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Author Thornbury, Scott, 1950-

Title About language : tasks for teachers of English / Scott Thornbury
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997

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Description xviii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Series Cambridge teacher training and development
Cambridge teacher training and development.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Introductory Unit -- 1.Language:Standards and rules -- 2.Language: Systems and syllabuses -- 3.Forms, functions, notions, texts -- 4.An introduction to phonology -- 5.The consonants -- 6.The vowels -- 7.Stress, rhythm and connected speech -- 8.Intonation -- 9.Word formation -- 10.Lexical meaning -- 11.Word classes and phrases -- 12.The simple sentence -- 13.The complex sentence -- 14.Negatives and questions -- 15.The verb phrase -- 16.Time and tense -- 17.Progressive aspect -- 18.Perfect aspect -- 19.Modality -- 20.Futurity -- 21.Hypothetical meaning and conditionals -- 22.The noun phrase -- 23.Determiners -- 24.Adjectives and adverbs -- 25.Prepositions and phrasal verbs -- 26.Cohesion -- 27.Texts -- 28.Conversations Key and Commentary
Summary "This book develops teachers' awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system. The book consists of 28 units, each containing around ten tasks, plus a diagnostic introductory unit. The units start at phoneme level and progress through words, phrases and sentences on to complex texts." --book cover
Analysis Task based approach
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-265) and index
Notes English
Subject English language -- Grammar.
English language -- Problems, exercises, etc.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Problems, exercises, etc.
English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreing speakers -- Problems, exercises, etc
English language -- Study and teaching.
English teachers -- Training of.
Genre/Form Problems and exercises.
LC no. 96037000
ISBN 0521427207 (paperback)
0521561981 (hardback)