Touchstone Student's Book 4 is the fourth level of the innovative Touchstone series. It is designed for intermediate students and expands on the concepts established in Student's Book 3. Drawing on research into the Cambridge International Corpus, Student's Book 4 presents the vocabulary, grammar, and functions students encounter most often in real life. It also develops the conversation strategies that students need for effective conversations, such as how to summarize things people say and how to sound more assertive. The book features an attractive, contemporary design, and beautiful color photos and illustrations. It makes learning fun by maximizing the time students spend on interactive, personalized activities on high-interest topics. Students using Touchstone will soon feel confident in their abilities to express themselves clearly and effectively. A free Self-Study Audio CD/CD-ROM at the back of the book gives students further practice in listening, speaking, and vocabulary.

The second in the family of best-selling vocabulary reference and practice books from elementary to advanced level. Vocabulary is clearly presented and contextualized on left-hand pages with practice activities on facing right-hand pages. This top-selling vocabulary book is now available with a CD-ROM offering hundreds of completely new exercises. The CD-ROM has a built-in dictionary with full definitions and example sentences of key vocabulary. Students can listen to audio recordings, create their own tests and make personal notes within the dictionary.

Easy and enjoyable to teach, Touchstone offers a fresh approach to the teaching and learning of English. The Touchstone Class Audio CDs include the Getting Started, Speaking Naturally, and Building Vocabulary exercises, as well as grammar, conversation strategies, and listening activities, all recorded by fluent native and non-native speakers of English. The Class Audio Program is also available on Audio Cassettes.

Easy and enjoyable to teach, Touchstone offers a fresh approach to the teaching and learning of English. The Touchstone Class Audio CDs include the Getting Started, Speaking Naturally, and Building Vocabulary exercises, as well as grammar, conversation strategies, and listening activities, all recorded by fluent native and non-native speakers of English. The Class Audio Program is also available on Audio Cassettes.

Touchstone Student's Book 2 is the second level of the innovative Touchstone series. It is designed for high-beginning students and expands on the fundamental concepts established in Student's Book 1. Drawing on research into the Cambridge International Corpus, Student's Book 2 presents the vocabulary, grammar, and functions students encounter most often in real life. It also develops the conversation strategies that students need for effective conversations, such as how to say no in a friendly way and how to respond to suggestions you are not sure about. The book features an attractive, contemporary design, and beautiful color photos and illustrations. It makes learning fun by maximizing the time students spend on interactive, personalized activities on high-interest topics. Students using Touchstone will soon feel confident in their abilities to express themselves clearly and effectively. A free Self-Study Audio CD/CD-ROM at the back of the book gives students further practice in listening, speaking, and vocabulary.

Did you know that testing your English Vocabulary could be enjoyable? You can use this book alone, or in class, and watch your rapid progress. Each test will build your confidence and help you remember even 'problem' words. You can use Test Your English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced on its own or along with the companion volume English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced.

The Touchstone Workbook provides follow-up exercises for each lesson in the Student's Book, allowing for a thorough practice of new vocabulary, structures, and conversation strategies and providing extra reading and writing activities. A progress chart at the end of each unit helps students evaluate their progress and plan further study.

The Touchstone Teacher's Editions are fully interleaved and contain practical teaching notes, along with a wealth of optional activities. Detailed language notes based on corpus research give teachers special insights into English usage. Audio scripts, answer keys, and tests are also provided. An Audio CD contains the recordings for the listening tasks in the tests. Teachers can go into the classroom confident that they are fully equipped to teach students to be effective communicators.

Easy and enjoyable to teach, Touchstone offers a fresh approach to the teaching and learning of English. The Touchstone Class Audio CDs include the Getting Started, Speaking Naturally, and Building Vocabulary exercises, as well as grammar, conversation strategies, and listening activities, all recorded by fluent native and non-native speakers of English. The Class Audio Program is also available on Audio Cassettes.

Easy and enjoyable to teach, Touchstone offers a fresh approach to the teaching and learning of English. The Touchstone Teacher's Editions are fully interleaved and contain practical teaching notes, along with a wealth of optional activities. Detailed language notes based on corpus research give teachers special insights into English usage. Audio scripts, answer keys, and tests are also provided. An Audio CD contains the recordings for the listening tasks in the tests. Teachers can go into the classroom confident that they are fully equipped to teach students to be effective communicators.

