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First published in 1987. Most introductory textbooks in phonetics are designed to turn the people who use them into phoneticians. People who take phonetics courses, on the other hand, do not in general wish to become specialists, but rather need to know...

The Level 4 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A, More Stories B and More Stories C...

The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes constitutes a comprehensive introduction to the study of World Englishes. Split into six sections with 40 contributions, this Handbook discusses how English is operating in a wide range of fields from business to...

Providing plenty of practice questions for children to work through, this English skills book helps to build confidence and improve English skills at Key Stage 2. Children can use this book at home for SATS revision, and to build on topics covered in the...

The Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts-from Civil War songs and stories to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Juan Felipe Herrera and Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N...

The Level 1+ Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. First Sentences and More First Sentences A, B and C introduce...

Book 7 practises 'j v w' Book 8 practises 'x y z' Book 9 practises 'zz qu ch' Book 10 practises 'sh th ng' Book 11 practises 'j dge wh' Book 12 practises 'cks tch nk' Each sound is explored through an Oxford Reading Tree scene, first the children...

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Culture collects into a single volume thirty-two state-of-the-art chapters written by international specialists, overviewing the ways in which translation studies has both informed, and been informed by,...

The Level 2 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B offer a...

Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: EnglishFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA Higher English exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice questions for every...

Finnish: A Comprehensive Grammar presents a fresh, accessible and thorough description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Finnish. The book moves from the sound system through morphology and word classes to a detailed...

Anyone who regularly tackles challenging crossword puzzles will be familiar with the frustration of unanswered clues blocking the road to completion. Together in one bumper volume, Crossword Lists and Crossword Solver provides the ultimate aid for...

Volume 2 of this two-volume companion study into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scotland explores the role of police courts in moulding cultural ideas, social behaviours and urban environments in the...

How many words are there in the English language and where were they born? Why does spelling 'wobble' and why do meanings change? How do words behave towards each other - and how do we behave towards words? And what does this all mean for...

The Language of Sport:* looks in detail at the language of sports-talk including commentary and 'new sportswriting'* explores linguistic representation of related issues such as gender, national/regional identity* examines the way sport sells itself as...

This dictionary contains 10,000 Russian words in order of importance starting with the most common and finishing with words that occur about 8 times in a million. All the words have English translations, many have examples of usage and the entries...

Both a companion to Introducing Sociolinguistics, Miriam Meyerhoff's bestselling textbook, and a stand-alone Reader in sociolinguistics, this collection includes classic foundational readings and more recent innovative articles.Intended to be highly...

A fascinating collection of the many unusual and vibrant phrases that adorn our language, looking at their origins and meanings. Don't be down in the dumps if you can't cut the mustard when asked the definition of certain phrases - this down-to-earth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942116059Author Larry W PittsFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Yul LLCPublisher Yul LLCWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 8mm

The Level 3 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B build on the...

The Level 3 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B build on the...

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. The core book, Working with Texts, is the foundation text which provides an introduction to language analysis. It is complemented by a range...

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club...

Know someone with an antwacky stem-winder? Heard the Band of Hope Street? Ever been on a vinegar trip? Do you jangle? Ever met a Cunard yank in the Dingle? Could you pay for a dodger with a joey? Have you heard a maccyowler in a jigger? The Liverpool...

An Introduction to Middle English is designed to provide undergraduate students of English historical linguistics with a concise description of the language during the period 1100-1500. Middle English, the language of Chaucer, is discussed in relation to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916064614Author Michael GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint MagneticalPublisher MagneticalWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 11mm

This report text explains the impact of global warming on four key habitats around the Earth, by considering the impact on animals. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence...

This title is a super resource to develop important life and listening skills. Pupils follow challenging and sequential instructions read out by teacher. It develops ability to listen accurately and retain information in memory. It offers photocopiable...

This step-by-step, practical guide to the process of creative writing provides readers with a comprehensive course in its art and skill. With genre-based chapters, such as life writing, novels and short stories, poetry, fiction for children and...

The Level 6 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar...

The average contemporary English speaker knows 50,000 words. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently huge vocabulary is in reality much smaller, derived from Latin, French and the Germanic languages. It is estimated that every year, 800...

This latest edition of workbooks provides preschoolers with numerous opportunities to practise writing letters, and to associate letter shapes with their sounds. All four graded workbooks are fully crossreferenced in the new "Early Years...

This title provides good practice and preparation for Secondary school selection examinations. It includes a pull-out answer sheet.Book InformationISBN 9780175663224Author P WintPage Count 92Imprint Nelson Thornes LtdPublisher Oxford University...

Tim and his dog dig up lots of mud in Dig, Dig, Dig!. Level 1+ Songbirds Phonics books focus on matching one sound to one letter, for example o as in dog. The focus phonics in this book are r l d b h i u s m t g p a o n. Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds...

The Level 7 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar...

The Level 7 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar...

NO description availableBook InformationISBN 9780175660025Author J O CutteridgePage Count 48Imprint Nelson Thornes LtdPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 52gDimensions(mm) 169mm * 96mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585100187Author Evelyn AbbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams)...

The Level 1 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, created by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide wordless stories and a rich story context to help develop language comprehension. Wordless Stories B introduce the characters and children learn...

Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution is concerned with how one is to conceive of the relation between language and reality without embracing Linguistic Realism and without courting any form of Linguistic Idealism either. It argues that this is precisely...