Present Yourself is a presentation skills course for adult and young adult learners of English. The book takes a process-approach to giving presentations and offers students an opportunity to develop the life skill of talking about topics to an audience outside the language classroom. Present Yourself 1 Experiences is intended for low-intermediate students and focuses on giving presentations about everyday experiences. It can be used as a main text in a presentation skills course, in the context of a general conversation course, or as a component in speaking or integrated-skills classes.

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Original stories at seven levels from starter to advanced, written specially for learners of English. With gripping plots and a range of genres to satisfy every taste, Cambridge English Readers offer high-quality original fiction that students will love! Alex is a soldier with a peace-keeping force in a poor country torn apart by fighting. He doesn't speak the language and is not sure why he is there. On patrol he comes face to face with the reality of what arms sales mean and pays the ultimate price. Why?

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. It was just a normal Friday evening in Moreland Road. Jason was listening to his iPod and couldn't hear his mother shouting. Nina wasn't sure how to tell her husband about her news. Maggie smiled as she thought about her holiday romance in Chile. Sam looked worried — money trouble again. Then that evening something happened which changed all of their lives.

Kid's Box is a six-level course for young learners. Bursting with bright ideas to inspire both teachers and students, Kid's Box gives children a confident start to learning English. It also fully covers the syllabus for the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) tests. The Teacher's Book contains comprehensive notes, as well as extra activities and classroom ideas to inspire both teacher and students.

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. It was just a normal Friday evening in Moreland Road. Jason was listening to his iPod and couldn't hear his mother shouting. Nina wasn't sure how to tell her husband about her news. Maggie smiled as she thought about her holiday romance in Chile. Sam looked worried — money trouble again. Then that evening something happened which changed all of their lives.

Kid's Box is a six-level course for young learners.

Three complete papers for the Cambridge Young Learners English tests (Starters, Movers and Flyers). Cambridge Young Learners English Tests are designed to evaluate the English level of primary learners aged 7-12. They provide the first step towards the Cambridge ESOL main suite exams (e.g. KET, PET and FCE). The Answer Booklet contains the correct answers to the three complete tests provided in the Starters Student's Book. A CD with the audio for the Listening part of the test is also available.

A four-level skills series for adults and young adults Learners can develop the skills they need to use English confidently wherever they are — at home, at work, travelling, studying or just in social situations with English-speaking friends. This edition comes without answers.

Over the last two centuries, Ireland has produced some of the world's most outstanding and best-loved poets, from Thomas Moore to W. B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney. This introduction not only provides an essential overview of the history and development of poetry in Ireland, but also offers new approaches to aspects of the field. Justin Quinn argues that the language issues of Irish poetry have been misconceived and re-examines the divide between Gaelic and Anglophone poetry. Quinn suggests an alternative to both nationalist and revisionist interpretations and fundamentally challenges existing ideas of Irish poetry. This lucid book offers a rich contextual background against which to read the individual works, and pays close attention to the major poems and poets. Readers and students of Irish poetry will learn much from Quinn's sharp and critically acute account.

This book teaches the basics of academic essay writing to intermediate-level students. In Writers at Work: The Essay, students use the process approach to write different genres of essays common at the post-secondary level. Each chapter uses a five-step approach in which students brainstorm ideas, write a first draft, revise their work following peer feedback, and share their finished work.

A collection of photocopiable activities specially written for ESOL teachers, based on and clearly referenced to the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum. A collection of photocopiable activities specially written for ESOL teachers, based on and clearly referenced to the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum.Adapting traditional materials to make them relevant for your ESOL lessons takes precious time and considerable effort. ESOL Activities takes the hard work out of lesson preparation with a selection of activities based on, and clearly referenced to, the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum. Written by experienced ESOL teachers, each volume offers carefully selected skills activities ideal for students of general ESOL courses in the UK and Ireland, as well as learners preparing for the UK Skills for Life examinations, ESOL for Work examinations and government citizenship tests. Each of the activities is free-standing, and comprehensive teacher's notes give a clear indication of the preparation required, as well as suggestions for adapting the tasks for different learning abilities. There are also self-study exercises linked to every activity, which are perfect for use as ready-made homework tasks.This volume is suitable for Entry Level 1.

