Helen Ashton Livres

Clearer pronunciation for better communication

Clearer pronunciation for better communication If your English accent is letting you down, this is the perfect book for you. You'll see and hear how to soften the influence of your mother tongue and speak clear English everyone will understand. Professional accent coaches Sarah and Helen show you how to pronounce each sound and when to use them. They will help you recognize why your native language makes you mispronounce certain sounds and which sounds you therefore need to focus on. Collins Work on your Accent features: Thirty-six units on the main consonant and vowel sounds in English "What am I doing wrong?" section looks at the mistakes you are most likely to be making based on your native language Advice on rhythm, stress and pitch Videos, illustrations and photos demonstrating the correct positions to produce accurate sounds A DVD-ROM with video and audio clips providing clear nativespeaker model pronunciation Extra practice sections concentrating on the most problematic sounds CEF level B1-C2 Suitable for self-study and classroom use.

While looking into her genealogy, particularly the Cumberbatches from Barbados, Helen0Ashton discovered the silversmith Omar Ramsden and his connection to her family. 0Omar Ramsden and fellow Sheffield-born designer Alwyn Carr set up a partnership in 18980moving to London to exploit the fashionable taste for handmade silver of the Arts and Crafts Movement and, with the help of skilled artisans, made articles adapted from Gothic and Renaissance designs with Celtic-style inscriptions, which became their trademark. 0A fascinating story, painstakingly researched following one of the most successful0silversmithing collaborations of the 20th century. Helen's interest became a fascinating0obsession, resulting in three years of research to find out about his family background in0Sheffield and his long partnership.

'Helen Ashton has the power of writing about people as though she had known them all her life. One feels that one has lived next door to Martin Lovell ever since the day when he first set up house with Letty in chambers on the north side of Gray's Inn Square' wrote the TLS in 1932. Unusually, Bricks and Mortar is about the life of a London architect from the 1890s to the early 1930s; it is, as well, about a 'very decent, simple, sweet-minded creature' who realises that his marriage has been a mistake yet makes the best of things: because he has dignity, commonsense and kindness, and is 'very much in love with his profession', he has his own special brand of heroism.

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