Archive for January 2012
Friday 27 January 2012
Words that replace speech marks
by Ken Paterson
A few years ago, I noticed that one of the students in my class would often add little remarks that her friends or family had made into her conversation. She would never turn them into indirect speech by making grammatical changes, but would instead prefix the quotations with the word ‘look’. In other words, she [...]
Read more »Friday 6 January 2012
Exaggerated language
by Ken Paterson
Part of the research for ‘A Handbook of Spoken Grammar’ (follow the links ‘Titles’ and ‘Language Practice’ on the DELTA website for details) involved going through pages of the language that we had reformulated for our students on speakings skills courses, highlighting recurring features. One thing that would come up now and again were examples [...]
Read more »Thursday 5 January 2012
Two new titles in stock
A Handbook of Spoken Grammar and Delta Academic Objectives: Writing Skills are now in stock. Click here for links to find out more about these new titles.
Read more »Thursday 5 January 2012
A Handbook of Spoken Grammar
Spoken English is now recognized as having its own “grammar” which is not covered in traditional language practice material. Using recent corpus research into spoken English the Handbook of Spoken Grammar teaches learners to speak more naturally, using the patterns that native speakers use when speaking English.
Read more »Sunday 1 January 2012
January’s Delta Download
January's Delta Download is now available! Visit the Downloads area for Part 3 in of our serialisation of Humanising Your Coursebook by Mario Rinvolucri from Delta Publishing's Professional Perspectives series.
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