Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent ...

Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.

English Pronunciation for Student Teachers is een gedegen uitspraakcursus, waarin de uitspraak in relatie met spelling wordt behandeld. Het boek benadrukt het ritme en de intonatie van de Engelse taal naast een gedetailleerde en systematische behandeling van de Engelse klinkers, medeklinkers, de klemtoon en zwakke lettergrepen. (wr)Voor de student wordt de materie inzichtelijk gemaakt door de Engelse uitspraak telkens te vergelijken met de Nederlandse. De set van drie digitaal opgenomen gelui...

Sentence Analysis is een stapsgewijze cursus zinsontleding bestemd voor studenten Engels aan lerarenopleidingen, universiteiten en vertaalopleidingen. Aan de orde komen onder andere woordsoorten, taalkundig ontleden, rekenkundig ontleden en de enkelvoudige en samengestelde zin.

This one-volume summary of American history cites all important names and dates. It covers European colonization, the American Revolution, establishment of the Constitution, social and economic expansion in the nineteenth century, slavery and the Civil War, foreign policy between 1877 and 1914, World War I, the Depression era, World War II, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, Vietnam and social protest, social changes in the late twentieth century, the 9/11 crisis, wars in Afghanistan an...

Sound Foundations is an ideal introduction to the English phonological system and an invaluable resource both for teachers of full pronunciation courses and for those who sould ismply like to improve the quality of their work on pronunciation. It offers information on pronunciation systems as well as practical activities which can be used in pronunciation classes and in regular language lessons. The discovery approach means both you and your students learn through physically experiencing how ...

Docenten die les geven in een vreemde taal, vertalen abstracte lesdoelen naar de lespraktijk. In Didactiek van het vreemdetalenonderwijs worden theorie en praktijk bij elkaar gebracht door analyse en verdieping te verbinden met praktijkervaringen. (Aankomende) docenten hebben een didactisch handboek nodig dat aansluit op de Nederlandse onderwijssituatie. Dat is een absolute pre van Didactiek van het vreemdetalenonderwijs. Het boek is dan ook een 'moderne klassieker' voor de vreemdetaaldocent.

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Aspects of the English-Speaking World offers students of English and EFL teachers essential information about the five largest countries in the Aglosphere: The United Kingdom, Ireland, The United Status, Canada and Australia.

Each chapter introduces the student to a new country, giving them essential information about that country's people, politics, history, language, and the topices that are most important in that country today.

Aspects of the English-Speaking World also focuses on the use ...

Oxford Practice Grammar knows that students need different types of explanation and practice at each stage of their study. Intermediate gives you more detail with extended practice. Great for the classroom or self-study and covers the grammar students need to know for the Oxford Test of English and B2 First exam.

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street Journal'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New YorkerThe Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon ...