Learning english: July 2009

Wednesday, 29 July 2009

2 books i used at uni cumbria

Cutting Edge Advanced Student's Book
Author: Cunningham, Moor & Comyns Carr
Publisher: Longman
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0582469430
ISBN-13: 9780582469433
Publication Date: 2003
Price: £20.90
Description: Cutting Edge is a multi-level course for adults and young adults. It combines rich international content,
comprehensive grammar, and real-life functional language within an easy to teach structure.

The advanced level is for students at FCE level and beyond who want to enrich their knowledge of the language. It contains clear and extensive grammar practice exercises and tasks and activities to develop competence in all four skills, particularly speaking.

It focuses on phrases and language 'chunks' to extend vocabulary quickly and effectively and the student's book contains a separate phrase builder booklet containing phrasal verbs, idioms and other useful expressions.

In addition the workbook also contains pronunciation work.

The Teacher's Resource Book includes teaching notes and extra suggestions, a large bank of photocopiable skills worksheets and tests.

CUTTING EDGE ADVANCED Components

| ISBN-13
Pack (Student's Book & Workbook with Key) £23.20 Qty 9781405883672
Student's Book £20.90 Qty 9780582469433
Student's Book with CD-ROM £21.80 Qty 9781405852319
Workbook with Answer Key £11.60 Qty 9780582469457
Workbook without Answer Key £11.60 Qty 9780582501744
Teacher's Resource Book with Test Master CD-ROM £25.90 Qty 9781405843645
Audio CDs (2) £33.60 Qty 9780582469570
Cassettes (2) £33.60 Qty 9780582469464
Student's Audio CD £17.00 Qty 9780582501737
Student's Cassette £17.00 Qty 9780582469587

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and secondly,

Writing Academic English (Third Edition) (The Longman Academic Writing…
by Alice Oshima

# Writing Academic English
# (Third Edition) (The Longman Academic Writing Series)
# By Alice Oshima, Ann Hogue

Paperback 267 Pages
Edition: 3rd
ISBN-10: 0201340542
ISBN-13: 9780201340549
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Pub date: Oct 01, 1998

# Writing Academic English
# Answer Key: Intermediate-Advanced Level
# By Alice Oshima, Ann Hogue

Book Details
English Books
Paperback 56 Pages
Edition: 3rd
ISBN-10: 0201670283
ISBN-13: 9780201670288
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Pub date: Jan 24, 2001

Friday, 24 July 2009

increase your feeling of self worth

Self worth comes from within, you won’t find it by having more money, having more friends, having a fancy car or a big house. It is something intrinsic and something we can’t gain extrinsically, meaning we won’t find self worth from external factors. Here are some things you can do to increase your feeling of self worth.
29 Ways to increase your feeling of self worth

1. Write down 7 minor goals for the week and tick one off each day as you achieve it.
2. Read a book a month. Reading a book is actually an achievement in this technology and media driven world and reading a full book is a great way to achieve a sense of accomplishment.
3. At the end of each day before falling asleep write down something you feel proud about, either on the day or in the past.
4. Tell someone else how much you appreciate them, being able to be open and honest is great for self worth.
5. Say no! Learn the skill of saying no without offending the person asking.
6. Everything you do, do to the best of your ability even if it cleaning the toilets or something equally as mundane, develop a reputation as someone who takes pride in their work.
7. Walk tall and proud. walk as if you’ve got somewhere to go and you need to be there now, never run just walk tall and quickly.
8. Dress as smart as you can for each occasion, whether it be work, meeting a friend, or going for an interview. Take pride in your appearance.
9. Do something for yourself every day.
10. Learn a new skill or take up something you’ve always wanted to and stick with it.
11. Speak up for yourself in every area of your life, this might be hard to do at first but the first time you do it will be immense and if you carry on your self esteem and feelings of self worth will soar.
12. Sing at the top of your voice, not outside but in the house and really give it loads (I love singing Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at the top of my voice, ah! such a good feeling.)
13. Forgive yourself! (You know what I mean)
14. Get rid of the people who are dragging you down (I don’t mean kill them, I mean just stop having them in your life.)
15. Work on your strengths. A lot of people focus on building up their weaknesses, instead get better at what you are good at.
16. Take a walk in the rain………..Why?………..because you have the power to decide!
17. Listen to other people and what they are saying.
18. Reward your successes. As soon as you achieve something reward yourself.
19. Never let anyone force you to break your core values.
20. Stop the gossiping!
21. Don’t read a newspaper for a week and gauge how you feel about yourself and the world around you.
22. Help other people who need it.
23. Always, Always, Always be honest with yourself and others. There is no need for lies and the energy it takes to continue a lie is unbelievable.
24. Take a chance and take a risk or two. You don’t have long to live so just get up and do it.
25. Listen to your self talk and slap the little person criticising you, I mean it, imagine there are two people one on each shoulder, the one who criticises you give them a slap or a punch in the mouth and start to pay attention to the one who is praising you.
26. Don’t be afraid to accept help from other people, it means they respect you enough to help you with something.
27. Start changing your thinking to be more optimistic about yourself, instead of ‘…I can’t do that….’ say ‘..I’ve never tried it, but I’ll give it a go…’
28. Face your fears. Nothing will send your self esteem soaring more so than facing your fears and eventually conquering them.
29. Always leave comments on a blog you like

