... phrases
: right now … talk back … cook the books … hate mail … fax machine …
back-breaking
You also hear it in words and syllables that end in
t
+ a vowel +
n
. We don’t say the
vowel at all, ... sound a
continuant
because we must permit the air to continue to
pass. It is very important inEnglish that stops and continuants sound different
from each other.
Consonant stops and continuants ...
combination stops and continuants: x, ch, j (box, batch, badge)
This information is important because many languages don’t have words that end in
stops, and the speakers of those languages sometimes...
... of pain
She came in complaining of stomach pains.
pain subsides
As the pain subsided, I began to relax.
be racked with pain
He is emaciated and racked with pain.
A good dictionary will also ... you in (= suffering
from) pain? o She was in constant pain, o These tablets
should help to ease the pain, o I felt a sharp pain in my
foot, o He's been suffering various aches and pains ... pains and dizziness.
alleviate / ease / lessen / relieve / soothe pain
A hot bath may help to relieve the pain.
cause / inflict pain
He deliberately inflicted pain on his pupils.
complain...
... ap-
proach defines ‘active’ learning ina two-fold way: as a pleasurable and liberating
activity that (1) breaks with the traditional pain of learning, and (2) gives greater
agency to learners. ... Army Platform can be seen as an advergame, an edugame, a
test bed and tool, and a propaganda game.² The edugame and test tool dimen-
sion are most apparent in several governmental applications, ... today’s global chaos).
New York: Warner Books.
Tran, Nam ‘DocNartman’. 2003. America’s Army version 2.0 Training manual. Army Game
Project.
46 digital material
meaning as an interplay between these...
... well as Canada, Britain, Germany, India, Japan and globally that examine the impact of “the
Internet” ineveryday life. The authors have in common the acceptance of the wholeness of
human experience, ... studies that cover
the impact of “the Internet” ineverydaylifein the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany,
India, Japan and globally. These studies show the Internet as a complex landscape ... of activities that are potentially displaced, but
found impacts were marginal at best on watching television, gardening, reading newspapers,
magazines and books, shopping, telephoning, going...
... iron bar. Finally, he was
laid across the railroad tracks with stones stacked on his head and was later
run over by a train (Wikipedia 2004). e assailants could not be identi-
ed in the grainy ...
of institutions and extra-individual relations through techniques that
establish or maintain situations or states of domination. Foucault dened
a situation or state of domination as one in ...
hopes—stimulating. Others hawking the technologies disavow that they
are pandering to parental anxiety about their children’s safety and use
familiarization as a selling point. ey suggest that if parents...
... =(0.05)n,
or the average win per game is approximately −0.05 dollars (meaning that the
average “win” is actually a loss). If we define the random variable X as the win
achieved in just a single repetition ... beginner. For an intuitive understanding, the
best way is to view a random variable as a variable that takes on its values
by chance. A random variable gets its value only after the underlying chance
experiment ... numerous papers on applied
probability and stochastic optimization for international journals, including Applied
Probability and Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences.
26 The law...
... million inhabitants, meet each other. Each has approximately 500 acquain-
tances in the city. Assuming that for each of the two people, the acquaintances
represent a random sampling of the city’s various ... material from
the first hour was treated ina mathematically rigorous way and the students
were allowed to take notes. I learned a lot from this approach of interweaving
intuition and formal mathematics.
This ... by adding more explanations and examples in
almost every chapter. Also, the second part has been expanded by adding an
introductory chapter on Markov chains, particularly suited for students in...
... entering dreamland instead of
sleeping; sobbing and not just crying; races instead of runs; exhilarating instead of fun; adored instead of
liked.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Another way to enliven your ... without waking anybody up. Without the back and forth
of conversation you can say what you want and sign off for later. But that doesn’t mean that your corre-
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NINE
NARRATIVES INEVERYDAYLIFE ... these:
Your room
Your English teacher
EXPRESS YOURSELF NARRATIVES INEVERYDAY LIFE
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Your car
Your biology textbook
Math
The prom
The yearbook
Christmas
Jell-O™
Your pet
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