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Popular sayings, which include clichés, colloquialisms and jargons, are commonly used in our daily conversation and writing. But some people tend to use them indiscriminately, quite often to impress others but without achieving any effect. Popular Sayings contains 40 interesting passages that cover a wide range of text types, featuring a collection of nearly 800 sayings and numerous sentence examples to show their usage. It also provides detailed explanations, usage comments and origins, as well as simple alternatives where possible. Features:English in Context - Popular Sayings - Secondary, Adult
• 40 specially written passages to illustrate the usage of popular sayings
• Nearly 800 popular sayings and more than 1500 sentence examples to show usage
• Highly interesting passages for reading, covering a wide range of topics for secondary students and adult learners
• A built-in mini-dictionary for easy reference
• Do-It-Yourself exercises for self-testing, with answers

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Curriculum Concepts has been publishing educational resource material for the education market for over 17 years, establishing an excellent reputation in that time. The books are carefully researched, New Zealand curriculum appropriate and are written and trialled by teachers for teachers. Curriculum Concepts also licenses New Zealand-appropriate educational resources from around the world and acts as a distributor of educational resources for New Zealand and international publishers. The resources are provided across all New Zealand curriculum areas for preschool to Year 9 (Age 13) students plus special needs, adult students in literacy and numeracy and English speakers of other languages. The range includes photocopiable resources, interactive CDs, subscription-based websites, high interest-low reading age paperbacks, posters, junior readers, professional development books, certificates, stickers, borders and library books. Continuing its tradition of providing customers with its fast, efficient and friendly service and its ‘buy now – pay later’ Ea$i-pay scheme, Curriculum Concepts offers discounted resources through its ‘Mates’ emails and monthly prizes to top-spending customers. New developments for 2009 include the selling of e-books from their website and a lucky customer monthly spot prize.

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