dilluns, 10 de febrer del 2025

LLIBRE: THE BIG BOOK OF THE UK : FACTS, FOLKLORE AND FASCINATIONS FROM AROUND THE UNITED KINGDOM

  Títol: 

THE BIG BOOK OF THE UK : FACTS, FOLKLORE AND FASCINATIONS FROM AROUND THE UNITED KINGDOM!


Registre: 6091

AutorImogen Russell  Williams 

Editorial: Ladybird

 IdiomaAnglès

Sinopsis:

Welcome... Failte... Croeso... Fair faa ye... to the United Kingdom! The Big Book of the UK introduces readers to customs and culture of the United Kingdom. In this BIG book you can: - Learn about the sport of "dwile flonking" - Find out where black diamonds come from - Meet the supernatural animal that haunts the Scottish Highlands - Discover the British sweets that helped Hillary and Tenzing scale Everest. Filled with facts about wildlife, food, sports, geography, language and some very silly place names, this book will help you uncover national secrets and unearth local legends from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.




LLIBRE: The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!

 Títol: 

The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!


Registre: 6090

AutorGabrielle Balkan

Editorial: Wide Eyed Editions

 IdiomaAnglès

Sinopsis:

Explore every state of the USA from Alabama to Wyoming with these 51 charmingly illustrated infographic maps! Includes an expansive guide to the state flags and US presidents.

Discover more than 2,000 facts about the people, cities, nature and historic events that have 
helped make America what it is today. Ghost towns, swamp tours, the center of the universe… bacon donuts, brainy berries, salmon jerky… The French Fry King, The Mother of Oregon, The Queen of Blues… be inspired by the inventiveness, beauty and diversity of our great nation in this curious collection of fact-filled maps.

On each weird and wonderful map, find:

  • A welcome box with a short introduction to the state
  • Key facts, including the capital; state bird, flower and tree; and statehood order
  • State icons celebrating the state’s people, places and history
  • Six inspiring people who have a connection to the state
  • Region spotlight bubbles to allow you to discover more about one particular place
  • A moments to remember box with a list of significant dates and their events in the state’s history


Each state’s map also contains information about which states it neighbors, its bodies of water and borders as well as where it is situated in the country. Did you know that while Hawaii shares its border with no one, both Missouri and Tennessee border eight other states? Many state parks, battlefields, national forests and reservations are also included to
 inspire you to explore the great outdoors.

So pack your bags and say later ‘gator… the great States await! The 50 States series of books for young explorers celebrates the USA and the wider world with key facts and fun activities about 
the people, history and natural environments that make each location within them uniquely wonderful. Beautiful illustrations, maps and infographics bring the places to colorful life.




LLBRE: Writing C1: The Ultimate CAE Writing Guide for C1 Cambridge

Títol: 

Writing C1: The Ultimate CAE Writing Guide for C1 Cambridge


Registre: 6089

AutorLuis Porras Wadley

Editorial: KSE Academy

 IdiomaAnglès

Sinopsis:

WRITING C1: THE ULTIMATE CAE WRITING GUIDE FOR C1 CAMBRIDGE

This C1 writing guide covers the writing tasks that appear in the Cambridge test called C1 Advanced (CAE). These tasks are:

  • Essays
  • Emails/Letters
  • Reviews
  • Reports
  • Proposals

This book provides 3 sample C1 Advanced Writing tasks and answers for each type of writing, plus more than 500 useful expressions that candidates can use in their writings for C1 Cambridge. Ideally, students should use these samples as models for their own writing tasks, making use of the helpful phrases provided at the end of each section.

WRITING C1: TASK DESCRIPTION

Besides the sample tasks and expressions, this guide also contains:

  • Description of C1 Writing Part 1 and Part 2
  • Full description of every C1 writing task type
  • Guidance on developing an appropriate writing strategy
  • Explanation of how writing is assessed and a sample mark sheet which can be used to assess students’ performance or as a self-assessment tool.

WHO'S THIS C1 WRITING GUIDE FOR?

