PDF + MP3Quality: HighLanguage: American EnglishThis 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...

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Vocabulary Expansion

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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....

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Grammar Lessons and Strategies that Strengthen Students’ Writing

Title: Grammar Lessons and Strategies that Strengthen Students’ WritingLevel: Grades 4-8Author(s): Laura RobbPublisher: Scholastic Professional BooksISBN: 0439117585Date: 2001Pages: 128Size: 1.18 MbFormat: PDFQuality: HighLanguage: American EnglishEngaging, 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...

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Understanding Morphology, 2nd Edition

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 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...

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A Girl Like You by John Locke

Title: A Girl Like YouAuthor(s): John LockePublisher: SmashwordsISBN: 9781935670490Date: 2011Pages: 105Size: 1.2 MbFormat: PDFQuality: HighLanguage: American EnglishWhen 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.Download link:http://www.fileserve.com/file/E93b...

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The Familiars by Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson

Title: The FamiliarsAuthor(s): Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew JacobsonPublisher: HarperCollinsISBN: 9780062009630 Date: 2010Pages: 132Size: 2.2 MbFormat: PDFQuality: HighLanguage: American EnglishMagic 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.Download link:http://www.fileserve.com/file/kGrw...

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