Книга: Jonathan Green «Some issues in the teaching of vocabulary»
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Производитель: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing" One of the greatest challenges for non-native speakers of English is collocations, those phrases that we use all the time that just don`t translate well into other languages. For example the in English we say to catch a cold but in other languages they say to eat a cold. As soon as a non-native speaker directly translates their phrase correctly, they give away their identity. In business situations this can put the speaker at a disadvantage as most people associate low language ability with low intelligence. A single collocation mistake can have a dramatic impact on the way an employee is perceived in the office. In my work with multiple non-native speakers with high level executive positions at international firms, I often found that a few collocation mistakes led to a great deal of embarrassment in the workplace as her supervisor then demanded to review and edit every single email before she was allowed to send it to another department. This highly intelligent executive left... ISBN:9783844389982 Издательство: "LAP Lambert Academic Publishing" (2011)
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Jonathan Green
Biography
He is best known for having written three gamebooks in the original
Green's books are reputed to be among the most difficult in Fighting Fantasy due to the frequent inclusion of high-level adversaries and because there is often little room for error. For instance, Bloodbones features a final battle against a Skill 12 Stamina 24 adversary while suffering a -1 Attack Strength penalty (a player starts with maximum scores of 12 and 24 respectively), Knights of Doom includes four Skill 12 adversaries, Curse of the Mummy features a Skill 13 Stamina 25 final adversary and Spellbreaker includes a Skill 12 bandit and another Skill 12 final adversary. Reviewers agree that Knights of Doom is one of the hardest of the original Fighting Fantasy series, while "Curse of the Mummy" is termed "ludicrous" in difficulty by one reviewer and "ridiculously difficult... as with Jonathan Green's two other gamebooks" by another, and Bloodbones is termed "insanely difficult" by one reader.Fact|date=October 2008 Spellbreaker includes several passages where a certain dice roll (such as 1-3 out of 6) is necessary for survival and has been estimated as having only an 8% success chance prior to factoring in risks from combatFact|date=October 2008, other statistics, item choice and so on. Although usually raised as a criticism, this aspect also pleases some readers.Fact|date=October 2008 The books are also often credited with atmospheric writing and originality.Fact|date=October 2008 Upon their 2007 rereleases "Spellbreaker" and "Curse of the Mummy" were edited to make them more playable.
All the books operate on the intersection between fantasy and horror; they are all set in the usual Fighting Fantasy world of Titan. "Spellbreaker" uses a religious rather than mythological setting including herblore, "Curse of the Mummy" imitates ancient Egyptian tropes, "Bloodbones" is pirate-themed with undertones of chaos-worship and undeath, and "Knights of Doom" borrows Warhammer Fantasy Battle's chaos imagery.
Green has also written a number of novels for the
In 2003 Green co-created the Pax Britannia science fiction
Bibliography
* "Non-Fiction Books":
** "Match Wits with the Kids" (June 2008, ISBN 978-1848310001)
** "What is Myrrh Anyway?" (October 2008, ISBN 978-1848310278)
** "Go Gos Are Go Go" (1997, ISBN 0-14-038675-0)
*"Fighting Fantasy adventure gamebooks" (
** Book 53 - "Spellbreaker"
** Book 56 - "Knights of Doom"
** Book 59 - "Curse of the Mummy"
** Book 60 - "Bloodbones" (unpublished)
*"Sonic the Hedgehog gamebooks" (with
** Book 5 - "Theme Park Panic" (ISBN 0-14-037847-2)
** Book 6 - "Stormin' Sonic" (ISBN 0-14-037848-0)
* "Pax Britannia" (
** "Unnatural History" (February 2007, ISBN 1-905437-11-0)
** "Fruiting Bodies" (June 2007) - a short story which appears in "El Sombra" by
** "Leviathan Rising" (March 2008, ISBN 1-905437-60-9)
** "Human Nature" (April 2009, ISBN 1-905437-86-2)
*" List of
** "The Dead and the Damned" (December 2002, ISBN 1-84154-266-0)
** "Crusade for Armageddon" (July 2003, ISBN 1-84416-025-4)
** "Magestorm" (February 2004, ISBN 1-84416-074-2)
** "Iron Hands" (August 2004, ISBN 1-84416-094-7)
** "Necromancer" (February 2005, ISBN 1-84416-158-7)
** "Conquest of Armageddon" (December 2005, ISBN 1-84416-196-X)
*"Fighting Fantasy adventure gamebooks" (
** Book 26 - "Bloodbones"
** Book 27 - "Curse of the Mummy"
** Book 28 - "Spellbreaker"
** Book 29 - "Howl of the Werewolf"
* "
** "The Horror of Howling Hill" (March 2008, ISBN 978-1-40590-404-9)
References
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* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/jonathan-green/ Jonathan Green] at Fantastic Fiction
* [http://www.blacklibrary.com/author.asp?id=31 Black Library profile]
* [http://www.abaddonbooks.com/authors.php] Jonathan Green at Abaddon Books
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