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menos de 1 minuto CAMBRIDGE GRAMMAR OF ENGLISH Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy Cambridge University Press, 2006, 974 pages – with CD-ROM Compre na Disal. Ron Carter and Michael McCarthy’s groundbreaking grammar gives speech unprecedented prominence. Most of CGE’s examples are transcribed from naturally-occurring interactions in CANCODE, the Cambridge and Nottingham Corpus of Spoken English, one of the several corpora in the Cambridge International Corpus (CIC). An example is found in “Parallelism and Repetition” (Topic 138): [a group of young females are chatting on Continue lendo→

menos de 1 minuto Inglês x Português: Semelhanças e Contrastes Prof. José Ricardo Disal Editora, 2006, 144 pages O idioma inglês está muito mais presente no cotidiano de nós brasileiros do que podemos imaginar, é o que o Prof. José Ricardo, de uma forma perspicaz e criativa nos faz lembrar com seu novo livro Inglês x Português: semelhanças e contrastes. O livro não se restringe à análise de vocábulos e expressões de origem inglesa utilizados no Brasil. Trata-se de um livro muito mais abrangente Continue lendo→

menos de 1 minuto NEW ENGLISH FILE iPACK Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig, Paul Seligson Oxford University Press, 2008 Ever since I first came in contact with Interactive White Boards (IWB), I could not help but wonder what effect that would have on EFL published material. The first move seemed obvious. There would be digital versions of books. The New English File iPack, however, is much more than that. Apart from containing the entire course content, including audio and video, it also has extra material Continue lendo→