English Is Not Easy

Author: Luci Gutiérrez
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698405676
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
A cheeky, sophisticated, and strikingly illustrated guide that leaves generic English reference books in the dust When prominent Barcelona-based illustrator Luci Gutiérrez found herself tuning out in English class, she used her love of drawing to help retain what she’d learned. Ditching the kind of bland and useless phrases that fill most English textbooks, Gutiérrez uses whimsical characters, cheeky dialogue, and even insults to bring vocabulary, grammar, and usage topics to life. Nearly forty-seven million people in the United States speak a language other than English at home, and even most native speakers struggle with subtle distinctions, such as when to use “whether” as opposed to “if.” (For example: I wonder whether I should have added a little more poison to his tea.) Already published to wide acclaim abroad, English Is Not Easy is sure to delight grammar mavens and students of English in America.

English Is Not Easy

Author: Gutierrez Luci
Publisher: Grada Publishing a.s.
ISBN: 8027106001
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : cs
Pages : 172

Book Description
Víte, kdy použít whether a kdy if? Díky příkladové větě si to jistě ujasníte: I wonder whether I should have added a little more poison to his tea? Nevíte, kam umístit čárku v podmínkových větách? Chce si ujasnit a zopakovat základní předložky pomocí krys a popelnice? Tento skvěle ilustrovaný průvodce představuje složitost anglického jazyka, slovíčka i gramatiku. Celkem 17 zábavných kapitol nás seznámí s nejrůznějšími úskalími anglického jazyka, na které autorka - grafička, která tuto knihu vytvořila, narazila během svého pobytu v New Yorku. English Is Not Easy nenabízí zkrácené fráze o extrémních sportech a atmosférických podmínkách, které se dozvíte v obvyklých učebnicích angličtiny. Tato kniha nabízí slovní zásobu situací, ve kterých se dospělý čtenář skutečně ocitá. Potřebujete někoho urazit? Ano, i urážky tu najdete. A imbecil je z nich ta nejslušnější. Autorčiny postavy, hravé věty, dialogy ze života, a především skvělé ilustrace nás seznámí se vším – od problematiky slovesa to be až po komplikované slovesné časy a zdánlivě nesmyslné idiomy. Pro samouky, kteří se chtějí zlepšit v konverzaci, a pro „věčné začátečníky“, je tato kniha nápaditým a poutavým ilustrovaným dobrodružstvím na cestě angličtinou.

English Is Not Easy

Author: Luci Gutiérrez
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1592409237
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 338

English Is Easy

Author: Chetananand Singh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788190458900
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764

Book Description
For Schools and Colleges For Various competigie exams such as MBA (CAT,MAT,XLRI, FMS etc.), GRE, GMAT, Bank PO, RBI, SSC, RRBs, NDA, CDS and LLB Entrance For those who aspire to read and write better

Fall is Not Easy

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559332347
Category : Juvenile literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Fall is a tough time of year for a lot of us. Kids have to go back to school, teachers and football players have to go back to work, and parents have to look for new places to hide holiday presents. But perhaps fall is hardest of all on trees. After all, they have to change their entire appearance every year! This book is the rhyming story of a tree's humorous struggles to change its colours for fall. And it's a perfect introduction to the seasons for young children.

English Made Easy Volume Two

Author: Jonathan Crichton
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462918484
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
This is a fun and user-friendly way to learn English English Made Easy is a breakthrough in English language learning--imaginatively exploiting how pictures and text can work together to create understanding and help learners learn more productively. It gives beginner English learners easy access to the vocabulary, grammar and functions of English as it is actually used in a comprehensive range of social situations. Self-guided students and classroom learners alike will be delighted by the way they are helped to progress easily from one unit to the next, using a combination of pictures and text to discover for themselves how English works. The pictorial method used in this book is based on a thorough understanding of language structure and how language is successfully learned. The authors are experienced English language teachers with strong backgrounds in language analysis and language learning. English Made Easy, Volume 2 consists of a total of 20 units arranged in groups of five. The first four units present language and provide learners the opportunities to practice as they learn. The first page of each unit has a list of all the words and phrases to be learned in that unit, together with a pronunciation guide. At the end of each unit, an interesting story which uses the language that has just been learned is presented. The fifth unit in each group contains exercises designed to reinforce the language learned in the first four units.

Common Mistakes at Proficiency...and How to Avoid Them

Author: Julie Moore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521606837
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Focuses on the real mistakes students make in the Proficiency exam and shows how to avoid them.

It's Not Easy Being Big!

Author: Stephanie St. Pierre
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679888109
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Big Bird sometimes is handicapped by being too big.

It's Not Easy Being Mean

Author: Lisi Harrison
Publisher: Poppy
ISBN: 0316041726
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187

Book Description
Massie Block: Getting back into Octavian Country Day was a piece of sugar-free cake, compared to Massie's next goal-finding the key that unlocks an ah-mazing legendary secret room at OCD! Alpha eighth grader Skye Hamilton and her clique have stashed the key in the bedroom of one mystery Briarwood boy, but who? Whoever finds the key gets access to the secret room for an entire year and the prestige that comes along with it. But what happens when LBR Layne seems to be getting closer? This is way more than a matter of life or death, it's a matter of in or out! Kristen Gregory: Always been a star on the soccer field, but her style gets majorly cramped when her friends are forced to join the team. They better start kicking those soccer balls or Kristen's going to start kicking some . . . ! Alicia Rivera: Uses her skills as a gossip reporter to scheme her way into the rooms of all the Briarwood hotties! Dylan Marvil: Heard depression makes people lose weight. Is hoping for some sad news soon because she's popping donut holes the way some people pop Tic-Tacs. Claire Lyons: Being famous isn't all it's cracked up to be! Her agent confiscates her gummies, and forces her to do some very bad things to make her more "edgy." Worst of all, her constant meetings with lawyers and movie execs are eating into her time with the P.C. and with Cam! Is being a Hollywood starlet worth the Gucci-high price tag?

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Author: John McWhorter
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1592404944
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Language distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history. Covering such turning points as the little-known Celtic and Welsh influences on English, the impact of the Viking raids and the Norman Conquest, and the Germanic invasions that started it all during the fifth century ad, John McWhorter narrates this colorful evolution with vigor. Drawing on revolutionary genetic and linguistic research as well as a cache of remarkable trivia about the origins of English words and syntax patterns, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue ultimately demonstrates the arbitrary, maddening nature of English— and its ironic simplicity due to its role as a streamlined lingua franca during the early formation of Britain. This is the book that language aficionados worldwide have been waiting for (and no, it’s not a sin to end a sentence with a preposition).