In general, this writing guide is aimed at:

  • Students of English as a foreign language looking to improve their writing abilities in preparation for the C1 Advanced certificate (formerly known as CAE)
  • EFL Teachers looking for C1 writing support materials to use with their own students would both benefit from this writing guide.

CONTENTS OF THIS WRITING CAE BOOK

  • 90+ pages of exclusive and original writing content
  • Step-by-step writing strategy to produce any type of writing task easily
  • 3 examples of every task type (essays, emails/letters, reviews, reports & proposals)
  • 500+ useful phrases ready to use in your writings
  • Description of the C1 Writing paper and every type of task
  • Extras and freebies to maximise your writing practice
  • Sample mark sheet and assessment criteria for C1 Advanced Writing

C1 ADVANCED WRITING: PARTS 1 & 2

In the two parts of the C1 Advanced Writing paper, candidates have to show that they can write different types of texts in English. There are two parts, and they have 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete both parts.

CAE Writing Part 1

Candidates are provided with a set of instructions to write an essay. These instructions always include a brief description of the situation, three points to consider, a set of opinions about the three previous points, and explicit instructions to write an essay. The topic will be a subject of general interest – you will not need any specialised knowledge.

CAE Writing Part 2

Candidates have to write a text from a choice of text types: email/letter, report, proposal or review. To guide them, they are given some information about the context, the topic, the purpose and the target reader.

THE WRITING PROCESS FOR C1 ADVANCED TASKS

Thanks to this writing guide, you can now develop your own foolproof writing method. This guide provides you with a step-by-step writing process which you can apply to every C1 writing task you do, from the brainstorming stage to editing and reviewing your final draft.

Don't let this guide get away. Get your copy now and nail your CAE Writing test!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Luis Porras Wadley is the owner and director of KSE Academy®, an English academy and official Cambridge Exam Preparation Centre based in Granada. Luis has been preparing Cambridge candidates successfully for over ten years. He is also the author of other preparation books, including Speaking First, Speaking CAE, Speaking CPE and Use of English C1.




REVISTA: Speak Up 474

 TÍTOL: Speak Up 474

 REGISTRE: 5286

Editorial: RBA revistas

Idioma: Anglès - Castellà

Contingut:

Practica y mantén vivo tu inglés de forma autodidacta con Speak Up, un método ameno basado en la lectura y la escucha de artículos en inglés. Este mes hablamos de la pionera de la informática Ada Lovelace. Además, nos adentramos en el universo mediático del icónico programa de televisión estadounidense Saturday Night Life. También damos la bienvenida al retorno de la heroína de la comedia Bridget Jones. Además, ponemos el foco en la interpretación de Angelina Jolie en el papel de Maria Callas. Y nos preguntamos si deberíamos preocuparnos por la inminente existencia de los trillonarios.

Temas principales:

· Ada Lovelace. Pioneer of Modern Computer Science.

· Saturday Night Live. American humour at its best.

· Mad About the BoyBridget jones is back!

· Maria. Legacy of La Divina.

· Should We Worry About Trillionaires? The Guardian.



LLIBRE: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?

 Títol: 

Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?


Registre: 5285

 AutorNochlin, Linda

Editorial: Thames & Hudson

 IdiomaAnglès

Sinopsis:

Linda Nochlin’s seminal essay on women artists is widely acknowledged as the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. Nochlin refused to handle the question of why there had been no ‘great women artists’ on its own, corrupted, terms. Instead, she dismantled the very concept of ‘greatness’, unravelling the basic assumptions that had centred a male-coded ‘genius’ in the study of art. With unparalleled insight and startling wit, Nochlin laid bare the acceptance of a white male viewpoint in art historical thought as not merely a moral failure, but an intellectual one. Freedom, as she sees it, requires women to risk entirely demolishing the art world’s institutions, and rebuilding them anew – in other words, to leap into the unknown.

