Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.Visit the Penguin Readers websiteExclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys. Taylor Swift started singing and writing songs at a very young age. Now she is a very famous singer - and lots more! How did she get there? This book tells the story of her life.
Interactive is an exciting four-level course for teenage learners from elementary to upper-intermediate levels (CEF A2-B2). The Level 3 Student's Book will get and keep your students talking, using real, contemporary English. 'Interaction' sections give learners the confidence to use English in real-life situations and a fold-out classroom language reference on the cover provides students with the phrases they need for speaking activities. 'Skills4Real' sections, 'Culture UK' noticeboards and 'Culture World' magazines practise skills using authentic reading material, and unscripted listenings, with activities and projects to put this language into practice. Also included is a graphic novel which makes reading fun, and an access code for online Student's Zone games and activities.
* Over 50% new material * New DVD material with Film Bank on the Active Book disc * New Writing Bank which makes writing a fun and engaging activity * Pronunciation Bank gives students phonetic examples of unit vocabulary ActiveBook is the Students' book in digital format with integrated audio and video from the course * Easy navigation of the Students' Book pages with zoom facility * Video and audio available at the touch of a button
Vibrant, realistic illustrations and unparalleled teaching support make the Oxford Picture Dictionary Program what every classroom needs to build students' vocabulary, reading, and critical thinking skills.
Gold New Edition follows the same approach as previous editions but has been revised and updated following extensive research with users throughout the world. It helps teachers to deliver stimulating, discussion-rich lessons with lots of personalisation. There is a strong emphasis on communicative practice and the development of natural speaking skills to build student confidence.
MORE! Second edition is a four-level English course from recognised authors for lower secondary students. This new edition is bursting with added features and an even more user-friendly design to capture young teenagers' imagination and help improve their learning. The course encourages reading for pleasure with new adventure photostories and engaging texts. Both CLIL sections, now an integral part of each lesson, and mini-projects inspire teenagers' natural curiosity. In addition to dedicated grammar, vocabulary and skills sections, MORE! also helps improve your students' exam results with new exam skills sections and learning tips in the Workbook. Each level of MORE! offers 80-90 hours of teaching material and a rich choice of digital components for you and your students. Cyber Homework and web resources make homework and language practice enjoyable for students, while the Presentation Plus DVD-ROM, Testbuilder CD-ROM and DVD provide additional support with teaching and monitoring your students' progress.
*Where learning is an adventure! Welcome to Our Discovery Island, a six-level primary series that engages children in 21st century learning. Children uncover clues and solve mysteries as they learn English. * Whole learner: Adventures on themed islands develop cognitive, emotional, and social skills. * Authenticity: Children are safe, absorbed and happy playing and practising in the online world * Repetition: Songs, chants, and games reinforce essential vocabulary and grammar practice * Motivation: Stories, characters, and activities engage learners. Our Discovery Island is a groundbreaking new course that makes learning English an exciting and engaging experience. www.pearsonELT.com/ourdiscoveryisland
Oskar Shell is a clever nine-year-old boy. When his father is killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001, Oskar wants to learn the secret about a key that he discovers in his father's closet. His search takes him on a jour
Additional intensive practice for the exams. Two complete practice tests, one with tips and guidance for every task. Extensive support for productive tasks. Online answer keys, audio and speaking test videos with teacher's resources
Business Partner is an eight-level business English course that teaches real-world language and business skills. Authentic videos with expert commentary on key business topics. Innovative video-based communication skills training. Practical training in functional business skills. Financial Times content on a wide variety of topics. A flexible, modular approach to personalise what students learn. Multiple opportunities to work on realistic case studies.
Interactive is an exciting four-level course for teenage learners from elementary to upper-intermediate levels (CEF A2-B2). The Workbook provides additional practice in the language introduced in the Student's Book. Portfolio sections offer an alternative writing activity and there is one core listening text, plus additional listening practice for each unit. Vocabulary practice for every unit is extended further. 'Help yourself' boxes highlight key grammar points and offer extra language practice. A 24-page grammar section at the back of the Workbook offers a 'Grammar Reference' and 'Grammar Practice' linked to every unit of the Student's Book. The audio to accompany the Workbook is available from the course website: http://interactive.cambridge.org
This Level 7 pack contains 6 books, one of each of: The Portrait Problem, The Time Capsule, Detective Adventure, A Tall Tale, Holiday in Japan, Magic Tricks. Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop are an exciting new set of stories from Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta. Full of humour and drama with a delightful mixture of familiar settings and brand new magic key adventures to inspire young readers. Featuring all your favourite characters, children will enjoy exploring the detailed humorous illustrations and be captivated by the storylines. These phonics-based stories are perfect for embedding and building on children's phonics knowledge. They contain high-interest vocabulary to support language development beyond Phase 5 of Letters and Sounds. Each book contains inside cover notes to help adults read and explore the content with the child, supporting their decoding and language comprehension development. Teaching notes on Oxford Owl support independent reading, guided reading, writing, and speaking, listening and drama activities.