books i used at uni cumbria 2

Longman Academic Writing

Longman Academic Writing Series is a three-part series that teaches basic composition skills and helps ESL students improve their English-writing ability. Paragraph and essay forms are taught in simple, learnable steps through extensive models and writing practice. First Steps in Academic Writing is for high-beginning students; Introduction to Academic Writing is for intermediate students, and Writing Academic English is for Advanced students.

First Steps in Academic Writing is for high-beginning students;
Introduction to Academic Writing is for intermediate students, and
Writing Academic English is for Advanced students.

title: Writing Academic English 4 Book Paperback (limp)
series: Imprint unbekannt
author: Alice Oshima / Ann Hogue
publisher: Pearson Education
cover: Softcover
edition: 4
language: English
pub.-date: Dezember 2005
ISBN13: 9780131523593
ISBN10: 0-13-152359-7

Writing Academic English (Third Edition) (The Longman Academic Writing…
by Alice Oshima

books i used at uni cumbria

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tips for success. Believe in you can do it. !

If Success was Easy, Everyone Would do it

Success is a favorable or desirable outcome, the attainment of wealth or favor, as defined Webster’s Dictionary. Success is different for everyone, but it is definitely not an easy thing to accomplish, otherwise, everyone would do what it takes for success.

Success is a feeling and can be created and recreated again and again. Here are some tips to create success in your life:

Tip #1: Enjoy and celebrate each moment on the way to success. Success doesn’t have to be associated with wealth attainment. In fact, most people have achieved a level of success in some part of their lives, achieving a “desirable outcome.” Reminisce the feeling associated with your success achievement. You must have been very happy, inspired to achieve more, and desired to repeat your success. You may have thought that it wasn’t really that difficult to achieve success or maybe it was the hardest thing you did, enjoying in the feeling of accomplishment. As you reach for your next goal, focus on progress only, rewarding yourself every small step of the way. Each daily accomplishment is a small success story on the way to the bigger success story.

Tip #2: Keep the end in mind, always. If you have been striving for success in an area of your life, wealth or other, and are not reaching success, you might have lost sight of the end goal. You might have given up because it was too hard, too much work, or maybe you think that you don’t deserve your goal in the first place. Maybe someone convinced you that you can’t do what you set out to do and you folded and listened to them. You may think that you don’t know enough to be successful. If you focus on the end result as you defined success, you will keep striving for it and no one, not even you, will convince you otherwise.

Tip #3: Create, evaluate, and recreate. Life is about recreating yourself. If something doesn’t work, rather than fold, find a way to recreate. Troubleshoot or recreating is very similar. You create, evaluate and then refine. Keep up this pattern, with rewards for each step of the way on your path to success.

Tip #4: Success can be for anyone. Get out of your head that the successful are gifted or that they were handed their success on a silver platter. If that were the case, they really haven’t achieved success. Success takes work, perseverance, and determination. It doesn’t matter your education, height, knowledge or other factors. It can be for anyone that wants it bad enough.

Tip #5: Success is all about mindset. Know that you can, and you will achieve your goal. Visualize your goal, and you will be even closer. You will remain on the path and you will achieve your success. Be positive and remain on the path to success!

