Test Your Listening (Audiobook)

Test Your Listening (Audiobook) by Tricia Aspinall
Penguin (2003) | ISBN-10: 0582469104 | Audio CD
mp3 | English | 49 MB

60 tests to improve your listening skills. Wide variety of tests, including gap-fills, multiple choice, matching exercises, cartoons, and full answer key. Tips on specific grammar points and how best to prepare for the examlls using a variety of test types.

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English for Telephoning (Audiobook)

English for Telephoning (Audiobook)
Oxford University Press (2007) | ISBN: 0194579271 | 200 pages, Audio CD
Audio CD, mp3 | English | 51.5 MB

English for Telephoning is the ideal quick course for anyone who needs to make effective telephone calls in a business context.
English for Telephoning can be completed in 25-30 hours, so students make progress quickly. Hands-on tasks allow students to use new language immediately. How can it be used?
As a stand-alone, short, intensive course. For self-study, using the interactive MultiROM.
Alongside a more general coursebook, such as International Express

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Speak Business English Like an American

Speak Business English Like an American: Learn the Idioms & Expressions You Need to Succeed On The Job! (Book and Audio CD) By  Amy Gillett
Language Success Press (2007) | ISBN: 0972530061 | 200 pages, Audio CD
doc, wma | English | 55.3 MB

Speak Business English Like an American is the new book & audio CD set designed to help you succeed on the job - whatever you're doing, wherever you're working. The set is great for self-study, with dozens of helpful exercises to reinforce the material.
American English speakers use many phrases and expressions on the job. If you don’t know these expressions, you’re left out of the conversation. You’re out of it. This book & CD will help you speak business English like an American — quickly and confidently. Once you have the knack, no one can take it away from you. With this book and CD, your career will benefit for years to come.
You’ll learn the idioms & expressions that you hear at work. What do your colleagues and coworkers, your customers or clients really mean? How can you use these expressions too?
Language is always changing and business English changes especially fast. That’s why we’ve explained the most up-to-date expressions — today’s business English. Now you’ll be able to use these expressions, too. People will marvel at your command of English.

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English for Socializing (Student's Book and Audiobook)
Oxford University Press (2007) | ISBN: 0194579395 | 80 pages, Audio CD
PDF, mp3 | English | 78 MB

English for Socializing is the ideal quick course for anyone who needs English to socialize in a professional context. English for Socializing can be completed in 25-30 hours, so students make progress quickly. Hands-on tasks allow students to use new language immediately. How can it be used? As a stand-alone, short, intensive course. For self-study, using the interactive MultiROM.
Alongside a more general coursebook, such as International Express.

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Film History: An Introduction By Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell

Film History: An Introduction By Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell
McGraw-Hill (2002) | ISBN: 0070384290 | 808 Pages
PDF | English | 161 MB

Written by two leading film scholars, Film History: An Introduction is a comprehensive survey of film-from the backlots of Hollywood, across the United States, and around the world. As in the authors' bestselling Film Art, concepts and events are illustrated with actual frame enlargements, giving students more realistic points of reference than competing books that use publicity stills.

LINKS: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4

Nouveau dictionnaire des difficultés du français moderne

Nouveau dictionnaire des difficultés du français moderne
Belin; Édition 4e éd (23 novembre 2000) | ISBN: 2801112666 |
CD-Rom: 1 pages | 45 MB

On me demande pourquoi et pour qui j'ai composé ce Dictionnaire. J'ai voulu, comme dans toute ma carrière, servir la langue française, dont je n'ai cessé de percevoir toujours davantage les subtilités, les finesses, mais aussi les difficultés et les pièges qui embarrassent l'usager, dans tous les milieux et à tous les niveaux. Mon désir est d'apporter à mon lecteur une aide immédiate et efficace et de le libérer en même temps des scrupules dus à des condamnations ou mises en garde injustifiées. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

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Lewis and Clark for Kids: Their Journey of Discovery with 21 Activities

Lewis and Clark for Kids: Their Journey of Discovery with 21 Activities
Chicago Review (2000) | ISBN: 1556523742 | 144 pages
PDF | English | 15.6 MB

Join Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's Corps of Discovery as they navigate the muddy Missouri River and begin a great adventure set against the background of the vast North American continent. Lewis and Clark for Kids takes children from President Jefferson's vision of an exploratory mission across a continent full of unique plants and animals through their dangerous and challenging journey into the unknown to the expedition's triumphant return to the frontier town of St. Louis. Twenty-one activities bring to life the Native American tribes they encountered, the plants and animals they discovered, and the camping and navigating techniques they used. A glossary of terms and listings of Lewis and Clark sites, museums, and related Web sites round out this comprehensive activity book.

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English for the Financial Sector (Audiobook + Teacher's Book)

English for the Financial Sector (Audiobook + Teacher's Book)
Cambridge University Press (2008) | ISBN: 0521547288 (CD) | ISBN: 0521547261 (TB)
PDF, mp3 | English | 102 MB | 108 pages

English for the Financial Sector helps learners to prepare for a career in finance and enables those already working in the industry to improve their financial English.
Providing at least 50 hours of classroom material, this course builds financial language and teaches students about key financial concepts. It also focuses on the communication skills necessary for working effectively within the industry. It covers a wide range of financial topics, including retail and investment banking, accounting, trade finance, and mergers and acquisitions.

