This guide's focus is modern literary Arabic, particularly the style employed by newspapers. Each chapter begins with a text embodying the points to be discussed, and the carefully chosen vocabulary terms are those that arise most often in spoken and written Arabic. A vocabulary list appears in the appendix.
The beginning student of Arabic who has had no previous acquaintance with
Semitic languages, will be impressed by the difference between the structure of
Arabic and that of English or other Indo-European languages which he may know
.1 The most characteristic feature of the ... Although this system has a certain
convenience once one has mastered Arabic, it tends to be confusing to a beginner and accordingly this book uses traditional English terminology for parts
of speech.
Looks at the work of fifteen authors who were born in India, Pakistan, or Sri Lanka, and whose work is based at least partly there, including R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, and Arundhati Roy.
The passages about Pakistan foreshadow the portrait of that nation he would
create in his next novel. Shame (1983) is a scarifying satire of the history of
Pakistan. It is a much shorter novel than Midnight's Children, and it is tempting to
recommend beginners to start with it; yet it lacks much of the charm and humor of
his earlier novel. If Rushdie has a love/hate relationship with India, his feelings
toward Pakistan are much more unambiguous. Rushdie's personal animosity to
the country's ...
A Communication Skills Course for Business English
To meet the demand for BEC Preliminary Exam materials we have added to the Learner s Book a CD-ROM that provides a walk and talk through this exam and practice material for the exam.Further Ahead Learner s Book is at the right language level for students who are preparing for BEC Preliminary. The CD-ROM gives the student the necessary orientation and experience of the exam to prepare them thoroughly for taking and passing it.The Practice Test with answer key and audio has been specially written for this book by Tricia Aspinall and Jake Allsop, two very experienced test writers.
You've just arrived in Sydney to join your business partner, Pat Barton, who has
already been there a week. You have a free weekend before you start a busy
round of meetings on Monday. You want to see things, but you also need to
recover from the flight and relax a little. File 48 Use your own name! Phone Le
Montreux Palace hotel to find out about their conference facilities. You need
information on the following: Meeting room for 40 people? Lunch available?
What?