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A Description Of This BookletSomeone once said, "A picture is worth 1,000 words". Idioms create pictures also. They can be facilitators (when they help in understanding) or they can become barriers (when they confuse understanding.)What I have attempted to present in this booklet, is...

Author: OxendenISBN-10: 0194906000ISBN-13: 9780194906005Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2019Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 10.66h x 8.54w x 0.14d

Alex just lost his job at the plant. His unemployment checks won't last forever. He owns only one thing of value-his pickup truck. That's when the idea comes to him. He can start a hauling business The business turns out to be full of...

APEX Test Prep's HiSET 2021 and 2022 Preparation Book: Study Guide with Practice Test Questions for the HiSET Exam [4th Edition]Preparing for your test shouldn't be harder than the test itself. To that end, our APEX Test Prep team packs our guides with everything...

"To help every kid fall in love with at least one field of knowledge, our students must encounter our fields' most galvanizing, tantalizing, and pivotal documents. This book is about making those encounters as compelling as we can make them." --Harvey "Smokey" Daniels and...

Fun English activities and quick tests to energize young learners and fully prepare them for national tests with confidence. This book guides your child through the learning they are doing at school and is fully in line with the new National Curriculum.- Simple explanations...

Cloze is a method of developing comprehension by providing partial written passages with important information omitted.Author: George MooreISBN-10: 1885111290ISBN-13: 9781885111296Publisher: Didax Educational ResourcesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1996Pages: 55Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 10.70h x 8.10w x 0.40d

An idiom is a group of words the actual meaning of which cannot easily be predicted from the specific meanings of the component words. Both the English and Russian languages are highly idiomatic. The use of idioms is natural to the speakers of a...

A collection of 25 leveled passages with text-dependent comprehension questions that help students tackle increasingly complex texts and provide the academic rigor called for by the Common Core State Standards. - Each book features passages at various levels of text complexity. - Companion comprehension...

Author: Stephen HakeISBN-10: 0544044207ISBN-13: 9780544044203Publisher: Stephen Hake GrammarLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2013Pages: 616Format: PaperbackWeight: 3.00lbsSize: 10.70h x 8.20w x 1.30d

Topics reflect real-life situations Structured speaking activity at the end of each unit Clear focus on key functional language and topic-related vocabulary Language review sections with additional explanations and 'Test yourself' exercises for consolidation 'Glossary' and 'More words to use' help develop specialist vocabularyAuthor:...

Author: Deborah PhillipsISBN-10: 0133248127ISBN-13: 9780133248128Publisher: Pearson Education ESLLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2014Pages: 640Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.60lbsSize: 10.70h x 8.20w x 1.20d

In an increasingly Orwellian world, everyone should be armed with this hilarious, slyly subversive deconstruction of the slippery locutions of spinmeisters from all walks of public life. Doublespeak guru William Lutz (Doublespeak, The New Doublespeak) is uniquely qualified to bring you this supremely funny...

Application essays need to say "PICK ME" and the best will take admission officers beyond the numbers to show who you are, how you think, and what you will add to the in-coming class. And looked at correctly, you will find you've done this...

APEX Test Prep's GRE Prep 2022 and 2023: GRE Study Book with Practice Test Questions [7th Edition]APEX Test Prep believes that preparing for the GRE exam shouldn't be harder than the test itself.To that end, we pack our products with everything you need. This...

Test Prep Books' CHSPE Preparation Book: Practice Test Questions and CHSPE Study Guide [4th Edition]Taking the CHSPE test? Want to get a good score?Written by Test Prep Books, this comprehensive study guide includes: Quick Overview Test-Taking Strategies Introduction Reading Language Math Practice Questions Detailed...

ISBN-10: 140852354XISBN-13: 9781408523544Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2014Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 7.23h x 4.91w x 0.45d

Akkadian Loanwords in Biblical Hebrew is an in-depth examination of Hebrew words that are of Akkadian origin or transmitted via Akkadian into the Hebrew lexicon. The first book-length treatment of the subject to appear in 90 years, this study provides a detailed treatment in...

Bridge the gap between content and language and put research into practice to instruct English language learners with strategies that meet their needs in language development and literacy. This must-have book reviews the author's experiences as a teacher in a diverse instructional setting and...

These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.Author: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtISBN-10: 0544268482ISBN-13: 9780544268487Publisher: Steck Vaughn School SupplyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/06/2013Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 10.70h x 8.40w x 0.40d

This inspiring and diverse collection of voices from the field in ESL and EFL contexts personalizes the issues TESOL educators face and serves as a resource for those wanting to address social injustices in their individual TESOL contexts. Each chapter in this ground-breaking volume...

Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about the game involving radical changes, putting his king...

These all-inclusive skills resources provide the focused practice students need to apply, reinforce, and review skills in reading, math, and test-taking. Answer key included.Author: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtISBN-10: 0544261844ISBN-13: 9780544261846Publisher: Steck Vaughn School SupplyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/21/2014Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.20w x 0.50d

Author: Stephen HakeISBN-10: 0544044258ISBN-13: 9780544044258Publisher: Stephen Hake GrammarLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2013Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 10.70h x 8.20w x 0.50d

ONE OF THE FEW COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED EDITIONS OF PLUTARCH'S LIVES--all fifty biographies, and eighteen comparisons."To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days." Plutarch"I would rather excel in...

