Expand Your Vocabulary - The Dynamic In-Context Way

Informationen zum Autor By Ray Nadeau Klappentext A unique departure from current vocabulary-building texts, this book features word-choices in short excerpts (under 250 words each) from forty different writers and speakers, among them notables like Vicki Kemper, Vernon Jordan, Karen Armstrong, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Albert Shanker, Andrew Hacker, and Juliet Schor. Their topics range widely from 'World Population and Your Life' to 'Leadership for the Future'. The book is a practical and interesting way to study words in meaningful context rather than as isolated entities. Another innovation is that each of the forty 'Days' is accompanied by a commentary, 'Language Uses and Abuses,' on how words are formed and how to check and improve language usages. Topics include Like as a Preposition and Like as a Verb; Get Lost, Hopefully; How Not to Make a Good Impression; Two Handy Latin Phrases; What's in a Name?; and Word-Surfing with the Greek. Then, based on the word-choices studied from a particular context-passage, each 'Day' closes with comprehension checks which include matching meanings, choosing synonyms, and choosing antonyms. And a final noteworthy feature: a sounds-of-speech pronunciation system so easy to understand that it makes the usual pronunciation key unnecessary. Zusammenfassung This guide to expanding your vocabulary features word-choices in short excerpts (under 250 words each) from 40 different writers and speakers! including Albert Shanker! Vernon Jordan and Dr Benjamin Spock. A sounds-of-speech pronunciation system is also provided.

Product details

• Authors: Ray Nadeau, Ray E. Nadeau, Nadeau Ray
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.11.1996
• EAN: 9780761804628
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-0462-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Usage & grammar guides, Usage and grammar guides, Language teaching and learning, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language