Author: Richard Benson
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 178372028X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
If your vocabulary is more Bart Simpson than the Bard, then take comfort in this cracking, all-new, fun-size dose of F in Exams, containing some of the most spectacular howlers from school English exams.
F in English
F in Exams
Author: Richard Benson
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452138575
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
F stands for "funny" in this perfect gift for students or anyone who has ever had to struggle through a test and needs a good laugh. Celebrating the creative side of failure in a way we can all relate to, F in Exams gathers the most hilarious and inventive test answers provided by students who, faced with a question they have no hope of getting right, decide to have a little fun instead. Whether in science (Q: What is the highest frequency noise that a human can register? A: Mariah Carey), the humanities (Q: What did Mahatma Gandhi and Genghis Khan have in common? A: Unusual names), math, or other subjects, these 250 entries prove that while everyone enjoys the spectacle of failure, it's even sweeter to see a FAIL turn into a WIN.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452138575
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
F stands for "funny" in this perfect gift for students or anyone who has ever had to struggle through a test and needs a good laugh. Celebrating the creative side of failure in a way we can all relate to, F in Exams gathers the most hilarious and inventive test answers provided by students who, faced with a question they have no hope of getting right, decide to have a little fun instead. Whether in science (Q: What is the highest frequency noise that a human can register? A: Mariah Carey), the humanities (Q: What did Mahatma Gandhi and Genghis Khan have in common? A: Unusual names), math, or other subjects, these 250 entries prove that while everyone enjoys the spectacle of failure, it's even sweeter to see a FAIL turn into a WIN.
English as a Second F*cking Language
Author: Sterling Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312143299
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
In English, swearing is essential to effective communication. Whether one wants to succeed in business, school, or social circles, a strong command of unprintable language is absolutely necessary. Employing a helpful "Need to Know", "Nice to Know", and "Forget It" system for identifying swear words, English as a Second Fcking Language offers an informative--and funny--look at taboo words and expressions to boost readers' vocabularies.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312143299
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
In English, swearing is essential to effective communication. Whether one wants to succeed in business, school, or social circles, a strong command of unprintable language is absolutely necessary. Employing a helpful "Need to Know", "Nice to Know", and "Forget It" system for identifying swear words, English as a Second Fcking Language offers an informative--and funny--look at taboo words and expressions to boost readers' vocabularies.
The Economy of Prestige
Author: James F. English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674018846
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as old as the arts themselves, but their number and power--and their consequences for society and culture at large--have expanded to an unprecedented degree in our day. In a wide-ranging overview of this phenomenon, James F. English documents the dramatic rise of the awards industry and its complex role within what he describes as an economy of cultural prestige. Observing that cultural prizes in their modern form originate at the turn of the twentieth century with the institutional convergence of art and competitive spectator sports, English argues that they have in recent decades undergone an important shift--a more genuine and far-reaching globalization than what has occurred in the economy of material goods. Focusing on the cultural prize in its contemporary form, his book addresses itself broadly to the economic dimensions of culture, to the rules or logic of exchange in the market for what has come to be called "cultural capital." In the wild proliferation of prizes, English finds a key to transformations in the cultural field as a whole. And in the specific workings of prizes, their elaborate mechanics of nomination and election, presentation and acceptance, sponsorship, publicity, and scandal, he uncovers evidence of the new arrangements and relationships that have refigured that field.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674018846
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This is a book about one of the great untold stories of modern cultural life: the remarkable ascendancy of prizes in literature and the arts. Such prizes and the competitions they crown are almost as old as the arts themselves, but their number and power--and their consequences for society and culture at large--have expanded to an unprecedented degree in our day. In a wide-ranging overview of this phenomenon, James F. English documents the dramatic rise of the awards industry and its complex role within what he describes as an economy of cultural prestige. Observing that cultural prizes in their modern form originate at the turn of the twentieth century with the institutional convergence of art and competitive spectator sports, English argues that they have in recent decades undergone an important shift--a more genuine and far-reaching globalization than what has occurred in the economy of material goods. Focusing on the cultural prize in its contemporary form, his book addresses itself broadly to the economic dimensions of culture, to the rules or logic of exchange in the market for what has come to be called "cultural capital." In the wild proliferation of prizes, English finds a key to transformations in the cultural field as a whole. And in the specific workings of prizes, their elaborate mechanics of nomination and election, presentation and acceptance, sponsorship, publicity, and scandal, he uncovers evidence of the new arrangements and relationships that have refigured that field.
On Early English Pronunciation
Author: Alexander John Ellis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
German and English
Author: Felix Flügel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
A German-English dictionary
Author: Hermann Carl George Brandt
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
First English Reading-book
Author: Johan Nicolaas Valkhoff
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Pronouncing American English
Author: Gertrude F. Orion
Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Publishers
ISBN: 9780838463345
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This second edition provides extensive activities to help college-bound students develop clear speech and appropriate intonation. -- Vowels, consonants, stress, and intonation -- Recognition and production activities -- Paired communicative practice -- Sounds in isolation, sentences, dialogues, and rhymes
Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Publishers
ISBN: 9780838463345
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This second edition provides extensive activities to help college-bound students develop clear speech and appropriate intonation. -- Vowels, consonants, stress, and intonation -- Recognition and production activities -- Paired communicative practice -- Sounds in isolation, sentences, dialogues, and rhymes
A Complete Latin-English and English-Latin Dictionary
Author: John Tahourdin White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description