В своей книге автор ведет читателя в путешествие по минувшему веку, рассказывает о судьбах писателей-классиков, о том, как создавались и находили дорогу к читателю книги, составившие гордость национальной культуры

Николай Леопольдович Браун родился 2 (15) января 1902 года в селе Парахине (выселки Головановские дворики) Белевского уезда Тульской губернии (ныне Арсеньевский район Тульской области). В поэзии, отмеченной поиском новых средств выразительности, обращается к теме природы, судьбам писателей и поэтов, личным воспоминаниям

Во второй том собрания сочинений вошли романы "Долгая ночь" и "Цотнэ, или Падение и возвышение грузин", повествующие о великих потрясениях и невзгодах, пережитых грузинским народом в эпоху нашествия монголов, о подвигах тех, кто отстаивал честь и независимость отчизны

With more than 200 new entries, this updated edition boasts almost 2,000 common phrases and colloquial expressions used in contemporary American English. From greetings and good-byes to everyday small talk, each entry is presented in a realistic context. Special attention to the needs of nonnative speakers includes usage restrictions and cautions as well as a phrase-finder index for on-the-spot reference. An essential dictionary for all students of English who want to know the most common expressions in American speech today

This teacher resource book is filled with more than 200 communicative, interactive, task-based grammar games that help make learning grammar fun. All of these grammar activity ideas are keyed to the Azar English Grammar Series, by Betty Schrampfer Azar, and include complete step-by-step instructions for the activities to add a fun new learning dimension to the classroom. For all ESL grammar teachers

An extensive working vocabulary is a prerequisite for test-taking success on the GRE Graduate Record Exam. This revised and updated test preparation guide presents 800 college-graduate-level words with definitions that frequently appear on the exam, while also familiarizing test takers with how the words are generally used in various contexts. Additional features include a pretest that serves as a diagnostic, a lengthy word list with extensive sentence-completion exercises, and a chapter that discusses and analyzes essential word roots. The book concludes with a detailed posttest. Answers are provided for all exercises and for all questions in the posttest

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Воспоминания Юрия Анненкова посвящены выдающимся отечественным поэтам, писателям, художникам, режиссерам - жизни русского искусства на протяжении семи десятилетий. В отдельных очерках автор рассказывает о своих встречах с В. И. Лениным и Л. Д. Троцким

This book offers concrete and practical ideas for implementing content-based instruction—using subject matter rather than grammar—through eleven case studies of cutting-edge models in a broad variety of languages, academic settings, and levels of proficiency. The highly innovative models illustrate content-based instruction programs for both commonly and less-commonly taught languages—Arabic, Croatian, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish—and for proficiency levels ranging from beginners to fluent speakers. They include single-teacher and multi-teacher contexts and such settings as typical language department classrooms, specialty schools, intensive language programs, and university programs in foreign languages across the curriculum