The challenging exercises and critical vocabulary you need to advance your English skills Created by ESL instructor Diane Engelhardt, Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Reading and Comprehension features lengthy, complex passages to help you develop essential English reading and critical thinking skills. Inside are 15 readings on topics such as DNA evidence, sustainable urban communities, the human genome project, and more--subjects that will keep you engaged as you take your English to the next level. You will get plenty of practice, practice, practice on understanding and comprehending high-level vocabulary through enlightening exercises. You’ll master how to organize information you read, summarize text, and more. Before you know it, your reading skills will be stronger and your comprehension will grow, enabling you to get more out of English-language texts. Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Reading and Comprehension will help you: Build your academic and technical vocabulary Boost your comprehension skills to an advanced level Create reading strategies to use with any difficult text Develop critical thinking skills

Suitable for advanced beginning to intermediate ESL learners, this title shows them when and why to use certain verb tenses and gives them plenty of examples to increase their confidence in choosing the right word.

This innovative ESL/EFL textbook helps advanced English language learners develop conversation skills and improve fluency by sharing experiences, reflecting on their lives, and discussing proverbs and quotations. The oral skills English textbook includes 45 thematic chapters, over 1,350 questions, 500 vocabulary words, 250 proverbs and American idioms, and 500 quotations. Designed for both adult education and intensive English language students, the conversations and activities deepen critical thinking skills and develop speaking skills essential to success in community college and university programs. Compelling Conversations has been used in classrooms in over 40 countries, recommended by English Teaching Professional magazine, adopted by conversation clubs and private English tutors, and enjoyed by thousands of English students.

The go-to guide for learning and reinforcing American English vocabulary for beginning ESL learners—now enhanced with audio recordings through the McGraw-Hill Language Lab app Now enhanced with audio recordings of exercise answers through the McGraw-Hill Language Lab app, this bestselling guide to learning ESL is more helpful than ever. Based on tried-and-true method, Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary for Beginning ESL Learners helps you develop your vocabulary and comprehension skills with practice in word building, analyzing new words, and using them in conversation. Chapters are built around themes, such as nouns to name people and verbs for household activities, to help build a comprehensive foundation. More than 200 practice exercises from old and new vocabulary help you practice as you learn. Subjects included in this guide include names for people, places, and things; adjectives that describe people; verbs for household activities; how to ask questions; verbs used for shopping; how to give directions, social networking vocabulary; and more. Boost your English language proficiency with Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary for Beginning ESL Learners, Premium Fourth Edition, featuring: Practical and high-frequency vocabulary Example sentences that illustrate and clarify each point More than 200 exercises to practice using English in everyday situations Answer key for reference and quick feedback NEW in this edition: Audio recordings of exercise answers through the McGraw-Hill Language Lab app

Perfect the Art of Conversation in Spanish! Nervous that you’re not ready to strike up a conversation with a native Spanish speaker? This book helps you overcome that obstacle and before you know it, you’ll be speaking comfortably in your new native language. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Conversation is organized around twelve units that present realistic conversational situations, from making introductions to giving opinions and from making a date to telling a story. Using these engaging dialogues as a starting point, each unit is packed with helpful instruction on correct pronunciation, syntax, and word usage--in addition to lots of conversation-ready phrases that you will find indispensable as your fluency increases. Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Conversation will help you: Engage in dialogues that illustrate practical conversations Expand your vocabulary Get clarification of new concepts with numerous realistic examples Reinforce your new conversational skills through extensive exercises Improve your pronunciation through audio dialogs and exercises, via app and online Before you know it, you’ll find yourself confidently speaking Spanish with your Spanish-speaking friends--or ready to make new ones!

Learn to master the useful but tricky skill of how to choose the right article or determiner As a non-native speaker of English, you may have trouble with determiners because, unlike true adjectives, the choice of which article, demonstrative, or quantifier to use is dependent on both the meaning and the grammatical form of the particular noun they modify. Practice Makes Perfect: English Articles and Determiners Up Close helps you untangle this grammar puzzle with clear explanations of how they should be treated and used. And of course you will get hundreds of exercise opportunities to practice, practice, practice your new skills.

How to Improve Reading Comprehension Quickly by Knowing Your Personal Reading Comprehension Style: Quick, Easy Tips to Improve Comprehension through the Brain's Fastest Superlinks Learning Style Ricki Linksman Improve your reading comprehension to remember everything you read and learn quickly. Discover your unique way of remembering what you read. Don't wait for months or years to learn these secrets to improving memory quickly-they are available now within this book for anyone to use to learn anything for any purpose. Discover the secrets to unlock your brain's powerful memory and comprehension to quickly learn and master any subject or comprehend anything you read. This book will dramatically change your life and how you learn! Use these quick, easy and fun tips to improve reading comprehension and test-taking skills to learn anything quickly for your school, job, or career. Tap into your brain's energy powers to succeed in the competitive job market. Learn fast, easy, and powerful reading comprehension strategies to remember and comprehend everything you read and learn for rapid success. Ricki Linksman, one of the world's leading experts and author of books on accelerated learning, memory, and reading comprehension, shows you how to use your brain's unique superlinks learning style and brain style to improve comprehension quickly and successfully. These powerful techniques developed by Ricki Linksman, founder-director of National Reading Diagnostics Institute and Keys Learning, have proven for over 35 years to help people of all ages become top students and workers in the shortest possible time. These brain-based memory techniques can help adult learners for school or career. Seniors and baby-boomers use these exercises to maintain their brain and memory for lifelong learning. Parents can help their child or teen improve reading comprehension, concentration, focus, and self-esteem to raise grades, reading levels, and test scores for class or state tests or high school or college placement tests (ACT or SAT) in the shortest possible time. They can help parents and teachers improve comprehension in all students, whether Beginning or Reluctant Readers in nursery, pre-K, Kindergarten, grades 1, 2, or 3; Intermediate elementary school readers in grades 4 and 5; Middle school readers in grades 6, 7, and 8, Advanced or high school readers in grades 9, 10, 11, 12, or college, whether Regular Ed, Gifted, Special Ed, Title 1, ESL, bi-lingual, or those with ADHD or ADD. Spanish-speaking or other language learners can improve comprehension of English, while English-speaking students can increase comprehension of text in any language quickly. Teachers, college instructors, coaches, or trainers can accelerate content-area reading comprehension. Football, baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey, or golf coaches can help athletes rapidly comprehend their sports playbook and keep up grades. Adult learners from college to graduate school have raise grades and improved reading comprehension, vocabulary, note taking, study and test-taking skills. Adults in the job market can rapidly learn new skills to find or keep a job, pass certification tests, start a new career when downsized, or keep pace with rapidly-changing technology in the workplace. Doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and therapists can reduce clients' stress from fear of school or tests by building confidence to comprehend anything. It is filled with strategies for visual, auditory, tactile, or kinesthetic left-brain or right-brain learners. These simple, easy methods to improve reading comprehension can help you or those you teach or train to achieve success in any field-quickly. Note to readers: This book is part of a series so for the full compendium order How to Learn Anything Quickly: Quick, Easy Tips to Improve Memory, Reading Comprehension, and Test-taking Skills through the Brain's Fastest Superlinks Learning S