語言學習外文書藉的部落格

When Chinese shopkeepers tried to find a written equivalent of Coca-Cola, one set of characters they chose was pronounced “ke-kou ke-la.” It sounded right, but it literally translated as “bite the wax tadpole.” Language, like travel, is always stranger than we expect, and is often more beautiful than we imagine. In BITING THE WAX TADPOLE, Elizabeth Little takes a decidedly unstuffy and accessible tour of the world’s languages–from Lithuanian noun declensions and imperfective Russian verbs to Ancient Greek and Esperanto.
With exuberance and wit, Little reveals that daring to move beyond monolingual isolation leads to nothing less than an astonishing diversity of the human experience. Fully illustrated and including hilarious sidebars, BITING THE WAX TADPOLE is a must-have for the language lover’s bookshelf.

The book considers such key topics as the legacy of late-nineteenth century technology, the literary engagement with cinema and radio, the place of typewriters and computers in formal and thematic literary innovations, the representations of technology in spy fiction and the figures of the robot and the cyborg. It considers the importance of broadcast technology and the internet in literature and covers major literary movements including modernism, cold war writing, postmodernism and the emergence of new textualities at the end of the century.

An insightful and wide-ranging study, Technology, Literature and Culture offers close readings of writers such as Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Ian Fleming, Kurt Vonnegut, Don DeLillo, Jeanette Winterson and Shelley Jackson. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike in literary and cultural studies, and also introduces the topic to a general reader interested in the role of technology in the twentieth century.

　　National Geographic : Living English
　　英語閱讀影音書  (書+ DVD)

　　A Ticket to the World！
　　看國家地理頻道學英文   為你開啟世界大門
　　影音與閱讀的完美結合   視野與知識的精采交會

書細分級介紹
   
《National Geographic 英語閱讀影音書》四種程度不同於：

　　等級 生字數 等級說明 CEF考試級距對照

　　Level 1  800~1000 headwords Pre-Intermediate/Intermediate (初級) – with 2-3 years of English A2

　　Level 2  1000~1200 headwords Intermediate (中級) – with 3 or more years of English A2

　　Level 3  1200~1400 headwords Intermediate (中級) – with 3 or more years of English B1

　　Level 4  1400~1600 headwords Upper-Intermediate（中高級）– with 4 or more years of English B1

　　1. 全新登場的National Geographic系列，是結合影音、聲音、閱讀《NGC 國家地理頻道》24集精彩內容，包括世界文化、自然生態、環保議題、旅遊探險、氣候變遷等各種議題。

　　2. 系列內容多樣化，全彩色印刷，製作精美，題材由淺入深。輔以精彩照片及視聽兩用DVD，是結合閱讀、影像和聽力三種學習的全方位讀本。

　　3. 本系列由美國Heinle Cengage Learning 出版社，分為4個級數，內含文法聚焦、文法練習、影音考題、閱讀測驗等內容，幫助讀者快速擴展字彙，並增進英語口語、聽力、閱讀能力。

　　4. 精心編寫導讀材料，有助學生學習有效的閱讀策略(reading strategies)。每本書附有速讀訓練功能、延伸閱讀及中英對照生詞表。

　　5. 讀本用字選自Collins Cobuild 等著名語料庫，收錄平日生活常使用之字詞，按程度增加。內容貼近生活，可在英語或通識課堂上引起討論，啟發學生思考及聽講能力，培養通識閱讀視野。

學習重點

　　Grammar Focus 文法焦點：解釋語法重點。

　　Grammar Practice 文法練習：各種的練習題供讀者即時複習所學

　　Video Practice 影音練習

　　Exit Test 小考

　　書內其他練題，有助讀者掌握學習技巧如scanning, prediction, summarizing, identifying the main idea

　　English-Chinese Vocabulary List 中英字彙表：設於書末，既不影響讀者閱讀正文，又具備參考作用。

影音內容介紹

　　結合影像、聲音與閱讀
　　影像Video
　　聲音Audio
　　閱讀Reading

Level 1

　　The Greatest Creatures on Earth (巨獸大召集)

　　Artic Whale Danger! 鯨魚寶寶要回家

　　In the Artic Ocean, a baby whale gets too close to land and cannot get back to the water. Will it survive? 在北冰洋中，剛出生的鯨魚寶寶太過接近陸地，而無法回到海洋中，它能存活下來嗎？

　　Dinosaur Search 恐龍探秘

　　Dinosaurs, ancient creatures, how big could they be? Join a team of scientists to trace dinosaur bones. 活在古代的恐龍會有多大？一起和科學家們尋找恐龍的骨頭，發現更多關於恐龍的秘密。

　　Happy Elephants 大象的快樂秘方

　　Elephants have feelings like human beings. Find out how people make the elephants happy. 大象和人類一樣也有情緒，來發現人如何讓大象快樂。

出版說明

　　本館一向倡導優質閱讀，近年連續推出以”Q”為標誌的優質英語學習系列 (Quality English Learning)，為進一步推閱讀，本館引入Cengage出版之FootprintLibrary，使用National Geographic的圖像及語料，編成百科英語階梯閱讀系列，有別於Black Cat古典文學閱讀，透過現在真實題材，百科英語語境能幫助讀者認識今日的世界各事各物，擴展視野，提高認識及表達英語的能力。

　　本系列屬non-fiction(非虛構故事類)讀本，結合閱讀、視像和聽力三種學習功能，是一套三合一多媒介讀本，每本書的英文文章以headwords寫成，headwords選收自以下數據語料庫：Collins Cobuild The Bank of English、British National Corpus及BYU Corpus of American English等，並配上精彩照片，另加一張 video / audio 兩用DVD。編排由淺入深，按級提升，只要讀者堅持學習，必能有效提高英語溝通能力。

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