World Wonders - With Audio Level 2 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library

World Wonders - With Audio Level 2 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Barnaby Newbolt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194632458

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A level 2 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Barnaby Newbolt. What are the most beautiful, the most interesting, the most wonderful things in the world? The Great Pyramid, the Great Wall of China, the Panama Canal – everyone has their favourites. And there are natural wonders too – Mount Everest, Niagara Falls, and the Northern Lights, for example. Here is one person’s choice of eleven wonders. Some of them are made by people, and others are natural. Everyone knows the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef – but what about the Iguazú Falls, or the old city of Petra? Come and discover new wonders . . .


20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Illustrated Edition

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Illustrated Edition

Author: Jules Verne

Publisher:

Published: 2021-06-26

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13:

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A World Tour Underwater is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation


Widgets Inc

Widgets Inc

Author: Marcos Benevides

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 9781941140000

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Widgets Inc.: A task-based course in workplace English is a business communication course for English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) classes. It is the second edition of the course, which was originally published by Pearson Longman (Hong Kong: 2008).Students simulate being interns working for a fictional company called Widgets Inc. The course is designed to be compatible with a range of English proficiency levels (from CEFR A2 to C1), including mixed-level classes. It requires a class of 12 or more motivated adults who meet for between 22-45 hours (fifteen to thirty 90-minute periods). Students are placed into teams and follow a project-based product development cycle across 6 stages. Stage 1 introduces the company and a cast of fictional characters who interact with the class via online streamed video. Stage 2 is an R&D stage in which students brainstorm product ideas. In Stage 3, they are given several product ideas proposed by a different team, and must select the best one to go into production. In Stage 4, they are given another team's selected product and must perform market research on it. In Stage 5 they prepare a proposed marketing campaign for yet another product passed from a different team. Stage 6 is the conclusion, in which students prepare a resume and interview for a promotion within the company. Each stage is punctuated by a presentation and/or a writing task which is related to the stage's topic. Students are assessed via can-do statements built into the simulation as "employee evaluations" which include self, peer, and instructor assessments. The course features a task-complexity based syllabus rather than the traditional grammar syllabus or functional-notional syllabus.


The Kitchen God's Wife

The Kitchen God's Wife

Author: Amy Tan

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-09-21

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 110100715X

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"Remarkable...mesmerizing...compelling.... An entire world unfolds in Tolstoyan tide of event and detail....Give yourself over to the world Ms. Tan creates for you." —The New York Times Book Review Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past—including the terrible truth even Helen does not know. And so begins Winnie's story of her life on a small island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, and other places in China during World War II, and traces the happy and desperate events that led to Winnie's coming to America in 1949. The Kitchen God's Wife is "a beautiful book" (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of novels like The Joy Luck Club and The Backyard Bird Chronicles, and the memoir, Where the Past Begins.


Handbook of Stemmatology

Handbook of Stemmatology

Author: Philipp Roelli

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-09-07

Total Pages: 694

ISBN-13: 3110684381

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Stemmatology studies aspects of textual criticism that use genealogical methods to analyse a set of copies of a text whose autograph has been lost. This handbook is the first to cover the entire field, encompassing both theoretical and practical aspects of traditional as well as modern digital methods and their history. As an art (ars), stemmatology’s main goal is editing and thus presenting to the reader a historical text in the most satisfactory way. As a more abstract discipline (scientia), it is interested in the general principles of how texts change in the process of being copied. Thirty eight experts from all of the fields involved have joined forces to write this handbook, whose eight chapters cover material aspects of text traditions, the genesis and methods of traditional "Lachmannian" textual criticism and the objections raised against it, as well as modern digital methods used in the field. The two concluding chapters take a closer look at how this approach towards texts and textual criticism has developed in some disciplines of textual scholarship and compare methods used in other fields that deal with "descent with modification". The handbook thus serves as an introduction to this interdisciplinary field.


Grammar for Teachers

Grammar for Teachers

Author: Andrea DeCapua

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-01-31

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 0387763317

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The purpose of Grammar for Teachers is to encourage readers to develop a solid understanding of the use and function of grammatical structures in American English. It approaches grammar from a descriptive rather than a prescriptive approach; however, throughout the book differences between formal and informal language, and spoken and written English are discussed. The book avoids jargon or excessive use of technical terminology. It makes the study of grammar interesting and relevant by presenting grammar in context and by using authentic material from a wide variety of sources.