In this stand-alone anniversary edition, Nochlin’s essay is published alongside its reappraisal, ‘Thirty Years After’. Written in an era of thriving feminist theory, as well as queer theory, race and postcolonial studies, ‘Thirty Years After’ is a striking reflection on the emergence of a whole new canon. With reference to Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman and many more, Nochlin diagnoses the state of women and art with unmatched precision and verve. ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ has become a slogan and rallying cry that resonates across culture and society; Dior even adopted it in their 2018 collections. In the 2020s, at a time when ‘certain patriarchal values are making a comeback’, Nochlin's message could not be more urgent: as she herself put it in 2015, ‘there is still a long way to go’.

With 14 illustrations



LLIBRE/MANUAL: The best book of idioms, collocations, proverbs

 Títol: 


The best book of idioms, collocations, proverbs


Registre: 5808

 

Autor: Maria Celeste Fioramonti


Editorial: Celes Englsih

 

IdiomaAnglès

Sinopsis:

¿Necesitas incorporar Idioms, Phrases y Collocations en tus producciones escritas y orales para el examen de la EOI?

Una de las mayores dificultades que enfrentan los estudiantes de un idioma extranjero es poder comprender, recordar y utilizar expresiones idiomáticas en contextos escritos y orales. Para ello hemos seleccionado un grupo de 
+ de 110 Idioms, los hemos categorizado por tema y mostramos cómo utilizarlos en monólogos, mediaciones y diálogo para que puedas destacarte en el examen de la EOI.

Con este libro de 151 páginas podrás conocer, aprender y utilizar una gran variedad de expresiones idiomáticas en tus 
Writings & Speakings.

Incluye:

  • Información acerca del uso de idioms y consejos para su correcto aprendizaje.
  • Más de 110 Idioms, Phrases y Proverbs categorizados por temas.
  • Todos los Idioms en contexto y su significado.
  • 30 Topics nivel B2/C1 actualizados
  • Todos los Idioms incorporados en fragmentos de Monólogos, mediaciones y diálogo .

3 Bonus Chapters:

  • Listas de Advanced Collocations
  • Frases para utilizar en tus Monólogos y Essays
  • Frases diversas para utilizar en tu Diálogo y evitar las expresiones más básicas.


Todo agrupado en 
Categorías y Temas para que puedas utilizarlas fácilmente!

**Ideal para quienes preparan por libre o quienes deseen enriquecer su vocabulario y conseguir mejor nota!**

Good luck in your tests!




dilluns, 3 de febrer del 2025

LLIBRE: The Happiness Effect

 

Títol: 


The Happiness Effect


Registre: 5284

 

Autor: Donna Freitas


Editorial: Oxford University Press

 

IdiomaAnglès

Sinopsis:

 Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shocking tale of private pictures getting into the wrong hands, or a lament that young people feel compelled to share their each and every thought with the entire world. Have smartphones and social media created a generation of self obsessed egomaniacs?


Absolutely not, Donna Freitas argues in this provocative book. And, she says, these alarmist fears are drawing attention away from the real issues that young adults are facing.

Drawing on a large scale survey and interviews with students on thirteen college campuses, Freitas finds that what young people are overwhelmingly concerned with what they really want to talk about is happiness. They face enormous pressure to look perfect online not just happy, but blissful, ecstatic, and fabulously successful. Unable to achieve this impossible standard, they are anxious about letting the less than perfect parts of themselves become public. Far from wanting to share everything, they are brutally selective when it comes to curating their personal profiles, and worry obsessively that they might unwittingly post something that could come back to haunt them later in life. Through candid conversations with young people from diverse backgrounds, Freitas reveals how even the most well adjusted individuals can be stricken by self doubt when they compare their experiences with the vast collective utopia that they see online. And sometimes, as on anonymous platforms like Yik Yak, what they see instead is a depressing cesspool of racism and misogyny. Yet young people are also extremely attached to their smartphones and apps, which sometimes bring them great pleasure. It is very much a love hate relationship.

While much of the public's attention has been focused on headline grabbing stories, the everyday struggles and joys of young people have remained under the radar. Freitas brings their feelings to the fore, in the words of young people themselves. 
The Happiness Effect is an eye opening window into their first hand experiences of social media and its impact on them.