Nick Kenny - CAE Gold Plus

Nick Kenny - CAE Gold Plus
Pearson Longman (2008) | 216+186 pages
English | PDF + ISO + MP3 | 313 MB

NEW for the December 2008 exam, Gold Plus is the updated edition of Gold, the trusted exam preparation course for adult and young adult learners. It combines a thorough exam syllabus with enjoyable topics and tasks making it a popular choice for teachers around the world.

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TIME Magazine January 31, 2011 Vol. 177 No. 4

TIME Magazine January 31, 2011 Vol. 177 No. 4
Published by: The Time Inc. Magazine Company (U.S. Edition)
PDF | English | 2.7 MB

• COVER: The Roar of the Tiger Mom - In global testing, Shanghai and other parts of Asia left the U.S. in the dust
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Drama Queen - She's got Oscar buzz for Black Swan and five more films on the way. Get ready for the year of Natalie Portman
• PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Michelle Williams - The Oscar-nominated actress stars in Blue Valentine
• SOCIETY: Pennies for Your Thoughts - Amazon's Mechanical Turk service crowdsources big projects for a few cents per task

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Advanced Grammar: a Self-study Reference and Practice Book

Advanced Grammar: a Self-study Reference and Practice Book
with answers (Longman Learners Grammar)
Longman (2003) | ISBN: 0582403839
PDF | 17,9 MB | Pages: 384

Students gain confidence to use the language through lots of natural examples and practice to help them acquire natural language. Longman Advanced Learner's Grammaris a valuable resource for all upper-level students, especially those preparing for exams like Cambridge ESOL CAE and CPE. Diagnostic testing shows students exactly where they need to focus, while the CAE/CPE task types familiarise students with the format of the exams.

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Cambridge Grammar for CAE and Proficiency

Cambridge Grammar for CAE and Proficiency with answers
Martin Hewings | Cambridge University Press (2009)
English | PDF | 57 MB

Cambridge Grammar for CAE and Proficiency provides complete coverage of the grammar needed for both CAE and Proficiency with plenty of exam practice at the same time. Grammar is presented in a listening context giving students the chance to hear it being used in realistic situations and making it easier to remember. It includes the full range of exam tasks from the Reading, Writing and Listening papers and shows how grammar knowledge is tested in each of these. Informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus, grammar is presented in genuine contexts and the book covers the errors students really make.

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Easy English Grammar 1

Easy English Grammar 1 by David Charlton & Liana Robinson
Compass Publishing (2005) | ISBN: 1932222731
PowerPoint | 7,1 MB | 80 pages

Easy English Grammar is a clear and concise grammar reference series designed for young English language learners. Easy English Grammar blends concrete grammar explanations and exercises with engaging activities to help students acquire a solid foundation of basic, high-frequency structures. The communicative picture-based activities in each unit of the series support young EFL/ESL learners in the first stages of English language development.

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Just A Phrase I'm Going Through: My Life in Language

Just A Phrase I'm Going Through: My Life in Language
by David Crystal | Routledge (2009) | ISBN: 0415485746
PDF | 292 pages | 4.09 MB

Kidnapping, attempted assassination, espionage…not the answers you’d expect to the question ‘what happens when you become a linguist?’ But now, reflecting on a long and hugely successful career at the forefront of the field of English Language and Linguistics, David Crystal answers this question and offers us a special look behind the scenes at the adventures, rewards, challenges and pitfalls of his life in language. Both an autobiography and a highly accessible introduction to the field of linguistics, Just a Phrase I’m Going Through illuminates and entertains us with its many insights into the ever-fascinating subject of language. David Crystal is synonymous with language, both as a great populariser and linguistic pioneer, and his contribution to the field is unparalleled. This is a book not just for students and teachers but for all lovers of language.

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The Columbia Guide to Standard American English

The Columbia Guide to Standard American English
by Kenneth G. Wilson | Routledge (1993) | ISSN: 0231069898
PDF | 2,9 MB | 482 pages

In the most reliable and readable guide to effective writing for the Americans of today, Wilson answers questions of meaning, grammar, pronunciation, punctuation, and spelling in thousands of clear, concise entries. His guide is unique in presenting a systematic, comprehensive view of language as determined by context. Wilson provides a simple chart of contexts - from oratorical speech to intimate, from formal writing to informal - and explains in which contexts a particular usage is appropriate, and in which it is not. The Columbia Guide to Standard Written American English provides the answers to questions about American English the way no other guide can.
A vibrant description of how our language is being spoken and written at the end of the twentieth century -and how we ourselves can use it most effectively - The Columbia Guide to Standard American English is the ideal handbook to language etiquette: friendly, sensible, and reliable.

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John Donne - The Poems

John Donne - The Poems
by Joe Nutt | Palgrave Macmilllan (1999) | ISBN: 0312225237
DJVU | 223 pages | 2.05 MB

John Donne's poems are some of the most challenging and stimulating in the English literary heritage. One of the Renaissance's most human voices, his reputation as a poet has grown steadily since his death in 1631, fueled by poets like Coleridge, Browning, and T.S. Eliot. This book looks at the entire range of his poetic output, from the erotic to the divine, from satires to sonnets. Through detailed analysis of a large number of individual poems, most reproduced complete, Donne's intellectual vitality and unique poetic voice is entertainingly explored.

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A Concise Dictionary of English Slang

A Concise Dictionary of English Slang
by Brian Phythian | Hodder | 1976 | ISBN: 0340184825, 0340589418
224 pages | DjVu | 1.2 MB

Part of the "Concise Dictionaries" series, this book provides the general reader and student with an insight into the use of slang expressions in current English. Entries are arranged alphabetically with brief definitions, and, wherever necessary, examples in context and cross-references.

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Concise Encyclopedia of Brain and Language

Concise Encyclopedia of Brain and Language
by Harry A. Whitaker | Elsevier | 2010 | ISBN: 0080964982
PDF | 11,2 MB | 632 pages

This volume descibes, in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, the field of neurolinguistics, the science concerned with the neural mechanisms underlying the comprehension, production and abstract knowledge of spoken, signed or written language. An edited anthology of 165 articles from the award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd edition, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience 4th Edition and Encyclopedia of the Neorological Sciences and Neurological Disorders, it provides the most comprehensive one-volume reference solution for scientists working with language and the brain ever published.

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