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how to develop a new habit

Hard work is the secret to success, so they say. But along with hard work, good habits are essential for becoming successful in life. Good habits can make us "healthy, wealthy and wise." The more good habits you have, the higher your chances of success are in life. They are, in fact, short cuts to success. If you didn't have basic habits such as brushing your teeth or taking a bath, people would surely keep you at bay no matter how intelligent or hard working you are. In such a scenario, a person with basic cleanliness habits who works half as hard as you, or even less, would certainly be more successful in society than you. This simple example shows the power of good habits. This article outlines a few points which, if practiced with dedication and punctuality, can help you develop habits of your choice in due course of time.

1. Have patience. A habit can't materialize overnight. Days, sometimes even months, of practice are necessary for proper development of habits. Be patient and keep trying so the habit has time to evolve. Don't leave halfway through because of frustration. Remember that hard work is not the key ingredient for developing a new habit; patience and repetition are the most important ingredients.
2. Practice repetition. In order for an activity to develop into a habit, it has to be repeated a large number of times. Research claims that any activity repeated for 21 days slowly becomes a habit. I'm not sure of this 21-day deadline, but habits do develop in a month or two if the activity is repeatedly performed. It's not that habits need a large amount of effort and hard work to be formed. (We would have far less cigarette smokers if that were the case.) Habits take time to develop because the "activity" has to be repeated over and over again for it to be stored in our subconscious mind and hence become a habit.
3. Tell people about your goal. Tell people around you about the new habit you are going to cultivate. They can help you accomplish your goal. For example, each time you unconsciously break the new habit, they will point out your mistake and you can correct yourself. You also want to be seen as a "man of your word" among others. Therefore, you will subconsciously avoid breaking the new habit in front of them once you have announced your new goal.
4. Give yourself reminders. Write the habit you are trying to develop on your calendar and keep it somewhere you will see it. Repeatedly seeing this note "programs" your subconscious mind to remember the dream you are pursuing. Each time you tend to break this newly forming habit, the subconscious mind alerts you. If you are well determined, these reminders will help you avoid breaking the habit.
5. Develop small habits first. Try forming small habits that require less effort before attempting to develop larger habits. Once you develop a new habit, your confidence improves and hence you can face newer, tougher challenges with more confidence. Attempting to cultivate tough habits in the beginning may lead to frustration. It might not be possible to realize the habit even with a substantial amount of hard work.
6. Focus on cultivating one habit at a time. Having a long list of habits you want to accomplish is fine. However, see to it that you don't attempt to realize everything at once. Take up one simple habit which you think is the most important now and follow the steps above to develop it. Once you have formed a habit, take up the next one and accomplish it in a similar fashion.
7. Adapt gradually to the new habit. Don't make a steep change in your present lifestyle to adapt to the new habit. If you presently drink five cups of coffee a day and want to stop drinking it (the new habit), then start drinking four cups a day this week, followed by three the following week, and so on. Steep changes in your lifestyle may lead to some health problems because they are habits that you developed over a lifetime. Be patient and gradual while developing new habits.
8. Visualize your life with the new habit. Imagine a few times a day how different your life would be with the new habit. Imagine the rewards you are going to reap once your new habit has been formed. Think about the health benefits you are going to have with your new habit. These images will make your mind eager to adopt the new habit and hence it will be easier and faster to form the habit.

By practicing the above steps, good habits can be formed and bad habits can be removed. Greek philosopher Aristotle taught the following about habits: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

I wish you all the best for developing the good habits of your choice!

Sunday, 12 July 2009

grammar worksheets

http://www.rhlschool.com/english.htm

This section features original grammar worksheets for teachers and parent-teachers to copy for their kids. Use them for teaching, reinforcement, and review.

Writing for Children and Young Adults

Children's literature is one of the most enjoyable forms of writing. It allows you to tap into a magical world filled with adventurous plots and whimsical characters. Most of us have fond memories of the books we used to read when we were younger. The stories we read awakened our imagination, encouraging us to exapnd our minds and learn more about the world around us.

The demand for good children's writers is growing streadily, and we can show you how to make a name in this market. Our course shows you how to make the most of your talent, interests and childhood memories and turn them into marketable stories for young readers. You'll also learn how to approach the growing fields of radio, theatre and television for young audiences.

