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Word Games, Riddles and Logic Tests - Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book contains exercises connected with some of the fun or more unusual aspects of the English languageand with games that typically a native English speaker would do. The games have been adapted into a manageable format, but the actual vocabulary contained has not been changed.
The types of games include: lateral thinking games, riddles, logic tests, anagrams, palindromes, proverbs, limericks, word ladders, tongue twisters, plus a whole host of other word-related games.
Easy English! is a series of books to help you learn and revise your English with minimal effort. You can improve your English by

  • reading texts in English that you might well normally read in your own language e.g. jokes, personality tests, lateral thinking games, wordsearches.
  • doing short exercises to improve specific areas grammar and vocabulary, i.e. the areas that tend to lead to the most mistakes - the aim is just to focus on what you really need rather than overwhelming yourself with a mass of rules, many of which may have no practical daily value

Other books in the Easy English!series include:
Wordsearches: Widen Your Vocabulary in English
Test Your Personality: Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases
Word games, Riddles and Logic Tests: Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English
Top 50 Grammar Mistakes: How to Avoid Them
Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them

List of contents

Introduction to the games, riddles and verses used in this book.- Riddles.- Rhyming forms.- Numbers.- Acronymns.- Funny book titles.- Riddles.- Irregular verbs.- Word Ladder.- Grammar challenge.

About the author










Since 1984 Adrian Wallwork has been teaching English as a foreign language - from General English to Business English to Scientific English. Although he lives and works in Pisa (Italy), through his university work he has taught students of all nationalities. Adrian is the author of over 30 textbooks for Springer Science + Business Media, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, the BBC, and many other publishers.

Summary

This book contains exercises connected with some of the fun or more unusual aspects of the English languageand with games that typically a native English speaker would do. The games have been adapted into a manageable format, but the actual vocabulary contained has not been changed.
The types of games include: lateral thinking games, riddles, logic tests, anagrams, palindromes, proverbs, limericks, word ladders, tongue twisters, plus a whole host of other word-related games.
Easy English! is a series of books to help you learn and revise your English with minimal effort. You can improve your English by

  • reading texts in English that you might well normally read in your own language e.g. jokes, personality tests, lateral thinking games, wordsearches.
  • doing short exercises to improve specific areas grammar and vocabulary, i.e. the areas that tend to lead to the most mistakes - the aim is just to focus on what you really need rather than overwhelming yourself with a mass of rules, many of which may have no practical daily value

Other books in the Easy English!series include:
     Wordsearches: Widen Your Vocabulary in English
     Test Your Personality: Have Fun and Learn Useful Phrases
     Word games, Riddles and Logic Tests: Tax Your Brain and Boost Your English
     Top 50 Grammar Mistakes: How to Avoid Them 
     Top 50 Vocabulary Mistakes: How to Avoid Them

Product details

Authors Adrian Wallwork
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 11.01.2018
 
EAN 9783319672403
ISBN 978-3-31-967240-3
No. of pages 159
Dimensions 157 mm x 8 mm x 234 mm
Weight 283 g
Illustrations XVII, 159 p.
Series Easy English!
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies

B, Linguistics, Lexicology, English, Grammar, English Language, Social Sciences, Language Education, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Language and education, Language teaching & learning, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar, Lexicology/Vocabulary, ESL;EFL;English exercises;grammar;vocabulary

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