Here`s a very approachable textbook for both children and adults who speak English as their second language. It acquaints students with correct English sentence construction, parts of speech, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, and offers extra tips on how to expand one`s English-language vocabulary. After laying out these fundamentals, the authors proceed with solid instruction on writing a paragraph in English, and then with instruction on writing a multi-paragraph story. Advice includes choosing a topic to write about, sketching out a rough draft, and finally revising and editing the finished piece. Students once daunted by what they perceived as the intricacies of English will be attracted by the authors` student-friendly...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Titles in Barron`s extensive Painless Series cover a wide range of subjects as they are taught on middle school and high school levels. These books are written for students who find the subjects unusually difficult and confusing - or in many cases, just plain boring. Barron`s Painless Series authors` main goal is to clear up students` confusion and perk up their interest by emphasizing the intriguing and often exciting ways in which they can put each subject to practical use. Most of these books take a light-hearted approach to their subjects, often employing humor, and always presenting fun-learning exercises that include puzzles, games, and challenging Brain Tickler problems to solve. Each chapter in this book introduces 15 new words...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
This book will be of special value to middle school students and high school students growing up in families where English is not the first language. Like other titles in Barron’s Painless series, the approach to learning is informal and user-friendly. The authors take students step by step through all parts of speech nouns, pronouns, verbs, modifiers, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Next they offer advice for improving vocabulary, spelling, and American English pronunciation, emphasizing the importance of active listening, and learning vowel sounds and R sounds, and recognizing silent letters and homophones. The book’s final three chapters concentrate on written English, advancing from correct punctuation and sentence...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
The author points out ways in which recognizing sound and letter patterns makes spelling easier. Also important are recognition of diphthongs, silent letters, compound and abbreviated words, contractions, homophones, homographs, prefixes, suffixes, and base words. "Brain tickler" problems challenge students` imaginations and test their learning progress.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Many secondary school students - and for that matter, adults - often have difficulty learning and understanding the hard-to-pronounce sounds of French. This book was written especially for students of French who have been finding pronunciation as well as all other aspects of the learning process painful. They`ll discover many interesting features and facts about French culture as this book`s authors gently immerse them into the details of French vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, idioms, and conversational speech. Short exercises in those language details will help them measure their learning progress as they advance from one chapter to the next.
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Teachers and students in junior school will value this instructive and entertaining journey to Grammar World, where kids have fun while they develop their facility in correct English usage. Grammar World is a make-believe amusement park where boys and girls are introduced in chapter one to the animals who teach them about different kinds of sentences: statements and questions, commands and exclamations, subjects and predicates, combining sentences, and how to avoid fragments and run-on sentences. Chapter two takes kids to Grammar World`s rides, where they learn about nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and several other parts of speech. Chapter three takes them to the Water Park, where they learn how to use verbs. Chapter four is a dolphin...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Titles in Barron`s extensive Painless Series cover a wide range of subjects as they are taught on middle school and high school levels. These books are written for students who find the subjects unusually difficult and confusing - or in many cases, just plain boring. Barron`s Painless Series authors` main goal is to clear up students` confusion and perk up their interest by emphasizing the intriguing and often exciting ways in which they can put each subject to practical use. Most of these books take a light-hearted approach to their subjects, often employing humor, and always presenting fun-learning exercises that include puzzles, games, and challenging Brain Tickler problems to solve. This title combines instruction in sentence...
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The authors transform learning French vocabulary and grammar into an excursion into the rich culture of France and the French-speaking world, with special sections on history, literature, and shared expressions in English. Titles in Barron`s extensive Painless Series cover most subjects taught on middle school and high school levels, and are written for students who find the subjects unusually difficult and confusing - or in some cases, just plain boring. Painless Series authors, all of them experienced educators, are experts at clearing up aspects of their subjects that students are likely to find confusing. These books also perk up students` interest by emphasizing the attention-catching ways in which the subjects can be put to...
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Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: декабрь 2012
Updated with many new references, this entertaining book advises students on ways to enliven their essay assignments with vivid images, avoid the dull passive voice, and construct smooth, well-crafted sentences that flow together to create unified themes. Short quizzes called “Brain Ticklers” appear throughout the text. Titles in Barron’s "Painless Series" are written especially for middle school and high school students who are having a difficult time with a specific subject. In many cases, a student is confused by the subject’s complexity and details. Still other students simply finds a subject uninteresting, an attitude that usually results in lower grades. Painless titles offer informal, student-friendly approaches to each...
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
If you think that developing a large vocabulary means dreary and painful memorizing of hundreds of words, this book has good news for you. You can develop the word power that will help you achieve high grades—and enjoy yourself while you learn! Each of 20 chapters introduces 15 new words, first placing them in a brief, entertaining essay, and then discussing their meanings and the ways they can be used. “Brain Tickler” questions that follow challenge your skill at word definitions, and sidebars help you avoid vocabulary mistakes while you pick up interesting facts about word origins and usage. When you reach the end of this book you’ll discover to your delight that your vocabulary has increased many times over—and your grades...
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Most students and many teachers think of grammar books as being, at best, necessary evils--but here`s a book that breaks free from the pattern and takes the boredom out of grammar. Written primarily for children on the middle-school level, this book mixes parts of speech and proper punctuation with healthy portions of humor, down-to-earth examples, and fun illustrations that will appeal to adolescents. While kids are learning painlessly about how to make verbs agree with their subjects and pronouns with their antecedents, they look at some of the wackier words in the English language and see how they are often misused. A final chapter gives basic instructions for editing, which the author calls a fancy word for cleaning up messy writing.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This revised title helps middle school and high school students see patterns in math word problems, and then make the correct computations to solve them. In the process, they work with decimals and fractions, compare rates, and work with proportions and percents. The author presents everyday real-world examples which use problem-solving strategies that align with those of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The examples are presented in easy to understand language and formats that help guide students through problems in statistics, probability, and even a few fundamentals of algebra. Problems are presented in short-answer and open-response form to match those in many state assessment tests. Titles in "Barron`s Painless...