There are fifteen lessons in total.

1. Marketing Your Ideas

2. Creating Memorable Characters

3. Plot Development

4. Tailoring Dialogue to Children

5. Making Your Reader Laugh

6. Educational Writing

7. Working with Words and Pictures

8. Tales of Horror

9. Suspense and Mystery

10. Children's Radio and Television

11. Selling Your Work

12. Handling Ethical Issues

13. Interacting with Publishers

14. The Editing Process

15. Children's Writer's First Aid Kit

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english-alphabet-for-kids

http://funeasyenglish.com/english-alphabet-for-kids.htm

alphabets in english

http://www.supersimplesongs.com/

http://www.supersimplesongs.com/

ABC Song

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Monday, 6 July 2009

How long to develop a new habit

21 days to a new habit

Research shows that it takes 21 days to develop a habit. That’s 21 days of going to the gym every day or exercising in some way every day, 21 days to meditation, 21 days to eat healthily, 21 days doing, 21 days of anything.

When you want to start a habit, don’t tell yourself you are doing it for life, tell yourself (your conscious brain) that you are going to try it for 21 days. For example if you want to start the habit of meditating tell your conscious self that you are trying it for 21 days. Now, when you have completed this for 21 days your conscious mind has the choice of stopping it or carrying on, or so it thinks. Your neural pathways have formed already and you will more than likely continue with your new habit, you will have seen the benefits along the way your unconscious will want to continue if it has been beneficial.

This can also work when trying to break a habit, however research has shown that the neural pathways to any habit could be lifelong and a cue or a trigger can cause us to start back up an old habit, like smoking.

This is not a bad thing; we just have to be aware of our thoughts when we have given up a habit such as smoking.

When starting or breaking any habit we tend to tell our conscious mind we are going to change and it’s for life. Your conscious mind will just say ‘is that right? I’m in charge here, I’ll decide’ so there will be a battle between your two sides of your conscious mind.

If you tell your mind you want to try something for 21 days it won’t be so unwilling to co-operate. This might sound a little strange when I say ‘talking to your conscious’ as it is your conscious talking to your conscious. We all know we have conversations with ourselves, should I go to the pub should I not, should I go to the gym should I not. There are a hundred conversations we have with ourselves everyday.

When we want to start something or give up something, smoking for example, you might normally say to yourself ‘right that’s it I’m giving up for good’. Immediately your brain kicks in and says no smoking for life, and then it starts to think of all the situations it likes a good cigarette in; first thing in the morning with a cup of coffee, going out for a drink at night, at work when you’re a bit stressed, just after sex etc. Your brain thinks ‘lack of’ instead of the benefits of. It can’t really think as clearly about the benefits because it hasn’t yet had the benefits of giving up smoking but it knows the supposed pleasures that smoking brings.

So what habits can we start for 21 days?

I have made a list for myself that I am in the middle of doing;

• Give up sweets for 21 days

• Meditate for 21 days

• Write in the blog every day for 21 days

• Get up before 6am every day (I’ve actually made this a habit now)

• Drink a vegetable juice for 21 days

This is just a small list of the things I am doing. Feel free to share you 21 day new habits.

Using online supplements aid your learning

Right now there are online classes that teach a variety of languages as well as give a background on the culture of the language. This is especially helpful if you are moving overseas to work in the managerial field, as industry-specific words and phrases are taught in online supplements. You will have the opportunity to gain assistance in the language from the comfort of your own home as you prepare to move and then work alongside those who are culturally different to you.

With computer technology continuing to develop, the World Wide Web has become the leader when it comes to tutoring at a distance. This is because of the internet’s ability to incorporate learning in innovative ways. By using the Internet, students can maintain control over the rate and timing of the instruction given to them. Online supplements include video tutorials, online quizzes, as well as web streaming traditional classroom settings, where a teacher stands in front of a blackboard and runs through pronunciation, grammar and conjugation. You will also be able to find online dictionaries and translation systems such as Babelfish resourceful.

If you’re looking for additional ways to assist you in your second language, there are alternative new types of technology besides the web which weren’t available in the very recent past which can help you outside the classroom. The Nintendo DS, for example, has a product which guides you through a language tutorial.