Touchstone Student's Book 1 is the first level of the innovative Touchstone series and is designed for beginning students. Drawing on research into the Cambridge International Corpus, a large database of language that includes everyday conversations and texts from newspapers and books, Student's Book 1 presents the vocabulary, grammar, and functions students encounter most often in real life. It also develops the strategies that students need for effective conversations, such as how to start and end a conversation and how to ask questions that are not too direct. The book features an attractive, contemporary design, and beautiful color photos and illustrations. It makes learning fun by maximizing the time students spend on interactive, personalized activities on high-interest topics. Students using Touchstone will soon feel confident in their abilities to express themselves clearly and effectively. A free Self-Study Audio CD/CD-ROM at the back of the book gives students further practice in listening, speaking, and vocabulary.

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This book, by one of the leading figures in applied linguistics, provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive treatment of the major issues. Its six chapters take the reader through the major tenets and debates in the field and are essential reading for anyone involved in applied linguistics and language teaching today. It outlines the historical roots of the field and its major developments over the years, and examines current issues such as language modelling and the analysis of discourse. While not neglecting theory, the book takes a practical approach and language teachers, as well as university level students, will find it a useful read.

Easy and enjoyable to teach, Touchstone offers a fresh approach to the teaching and learning of English. The Touchstone Class Audio CDs include the Getting Started, Speaking Naturally, and Building Vocabulary exercises, as well as grammar, conversation strategies, and listening activities, all recorded by fluent native and non-native speakers of English. The Class Audio Program is also available on Audio Cassettes.

McCarthy, of the Western Australian Maritime Museum in Fremantle, headed a site management project begun in 1983 to protect the wrecked steamship Xanto (1848-72). This study represents a landmark in modern maritime archeology by linking underwater archaeologists, biologists, and corrosion specialists for site and lab analyses. The author, who wrote his master's thesis on Captain Broadhurst, provides context for the ship and its captain. Includes photos of ships and shipwrecks, diagrams of their equipment, 19th century charts of Western Australia, information on horsepower, and wages/salaries current in 1870. The extensive bibliography includes archival documents. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics argues for putting spoken language right at the centre of the syllabus. It brings together a number of separate studies by the author, based on the CANCODE spoken corpus, and weaves them together to illustrate the central role the study of spoken language can play in applied linguistics. After an introduction to the corpus, the author lays out the main components of a theory of spoken genres, with corpus examples. There then follows a broad discussion of what can/should be taught about the spoken language, followed by chapters on discourse grammar and on the sometimes parallel, sometimes different, grammatical patterning of spoken and written texts. The book then turns to lexis, with a general overview of the vocabulary of spoken language and closes with a look at another central area of language teaching, speech reporting.

This volume examines the area of second language vocabulary studies from three broad perspectives: description, acquisition and pedagogical context. The book's fifteen chapters are grouped together to achieve a balance between descriptions of what vocabulary is and how it behaves, how the mind learns new vocabulary and then uses it when it is learned, and pedagogical issues of teaching and testing L2 vocabulary. Some of the specific topics addressed in these three general areas include: - word frequency and vocabulary size, multi-word units, variation between spoken and written language; - models of lexical acquisition, first language influences on second language vocabulary acquisition, vocabulary learning strategies; - vocabulary and the syllabus, trends in teaching and testing vocabulary, lexical reference sources.

Discourse Analysis for Language Teaching gives a practical introduction to the field of discourse analysis and its relevance for language teaching. It begins by answering the question 'What is discourse analysis?' and examines how discourse analysts approach spoken and written language. Different models of analysis are outlined and evaluated in terms of their usefulness to language teachers. This is followed by chapters on discourse-oriented approaches to grammar, vocabulary and phonology. The final section looks at spoken and written language in the light of native-speaker and learner data and considers examples of teaching approaches. Discourse Analysis for Language Teaching has a very practical orientation, and the text is interspersed with reader activities with guidance on appropriate responses at the end.