Quest Second Edition parallels and accelerates the process native-speaking students go through when they prepare for success in a variety of academic subjects. Quest helps students get "up to speed" in terms of both academic content and language skills. The four Reading and Writing books in the Quest series combine high-interest material from newspapers and magazines with readings from academic textbooks. The Reading and Writing strand includes three to four distinct units, each focusing on a different area of university study - anthropology, art, biology, business, ecology, economics, history, literature, psychology, and sociology.
Quest Second Edition prepares students for academic success. The series features two complementary strands - Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking - each with four levels. The integrated Quest Second Edition program provides robust scaffolding to support and accelerate each student`s journey from exploring general interest topics to mastering academic content. Feature`s: - Listening and speaking strategies guide students to develop effective academic listening and note-taking skills, and encourage them to interact,meaningfully with instructors and fellow students; - Critical thinking and test-taking strategies teach students to use inferencing, synthesizing, and other skills to tackle complex issues, and prepare them to perform...
ISBN: 978-0-07-111924-5
Издательство:
McGrawHill ELT
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A bank of photocopiable classroom activities based around quizzes, questionnaires and puzzles. Ideal for busy teachers, Quizzes, Questionnaires and Puzzles offers 60 ready-made activities that can be slotted into any lesson with minimal preparation. The activities last from 20 minutes to a full 50-minute lesson and are intended to promote intermediate and advanced level students` speaking and reading skills. Each activity has 1-2 photocopiable pages for the students plus teachers` notes, including useful language, preparation instructions, and a lead-in and a follow-up task.
ISBN: 978-0-521-60582-3
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: январь 2012
"R in a Nutshell" is the best way to learn R, a powerful open source tool for data visualization and statistical computing - ideal as a replacement for statistical packages costing thousands of dollars. Practical and easy to read, the book provides a thorough overview of the language, along with a reference to the most commonly used features. You\'ll quickly discover why R has become increasingly popular for analyzing data sets of any size. Learn how to use R to solve complex, real-world statistical problems. Explore R\'s superior graphical capabilities, which let you control and manipulate every detail of your graphs. Take advantage of the large, robust library of contributed packages, including a vast number of statistical techniques...
ISBN: 9780596801700
Издательство:
O'Reilly
Дата выхода: май 2010
Inspired by the poem "The Hound of Heaven" by Francis Thompson, as well as by Carl Jung`s Psychology of the Unconscious, classically trained artist Ives Gammell created a series of paintings he called The Hound of Heaven, full of symbolism and powerful imagery. Four panels from the series illuminate this assortment. The full-sized notecards are presented in a keepsake box with envelopes.
A preliminary to Dick`s masterwork, Valis, in which Phil appears as an explicitly named autobiographical character for the first time. As America gasps in the stranglehold of a skull-crushing totalitarian regime, a supernatural intelligence speaks from the word scratched in the sidewalk of the President`s childhood home. name of the subversive society `with no official membership` whose sole purpose is to overthrow the American government. word printed on a book which contains the President`s signature - a book in the hands of a Communist Party organiser. name of a woman who may hold the key - and who has only weeks to live. Will the agents of the omniscient Valis succeed in their mission of liberation? Or will the seek-and-destroy...
ISBN: 978-0-00-648285-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The perfect pocket reference library for home, school or office. The set includes: · Random House Webster`s Pocket American Dictionary, Fifth Edition · Random House Webster`s Pocket American Thesaurus, Second Edition · Random House Webster`s Pocket Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation, Second Edition
Master Chinese script with this straightforward guide from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Read and write Chinese script is a clear step-by-step guide to the written language, with plenty of examples from real-life texts to show how it works in context and lots of exercises to reinforce your learning. This new edition has an easy-to-read page design. Now fully updated to make your language learning experience fun and interactive. You can still rely on the benefits of a top language teacher and our years of teaching experience, but now with added learning features within the course and online.
ISBN: 9781444103892
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Read at Home First Skills are fun early learning books, which use your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters to introduce important first skills to your child. Your favourite Oxford Reading Tree characters make learning fun and memorable. Read at Home First Skills books are the perfect accompaniment to all your Oxford Reading Tree Read at Home storybooks. In this fun story, it is Biff and Chip`s birthday. They have a number of friends coming, invitations to send, food to buy and so much more! With so many children and so much to do, Dad shows Biff that using times tables can help prepare for the big day. Times tables are very hard for children to learn. To ensure that the levelling is right, the main focus of the story is the two,...
ISBN: 978-0-19-838707-7
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Read At Home is the best-selling home reading series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in exciting stories written for parents to support their children`s reading at home. Read At Home First Experiences introduce young children to new situations and are ideal for parent and child to read together. Read At Home First Experiences help parents to: Explore the wider world with their child; Talk about shared feelings and emotions; Build vocabulary through the fun activities RAH Level: Although these books have been created for parents to share with their child, they have been written to Level 4 of Read At Home. Level 4 is for children Building Confidence in Reading - those...
Read This! is a four-book reading series designed for adult and young adult ESL students at the high beginning to intermediate levels. Read This!, Level 3 contains fifteen fascinating true stories relating to the fields of Tourism and Hospitality, Earth Science, Sports and Fitness, Political Science, and Automotive Technology. Students can read about a hotel in Finland made of ice, an area in the Pacific the size of Texas where trash accumulates, a man who swam the Amazon, and how trace evidence from cars can catch criminals. The readings are appropriate for intermediate to high intermediate-level students. After completing this book, students should be ready to tackle authentic academic reading.
ISBN: 978-0-521-74793-6
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: февраль 2012
Read At Home is the best-selling home reading series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in exciting stories written for parents to support their children`s reading at home. Read At Home First Experiences introduce young children to new situations and are ideal for parent and child to read together. Read At Home First Experiences help parents to: Explore the wider world with their child; Talk about shared feelings and emotions; Build vocabulary through the fun activities RAH Level: Although these books have been created for parents to share with their child, they have been written to Level 4 of Read At Home. Level 4 is for children Building Confidence in Reading - those...
Read This! is a three-book reading series designed for adult and young adult ESL students at the high beginning to intermediate levels. Read This!, Level 2 contains fifteen stories relating to the fields of Health Care, Animal Studies, Food and Nutrition, Criminal Justice, and Psychology. For example, students read about how the first vaccine was discovered, how Europeans came to see their first giraffe, and the potentially fatal risk of Internet addiction. The nonfiction readings are written in an accessible narrative style, and the vocabulary and exercise material are appropriate for low intermediate to intermediate-level students. This enjoyable and fascinating text eases students into reading content-rich texts.
ISBN: 978-0-521-74789-9
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Kipper gets an itchy head - he has nits! Meanwhile, Floppy also feels itchy. The family realise he must have At Home is the best-selling home reading series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in exciting stories written for parents to support their child`s reading at home. Read At Home First Experiences introduce young children to new situations and are ideal for parent and child to read together. Read At Home First Experiences help parents to: Explore the wider world with their child; Talk about shared feelings and emotions; Build vocabulary through the fun activities RAH Level: Although these books have been created for parents to share with their child, they have been...
Read At Home is the best-selling home reading series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in exciting stories written for parents to support their children`s reading at home. Read At Home First Experiences introduce young children to new situations and are ideal for parent and child to read together. Read At Home First Experiences help parents to: Explore the wider world with their child; Talk about shared feelings and emotions; Build vocabulary through the fun activities RAH Level: Although these books have been created for parents to share with their child, they have been written to Level 4 of Read At Home. Level 4 is for children Building Confidence in Reading - those...