'American English Pronunciation: A Drillbook' is designed to accompany lecture courses on American English phonetics and language laboratory classes in American English pronunciation at university level. It is equally suitable as a self-instructional program for anyone wishing to improve their American English pronunciation. Part I (Pronunciation Practice) provides pronunciation exercises to be used in conjunction with additional audio material (available on request) or following the model of a native speaker. Part II (Transcription Practice) presents model texts for phonetic transcription. In both parts, orthographic text and phonetic script appear on facing pages. Several phonetic puzzles are also included.
The Workbook mirrors the Student's Book in its organisation, providing a wealth of extra grammar and vocabulary exercises and opportunities to practise reading, listening, speaking and writing. It also offers higher-level material in the form of Grammar challenge and Vocabulary extension exercises, particularly useful for mixed ability classes.
Even experienced ESL teachers get stuck in a rut. It's time to find some fresh ideas Whether you're a first-time ESL/EFL/TEFL teacher, an experienced but overwhelmed instructor, or an instructor without a textbook, you need more activities for y
Market Leader uses authoritative authentic content from the Financial Times to build the professional language and skills needed to communicate in the modern world of business. The third edition has been completely updated to reflect this fast-changing world.
Learn English through hands-on creative tasks, investigation, projects and experiments with English Code. Children develop a coding mindset, problem solving, and collaborative skills. These all feature in a syllabus that includes built-in STEAM (Sci
The books are graded at six vocabulary levels, ranging from 250 key words (Beginning) to 2,500 key words (Advanced.) OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY New Edition STAGE 1 BESTSELLER PACK (400 key words) contains one copy each of the following ten titles: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The Elephant Man A little Princess Love or Money? The Monkey'
Engage and motivate your pupils with these 30 fun plays and skits for children learning English & FREE Bonus. Would you love to have your English students begging for more? Do you want your young language learners to gain confidence speaking English and enjoy your lessons more? Now you can with this book of fun plays and skits. Using these plays will motivate your pupils, help them learn English and have them asking you for more. The recommended maximum number of pupils per group is 15, making these plays perfect for: 1-2-1 teachers small classes after-school groups English camps The language level is beginners to lower intermediate. The age range is 6 to 12 with many plays suitable for age 5 as well. What you will get from this book: 30 tried and tested fun skits for children A fun, effective way to teach and revise common vocabulary themes needed for the school curriculum Children love these skits so using them helps create a bond between teacher and student How to warm up your class to enjoy drama, even if you have no interest in acting How to adapt the skits to your exact requirements Great content for end of term shows, shows at school assembly or school open day
Language Hub to nowy sześciopoziomowy (A1–C1) i elastyczny kurs języka angielskiego dla dorosłych. Materiał został starannie przemyślany i dobrany pod względem stopnia trudności, tak aby rozwijać cztery podstawowe sprawności językowe, ze szczególnym naciskiem na skuteczną komunikację. W każdym rozdziale znajduje się duża ilość zadań rozwijających mówienie w pełni zintegrowanych z lekcjami gramatycznymi, leksykalnymi oraz poświęconymi słuchaniu i czytaniu. Zadania zawarte w podręczniku zwiększają motywację i pewność siebie studentów oraz dostarczają im wiele okazji do aktywnego ćwiczenia zdobytych umiejętności.Kurs wyróżnia bogata i nowoczesna obudowa, m.in. dostępne materiały wideo i cyfrowe. Lekcje oparte na bazie serii satyrycznych filmów Cafe Hub pomagają zaprezentować wykorzystanie poznanego języka funkcjonalnego w realistycznych i życiowych sytuacjach. Studenci mogą również pracować na autentycznych filmach poruszających ciekawe, współczesne tematy z takich źródeł jak np. „The Guardian”. Stworzone zostały także dedykowane aplikacje mobilne dla studentów i nauczycieli.Kurs Language Hub umożliwia lektorom łatwe przygotowanie interesujących i motywujących zajęć. Książka nauczyciela zawiera m.in. odpowiedzi do zadań, inspirujące wskazówki i pomysły na dodatkowe aktywności. Sekcje Methodology Hub to szczególnie przydatna pomoc zarówno dla początkujących, jak i doświadczonych nauczycieli języka obcego.
