Kid's Box Andalusian edition offers official preparation for the revised 2018 Cambridge English: Young Learners tests and includes references to the culture and geography of the region. The Pupil's Book presents and practises new language through stories, songs and activities, making the learning process a joy. The exams in levels 2, 4 and 6 reflect the 2018 revised Young Learners exams. You will also find a strong focus on pronunciation, phonics and grammar, values and festival lessons. Specific Andalucía CLIL lessons provide references to the culture and geography of the region, along with Natural science lessons tied in with the course to help reinforce the important language of the concepts.
Kid's Box Andalusian edition offers official preparation for the revised 2018 Cambridge English: Young Learners tests and includes references to the culture and geography of the region. The Pupil's Book presents and practises new language through stories, songs and activities, making the learning process a joy. The exams in levels 2, 4 and 6 reflect the 2018 revised Young Learners exams. You will also find a strong focus on pronunciation, phonics and grammar, values and festival lessons. Specific Andalucía CLIL lessons provide references to the culture and geography of the region, along with Natural science lessons tied in with the course to help reinforce the important language of the concepts.
An update of the well-loved course for young learners - now official preparation for the revised 2018 Cambridge English: Young Learners tests. The full-colour Teacher's Book provides teaching notes for each lesson, which include audioscripts for all listening activities as well as full answer keys. Facsimile pages of the Pupil's Book and Activity Book are also included. There is also an overview of the syllabus for each level, extra activities, photocopiable pages and useful classroom language. The updated Second edition includes shields with letters corresponding to the first letter of Starters, Movers and Flyers to signpost exam content in the Teacher's Book.
(abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.
Candide is a French satire by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply Optimism) by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating a deeply practical precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds". Candide is characterized by its sarcastic tone, as well as by its erratic, fantastical and fast-moving plot. A picaresque novel it parodies many adventure and romance clichés, the struggles of which are caricatured in a tone that is mordantly matter-of-fact. Still, the events discussed are often based on historical happenings, such as the Seven Years' War and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. As philosophers of Voltaire's day contended with the problem of evil, so too does Candide in this short novel, albeit more directly and humorously. Voltaire ridicules religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers through allegory; most conspicuously, he assaults Leibniz and his optimism. As expected by Voltaire, Candide has enjoyed both great success and great scandal. Immediately after its secretive publication, the book was widely banned because it contained religious blasphemy, political sedition and intellectual hostility hidden under a thin veil of naïveté. However, with its sharp wit and insightful portrayal of the human condition, the novel has since inspired many later authors and artists to mimic and adapt it. Today, Candide is recognized as Voltaire's magnum opus and is often listed as part of the Western canon; it is arguably taught more than any other work of French literature. It was listed as one of The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written.
Directed to speakers of English as a second language, a multi-media guide to pronouncing American English uses a "pure-sound" approach to speaking to help imitate the fluid ways of American speech.
