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Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Real Answers on Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond
$37.50Why do lizards do pushups? What will happen if the Earth’s magnetic field reverses? How does water get from the roots to the tops of trees? Why and how do stars die? Is there really such a thing as the green flash? In Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Answers about Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond, gifted science explainer Sherry Seethaler presents 188 of the most fascinating new questions real people have asked about science–together with answers that are clear, accurate, honest, and a pleasure to read.
Like her previous book, Curious Folks Ask, the Q&As in this book are collected from Seethaler’s popular weekly column in the San Diego Union-Tribune. From the Earth’s strangest lifeforms to the deepest reaches of the universe. Seethaler introduces exciting areas of research, cuts through myths, offers real insight into what science has learned–and reveals the continuing mysteries scientists are still working to understand.
Written in Seethaler’s trademark style, Curious Folks Ask 2: 188 Answers about Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet, and Beyond presents sophisticated science in a lighthearted, amusing way. Seethaler’s answers will help rekindle the wonder of science in readers of all ages and backgrounds–and help them intelligently interpret the latest news about science and medicine for years to come.
ISBN: 978-0137057399
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Fast Forward Level 8: Taking Off
$8.90Anna jumped on her new skateboard and raced down the hill. Tom wanted a ride on it, but Anna said ‘no’. Tom didn’t care what Anna said, and raced off down the street…
ISBN: 9780170125154
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Assessing Young Language Learners (Cambridge Language Assessment)
$64.00In this book the author builds a comprehensive framework for the assessment of young language learners in both foreign language and second language learning situations. She begins by considering why we need a special book on young learner assessment, and describes the nature of young learner language learning. The assessment approach is task-based and is centred around tasks and techniques suitable for young learners, with particular emphasis on classroom assessment. Oral language assessment, and reading and writing assessment are addressed in separate chapters, as is the large-scale testing of young learners. Underpinned by sound theory, the book is full of practical guidelines, and draws on examples of assessment contexts, issues and practices from around the world.
ISBN: 978-0521601238
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Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers)
$56.00This book contains a selection of short activities organized around six themes which reflect the content covered in young learner English exams and the curriculum in most primary mainstream classrooms: Animals, Journeys, Fantasy and adventure, The world around us, Healthy bodies, and About me. Activities are organized by topic and by level to make it easy to find appropriate activities for students. They encourage meaningful language use and real communication appropriate to primary learners. Each activity also contains guidance and information on preparation, procedure, language focus, skills focus and thinking focus. Activities can be used flexibly in any order at any point in a teaching programme. In addition, the design of the activities allows teachers to adapt and apply the ideas to other themes. This book is suitable for both novice and experienced teachers who need a resource of enjoyable and motivating activities for the young learner classroom.
ISBN: 978-0521691345
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Fast Forward Level 11: Saying Goodbye
$8.90I feel really odd all dressed up. Mum said I have to put on my best clothes. We need to look good for Grandpa…
ISBN: 9780170125505
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Pronunciation Practice Activities with Audio CD: A Resource Book for Teaching English Pronunciation
$68.80This is a resource book for teachers looking for ideas on how they can make pronunciation teaching more interesting. It contains a collection of pronunciation practice activities for a wide range of levels, using a variety of methods. Divided into two parts, the first part introduces information about phonetics and phonology as background to the teaching activities, without being overwhelming. It also highlights some of the current areas of debate and discussion in the teaching and learning of English pronunciation. The second part of the book contains nearly 100 pronunciation activities divided into eight sections: Developing awareness; Sounds; Connected speech: Syllables and stress; Intonation; Pronunciation and spelling, grammar and vocabulary; Testing and Resources for pronunciation teaching. The book is accompanied by an audio CD with material to support the activities.
ISBN: 978-0521754576
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Fast Forward Level 23: The Contest
$8.90Arachne was a talented young spinner and weaver. She made the most wonderful fabrics and tapestries. But, she was proud and stubborn.
ISBN: 9780170126977
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Planning Lessons and Courses: Designing Sequences of Work for the Language Classroom (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers)
$60.80This book deals with the kinds of everyday questions working teachers face as they plan lessons and courses. Each chapter contains an analysis of the issue under discussion, as well as practical principles and sample activities.
ISBN: 978-0521633543
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Oxford: Dead Man’s Island (Special Audio CD) Level 2
$17.90Mr. Ross lives on an island where no visitors come. He stops people from taking photographs of him. He is young and rich, but he looks sad. And there is one room in his house which is always locked. Carol Sanders and her mother come to the island to work for Mr Ross. Carol soon decides that there is something very strange about Mr Ross. Where did he get his money from? How can a young man buy an island? So she watches, and she listens – and one night she learns what is behind the locked door.
ISBN: 9780194232753
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Oxford: Robinson Crusoe (Special Audio CD) Level 2
$17.90‘I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully…It was a footprint the footprint of a man!’ In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend or an enemy?
ISBN: 9780194232876
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Oxford: New Yorkers – Short Stories (Special Audio CD) Level 2
$17.90A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love. O. Henry’s famous short stories sensitive, funny, sympathetic give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers.
ISBN: 9780194232838
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Oxford: Goodbye Mr Hollywood (Special Audio CD) Level 1
$17.90Nick Lortz is sitting outside a cafe in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She’s young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her. But why does she call Nick ‘Mr Hollywood’? Why does she give him a big kiss when she leaves? And who is the man at the next table the man with short white hair? Nick learns the answers to these questions three long days later in a police station on Vancouver Island.
ISBN: 9780194232579
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