English Is Easy Intermediate

Beginning with compound words, which are more Germanic in origin, the book goes into British-American differences in spelling, pronunciation, words to differences between conversational and written English. How do 'talk, say, speak, tell, and chat differ? Superlatives and comparisons with like to what is considered improper English. This does not refer to vulgarities but English which may serve to defeat a speaker's remarks or opinions. The formation of singular and plurals in Latin is...
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Beginning with compound words, which are more Germanic in origin, the book goes into British-American differences in spelling, pronunciation, words to differences between conversational and written English. How do 'talk, say, speak, tell, and chat differ? Superlatives and comparisons with like to what is considered improper English. This does not refer to vulgarities but English which may serve to defeat a speaker's remarks or opinions. The formation of singular and plurals in Latin is very different such as data and datum. There are four pages of French words and phrases used in English which affects spelling between British and American English (centre/center). There is a page of illustrations of Latin prefixes used in French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese and Latin phrases and words used in English as well as abbreviations.There are Latin phrases and words pertaining to legal issues and two pages of foreign words in English such as jungle and boondocks, where these words came from and why there were no words in German, French, or English to match them. The suffixes for the French/Latin words show how a word is either noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, or verb followed by illustrations for more Latin and Greek prefixes. The Latin (French) root words change in meaning with the prefixes put to them, such as port, report, export, import, and airport. The suffixes will show usage (portable, exportable, importation, followed by some prefixes of Greek Origin which refer mainly to words used in science.Section 16: Some Prefixes of Greek origin with some illustrations of Greek words.Illustrations of some Greek Scientific Words Latin followed by adjectival suffixes such as ous (full of) have their equivalents in French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. There are the Greek adjectival suffixes ic and ical and Greek words Phile (love) and Phobe (fear). Then the Latin/Greek origins of some English words followed with a word matching game and words used to describe people (gregarious, adventurous). How to expand one's vocabulary to pass the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) that will help those going to study in the British Commonwealth or the US universities for post graduate studies will be helpful to not only non-native English students but helpful for those who teach English in ESL programs. The author wrote the book using his lesson plans for teaching English in his classes in China as the foreign teachers hired in China have little to go on and tend to be hired by the Chinese universities and schools have done a pretty poor job in hiring teachers who often lack a full knowledge of English. Example would be the word "sailing" is more than taking a voyage on a ship with sails but traveling on a ship or boat powered by engines.