Brian Leaf (2)
Autor de Defining Twilight: Vocabulary Workbook for Unlocking the SAT, ACT, GED, and SSAT (Defining Series)
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Sobre El Autor
Brian Leaf is certified by the New England Institute of Ayurvedic Medicine and holds licenses or certifications as a yoga teacher, massage therapist, energy worker, and holistic educator. He is the director of the New Leaf Learning Center, a holistic tutoring center in Massachusetts. He is the mostrar más author of numerous books including Name That Movie!, McGraw-Hill's Top 50 Skills for a Top Score, Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi: My Humble Quest to Heal My Colitis, Calm My ADD, and Find the Key to Happiness, and Misadventures of a Parenting Yogi: Cloth Diapers, Cosleeping, and My (Sometimes Successful) Quest for Conscious Parenting. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Brian Leaf
Defining Twilight: Vocabulary Workbook for Unlocking the SAT, ACT, GED, and SSAT (Defining Series) (2009) 35 copias
Name That Movie! A Painless Vocabulary Builder: Romantic Comedy and Drama Edition: Watch Movies and Ace the SAT, ACT,… (2010) 12 copias
Defining New Moon: Vocabulary Workbook for Unlocking the SAT, ACT, GED, and SSAT (Defining Series) (2009) 9 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Leaf, Brian
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Miembros
- 78
- Popularidad
- #229,022
- Valoración
- 3.4
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 35
This book has really accessible exercises because it uses a topic that many students already are familure with and enjoy, and because it gives thorough explanations of each question. I would teach this book alongside Twilight, or suggest it to students who are anxious about how they will perform on the ACT, or similar standardized tests.
Example Question:
page 24
5. Wind is to tousle as
A. brick is to construct
B. storm is to tempest
C. judge is to condemn
D. vampire is to play baseball
E. frog is to avert
page 25 (solution)
5.C. "Wind might tousle (someone's hair)."
A. Brick might construct...not bad, but a brick is used to construct, it does not do it.
B. Storm might tempest...no, tempest is a big storm.
C. Judge might condemn...yes, a judge might reprimand.
D. A vampire might play baseball...they do like baseball and they might play, but this answer is not as definite as choice C.
E. A frog might avert...now that's just crazy.… (más)