From the legend of King Arthur. As a boy, Arthur knows nothing about his real family. One day his foster father and brother attend a tournament, and his brother Kay sends Arthur to fetch his sword. Arthur sees a sword set in a stone. He doesn't know that only the true King of Britain can release it. The Usborne English Readers series is a new range of graded readers in simplified English for younger learners. They include activities, glossaries and a full audio recording of the text in both British English and American English.
Down by the river bank, where the wind whispers through the willow trees, is a very pleasant place to have a lunch party with a few friends. But life is not always so peaceful for the Mole and the Water Rat. There is the time, for example, when Toad gets interested in motor-cars - goes mad about them in fact ...The story of the adventures of Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad has been loved by young and old for over a hundred years.
The vocabulary skills you need for a high score on the TOEFL exam §For students whose first language is not English and who wish to study at a university with an English-based curriculum, no admittance test is more important than the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). 400 Must-Have Words for the TOEFL helps you score well by arming you with the most important English vocabulary words commonly found on this crucial exam. This new edition also includes the recent changes made to the test, especially the emphasis on "academic" and "campus" vocabulary in the reading/listening and speaking/listening sections.§Features:§Free Language Lab app with flashcard vocabulary quizzes§400 words in key categories, including food, computers, society, history, finance, politics, friendship, science, the arts, and more §150-plus skill-building activities and exercises, including paraphrasing, synonym and antonym matching, and prefix and suffix identification §Proven strategies for incorporating new words into everyday vocabulary §Complete review of synonyms, paraphrasing, roots, prefixes, suffixes, etc
The CELTA Course is the only CELTA preparation course endorsed by Cambridge ESOL. It provides full coverage of the CELTA syllabus in a ready-to-use course. The CELTA Course is divided into user-friendly sections: * Input sessions (40 units on 'The learners and their contexts', 'Classroom teaching', 'Language awareness', and 'Professional development') * Teaching practice * Classroom observation * Written assignments and tutorials * 'Resource file' The Trainee Book includes a range of material to be used in input sessions, helpful advice about the course, and a wealth of useful reference material. The Trainer's Manual includes suggestions on how to best use the material with trainees, as well as help and advice on how to prepare trainees for teaching practice, lesson observations, written assessment and tutorials.
Focussing on the most common errors in English, this book is the easiest way to improve your everyday language skills. Using simple explanations and corpus examples, it uses a thematic approach to steer learners away from the most common pitfalls in English. This invaluable guide is suitable for learners of English wishing to improve their accuracy and avoid the most basic mistakes. The book offers help with Spelling and Punctuation, and covers the major parts of speech in depth. It offers clear guidance on word choice and confusable words. A comprehensive exercise section also reinforces the key points for each thematic section. What's more, its clear, thematic layout makes information easy to find and understand. Suitable for learners of English with a pre-intermediate to intermediate level of English (A2-B2), but who want to improve their accuracy by overcoming the most common mistakes made by non-native speakers of English.
Classic / British English Gulliver travels across the sea from England and has an accident. He arrives in a country of very, very small people. What will they do with him? How will he talk to them? And why are the Big-enders fighting the Little-enders?
English Code to nowa 7-poziomowa propozycja dla młodych i kreatywnych adeptów języka angielskiego. Z pomocą kursu każde zajęcia stają się prawdziwą przygodą. Praktyczne zadania kreatywne, projekty, eksperymenty, sztuka dedukcji – wszystkie te elemen
The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was. John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it. They gave him the job because he couldn
Shirley Homes is a private investigator. She is clever with computers, and knows London like the back of her hand. She laughs when people say, 'Was Sherlock Holmes your grandfather?' Sherlock Holmes, of course, was not a real person, but, like Sherlock, Shirley has good eyes, and good ears. And she knows the right questions to ask. And in the Lithuanian Case, the right questions are important. Because Shirley must find a missing person - Carrie Williams, aged fifteen. Where is she? Who is she with?
