face2face is a general English course for adults and young adults who want to learn to communicate quickly and effectively in today's world. Based on the communicative approach, it combines the best in current methodology with special new features designed to make learning and teaching easier. Vocabulary and grammar are given equal importance and there is a strong focus on listening and speaking in social situations.

Practice Makes Perfect helps you put your English vocabulary and grammar skills together!
You may have all the vocabulary down pat and every grammar point nailed--but without the skill of knowing how to put these elements together, communicating in your second language would be nearly impossible. Practice Makes Perfect: English Sentence Builders picks up from where other grammar books leave off, showing you the variety of structures and how to combine them to make solid sentences. And like every Practice Makes Perfect title, these books feature crystal-clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and dozens of opportunities to practice, practice, practice!

The main purpose of the Practice Materials is to give IELTS candidates an idea of what the test is like. They also give candidates the opportunity to test themselves to see whether their English is at the level required.

The assessment of language learners is having a growing impact in English language teaching and applied linguistics. A formal evaluation of students' writing abilities is important for language teachers in order to assess the pedagogical needs of their students. While there has been a considerable body of work undertaken on assessing the writing abilities of native speakers, the issues surrounding the assessment of second language learners' writing abilities are still emerging. At present, no one volume has explored these issues and their implications for language teaching practitioners wishing to evaluate their students' writing. This book outlines in an accessible manner the major tenets of research in the field and provide language teachers with guidelines to design and develop suitable listening assessment tasks for their students.

Cet ouvrage correspond au DELF A2. Les activites d'entrainement proposees sont destinees a un public de grandes adolescents et d'adultes. Elles offrent un equilibre entre l'activite de comprehension et celle de production, a l'oral comme a l'ecrit.

Improve your IELTS Skills" is aimed at students between bands 4.5 and 7.5. The series has three preparation courses, Academic Reading, Academic Writing, and Listening and Speaking. The courses develop language, skills and test techniques to help students achieve a higher IELTS score. The three books in the series may be used together as a complete course or may be used to target specific skills. Or they may be used separately to supplement other coursebooks.

A Speedy Course of Business Chinese - Do business easily with Chinese people With the development of Sino-foreign trade, language communication becomes more and more important. This multimedia software can satisfy the needs of Chinese learners. This set of teaching material is compiled by Chinese teaching experts. Applying the most advanced technology, it combines together words, sounds, pictures, animations and music. Learners can study while seeing, listening, speaking and writing. It provides a comprehensive and pleasant studying environment. Starting from phonetics, and progressing step by step, it fits beginners for self-study, especially for those engaged in business. It enables the learners to communicate in Chinese in a short period of time.

Each character is shown in both simplified and traditional form, along with its pronunciation and meaning. Information is given about the radical (essential for finding it in a Chinese dictionary) and other components. The character configuration and stroke order are clearly shown, along with other tips to help form it correctly. A grid of practice squares for each character page allows the user to build confidence in writing Chinese.

English for Marketing & Advertising is part of the EXPRESS SERIES. It is the ideal quick course for marketing & advertising professionals who need to communicate confidently and effectively in English. It can be used to supplement a regular coursebook, on its own, as a stand-alone intensive specialist course of for self-study

This educational series is developed to teach Japanese language to non-Japanese-speaking people living in Japan. The main points of learning center on using appropriate expressions directed toward specific persons in certain situations to establish smooth relationships, as well as using suitable terms of expression in order to be understood by other persons in one's normal life and workplace.

This educational series is developed to teach Japanese language to non-Japanese-speaking people living in Japan. The main points of learning center on using appropriate expressions directed toward specific persons in certain situations to establish smooth relationships, as well as using suitable terms of expression in order to be understood by other persons in one's normal life and workplace.

This educational series is developed to teach Japanese language to non-Japanese-speaking people living in Japan. The main points of learning center on using appropriate expressions directed toward specific persons in certain situations to establish smooth relationships, as well as using suitable terms of expression in order to be understood by other persons in one's normal life and workplace.

Kenkyusha Japanese Dictionary is an essential reference for any English-speaker learning Japanese, whether they're studying the language at school or university, or learning it on their own. It offers detailed coverage of Japanese vocabulary, giving headwords and examples in both romanized and script form, along with thousands of examples that help you find the translation you need quickly and easily. Translations for each of the over 40,000 entries are clear and concise, and offer guidance on grammar and usage, with slang, formal, and derogatory terms clearly marked. Additional supplements include a guide to grammar; help with pronunciation, numbers, and days of the week; and cultural information, covering topics such as the government, political parties, and historical periods of Japan.

The aim of this book is to provide the student of Japanese with a simple method for correlating the writing and the meaning of Japanese characters in such a way as to make them both easy to remember. It is intended not only for the beginner, but also for the more advanced student looking for some relief from the constant frustration of how to write the kanji and some way to systematize what he or she already knows. The author begins with writing because--contrary to first impressions--it is in fact the simpler of the two. He abandons the traditional method of ordering the kanji according to their frequency of use and organizes them according to their component parts or "primitive elements." Assigning each of these parts a distinct meaning with its own distinct image, the student is led to harness the powers of "imaginative memory" to learn the various combinations that result. In addition, each kanji is given its own key word to represent the meaning, or one of the principal meanings, of that character. These key words provide the setting for a particular kanji's "story," whose protagonists are the primitive elements.

Following the first volume of "Remembering the Kanji", the present work takes up the pronunciation of characters and provides students with helpful tools for memorizing them. Behind the notorious inconsistencies in the way the Japanese language has come to pronounce the characters it received from China lie several coherent patterns. Identifying these patterns and arranging them in logical order can reduce dramatically the amount of time spent in the brute memorization of sounds unrelated to written forms.Many of the "primitive elements," or building blocks, used in the drawing of the characters also serve to indicate the "Chinese reading" that particular kanji use, chiefly in compound terms. By learning one of the kanji that uses such a "signal primitive," one can learn the entire group at the same time.