About language : tasks for teachers of English / Scott Thornbury
- 269 páginas ; 26 cm.
1. Thanks.-- 2. Acknowledgements.-- 3. Introduction.-- 4. Tasks.-- 5. Introductory Unit.-- 6. Language standards and rules.-- 7. Language systems and syllabuses.-- 8. Forms, functions, notions, texts.-- 9. An introduction to phonology.-- 10. The consonants.-- 11. The vowels.-- 12. Stress, rhythm and connected speech.-- 12. Intonation.-- 13. Word formation, spelling and word stress.-- 14. Lexical meaning.-- 15. Word classes and phrases.-- 16. Sentence structure : the simple sentence.-- 17. Sentence structure : the complex sentence.-- 18. Negatives and questions.-- 19 The verb phrase.-- 20.Time and tense.