Dragon Age: The Calling by David Gaider is another thrilling prequel to Dragon Age: Origins, the hit role-playing video game from award-winning developer BioWare After two hundred years of exile, King Maric has allowed the legendary
Can a single slime build the ideal society? Find the answer in this deluxe set of the hit isekai adventure manga, containing Vol. 7-11 in a premium box, plus an exclusive booklet or art and behind-the-scenes details! Mikami's middle age hasn't gone as he planned: He never found a girlfriend, he got stuck in a dead-end job, and he was abruptly stabbed to death in the street at 37. So when he wakes up in a new world straight out of a fantasy RPG, he's disappointed but not exactly surprised to find that he's facing down a dragon, not as a knight or a wizard but as a blind slime demon. But there are chances for even a slime to become a hero, and maybe even build a country where the rejects and outcasts can find a place to belong… This isekai sensation has an anime with new episodes on Funimation and Crunchyroll, and this box set matches the storyline of the anime, following part 2 of Season 1, so you can read along as you watch!
Ichigo Kurosaki never asked for the ability to see ghosts--he was born with the gift. When his family is attacked by a Hollow--a malevolent lost soul--Ichigo becomes a Soul Reaper, dedicating his life to protecting the innocent and helping the tortured spirits themselves find peace. Find out why Tite Kubo's Bleach has become an international manga smash-hit! Orihime has been kidnapped by the turncoat Soul Reaper Aizen and his terrifying Arrancar, and it's up to Ichigo, Chad and Uryu to rescue her. But the Arrancar world, Hueco Mundo, has many surprises in store for the heroes...not the least of which is how much it will change them!
Bilbo Baggins has taken his place among the ranks of the immortals of children's fiction. Written by Professor Tolkien for his own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when published. The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in search of dragon-guarded gold. A reluctant partner in this perilous quest is Bilbo Baggins, a comfort-loving unambitious hobbit, who surprises even himself by his resourcefulness and skill as a burglar. Encounters with trolls, goblins, dwarves, elves and giant spiders, conversations with the dragon, Smaug, and a rather unwilling presence at the Battle of Five Armies are just some of the adventures that befall Bilbo."Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug´s left eye. He was only pretending to be asleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance..."
Cook's Black Company series is a landmark of gritty psychological realism. This third omnibus collects the novels "Bleak Seasons" and "She Is the Darkness," the first two novels of the Glittering Stone sequence.
As the war between Pleminar and Skala continues, there are growing rumors that Skala's ancient ally, Mycena, is about to join with the wealthier Pleminar, cutting Skala off from all trade routes. Now Alec and Seregil are sent on their most daring mission yet: convince the people of Aurenen to join Skala and end the war.
FORTUNE BE WITH YOUA run-in with Yato the stray god has turned Hiyori Iki, an ordinary, pro-wrestling-loving middle school girl, into an existence that is neither human nor ayakashi! It’s up to Yato’s "divine intervention” to turn Hiyori back to normal, but can Hiyori rely on the spontaneous and wayward Yato to do his job properly? What’s more, the almighty warrior god Bishamonten has sworn revenge on Yato?!
In this mesmerizing follow-up to "Luck in the Shadows", Seregil and his companion, Alec, attempt to erase an ancient evil from their land. The danger unfolds as a raging battle results in the reincarnation of an old god bent on destruction. Now, an age-old prophecy points to Seregil's continued role in stopping this threat, even as it leads him on a deadly journey of terror and intrigue.
With their most treacherous mission yet behind them, heroes Seregil and Alec resume their double life as dissolute nobles and master spies, in this fourth Nightrunners book.But in a world of rivals and charmers, fate has a different plan.Original.
1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs's Mercy Thompson series has been hailed as &147;one of the best" ( Library Journal ). Now Mercy must deal with an unwanted guest&151;one that brings a danger unlike anything she's ever known.§§When her mate's ex-wife storms back into their lives, Mercy knows something isn't right. Christy has the furthest thing from good intentions&151;she wants Adam back, and she's willing to do whatever it takes to get him, including turning the pack against Mercy.§§Mercy isn't about to step down without a fight, but there's a more dangerous threat circling. As the bodies start piling up, she must put her personal troubles aside to face a creature with the power to tear her whole world apart.
A charming new series of supernatural high-school comedy, for fans of "Fairy Tale" and "Spirited Away". Yato is a homeless god who's set up a service to help those in need, as he tries to accrue worshippers.
Finally, the Osfjord clash between Major Tanya Degurechaff and Colonel Anson Sue reaches its climax! Who will emerge victorious?! As the former salaryman prepares to launch her decisive attack, an old enemy makes a shocking appearance on the battlefield...And that enemy is none other than...Being X?!
The Nightrunners are back in this gripping novel full of Lynn Flewelling's trademark action, intrigue, and richly imagined characters. More than the dissolute noblemen they appear to be, Alec and Seregil are skillful spies, dedicat
