Discourse in Action

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 499.

The Key to English

Text_1D _Games for Language Learning

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Playing games is a highly efficient language learning method, adaptable to most learners' needs. Some of the games of this book are familiar, with new variants, but many are completely original, such as "Climbing through a postcard". They offer a lot of varied practice for listening, speaking, reading and writing. Language learning is hard work, these games make that hard work both enjoyable and efficient.

There is great interest in letter writing among students of English in various countries, and this manual is intended to supply them with the information they need to make their letters conform to the practices that are, standard in English-speaking countries. The essential rules tor writing good letters do not differ much, of course, from one country to another; it is in the outward form and in formulas of courtesy that the most striking differences exist, and those are the things emphasized here

Numerous sample letters that. the student can use as models are included, and there are check-up questions and some letter-writing problems at the end.

"Discourse in Action" is a course in reading comprehension for students of English as a foreign language. It is based on the belief that a special kind of course is required for students of English whose main need is to gam access to information through English. The course has been designed for a wide range of learners whose need can be described as "English for Academic Purposes" — secondary school pupils, students in universities and other tertiary institutions, adults whose profession requires them to make use of material in English, ft is therefore intended to help students and others read textbooks, works of reference and general academic interest, source books and journals in English.