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... one-off charges 2011 of CHF 375 m and w ithout fluctuations in currency, changes in scope of consolidation and similar market conditions) Adjusted for the sale of 25% of Cement Australia and ... MERGER OF EQUALS BALANCED GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP BOARD OF DIRECTORS MANAGEMENT INTEGRATION COMMITTEE » » Chairman: Wolfgang Reitzle Equally composed Board with members from Holcim and members ... Summary Merger of equals between Lafarge and Holcim Roadshow Mexico City, May 2014 © 2014 Holcim Ltd 23 Financial debt, maturities and liquidity as of March 31, 2014 Maturity profile1 (mCHF) Liquidity...

Ngày tải lên: 29/07/2014, 12:42

... translate English idioms into Vietnamese but also give a review of different methods of translation and an introduction of English and Vietnamese idioms Due to the limitation of time and the focus of ... reinterpret and reconstruct the SL text in the light of his new understanding of it Thus SL text interpretation and TL text formulation go hand in hand But it is useful to think of them as different, ... Classification of English idioms As discussed in 1.1, the need of denoting new things, concept or using vivid, flexible and fingurative forms of expression is one of the cause of the formation of idioms...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2016, 15:52

... the University of Technology are of different levels of English because of their own background It is common that those who are from big cities and towns have greater ability of English than those ... effectiveness of programs of instruction  Providing Research Criteria: to provide a standard of judgment in a variety of other research contexts based on language test scores  Assessment of Attitudes and ... suggested six purposes of language tests as follows:  Diagnosis and Feedback: to explore strengths and weaknesses of the learners  Screening and Selection: to assist in the decision of who should be...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:05

... language and not his culture is a very good way to make a fluent fool of ones self As stated in the English syllabus for Vietnamese high schools, one of the objectives of English teaching and learning ... findings of research questions and 2? 10 SCOPE OF THE STUDY The research focus is on Reading and Listening passages in Grade 10 English textbook The tasks provided in Reading and Listening sections and ... analysis of the textbook and is not aimed at evaluating it as the analysis of Grade 10 textbook alone does not provide a panorama of the whole set of Grade 10, Grade 11 and Grade 12 English textbooks...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 12:58

... UNIVERSITY - HANOI COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES POST-GRADUATE DEPARTMENT DƯƠNG THỊ HỒNG AN AN EVALUATION AND APPLICATION OF SOME MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION SOFTWARE IN DESIGNING ENGLISH LECTURES AT FIT ... thiết kế giảng môn tiếng Anh Khoa Công nghệ thông tin - Đại học Thái Nguyên) MINOR PROGRAMME THESIS ENGLISH TEACHING METHODOLOGY CODE: 60.14.10 Supervisor : DO TUAN MINH, PhD HANOI - 2009 ...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:08

... female (e.g.Dr/Professor/General) Yours sincerely C ẤU TRÚC CƠ B ẢN C ỦA EMAIL  Introduction:Email (electronic mail) - means of sending messages between computers Advantages: personal and easy to ... usefull for short messages and daily correspondece (ex: set up a meeting, mark a request Disadvantages: include technical problems which may result in the unexpected nondelivery of messages,or attachments ... form  LAYOUT Header information: incluse C.c: This stands for carbon copies, which means much the same as it does on a letter b.c.c:This stands for blind carbon copies, which,as in a letter,you...

Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 11:25

... English To have a good command of English, Vietnamese students in general and the first year English majors of Hai Phong Private University in particular have a lot of difficulties in using English ... with the title English inversion and difficulties encountered by English majors of Hai Phong Private University” Aims of the study This study is conducted to help English majors of Hai Phong private ... actually crucial to the completion of this study - Ideas of some possible difficulties are got from my understanding the English learning and teaching and English major students in Hai Phong...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:48

... preview of theory of syntax and semantics and giving an overview of syntactic and semantic features of negation in both English and Vietnamese 12 - Studying negation in terms of its structures and ... firstly get an overview of syntactic and semantic features of negation in both languages English and Vietnamese Because the theory of negation must include the role of syntax and semantics, it is ... and to avoid ambiguity An overview of classification of negation in English and Vietnamese 2.1 Classification of negation Rodney Huddleston and George K.Pullum,2002:34 The Cambridge grammar of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:53

... Contrastive analysis of Cohesive devices in English texts and those in Vietnamese ones Table of contents Page Acknowledgements Table of contents Part A: introduction I II III ... topic Aims of the thesis Scopes of the study Methods of the study Design of the study 2 2 Part b: investigation CHAPTER : background information Text 1.1 Definition 1.2 Characteristic of a text ... like, so, that, the fomer ) Hå ThÞ Thuý H»ng - 41 A1 English 8 8 9 Vinh University Contrastive analysis of Cohesive devices in English texts and those in Vietnamese ones 2.1.2 2.1.2.1 2.1.2.2 2.1.2.3...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 00:03

... www.dk -english. com Page 19 Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand Death of a thousand cuts If something is suffering the death of a thousand cuts, or death by a thousand cuts, lots of small ... Full of beans If someone's full of beans, they are very energetic Full of hot air Someone who is full of hot air talks a lot of rubbish Full of piss and vinegar Someone who's full of piss and ... arts and literature, and often a writer too Man of means A man, or woman, of means is wealthy Man of parts A man of parts is a person who is talented in a number of different areas or ways Man of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 13:15

