Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Practical English Usage

Practical English Usage by Michael Swan

Product Description
An excellent guide to the problem areas of English.

About the Author
Michael Swan is a writer specializing in English language teaching and reference materials. His interests include pedagogic grammar, mother-tongue influence in second language acquisition, and the relationship between applied linguistic theory and classroom language-teaching practice, and he has published a number of articles on these topics.

  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA;
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 019442099X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0194420990
  • Size: 28 MB

Friday, June 27, 2008

When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People

When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People: How to Avoid Common Errors in English by Ann Batko (Author), Edward Rosenheim (Editor)


Book Description
Are you worried that how you speak or write is holding you back at work? Do you fear you're making frequent conversational errors, but just aren't sure what's correct? Ever stumble when choosing between "who" and "whom," "affect" and "effect," "lay" and "lie"? If so, then When Bad Grammar Happens to Good People should be at the top of your reading list. This comprehensive, easy-to-use reference is a program designed to help you identify and correct the most common errors in written and spoken English. After a short and simple review of some basic principles, this book is organized in the most useful way possible-by error type, such as "Problem Pronouns" or "Mixing up Words that Sound the Same." You choose how to work your way through, either sequentially or in the order most relevant to you. Each unit contains tests at the end to help you reinforce what you've learned. (Amazon)

  • Publisher: Career Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1564147223
  • ISBN-13: 978-1564147226
  • Size: 4.7 MB

How To Learn Any Language

How To Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own by Barry Farber



There are not so many books about language learning, but this is the best one I found. Short, witty and precise, it tells you all the basics of language learning on your own. Barry Farber speaks over 25 languages, among them chinese, russian and finnish. (taken from here). Also, another Review.
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0806512717
  • ISBN-13: 978-0806512716
  • Size : 1.2 MB

Friday, June 13, 2008

Barrons - How to prepare for the toefl

Product Description
This new 11th edition offers complete and up-to date preparation for the Paper-Based TOEFL and the Computer-Based TOEFL, with a preview of the Next Generation TOEFL test. There is extensive practice-even for students who don't have access to a computer. The manual includes a review chapter for each section of the TOEFL, including the new Speaking Section, and presents nine full-length model tests for the Computer-Based TOEFL, with questions answered and explained, along with one full-length model test for the Next Generation TOEFL and a practice test for the TOEFL Academic Speaking Test (TAST), with example answers.

Pamela Sharpe Ph.D. (Author)
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series;
Size: 60 MB (all)

Friday, March 28, 2008

How to Write a Grant Proposal


How to Write a Grant Proposal by Cheryl Carter
Book Description
Step-by-step guidance on how to write effective grants that get the funding you need. Complete with examples of fully-completed proposals, you'll also get an easy-to-use companion CD-ROM containing guide sheets and templates that can be easily downloaded, customized, and printed. The authors provide examples of completed proposals and numerous case studies to demonstrate how the grant-seeking process typically works.
Size : 3.6 MB

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

English Grammar Workbook for Dummies


English Grammar Workbook for Dummies
by Geraldine Woods (Author)
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Size: 7.6 MB

Oxford Guide to English Grammar

Title: Oxford Guide to English Grammar (Paperback)
Author: by John Eastwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Size : 5.9 MB

Making Headway : Phrasal Verbs and Idioms: Upper-Intermediate

Author: Graham Workman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Size : 5.2 MB

The Online English Grammar

The Online English Grammar
Author : Anthony Hughes
Size : 2,3 MB

Essential Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises with Answers

Essential Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises with Answers
Author : Helen Naylor, Raymond Murphy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press