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This book is designed to help students of English understand spoken language as it is encountered in everyday business and social situations in English speaking environments around the world. It provides information about the social and business conventions of spoken English such as, talking about plans and intentions, agreeing and disagreeing politely, checking meaning and giving feedback and using telephoning and interview strategies.
This book, along with its audio recording, has been designed to help intermediate students of English understand spoken language as it is encountered in everyday situations in Australia.
'English Language Skills - Level One Student's Book' has been designed and developed for beginners of English language studies.
Designed so students can work through the exercises in class with other students or alone without the aid of the teacher. Spaces in the book can be filled in.
'Spelling and Pronunciation for English Language Learners' uses interesting and varied activities as a basis for the introduction, practice and revision of English spelling conventions. It is recommended for self-access study.
Across Great Divides, true stories of life at Sydney Cove, brings to life the diverse experiences of people living in the precarious circumstance of Australia's first penal colony. The stories are relayed through a non-fiction narrative which shows how convict men saw and seized the possibilities of their new position. It portrays the situation of convict women and their relationships with military men. The stories demonstrate the varied responses of participants to their unique situation: some succeeded beyond their imagination, some failed disastrously. The stories also give voice to the dilemma of the Aboriginal people challenged by the unexpected arrival of a completely alien race of white people to their land.
This book is designed to help students of English understand spoken language as it is encountered in everyday business and social situations in English speaking environments around the world. It provides information about the social and business conventions of spoken English such as, changing the topic of conversation, agreeing and disagreeing politely, checking meaning, giving feedback and making 'small talk'.
‘People in Australia’s Past - Stories & Activities’ has twenty stories of people who shaped Australia’s history. Some, like Mary Reibey and James Ruse arrived as convicts with immense difficulties to overcome. On the other hand, women like Elizabeth Macarthur, Elizabeth Macquarie and Caroline Chisholm came as free settlers, and seeing problems in society, set out to bring change and progress. Other history-makers were native born Australians like David Unaipon, Edith Cowan, John Flynn, Eddie Mabo and Charles Perkins who saw injustice and devoted their time and energy to bring progress in the fields of health, education and law reform. Edmund Barton, Australia’s first Prime Minister...
Examines the basic school concept as a return to the foundation of learning, the stress on language, the use of symbols as a key to learning, and the defining of priorities and programs that work. Illustrates the use of these concepts at work at David Cox Road Elementary, Jackson-Kellar Elementary and Willard Model Elementary Schools with comments by principals and teachers.