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Secondary school students who are taking Italian and finding the learning process painful will change their minds when they open this book. Separate lessons teach important and interesting aspects of Italian culture while also presenting lessons in Italian vocabulary, grammar, and conversational Italian. Brief exercises that help students measure their learning progress cover grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and idioms. Structured in a workbook format, "Painless Italian" is a language immersion course, but with one important difference: it immerses students gradually and painlessly into the details of Italian language and Italy`s rich culture.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This book is a compact version of Barron’s full-length LSAT test preparation manual. Pass Key to the LSAT presents three full-length model tests with all questions answered and explained. They closely reflect the currently given Law School Admission Test in length, question types, and degree of difficulty. The author also provides a valuable analysis of the test’s four question types: reading comprehension, analytical reasoning, logical reasoning, and the writing sample. Equally helpful is extensive test-taking advice that suggests three-, four-, and five-step approaches to the test’s various question types.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
This compact version of Barron’s comprehensive GRE test preparation manual presents an up-to-date overview of the exam, answers students’ commonly asked questions, and explains what they need to know about the computer-adaptive GRE. The book presents review and exercises covering the GRE’s verbal ability and analytical writing questions, and offers a GRE high-frequency word list for vocabulary building. A math review covers facts and formulas, general math tactics, discrete quantitative questions, quantitative comparison questions, and data interpretation questions. The book concludes with two model tests with answer keys and answer explanations.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Barron`s all-new sixth edition of Pass Key to the GRE is an abbreviated version of Barron`s new full-size GRE test preparation manual. Reflecting the GRE`s brand-new format in both the Verbal and Quantitative Reasoning sections, this new Pass Key to the GRE offers extensive practice and review for all test topics plus two full-length model GREs with answer keys and answer explanations for all questions. Like Barron`s full-size GRE manual, this Pass Key version will be available in time for purchase by students planning to take the new-format GRE, which becomes effective in August 2011.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
This shorter version of Barron`s new, full-size GMAT test preparation manual presents three full-length practice GMATs with answers and analyses for all questions. Subject review sections cover essay writing, reading comprehension, sentence correction, critical reasoning, problem solving, and data sufficiency. Test takers who don`t feel the need for the in-depth review provided by Barron`s comprehensive full-length GMAT manual will find this book to be a very useful brush-up source.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Updated to reflect the most current TOEFL formats, this book presents more than 1,000 practice questions with explanatory answers designed to prepare students to succeed on both the Paper-Based TOEFL (PBT) and the Internet-Based TOEFL (iBT). A TOEFL practice test with instructions for evaluation is also included. The book can be purchased alone or with a set of six audio compact discs that offer practice for the Listening, Speaking, and Integrated Writing Sections. The set of compact discs can also be purchased separately.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Updated to reflect the latest TOEFL formats, this book with optional audio CD package presents more than 1,000 practice questions with explanatory answers. This package is designed to prepare students to succeed on both the Paper-Based TOEFL (PBT) and the Internet-Based TOEFL (iBT). A full-length TOEFL PBT practice test and a full-length TOEFL iBT practice test are also included, and are supplemented with instructions for evaluating answers to test questions and determining a test score.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
This language phrasebook presents more than 1,500 Russian expressions with translations to help English-speaking travelers get around in hotels, airports, train stations, restaurants, and other travel sites. The newly revised edition has been improved with more attractive and useful city maps, availability of ATMs, faxes, and other modern facilities in far-away cities and towns, and much more.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
This pocket-size book lists approximately 6,000 words in English with translations into Russian. Words are divided into several different categories and listed alphabetically within each category. Categories include greetings, numbers, measurements, moods and emotions, driving situations, travel situations, sports, foods, shopping, phoning, and many others. All titles in Barron`s foreign language "Vocabulary Series" include pronunciation guides and a bilingual and alphabetical quick "Wordfinder" section. Barron`s "Vocabulary" books are useful students` classroom supplements as well as handy travelers` aids.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
Books in Barron`s Verbs series present approximately 300 frequently-used verbs in easy-to-read verb conjugation tables, arranged alphabetically by infinitive, one verb per page. Each verb includes its English equivalent, sample sentences, and related words and expressions. These books also include general instruction in verb usage. Titles in Barron`s Verbs series are shorter versions of Barron`s 501 Verbs books. This smaller-format book is a handy reference sources for students taking Spanish, as well as for Spanish language teachers, and translators.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: май 2012
This concise summary of Spanish grammar serves language students as a handy textbook supplement for classroom use. It`s also a helpful quick-reference source for translators whose first language is English. Topics covered include parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, idioms, and pronunciation advice. New in this edition are definitions of basic grammatical terms with examples in Spanish and English. Small in size but packed with helpful instruction, this new edition is printed with headings and key phrases in a second color for easy reference.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Barron`s Business Success books offer useful advice to career-minded men and women who are looking to get ahead in the business and corporate world. Titles touch on all levels of management, marketing, organization, and related business operations. Reading and comprehending a large number of documents and reports - many of them specialized and technical - is a vital task that is intrinsic to fulfilling management and executive responsibilities. The author of this practical book recommends techniques and exercises designed to increase reading speed dramatically and to retain important information more easily. He also offers tips on methods for comprehending dry and often difficult reading matter.
Издательство:
Barron`s Educational Series, ins
Дата выхода: август 2011
