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English for beginners : a self-tuition course / by Rosemary Border

By: Border, Rosemary, 1943-.
Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Hugo's Language Books, c1996Description: 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0852852916.Subject(s): English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakersDDC classification: 428.24
Contents:
Introduction. - 1. Hello!. - Names and numbers. - 3. This and that. - 4. The Williams family. - 5. Speaking and writing. - 6. The time and the weather. - 7. What are you wearing? - 8. Don't stop!. - 9. The Williams family at home. - 10. What colour is it?. - 11. What do you do?. - 12. Always interesting. - 13. Work and hobbies. - 14. The biggest and the best. - 15. What do you want?. - 16. I'd love one!. - 17. Everyone has a birthday. - 18. I feel fine!. - 19. Who were they?. - 20. Once upon a time. - 21. What are you going to do?. - 22. I'm still reading. - 23. Have you ever...? - Verbs. - Index.
Summary: "This cheerful book, full of gentle humor, is that rare item, a genuine beginner's course which starts at the beginning and appeals to learners of all ages. This book presents a vocabulary of approximately 1000 headwords, mostly very useful but occasionally proudly, magnificently useless unless the reader associates with gnomes, iguanas and pterodactyls. Meet Professor English and his friends Kit the cat and Max the mouse. Meet Barbara the taxi driver, her boyfriend Tim and her passenger Mr Duncan. Meet the rest of the Williams family, plus Tarzan, Shakespeare, Lord Sandwich and a crowd of other characters brought to life by artist Timm Joy. The illustrations play an important supporting role in this home-study course, helping to lead the learner through key elements of grammer, construction and usage. Without getting bogged down in boring terminology or dry and dusty academic explanations, English for Beginners teaches all that is needed for a solid grasp of the language. it kicks off with "Hello!" and ends with the story of "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" using the present continuous and simple, past simple, future continuous and present perfect tenses. In other words students who have followed Professor English's advice ("half an hour a day is goodAn hour a day is very good.") are beginners no longer". - Back cover.
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Floor 4, Shelf 14 , Side 1, TierNo 3, BayNo 1

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Introduction. - 1. Hello!. - Names and numbers. - 3. This and that. - 4. The Williams family. - 5. Speaking and writing. - 6. The time and the weather. - 7. What are you wearing? - 8. Don't stop!. - 9. The Williams family at home. - 10. What colour is it?. - 11. What do you do?. - 12. Always interesting. - 13. Work and hobbies. - 14. The biggest and the best. - 15. What do you want?. - 16. I'd love one!. - 17. Everyone has a birthday. - 18. I feel fine!. - 19. Who were they?. - 20. Once upon a time. - 21. What are you going to do?. - 22. I'm still reading. - 23. Have you ever...? - Verbs. - Index.

"This cheerful book, full of gentle humor, is that rare item, a genuine beginner's course which starts at the beginning and appeals to learners of all ages. This book presents a vocabulary of approximately 1000 headwords, mostly very useful but occasionally proudly, magnificently useless unless the reader associates with gnomes, iguanas and pterodactyls. Meet Professor English and his friends Kit the cat and Max the mouse. Meet Barbara the taxi driver, her boyfriend Tim and her passenger Mr Duncan. Meet the rest of the Williams family, plus Tarzan, Shakespeare, Lord Sandwich and a crowd of other characters brought to life by artist Timm Joy. The illustrations play an important supporting role in this home-study course, helping to lead the learner through key elements of grammer, construction and usage. Without getting bogged down in boring terminology or dry and dusty academic explanations, English for Beginners teaches all that is needed for a solid grasp of the language. it kicks off with "Hello!" and ends with the story of "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse" using the present continuous and simple, past simple, future continuous and present perfect tenses. In other words students who have followed Professor English's advice ("half an hour a day is goodAn hour a day is very good.") are beginners no longer". - Back cover.