This highly acclaimed course is popular because it both interests and stretches learners. Language in Use is a complete four level course from absolute Beginner to Upper-intermediate. The updated edition of the Pre-intermediate level contains totally revised material, together with a video and testing components. The result is a course that is suitable for a wide range of teaching situations.

Understanding and Using English Grammar is a developmental skills text for intermediate to advanced English language learners. It uses a grammar-based approach integrated with communicative methodologies to promote the development of all language skills in a variety of ways. Starting from a foundation of understanding form and meaning, students engage in meaningful communication about real actions, real things, and their own real lives in the classroom context. Understanding and Using English Grammar functions principally as a classroom teaching text but also serves as a comprehensive reference text for students and teachers.

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This book is many things at once: an instructional manual, a survey course, and a guidebook for deeper exploration. Feel free to read it from cover to cover if you want, or just browse until you find the chapters that appeal to you. Throughout the book, you’ll find meditations and exercises you can experiment with and enjoy.

This book isn't a textbook. It focuses on people: famous, infamous, and obscure. It gives you a basic foundation of information about U.S. history. You can also use it as a handy reference. Haul it off the shelf to look up a fact, to settle an argument, or to store up ammunition for that next conversation with your know-it-all brother-in-law.

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English Grammar Workbook For Dummies doesn’t concentrate on what we English teachers call descriptive grammar - the kind where you circle all the nouns and draw little triangles around the prepositions. A closely guarded English-teacher secret is that you don’t need to know any of that terminology (well, hardly any) to master grammar. Instead, English Grammar Workbook For Dummies concentrates on functional grammar – what goes where in real-life speech and writing.

All the letter sounds of English are introduced (not just the alphabet), with an “action” for each. Exercises show how to use the letter sounds to read and to spell, along with ways of learning the ”tricky” spellings. The correct way to form each letter is shown and in later Workbooks joined-up (cursive) writing is introduced.

All the letter sounds of English are introduced (not just the alphabet), with an “action” for each. Exercises show how to use the letter sounds to read and to spell, along with ways of learning the ”tricky” spellings. The correct way to form each letter is shown and in later Workbooks joined-up (cursive) writing is introduced.

All the letter sounds of English are introduced (not just the alphabet), with an “action” for each. Exercises show how to use the letter sounds to read and to spell, along with ways of learning the ”tricky” spellings. The correct way to form each letter is shown and in later Workbooks joined-up (cursive) writing is introduced.