CPE Reading & Use of English is designed to prepare students for Paper 1 of the revised Cambridge CPE examination. This book will help students successfully bridge the gap between FCE level and the more advanced English needed for success at CPE.
A comprehensive reference is divided into three parts: The Beginning of Life explains natural processes such as evolution, reproduction, and photosynthesis; Ecology explores the interrelationships between species in various habitats; and the third section profiles wildlife through close-up photography.
As teachers grapple with the challenge of a new, bigger and more challenging school curriculum, at every key stage and phase, success can feel beyond our reach. But what if there were 50,000 small solutions to help us bridge that gap? In Closing the Vocabulary Gap, the author explores the increased demands of an academic curriculum and how closing the vocabulary gap between our ‘word poor’ and ‘word rich’ students could prove the vital difference between school failure and success.
This textbook serves a dual purpose. It is, first, a comprehensive introduction to historical linguistics, intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who have taken, at the least, an introductory course in linguistics. Secondly, unlike many such textbooks, this one is based in the theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory which emphasizes the relationship between cognition and language. Descriptions and explanations touch on cognitive, social, and physiological aspects of language as it changes across time.