Archive for December 2011
Wednesday 21 December 2011
The vague use of ‘thing’
by Ken Paterson
In writing ‘A Handbook of Spoken Grammar’ (follow the links ‘Titles’ and ‘Language Practice’ on the DELTA website for details), we wanted to include some key aspects of ‘vague language’ (e.g. ‘sort of’, ‘a couple of’, ‘a bit of’ etc.). The word ‘thing’ (and ‘thingy’, ‘thingamajig’, and ‘thingummy’) has a number of uses: - There [...]
Read more »Friday 9 December 2011
Lexical bundles
by Ken Paterson
When we were deciding on the contents for ‘A Handbook of Spoken Grammar’ (follow the links ‘Titles’ and ‘Language Practice’ on the DELTA website for details) we were fairly sure we wanted to include some spoken English ‘lexical bundles’. These are strings of words that corpus research has shown are particularly frequent in conversation. See the [...]
Read more »Monday 5 December 2011
NEW Delta Extension Resources
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new area of the website Delta Extension Resources where we are offering downloadable extension resources to support selected Delta Publishing titles, click here to take a look at the first resources on offer.
Read more »Thursday 1 December 2011
Teaching spoken grammar
by Ken Paterson
Hello, my name is Ken Paterson and I’m a co-author (with Caroline Caygill and Rebecca Sewell) on Delta’s forthcoming title ‘A Handbook of Spoken Grammar’ (follow the links ‘Titles’ and ‘Language Practice’ on the DELTA website for details). In the book we take 20 items of non-traditional grammar, explain how they work, and offer practice [...]
Read more »Thursday 1 December 2011
December’s Delta Download
December's Delta Download is now available! Visit the Downloads area for Part 2 in of our serialisation of Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri from Delta Publishing's Professional Perspectives series.
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