«Modern Russian history began with the «Great Reforms» of 1861-4 which emancipated the serfs and introduced public self-government to assist the state in managing rural administration and change. In this capacity, peasant and zemstvo self-government, established partly on the basis of Western administrative theory, was important to the solvency of the entire state, autocracy's political evolution, and the fate of the rural gentry, peasants, and townspeople. This book is the first full-scale account of the development of rural self-government from the «Great Reforms» to its bureaucratization in the counterreforms of 1889-90 and their implementation during the following decade. Drawing on a wide range of archival material in Moscow and Leningrad, Pearson pinpoints the concrete problems that Russian officials experienced in introducing rural self-government, and shows that the land captain and zemstvo counterreforms, like the earlier «Great Reforms», resulted from practical statist considerations.»

This book studies the important issue of the possibility of conceptual change--a possibility traditionally denied by logicians--from the perspective of philosophy of mathematics. The author also looks at aspects of language, and his conclusions have implications for a theory of concepts, truth and thought. The book will appeal to readers in the philosophy of mathematics, logic, and the philosophy of mind and language.

«The defining feature of relevant logic is that it forces the premises of an argument to be really used and thus become «relevant» in deriving its conclusion. This book introduces the reader to relevant logic and provides it with a philosophical interpretation. The logic is analyzed in the context of possible world semantics and situation semantics, which are then applied to provide an understanding of the various logical particles (especially implication and negation) and natural language conditionals. The book concludes by examining various applications of relevant logic.»

«When is it correct to say that a person's freedom is restricted? Kristján Kristjánsson offers a critical analysis of the main components of a theory of negative liberty: the nature of obstacles and constraints, the weight of obstacles, and the relation of freedom to power and autonomy. Through this discussion, which examines much of the contemporary work on political freedom, he develops his own theory of negative liberty, the so-called «responsibility view», which meets many of the goals of advocates of positive liberty while retaining its distinctive «negative» nature.»

The volume offers an explanatory account of the progress of academic language proficiency testing in the UK (and later Australia), from the British Council's English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB), through the revolutionary English Language Testing Service (ELTS) to the present solution of IELTS. The three stages of academic language testing in the UK over the last 50 years move from grammar through real life to features of language use. At the same time, comparison of predictive validities suggests that all three measures account for very similar shares of the variance (about 10%) and that therefore the choice of an academic language proficiency test is determined only in part by predictive validity: other factors such as test delivery, test renewal in response to fashion, research and impact on stakeholders, and assessment of all four language skills are also important.

A learner's dictionary that includes school curriculum vocabulary. This dictionary is perfect for students studying school subjects in English. All the words you need, from chemistry to geography, maths to economics, are explained in clear, simple language. Useful notes on grammar, collocation and common learner errors as well as thousands of example sentences help you understand and use words in a natural way. The dictionary has hundreds of useful illustrations, and a centre section to help with your studies. The unique study section focuses on useful study techniques and topics such as writing essays, using numbers and developing revision skills. Word Partner boxes show how words are used together, and Learner Error notes taken from the Cambridge Learner Corpus — based on real student errors from Cambridge ESOL papers — help you to avoid typical mistakes.

The Touchstone Video Resource Book contains photocopiable student worksheets and step-by-step teaching notes detailing how to use the worksheets and exploit the video in class. Quizzes are also included.

The Touchstone Video Resource Book contains photocopiable student worksheets and step-by-step teaching notes detailing how to use the worksheets and exploit the video in class. Quizzes are also included.

Easy and enjoyable to teach, Touchstone offers a fresh approach to the teaching and learning of English. The Touchstone Video Resource Book contains photocopiable student worksheets and step-by-step teaching notes detailing how to use the worksheets and exploit the video in class. Quizzes are also included.