Reseña del libro "English b2"
Mastering the English language has become the new challenge of the xxi century motivated by, to a large extent, the continuous social and labour changes that have occurred lately throughout the worldEncuadernación: Rústica. Thus, the strong competition in both the personal and professional fields has motivated the approximation of the society to the language. From this process emerges the present book, which aims to lead the reader in the learning and mastery of the English language. Throughout the development of eight teaching units with large and essential information, the student will be able to use the language fluently and efficiently in different situations, whether written or spoken, and will acquire a wide range of vocabulary and grammar structures, which they can use to express themselves with self-confidence in different everyday conversations about general topics, current or related to the subject of specialization of the speaker. The study of the contents of this work will provide the reader with the necessary training to attend the official certification exam of level B2 of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) focusing on writing, reading and oral comprehension supported by learning resources and exercises required to pass the exam successfully.1. Lexical and semantic contents1.1 Introduction1.2. Vocabulary1.2.1. Vocabulary in different situations1.2.2. Food, kitchen tools and words related with cooking1.2.3. Science and technology1.2.4. Travel and accommodation1.2.5. Social relationships and family1.2.6. Lexical phrases1.2.7. Frequently used collocations with certain verbs1.2.8. Common idiomatic expressions, stereotype comparisons, proverbs and cliché phrases1.3. Word formation1.3.1. Augmentatives and diminutives1.3.2. Compound nouns1.3.3. Word families and adjective nominalization1.3.4. Animal onomatopoeias1.3.5. Frequent initialisms and acronyms1.4. Meaning1.4.1. Use of the dictionary1.4.2. Figurative language and euphemism1.4.3. Journalism terms1.4.4. Alliteration1.4.5. AmE versus BrE1.4.6. Confusing words1.4.7. False friendsSUMMARYCHECK WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNEDANSWER KEY2. Grammatical contents2.1. Introduction2.2. Sentences2.2.1. Exclamatory sentences2.2.2. Imperative sentences with a subject2.2.3. Desiderative sentences2.2.4. Word order in a sentence2.2.5. Tag questions and tag responses2.2.6. Contrasting ideas2.2.7. Ellipses at present participle2.2.8. Subject and verb agreement2.2.9. Impersonal sentences and passive voice2.2.10. Passive voice in complex structures2.2.11. Reduced relative clauses2.2.12. Reported speech. Interrogative speech and orders2.2.13. Changes in reported speech. Doing requests, making suggestions and giving instructions and advice2.2.14. Subordinate clauses2.2.15. Conditional sentences2.2.16. Cleft sentences2.2.17. Subjunctive2.3. Nouns and adjectives2.3.1. Singular nouns ending in «-s» and plural nouns without «-s»2.3.2. Plural nouns, borrowed and irregular words2.3.3. Genitive case2.3.4. Partitive nominal constructions2.3.5. Broadening and deepening of male and female nouns2.3.6. Broadening and deepening of adjective nominalization2.3.7. Characteristics of adjectives2.3.8. Degrees of the adjective: comparative degree and irregular forms2.3.9. Gradable adjectives2.3.10. Adjectives according to their position2.3.11. Change of the adjective meaning according to its attributive or predicative position and exclusively predicative position2.3.12. Attributive adjectives order2.3.13. How to intensify a superlative2.3.14. Adjectives modified by adverbs2.4. Determiners2.4.1. Articles2.4.2. When to leave the article out2.4.3. The use of the article «the» with proper nouns2.4.4. Possessive determiners2.4.5. Interrogative and exclamatory determiners2.4.6. Demonstratives2.4.7. Indefinites2.4.8. Basic mathematical operations and fractions2.4.9. «Nought», «zero», «nil» and «love»2.4.10. Decimals2.4.11. Usage of the «-ing» form2.5. Pronouns2.5.1. Personal pronouns2.5.2. Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns2.5.3. Interrogative, relative and numerical pronouns2.6. Verbs2.6.1. The nucleus of the sentence and its complements2.6.2. Correlation between tense and mood of the verb2.6.3. Verb tenses2.6.4. Present tense2.6.5. Past tense2.6.6. Future tense2.6.7. Stative verbs2.6.8. Imperative2.6.9. Verbs that change in meaning2.6.10. Modal verbs2.6.11. Infinitive tense2.6.12. Usage of the gerund («-ing» form)2.6.13. Verbs followed by infinitive or gerund2.6.14. Hypothetical past subjunctive2.6.15. Subjunctive tense in idioms2.6.16. Emphatic imperative with «do»2.6.17. Participles in passive sentences2.6.18. Participles with certain verbs and to replace relative clauses2.6.19. Adverbial participle2.7. Adverbs and adverbial phrases2.7.1. Usage and position of adverbs and adverbial phrases2.7.2. Adverbial complements of time, place and manner2.7.3. Order of the adverbs within a sentence2.7.4. Adverb formation2.7.5. «Quite» and «rather»2.7.6. Inversion with negative adverbials2.7.7. Adverbs as intensifiers2.7.8. Adverbs that modify verbs, adjectives and other adverbs2.7.9. Adverbs that modify pronouns and determiners2.7.10. Adverbs that modify prepositions2.7.11. Gradable adverbs2.7.12. Intensifying superlatives2.7.13. Adverbs that affirm, deny and express probability2.8. Conjunctions2.8.1. Coordinate conjunctions2.8.2. Subordinate conjunctions2.8.3. Types of subordinate conjunctions2.9. Prepositions and prepositional phrases2.9.1. Prepositions to express state, movement, place and time2.9.2. Prepositions «in», «on», «at», «like» and «as»2.9.3. Other prepositions and prepositional phrases2.9.4. Position of the preposition in a sentence2.9.5. Prepositions in passive voice sentences2.9.6. Adjectives, nouns and verbs followed by prepositions2.9.7. Prepositional phrasesSUMMARYCHECK WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNEDANSWER KEY3. Orthographical contents3.1. Introduction3.2. Homophones and homographs3.3. Syllabic structure3.4. Broadening and deepening of British and American standard varieties3.5. Zooming in the correct use of punctuation marks3.6. Use of capitalization, italic and underlining3.7. Abbreviations, acronyms and symbolsSUMMARYCHECK WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNEDANSWER KEY4. Phonetic and phonological contents4.1. Introduction4.2. General review of vocalic and consonantal sounds4.3. Common difficulties of the English pronunciation4.4. Schwa and weak vowels4.5. Syllabic consonants4.6. Phonetic processes4.7. Emphatic stress in simple and compound words4.8. Stress, rhythm and intonation4.9. Pitch patterns4.10. Pattern intonation in interrogative sentences4.11. Pattern intonation during a conversationSUMMARYCHECK WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNEDANSWER KEY5. Sociolinguistic and sociocultural contents5.1. Introduction5.2. Greetings, introductions and farewells in formal style5.3. Formal, informal and casual titles5.4. Speaking time basic guidelines5.5. Polite expressions5.6. Sayings, idiomatic expressions and quotations5.7. Language register and geographical varieties of EnglishSUMMARYCHECK WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNEDANSWER KEY6. Functional contents6.1. Introduction6.2. Assertive speech acts6.3. Commissive speech acts6.4. Directive speech acts6.5. Phatic utterances and the expression of social attitudes6.6. Expressive speech actsSUMMARYCHECK WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNEDANSWER KEY7. Text coherence7.1. Introduction7.2. Language varieties and registers7.3. Topic, approach and content7.4. Space-time context7.4.1. Spatial reference7.4.2. Temporal reference7.5. Written texts7.6. Spoken textsSUMMARYCHECK WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNEDANSWER KEY8. Text cohesion8.1. Introduction8.2. Speech opening8.3. Body of the speech8.4. Speech closing8.5. Speech maintenance8.6. Intonation as a pragmatic resource8.7. Punctuation as a cohesive deviceSUMMARYCHECK WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNEDANSWER KEY