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Assimil - Le Suédois sans peine

Assimil - Le Suédois sans peine
Assimil (2002) | ISBN: 2700520726 | 420 pages
PDF | French | 17 MB

Apprenez en douceur les bases de cette langue scandinave – aux sonorités séduisantes – qui vous ouvrira les portes du monde nordique. Cette méthode vous permettra de faire la connaissance des Suédois, de leur mode de vis et de leurs traditions.
Le suedois appartient ä la branche scandinave des langues germaniques. Il est parle non seulement en Suede mais aussi, quoique par une minorite, en Finlande, ou il constitue la deuxieme langue officielle. Il est en outre etroitement apparente au danois et au norvegien. Une connaissance solide du suedois constitue donc un excellent passeport pour l'Europe nordique.

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Words at Work. Vocabulary development for Business English

Words at Work. Vocabulary development for Business English (Book and Audio CD)
By David Horner, Peter Strutt
Cambridge University Press (1996) | ISBN: 0521438721, 052143873X
PDF, mp3 | English | 113 MB | 144 pages

Words at Work is a powerful resource for learners who want to expand their general Business English vocabulary. The 17 task-based units cover a range of essential topics, from Company organisation, and Business start-ups to Budget and forecasts. Investment and finance and Information systems. Beginning with an introductory unit on learning vocabulary successfully, Words at Work gives learners good ideas on techniques for increasing the number of words they remember. Learners can use the map of the book to select the area of business vocabulary of their choice, and the order in which they want to work on the units; the index also provides a way into the specific vocabulary area they want to focus on.
Words at Work is accompanied by audio material. Every unit contains at least one listening task and one pronunciation task, to give learners the opportunity to hear and practise the vocabulary as well as see it. Words at Work is completely self-contained, with an answer key, tapescripts and an index with phonetic transcriptions, and can be used by learners working on their own.

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Great Grammar for Great Writing (Top 10 & Top 20) w/key

Great Grammar for Great Writing (Top 10 and Top 20) w/key

Thomson Heinle (2008) | ISBN-10: 0618481052
PDF | English | 17 MB

Top 10 and 20 help students master the essential grammar they need to produce great writing. Text focuses on improving the most common grammatical errors novice writers make.

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Merde! The Real French You Were Never Taught at School

Merde! The Real French You Were Never Taught at School
Angus & Robertson (1984) | ISBN: 0207149100 | 128 pages
PDF | English/French | 39 MB

Written by "Genevieve," who is identified only as living in Switzerland, this humorous look at French argot claims to be a "survival guide to understanding everyday French as it is really spoken." While there is certainly much for the casual reader to enjoy and much for lovers of France to commit to memory, the book falls flat. The fun of learning slang in a foreign language is understanding the sometimes mystifying, often amusing, literal meanings of those expressions. For example, according to Genevieve, an innocent, naive person is a oie blanche, a white goose, and to make love in a slow, conventional way is faire l'amour a la papa, make love like dad. Unfortunately this guide only erratically provides such literal meanings, making the book of full value only to those whose French is in good shape already or who are willing to paw through a conventional dictionary while reading this.

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Das extra dicke Witze-Buch

Das extra dicke Witze-Buch
Weltbild Buchverlag (2005) | ISBN: 3898970795 | 670 pages
PDF | German | 17.5 MB

A collection of jokes divided into eleven categories and published in German.

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World Education Encyclopedia: A Survey of Educational Systems Worldwide Vol. 1-3

World Education Encyclopedia: A Survey of Educational Systems Worldwide Vol. 1-3
Thomson Gale (2001) | ISBN: 0787655775
PDF | English | 16.6 + 15.5 + 17.0 MB

More than 225 countries are included, among them "new" countries of the former Soviet Union and territories and departments such as Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, and Saint Helena. The country essays can be as short as a page or as long as 12 pages for China, Greece, New Zealand, Uganda, the U.S., and others. There is a basic structure for the essays. They begin with the history of the country followed by the constitutional and legal foundations of the education system; an overview of the educational system; and sections on preprimary, primary, secondary, and higher education; administration, finance, and educational research; the profession of teaching; and a summary. The authors are objective in their writing, and the editor provides consistency in style. Tables, graphs, and pie charts from current publications of the World Bank, UNESCO, and UNICEF accompany some of the articles. These graphics do not identify the country to which they refer so it is only by checking the original source that one can be sure they appear in the correct entry.

LINKS for Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3

Dictionary of Word Origins by Joseph T. Shipley

Dictionary of Word Origins by Joseph T. Shipley
Dorset House Co Inc (1969) | ISBN: 0880297514 | 448 pages
DJVU | English | 12.6 MB

This fascinating, authoritative reference dictionary supplies the answers to hundreds of questions about the derivations of words we use everyday. The reader can follow a word through its many lives, tracing it from its earliest known use to its current meaning. Dr. Shipley presents a wealth of anecdotal material in a lively style guaranteed to give hours of entertainment as well as sound scholastic information.

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Mathematics Dictionary by Robert C. James, Glenn James

Mathematics Dictionary by Robert C. James, Glenn James
Chapman & Hall (1992) | ISBN: 0412990415 | 548 pages
DJVU | English | 19.3 MB

This dictionary, which is an enlargement and revision of a previous volume, is a valuable reference work which provides carefully formulated definitions of the basic terms used in most branches of mathematics taught to undergraduates and scholars. To search the book for some word which is not listed is a game at which any number can play but at which not many will achieve a quick success for only a few important words between abacus (pl. abaci) and Zorn's lemma have been omitted.

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