What is sold at garage sales? Why does no one get wet at a bridal shower? For non-native speakers, here's a humorous approach to understanding common American customs and the expressions related to them. Customs are explained, one to a page, with conversational examples and whimsical cartoons. Topics range from age-old traditions, such as shaking hands and bachelor parties, to more modern American practices--coupon clipping, TV dinners, and tailgate parties.
Here's a delightful collection of American superstitions , wonderfully illustrated with whimsical cartoons . 101 American Superstitions will amuse you for hours - while giving insight into American customs , beliefs , and humor .
Author: Harry Collis
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0844255998
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 138
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Explains American superstitions in the context of daily life, in such areas as body language, love and marriage, gambling, special days, and food
This book makes American English phrases “duck soup.” 101 American English Idioms takes the mystery out of these common U.S. expressions and explains their meanings in context.
Author: Harry Collis
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN: 0071487727
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 128
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This book makes American English phrases “duck soup.” 101 American English Idioms takes the mystery out of these common U.S. expressions and explains their meanings in context. On the audio CD, native speakers read each of the 101 idioms, so you can hear how American English sounds and practice what you have learned. What Americans really mean when they say . . . Drive someone up a wall--annoy someone greatly Raise a stink--protest strongly Pull someone's leg--fool someone All thumbs--clumsy Shoot the breeze--chat informally Feel like a million dollars--feel wonderful Duck soup--easy, effortless
This enhanced edition contains a 90-minute MP3 disc with 101 dialogues, spoken by native speakers, so you can hear how these are used and practice your own use of these colorful sayings.
Author: Harry Collis
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0071615881
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 128
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The grass IS greener with this proverb book, enhanced with mini-conversations on an MP3 disc Adding proverbs to your language skills opens up a whole new way for you to express yourself. But to translate commonly known proverbs word-for-word from your own language into another doesn't work and may even change meaning all together. 101 American English Proverbs with MP3 Disc presents their translations and explains how to use them. Humorous illustrations help you remember the meaning of the proverbs. This enhanced edition contains a 90-minute MP3 disc with 101 dialogues, spoken by native speakers, so you can hear how these are used and practice your own use of these colorful sayings.
Author: Lynne Sharon SchwartzPublish On: 2009-03-27
431 Harry Collis, 101 American Customs, Passport Books, 2000, p. 62 George Eliot, Middlemarch, Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003, p. 183 Quoted in Hilary Spurling, The Unknown Matisse, Knopf, 1998, p. 104 p. 393 p. 104 p. 105 p. 111 p.
Author: Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 9781582439365
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 176
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Ever since the explorations of Marco Polo and the travels of Montaigne, a lively dialogue has persisted about the pros and cons of travel. Lynne Sharon Schwartz joins this dialogue with a memoir that raises both serious and amusing questions about travel, using her own experiences as vivid illustrations. Not Now, Voyager takes us on a voyage of self-discovery as the author traces how travel has shaped her sensibilities from childhood through adulthood. She makes an adolescent visit to Miami Beach, where she confronts the powerful sensation of not belonging; she goes to Rome as a young woman and ponders the difference between ignorance and innocence; she ventures to Jamaica and witnesses political and social unrest; and she takes a family road trip to Montreal and watches her daughters come to startling realizations of their own. Schwartz’s personal history takes on new shapes, and her feelings about travel change as she shows us who she started out as and who she has become. Above all, this memoir exemplifies a mode of travel in and of itself: the mind on a journey or quest, pausing here and there, sometimes by design, sometimes by serendipity, lingering, occasionally backtracking, but always on the move.
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101 American Customs. NIC. – Contemporary Publishing Group, Inc., – 2000. – 78-98 p. Comfort, Jeremy. Effective Negotiating. Students' Book. – Oxford: Oxford University Press. – 1998. – 95 p. Comfort, Jeremy. Effective Negotiating.
Author: Биконя О. П.
Publisher: Нова Книга
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В посібнику «Завдання для самостійної роботи з Англійської Мови за Професійним Спрямуванням» пропонуються завдання для самостійного опрацювання студентам економічних спеціальностей, аспірантам та викладачам спеціальностей, пов’язаних з менеджментом, маркетингом, економікою тощо, а також для тих, хто займається організацією та практикою зовнішньоекономічною діяльності. Посібник складається з п’яти частин (Part I-V), до кожної частини додаються ключі та глосарій (англо-український словник. Запропонований комплекс вправ та завдань реалізується на основі кредитно-модульної організації навчання та враховує різний рівень підготовки студентів, різний рівень швидкості сприйняття та засвоєння матеріалу, сприяє індивідуалізованому вирішенню проблем, які виникають у процесі самостійної підготовки до заняття. Оригінальні англомовні тексти з численними вправами та завданнями висвітлюють різні аспекти англійського ділового спілкування.
306.44'0973 101 American customs : understanding American language and culture through common practices / Harry Collis ; illustrated by Joe Kohl . Lincolnwood , III .: Passport Books , c2000 . ix , 124 p .: ill .; 23 cm .