Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society develops students listening and note taking skills using authentic interviews and classroom lectures. The Student's Book develops students' listening and note-taking skills using a variety of recorded materials. It introduces them to stimulating topics within the field of sociology, including high-interest topics such as peer pressure, gender roles, and the influence of the media. Listening materials include a variety fo warm-up activities, informal interviews, and a formal academic lecture for every chapter. Students practice crucial listening skills, such as listening for main ideas, listening for examples, and listening for organizational phrases. The materials also serve as stimuli for discussion and note-taking activities. Pre-listening tasks expose students to vocabulary they will encounter in the interviews and lectures, and help them build background knowledge of the topic. Topics correspond with those in Academic Encounters: Life in Society, and these books can be used together as a four skills course; however, they function equally well as stand-alone texts. An audio CD of the academic lectures, an important part of the audio program, is included with the Student's Book to provide students with additional listening practice.

Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society develops students listening and note taking skills using authentic interviews and classroom lectures. The Teacher's Manual provides teaching suggestions for the tasks in the Student's Book, as well as an answer key. It also contains a complete listening script, and a photocopiable quiz with answer key for each lecture

A renewed interest in grammar, from pedagogical and research perspectives, has created the need for new approaches to assessing the grammatical ability of language learners. This book presents a comprehensive framework of second language grammatical knowledge and uses this as a base to help readers create their own assessment tools to test students' grammar.

Speaking is a central yet complex area of language acquisition. The assessment of this crucial skill is equally complex. This book takes teachers and language testers through the research on the assessment of speaking as well as through current tests of speaking. The book then guides language testers through the stages of test tasks, rating practices and design.

Business Goals is a three-level course in communicative Business English. Each Student? s Book provides 30 core hours of class work extendable to over 60 hours using the additional material provided. Functional language, vocabulary and grammar are introduced in manageable amounts. With a focus on listening and speaking, learners are given the opportunity to build their confidence in areas such as telephoning, ordering, networking and dealing with problems in authentic business contexts. The Business Goals Workbooks provide extra practice in all four skills and are also valuable for students preparing for the BEC examinations, with BEC-style activities and exam advice. Each Workbook comes with an audio CD and contains full transcripts of all recordings. Model answers for speaking tasks are included on the CD.

Business Goals is a three-level course in communicative Business English. Each Student? s Book provides 30 core hours of class work extendable to over 60 hours using the additional material provided. Functional language, vocabulary and grammar are introduced in manageable amounts. With a focus on listening and speaking, learners are given the opportunity to build their confidence in areas such as telephoning, ordering, networking and dealing with problems in authentic business contexts. The Business Goals Workbooks provide extra practice in all four skills and are also valuable for students preparing for the BEC examinations, with BEC-style activities and exam advice. Each Workbook comes with an audio CD and contains full transcripts of all recordings. Model answers for speaking tasks are included on the CD.

This is a self-study reference and practice book for upper intermediate and advanced learners of English who need vocabulary for business and professional purposes. Business Vocabulary in Use Advanced is a new self-study reference and practice book for advanced learners of English who need vocabulary for business and professional purposes. The book has been carefully researched using the Cambridge International Corpus to ensure that the 2,000 new words and expressions represent the English that native speakers actually use. The book consists of 50 units and follows the highly successful format of the English Vocabulary in use range with presenationa maerial on the lfeft-hand page and practice exercises on the right hand page. The book covers a wide variety of up-to-date business topics and concepts.

Cambridge BEC 2 contains four complete practice tests for each of the Cambridge BEC examinations from University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (Cambridge ESOL): BEC Preliminary, BEC Vantage and BEC Higher These past examination papers provide the most authentic exam preparation available. They allow candidates to familiarise themselves with the content and format of the examination and to practise useful examination techniques. This Student's Book also contains a comprehensive section of keys and transcripts, making it suitable for self study. The Self-study Pack contains the Student's Book with answers and Audio CD.

Cambridge BEC 2 contains four complete practice tests for each of the Cambridge BEC examinations from University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (Cambridge ESOL): BEC Preliminary, BEC Vantage and BEC Higher These past examination papers provide the most authentic exam preparation available. They allow candidates to familiarise themselves with the content and format of the examination and to practise useful examination techniques. This Student's Book also contains a comprehensive section of keys and transcripts, making it suitable for self study. The Self-study Pack contains the Student's Book with answers and Audio CD.

Cambridge BEC 2 contains four complete practice tests for each of the Cambridge BEC examinations from University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (Cambridge ESOL): BEC Preliminary, BEC Vantage and BEC Higher These past examination papers provide the most authentic exam preparation available. They allow candidates to familiarise themselves with the content and format of the examination and to practise useful examination techniques. This Student's Book also contains a comprehensive section of keys and transcripts, making it suitable for self study. The Self-study Pack contains the Student's Book with answers and Audio CD.

Cambridge BEC 2 contains four complete practice tests for each of the Cambridge BEC examinations from University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (Cambridge ESOL): BEC Preliminary, BEC Vantage and BEC Higher These past examination papers provide the most authentic exam preparation available. They allow candidates to familiarise themselves with the content and format of the examination and to practise useful examination techniques. This Student's Book also contains a comprehensive section of keys and transcripts, making it suitable for self study. The Self-study Pack contains the Student's Book with answers and Audio CD.