With the various successes of e-learning across a multitude of subjects, the question now is should we be concerned about traditional face-to-face interaction coming to an end? Hopefully not, as the traditional classroom setting brings people together to converse and this is the whole point of learning a second language in the first place, but there is certainly a place for online learning in a supplementary role.

How will the Olympics affect Britain’s language learning norms?

The 2012 Olympics in London will bring athletes and spectators from all over the world who speak many different languages to the UK.

One reason why London won the right the host the Games was because it is such a cosmopolitan city - it is home to hundreds of different ethnic groups and some 300 different languages. The Chair of the Olympic organising committee, Sebastian Coe, would like all the different communities in London to be involved with the Games.

CILT, The National Centre for Languages, believe that language skills will be essential for those involved with the Games in order to communicate effectively with the participants and to ensure that everything goes smoothly. They also believe that an improvement in language skills among people in the UK will have many benefits for tourism and business.

In order to encourage more people to study languages, especially between the ages of 14 and 19, CILT believe that the ability to speak foreign languages should be promoted as a vocational skill, as well as an academic one, and would like to see more people taking the new specialised diplomas in languages, as well as other types of qualifications, such as NVQs.

The two official languages of the Olympics are French and English, but many recent Games have been multilingual. This involves interpreters and translators, multilingual signage, information and announcements. Tens of thousands of volunteers will be recruited to help with all aspects of running the London Games, and there will be an emphasis on recruiting people with language skills. People who work in the emergency services and for public transport will also need to brush up their language skills for the Games.

During and after the Games many extra tourists are likely to visit the UK. Businesses and organisations involved with tourism will benefit greatly from seeking to increase the foreign language abilities of their staff. The most important languages in this field are Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, French and perhaps Dutch.

The UK has a reputation for being monolingual, however recent surveys have found that this is far from the case. Overall more than 60 languages are taught to children in schools or in classes run by community groups. It is becoming easier to obtain qualifications in a wide variety of languages, and employers are beginning to tap into the diverse linguistic skills of their empolyees.

Source: http://www.cilt.org.uk/sport/olympics/

More about evening language courses in the UK

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More about tailor-made language training

How Do I Make Language Learning Fun For My Children?

How to encourage the kids to pick up a language when young.

If your children are learning a language at school and you’d like to help them and encourage them at home, there are various ways you can do so.

Games in the language they’re learning, especially word games like crosswords, Scrabble, and such like, are a good way for them to learn and practise using vocabulary. Other games that involve questions and answers, such as Trival Pursuit, are also fun ways to practise using the language.

Watching films, reading books and learning songs in the target language are all enjoyable ways for your children to make practical use of the language they’re learning.

Your children will also benefit from attending classes taught through the medium of the language they’re learning. This might be in a country where the language is spoken, and could be arranged via a school exchange or something similar. There might be classes in your area for the children of immigrants who want to retain their language - classes in the language itself, or in other aspects of the culture, such as singing, cooking, etc.

If you have any relatives or friends who speak the language your children are learning, see if you can arrange for the children to spend some time with them. If you know or can find people in your area with children who speak the language in question, even better. Your children could play with the other children and pick up their language in the process.

It might be helpful for your children if you join in with their language learning. This could encourage them to study, especially as they will probably overtake you in their knowledge of the language fairly quickly. In fact they might end up helping you, rather than the other way round!

If you know any families who speak the relevant language and who are learning your own, you could arrange to meet with them regularly to exchange languages. You could have different themes for each meeting and spend half the time speaking the foreign language and half speaking your own.

When given plenty of opportunities to listen to and speak a foreign language with other people, children will usually soak it up and become fluent in a relatively short time. However just sitting them in front of films or TV programmes in the language probably won’t be very effective – they need interaction with others, and need to see that speaking the language is useful and relevant to them.

There are links to many online language learning resources at:
http://www.omniglot/links/

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gender in english

he is doing is house work

http://hannanconan.blogspot.com/2009/07/gender-in-practice-in-basic-skills.html

lots of new word that i myself discover.

Essentials of mastering English By Carl Bache

an online book

a book that i find and you can read online.

excellent. read it here.

thanks google book

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