... which can be measured in terms of the degree of effort put into the avoidance of a conflict situation, and the establishment and the maintenance of comity. Brown and Levinson (1987) emphasize ... (Longman Dictionary of Applied Linguistic, 1985) The speech acts of request is often performed and used quite frequently in everyday 1.2 Speech act of Request Requests are among one of the many speech ... ii LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES iii TABLE OF CONTENTS iv PART A: INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale of the study Aims of the study Scope of the study ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... difference on production and reception We use our mouths and ears for spoken discourse and our hands and eyes for witten one Brown and Yule (1983:13 ) point out that spoken and written discourse ... formal ones Modality Modality often appears in both two kinds of letters with a great deal of number The use of active and passive voice Our analysis of two kinds of letter shows that: the passive ... Appendices As the purpose of this graduation paper is to help learners understand more about kinds of correspondence and the way of using English in appropriate situation We try to offer some practical...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 19:50

... slip and sheep may sound ship Pairs of English vowels such as /i:/ and //, /ổ/ and /e/, /:/ and / /, /:/ and //, /:/ and / /, /u:/ and // are compared with Vietnamese vowels /i/, //, /o/,//,/a/ and ... Fricative Consonant / / // in English -Spelling of //: In English, spelling of // is th in words as thank and mouth // can occur in the initial and the final position - Place of articulation: // is ... consonant clusters are a feature of many of the worlds language and English is an example In a study of 104 world languages, people show that in English, there are one third of monosyllables that begin...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 21:45

... www.dk -english. com Page 19 Dorking School of English, Bangkok Thailand Death of a thousand cuts If something is suffering the death of a thousand cuts, or death by a thousand cuts, lots of small ... Full of beans If someone's full of beans, they are very energetic Full of hot air Someone who is full of hot air talks a lot of rubbish Full of piss and vinegar Someone who's full of piss and ... arts and literature, and often a writer too Man of means A man, or woman, of means is wealthy Man of parts A man of parts is a person who is talented in a number of different areas or ways Man of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 09:21

... connotations of colours in English and Vietnamese vii The aims of this study are: • To focus on denotations and connotations of colours across cultures • To contrast denotations and connotations of colours ... of colours in English and Vietnamese • To raise learners’ awareness of cross-cultural differences in the denotative and connotative meanings of some basic colours in Vietnamese and English For ... denotation and a connotation? - How denotations and connotations of colours vary across cultures Chapter II describes meanings of colours in English and Vietnamese It covers meanings, culture of colours,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 14:39

... ratio ˜ Uw of the actual number of users of word w (Uw ) over ˜ the expected number of users of w (Uw ), and DT = Tw ˜ is calculated analogously fo the actual/expected Tw ˜ ˜ number of threads ... in one of the German and English CELEX wordlists are automatically classified as such This improved classifier results over tokens and types, as seen in Table in the comparison of token and type ... and frequency change in MZEE between t and year u = t + i Initial frequency and dissemination in MZEE In studying the fate of all words in two English Usenet corpora, Altmann, Pierrehumbert and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20

... those of English intonation that follow In Part III, an overview of the tones and intonation of the English language is presented In Part IV, some aspects of intonation which are different in English ... comparison of the intonation of Vietnamese with that of English, an EFL instructor can anticipate potential problems for Vietnamese learners of English while learning this aspect of pronunciation ... L.T.K Nhung / VNU Journal of Science, Foreign Languages 26 (2010) 171-172 The English word structure and the English intonation 3.2.1 English tones Crystal (1969) and Ladefoged (1982) [9] identify...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... adjective functioning as premodifier of noun phrases and complement in sentences and denotes the property of showing glee, delight and excitement, often because of someone else’s foolishness or failure ... related to three idioms in terms of both form and meaning ‘Somebody’s pride and joy’ as a literal idiom denotes a person or thing of which somebody is proud ‘Full of joys of the spring’ functioning ... head of adjectival phrases, pre-modifier of noun phrases and complement Morphologically, it has two morphemes: the root elate (v) and suffix-ed It has no inflected forms for comparative and superlative...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... regulation of a number of genes [7–10] Study of SmRXR partners will add to our knowledge of nuclear receptor gene regulation in schistosomes and to an understanding of the evolution of RXR’s function ... Further studies of SmNR1 will help us to understand the mechanism of RXR ⁄ NR signal pathway in invertebrates and its evolutionary role A yeast one-hybrid assay was employed and a ligandindependent ... binding of SmNR1(Ile247-Ser372) and SmRXR1(Glu251-Asn376) in vitro DNA binding of a protein containing 20 amino acids at the 5¢ end of the DBD, the DBD and the 40 amino acids at the 3¢ end of the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... candidate parse is the only correct parse, because it has all of the bracket labels and parts -of- speech of the treebank parse The second candidate parse is incorrect, since two of its part -of- speech ... whose range of values is - 99, with a median of and an average of 18 Three of these features are listed below, with the function of each: where (V2 = dig [h) & (V3 # ~) imposes agreement of the children ... notions of consistency: structureconsistent and label-consistent The span of a consitituent is the string of words which it dominates, denoted by a pair of indices (i, j) where i is the index of the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20