Containing four complete past papers for the Proficiency examination, this title provides the most authentic exam preparation available. The 'with answers' editions contain keys and tapescripts making it suitable for self-study. It is also available packaged together with two audio CDs in a self-study pack.

Containing four complete past papers for the Proficiency examination, this title provides the most authentic exam preparation available. The 'with answers' editions contain keys and tapescripts making it suitable for self-study. It is also available packaged together with two audio CDs in a self-study pack.

The Cambridge Guide to English Usage is an A-Z reference book, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style. Its advice draws on a wealth of recent research and data from very large corpora of American and British English — illuminating their many divergences and also points of convergence on which international English can be based. The book comprises more than 4000 points of word meaning, spelling, grammar and punctuation, and larger issues of inclusive language, and effective writing and argument. It also provides guidance on grammatical terminology, and covers topics in electronic communication and the internet. The discussion notes the major dictionaries, grammars and usage books in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia, allowing readers to calibrate their own practices as required. CGEU is descriptive rather than prescriptive, but offers a principled basis for implementing progressive or more conservative decisions on usage. • The book is based on extensive, up-to-date corpus data rather than on the author’s personal intuition or prejudice • It is truly international in scope, differentiating clearly between US, UK, Canadian and Australian usages and referring to other regional varieties as required • It is clearly and accessibly written, for easy use by anybody concerned with accurate communication in English, whether as a student, a writer, or in other business and professional spheres

Cambridge KET 2 contains four complete papers for the Cambridge Key English Test from University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations. These past examination papers provide the most authentic exam preparation available. They allow candidates to familiarise themselves with the content and format of the examination and to practise useful examination techniques. These papers follow the March 2004 revised exam specifications. The Student's Book with Answers also contains a comprehensive section of keys and recording scripts, making it suitable for self-study. The Self-study Pack also contains the Student's Book with Answers and the Audio CD.

Cambridge KET 3 contains four complete papers for the Cambridge Key English Test from University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations. These past examination papers provide the most authentic exam preparation available. They allow candidates to familiarise themselves with the content and format of the examination and to practise useful examination techniques. These papers follow the March 2004 revised exam specifications. The Student's Book with Answers also contains a comprehensive section of keys and recording scripts, making it suitable for self-study. The Self-study Pack also contains the Student's Book with Answers and the Audio CD.

This series of delightful storybooks is an extremely flexible resource designed to help teachers engage and motivate young learners in the classroom. They are an ideal way to support children in the early stages of learning English. Teacher's Books and Audio Cassettes/CDs make Cambridge Storybooks very easy to use. The Teacher's Books cover the entire level and include step-by-step teaching notes with ideas for classes of different ability, photocopiable worksheets, and 'If you have time' sections suggesting original ideas for games and activities. The Audio Cassettes/CDs feature all the titles in each level read aloud, exposing children to different voices while they have fun listening to the dramatisations. At levels 3 and 4 selected titles are designed to be read as a play. Children love acting out the stories with each other as their confidence in English grows.

This series of delightful storybooks is an extremely flexible resource designed to help teachers engage and motivate young learners in the classroom. They are an ideal way to support children in the early stages of learning English. Teacher's Books and Audio Cassettes/CDs make Cambridge Storybooks very easy to use. The Teacher's Books cover the entire level and include step-by-step teaching notes with ideas for classes of different ability, photocopiable worksheets, and 'If you have time' sections suggesting original ideas for games and activities. The Audio Cassettes/CDs feature all the titles in each level read aloud, exposing children to different voices while they have fun listening to the dramatisations. At levels 3 and 4 selected titles are designed to be read as a play. Children love acting out the stories with each other as their confidence in English grows.

This series of delightful storybooks is an extremely flexible resource designed to help teachers engage and motivate young learners in the classroom. They are an ideal way to support children in the early stages of learning English. Teacher's Books and Audio Cassettes/CDs make Cambridge Storybooks very easy to use. The Teacher's Books cover the entire level and include step-by-step teaching notes with ideas for classes of different ability, photocopiable worksheets, and 'If you have time' sections suggesting original ideas for games and activities. The Audio Cassettes/CDs feature all the titles in each level read aloud, exposing children to different voices while they have fun listening to the dramatisations. At levels 3 and 4 selected titles are designed to be read as a play. Children love acting out the stories with each other as their confidence in English grows.

This series of delightful storybooks is an extremely flexible resource designed to help teachers engage and motivate young learners in the classroom. They are an ideal way to support children in the early stages of learning English. Teacher's Books and Audio Cassettes/CDs make Cambridge Storybooks very easy to use. The Teacher's Books cover the entire level and include step-by-step teaching notes with ideas for classes of different ability, photocopiable worksheets, and 'If you have time' sections suggesting original ideas for games and activities. The Audio Cassettes/CDs feature all the titles in each level read aloud, exposing children to different voices while they have fun listening to the dramatisations. At levels 3 and 4 selected titles are designed to be read as a play. Children love acting out the stories with each other as their confidence in English grows.