Etymology

Found in Translation: The Unexpected Origins of Place Names unravels the tangled threads of history and etymology to uncover the strange, intriguing and enlightening stories that have shaped the names of countries and places around the world.Starting in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956942333Author Owen BarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Barfield Press UKPublisher Barfield Press UKWeight(grams) 507gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988755427Author Vincent F PintadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Tir na CraobhPublisher Tir na CraobhWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

This book makes punctuation more fun and easier to learn than traditional approaches do. It teaches the natural way, by example: each lesson begins with quotes that exemplify good punctuation and sentence structure. Quotations are humorous and...

Oxford EAP develops the essential skills and academic language for learners who are preparing to study in English at university level, from foundation courses to postgraduate research. With authentic content from Oxford textbooks and videos of lecture...

Solutions 2nd edition retains the clear one lesson per page structure that teachers around the world loved about the 1st edition of Solutions. The focus of each lesson is signposted at the top of the page and every lesson starts with an 'I can..'...

Brilliant Activities for Grammar and Punctuation, Year 3, is part of a 6-book photocopiable series to teach basic grammatical and punctuation concepts in a fun and memorable way, which will challenge and stimulate the whole class. Pupils are motivated to...

Oxford EAP develops the essential skills and academic language for learners who are preparing to study in English at university level, from foundation courses to postgraduate research. With authentic content from Oxford textbooks and videos of lecture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399165580Author Ammon SheaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954344726Author Richard CauldwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Speech In ActionPublisher Speech In ActionDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 20mm

Had you said "What a guy!" in 17th-century England, anyone would have understood you were admiring a flaming effigy of Guy Fawkes of the Gunpowder Treason Plot. How times have changed! In America and, indeed, most of the English-speaking world, "guy"...

A book of 7 units where each main lesson is 4 pages long. Each unit includes Writing and Revise & Check sections, and the video lessons are called Colloquial English (lower levels have Practical English). The...

Word Origins is the only guide to the science and process of etymology for the layperson. This funny, charming, and conversational book not only tells the known origins of hundreds of words, but also shows how their origins were determined. Liberman, an...

Real situations, real language, real outcomes The second edition of Outcomes is the only course that is consistently focused on helping students achieve the real world communicative outcomes they want and need. This lexically rich course emphasises...

Part of the highly-successful Oxford Word Skills series, it helps students improve their vocabulary and vocabulary learning skills by presenting and practising over 1000 Idioms and Phrasal Verbs in everyday contexts. Lots of opportunity for...

Everyone remembers the Queen's 'Annus Horribilis', but what do 'quid pro quo' and 'habeas corpus' mean? Why do plants have Latin names? Why do families, towns, countries and even football teams have Latin mottoes? What do the Latin epitaphs in churches...

Brilliant Activities for Creative Writing Year 4 provides a flexible, but structured resource for developing writing skills, which both you and your pupils will enjoy. The activities address many of lower Key Stage 2 Programmes of Study for writing...

Features for Family and Friends 2nd edition include real-world fluency development with supporting DVD, interactive Online Practice, new and updated assessment and testing material, and additional culture focus sections.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908381224Author Richard NobleFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Sacristy PressPublisher Sacristy PressWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus,...

Headway's trusted methodology combines solid grammar and practice, vocabulary development, and integrated skills with communicative role-plays and personalization. Authentic material from a variety of sources enables students to see new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971385849Author S M NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Michael NewtonPublisher Michael Newton

Oxford EAP develops the essential skills and academic language for learners who are preparing to study in English at university level, from foundation courses to postgraduate research. With authentic content from Oxford textbooks and videos of lecture...

Features for Family and Friends 2nd edition include real-world fluency development with supporting DVD, interactive Online Practice, new and updated assessment and testing material, and additional culture focus sections.Fast-paced language, strong skills...

The series builds learner confidence in the professional skills needed for the tourist industry whilst developing their language awareness. Students practise these skills in realistic case studies that reflect topical tourism issues.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993180842Author Phil WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Rumian PublishingPublisher Rumian PublishingWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922531551Author Scott MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Alex GibbonsPublisher Alex GibbonsWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

Features for Family and Friends 2nd edition include real-world fluency development with supporting DVD, interactive Online Practice, new and updated assessment and testing material, and additional culture focus sections.Fast-paced language, strong skills...

Do you believe that Ring Around the Rosie refers to the Black Death? Or that Eskimos have 50 (or 500) words for "snow"? Or that "Posh" is an acronym for "Port Out, Starboard Home"? If so, you badly need this book. In Word Myths, David Wilton debunks some...

NO description availableBook InformationISBN 9781408524145Author John JackmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Nelson Thornes LtdPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 1008gDimensions(mm) 296mm * 211mm * 26mm

This write-in workbook includes writing frames, grammar and vocabulary activities and language practice exercises. It extends and reinforces skills taught in International English Student Book 3 and offers a record of students' progress. All answers for...

Three centuries of English idioms-their unusual origins and unexpected interpretationsTo pay through the nose. Raining cats and dogs. By hook or by crook. Curry favor. Drink like a fish. Eat crow. We hear such phrases every day, but this book is the...

New reading and listening texts bring the real world to the classroom New activities and tasks present, practise and extend the language in meaningful contexts New Study... Practise... Remember! sections combine study skills with consolidation to...

FCE Gold Plus corresponds to level B2 of the Common European Framework and helps prepare students for the Cambridge ESOL First Certificate in English examination. The wide range of up-to-date topics make it suitable for students of different ages ...

Here is a fascinating and humorous encyclopedia of more than three hundredwords and phrases and how they have taken on new meanings over time. It is aninformative reference book for the whole family. What's in a Word? is asequel to Garrison's popular Why...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938757204Author Shane DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Wayzgoose PressPublisher Wayzgoose PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156005692Author William F Buckley, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm)...

How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept's long, complicated history across literature, philosophy, political...

Successful word-coinages -- those that stay in currency for a good long time -- tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and rarely when and where they were first minted. Engaging, illuminating, and authoritative, Ralph Keyes's The...

Since the first edition of this book was published in 2002 there have been many changes in language teaching, not least those associated with technological developments. Despite such changes, the same basic needs remain as far as teacher education is...