'O si Manu a Ali'i is the first comprehensive guide for teachers of Samoan oratory and the Samoan language of respect. It is also an authoritative resource book for students of the language. The author's insightful descriptions of Samoan culture provide the necessary social...

Krio is a Creole language derived from English and several African languages. It is the lingua franca of Sierra Leone. Krio's unique history as a Creole language stems from the creation of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, as a new home for repatriated former slaves...

Cambridge English Readers is an award-winning series of original fiction readers for learners of English, offering exciting reading from Starter to Advanced levels. A tragic love story is uncovered as journalist Clare Crowe goes to Switzerland to bring home a relative's body. Clare's grandfather...

Cambridge English Readers is an award-winning series of original fiction readers for learners of English, offering exciting reading from Starter to Advanced levels. Hiro, a 20-year-old Japanese student, sits next to an old man on a train to Berlin. By mistake they exchange phones...

Test Prep Books' SHSAT Prep Book: Specialized High School Admissions Study Guide With 3 New York City SHSAT Practice Tests for Math and ELA [6th Edition]Made by Test Prep Books experts for test takers trying to achieve a great score on the SHSAT exam.This...

A new companion for every English teacher "Why have I written an entirely new English Teacher's Companion? Because to offer you anything less would suggest I had not grown, changed, or evolved these past fifteen years. I am not the same teacher I was...

APEX Test Prep's SAT Prep 2021 and 2022 with Practice Tests: SAT Study Guide for the College Board Exam [4th Edition Book]APEX Test Prep believes that preparing for the SAT exam shouldn't be harder than the test itself.To that end, we pack our products...

In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias...

Graphic facilitation is serving a group by writing and drawing their conversation live and large to help them do their work. It is a powerful tool to help people feel heard, to develop a shared understanding as a group, and to be able to...

The Story of Willow Run is a success story--the life history of a small community, the Bomber City that had sprung up in World War II. It tells what a group of returning veterans and their families did to make into a progressive, thriving...

"Spanish-language educators tell me that they too often spend precious time translating English-only material so that it can work with their students. My Facebook and Twitter messages and my email inbox are all filled with educators who are asking for the same thing: Spanish...

"Loosely based on the famous novel Les miserables by Victor Hugo."--Back cover.Author: Jennifer BassettISBN-10: 0194794407ISBN-13: 9780194794404Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2012Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.20d

Netprov is an emerging interdisciplinary digital art form that offers a literature-based "show" of insightful, healing satire that is as deep as the novels of the past. This accessible history of Netprov emerges out of an ongoing conversation about the changing roles and power...

Test Prep Books' TOEFL Preparation Book 2022-2023: Exam Study Guide with 3 TOEFL iBT Practice Tests for Reading, Listening, Speaking, and Writing/Essay [Includes Audio Links] Made by Test Prep Books experts for test takers trying to achieve a great score on the TOEFL iBT...

Test Prep Book's SSAT Elementary Level Study Guide: SSAT Lower Level Test Prep and Practice Exam Questions [2nd Edition] Made by Test Prep Books experts for test takers trying to achieve a great score on the SSAT Elementary exam. This comprehensive study guide includes:...

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year "Richly evocative and entertaining."--Guardian "An essential book for anyone who wants to Polari bona "--Attitude "Exuberant, richly detailed. . . . A delightful read."--Tatler Polari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in...

Do you dream of a job as a successful television writer on a hit show? Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin give you practical but essential advice to help make your dreams a reality. They teach you how to discover the "Franchise" or structure of...

Covers all the new task types for the revised 2013 exam Online Skills and Language Practice pack Strong focus on contextualised grammar and vocabulary Writing guide with writing improvement tasks Over 150 skills-training, exam-practice, vocabulary and grammar exercises to do online Grammar reference section...

All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?Generations of readers have recognized the impassioned cry that introduces the young narrator of Demian, and embraced this tale of a...

With K-8 teachers in mind, Andrea Honigsfeld offers this user-friendly, accessible resource to address the diverse language and literacy proficiencies that exist in so many U.S. classrooms today. Andrea unpacks the five levels of language acquisition, based on the TESOL framework, and introduces practical...

"The third edition of In the Middle is my invitation to English teachers, both veterans and novices, to understand writing and reading from the inside and recognize our potential to influence our students' literacy for a lifetime. Like the two that preceded it, this...

APEX Test Prep's Civil Service Exam Study Guide: Prep Book and Practice Test Questions with Detailed Answer Explanations [Firefighter, Police Officer, Clerical, etc.]Preparing for your test shouldn't be harder than the test itself. To that end, our APEX Test Prep team packs our guides...

Part of The New Art and Science of Teaching series Only when teachers have in-depth knowledge of reading skill and literacy development can they deliver best-practice reading assessment and instruction to students. The New Art and Science of Teaching Reading presents a compelling model...

Developing Latin skills for ages 10-13. Join in the fun with Minimus Secundus - a mix of myths, stories, grammar support and historical background! This pupil's book is a lively, colourful introduction to the Latin language and the culture of Roman Britain. A fun...

Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices presents research examining media portrayals of women from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. It provides qualitative and quantitative findings of how women are stereotyped and misrepresented not only because of their...