Business Benchmark Second edition is the official Cambridge English preparation course for Cambridge English: Business Preliminary, Vantage and Higher (also known as BEC), and BULATS. A pacy, topic-based course with comprehensive coverage of language and skills for business, it motivates and engages both professionals and students preparing for working life. The Business Preliminary Student's Book contains authentic listening and reading materials, including interviews with business people, providing models for up to date business language. Grammar and vocabulary exercises train students to avoid common mistakes, identified using Cambridge's unique collection of real exam candidates' answers. 'Grammar workshops' practise grammar in relevant business contexts. A BULATS version of this Student's Book is also available.

Business Benchmark Second edition is the official Cambridge English preparation course for Cambridge English: Business Preliminary, Vantage and Higher (also known as BEC), and BULATS. The Personal Study Book is intended as reinforcement of the material studied in the Business Benchmark Student's Book. It contains extra vocabulary, grammar and writing skills activities, based on the Student's Book units and a full answer key to all its exercises. This pocket-sized book is compatible with either the BULATS or Business Vantage version of the course.

Compact First for Schools is a focused, 50 — 60 hour course for Cambridge English: First for Schools, also known as First Certificate in English (FCE). The Student's Book features eight topic-based units of exam preparation to maximise the performance of school-age learners. Units are divided in the order of the exam with pages on Reading, Writing, Use of English, Listening and Speaking. A Grammar reference covers key areas in the syllabus, and unit-based wordlists include target vocabulary with definitions. The Student's Book also features a revision section and full practice test. The accompanying CD-ROM provides interactive grammar, vocabulary and exam skills tasks including listening. Course users also have exclusive access to a further practice test with audio via a URL in the Student's Book.

Compact First for Schools is a focused, 50 — 60 hour course for Cambridge English: First for Schools, also known as First Certificate in English (FCE). The Student's Book features eight topic-based units to maximise the exam performance of school-age learners. The CD-ROM provides interactive grammar, vocabulary and exam skills tasks including listening and the Workbook provides further practice of language and vocabulary.

Compact First for Schools is a focused, 50 — 60 hour course for Cambridge English: First for Schools, also known as First Certificate in English (FCE). The Workbook provides further practice of language and vocabulary introduced in the Student's Book, where topics and exam tasks follow those in the Student's Book. It also features an eight-page section focusing on the consolidation and extension of writing skills for paper 2. The accompanying Audio CD contains extra listening material for practice at home including exam-style listening tasks.

Complete Key for Schools is official preparation for the Cambridge English: Key (KET) for Schools exam. It combines the very best in contemporary classroom practice with engaging topics aimed at younger students. The information, practice and advice contained in the course ensure that they are fully prepared for all parts of the test, with strategies and skills to maximise their score. Informed by Cambridge's unique searchable database of real exam candidates' answers, the Cambridge English Corpus, Complete Key for Schools includes examples and exercises which tackle common problem areas at this level. The CD-ROM contains grammar and vocabulary exercises for motivating, flexible study.

Complete Key for Schools is official preparation for the Cambridge English: Key (KET) for Schools exam. It combines the very best in contemporary classroom practice with engaging topics aimed at younger students. The information, practice and advice contained in the course ensure that they are fully prepared for all parts of the test, with strategies and skills to maximise their score. Informed by Cambridge's unique searchable database of real exam candidates' answers, the Cambridge English Corpus, Complete Key for Schools includes examples and exercises which tackle common problem areas at this level. The CD-ROM contains grammar and vocabulary exercises for motivating, flexible study.

Complete Key for Schools is official preparation for the Cambridge English: Key (KET) for Schools exam. It combines the best in contemporary classroom practice with engaging topics aimed at younger students. The information, practice and advice contained in the course ensure that they are fully prepared for all parts of the test, with strategies and skills to maximise their score. Informed by Cambridge's unique searchable database of real exam candidates' answers, the Cambridge English Corpus, Complete Key for Schools includes examples and exercises which tackle common problem areas at this level. This Student's Pack includes the Student's Book without answers with CD-ROM and Workbook without answers. The Audio CD contains the Audio for the Workbook exercises.

Complete Key for Schools is official preparation for the Cambridge English: Key (KET) for Schools exam. It combines the very best in contemporary classroom practice with engaging topics aimed at younger students. The information, practice and advice contained in the course ensure that they are fully prepared for all parts of the test, with strategies and skills to maximise their score. This Workbook without answers includes 14 topic-based units for homework which cover reading, writing and listening skills. It provides further practice in the grammar and vocabulary taught in the Student's Book. The Audio CD contains all the listening material for the Workbook.

Complete Key for Schools is official preparation for the Cambridge English: Key (KET) for Schools exam. It combines the very best in contemporary classroom practice with engaging topics aimed at younger students. The information, practice and advice contained in the course ensure that they are fully prepared for all parts of the test, with strategies and skills to maximise their score. This Workbook without answers includes 14 topic-based units for homework which cover reading, writing and listening skills. It provides further practice in the grammar and vocabulary taught in the Student's Book. The Audio CD contains all the listening material for the Workbook.

Objective Proficiency Second edition provides official preparation for the revised 2013 Cambridge English: Proficiency exam, also known as Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE). A variety of challenging, lively topics provide thorough training in exam skills and high-level language development. Each unit contains three double-page lessons ensuring flexibility, even pacing and progress. Interactive software, downloadable from a URL contained in the Student's Book, provides activities for practice of exam skills, grammar and vocabulary. Exercises and examples tackle areas that Proficiency students often find challenging, identified using Cambridge's unique collection of real exam candidates' answers, the Cambridge English Corpus.

Objective Proficiency Second edition provides official preparation for the revised 2013 Cambridge English: Proficiency exam, also known as Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE). A variety of challenging, lively topics provide thorough training in exam skills and high-level language development. Each unit contains three double-page lessons ensuring flexibility, even pacing and progress. Interactive software, downloadable from a URL contained in the Student's Book, provides activities for practice of exam skills, grammar and vocabulary. Exercises and examples tackle areas that Proficiency students often find challenging, identified using Cambridge's unique collection of real exam candidates' answers, the Cambridge English Corpus.

Business Benchmark Second edition is the official Cambridge English preparation course for Cambridge English: Business Preliminary, Vantage and Higher (also known as BEC), and BULATS. This Teacher's Resource Book includes a wide range of supplementary photocopiable material with answers, including complete extra lessons and case studies. It provides information about how the activities in each unit relate to the Business Preliminary exam and BULATS test. There are notes on each unit with advice and suggestions for alternative treatments and information about how this course corresponds to the CEF, with a checklist of 'can do' statements. A complete answer key to both the Business Preliminary and BULATS versions of the Student's Book is provided as well as complete transcripts of the listening material with answers underlined.

Business Benchmark Second edition is the official Cambridge English preparation course for Cambridge English: Business Preliminary, Vantage and Higher (also known as BEC), and BULATS. A pacy, topic-based course with comprehensive coverage of language and skills for business, it motivates and engages both professionals and students preparing for working life. The Business Vantage Student's Book contains authentic listening and reading materials, including interviews with business people, providing models for up to date business language. Grammar and vocabulary exercises train students to avoid common mistakes, identified using Cambridge's unique collection of real exam candidates' answers. 'Grammar workshops' practise grammar in relevant business contexts.

A resource book of supplementary materials for the teaching of grammar through songs. Singing Grammar is part of the Cambridge Copy Collection. It is a resource book of supplementary materials for the teaching of grammar through the medium of song. The Audio CD contains eighteen songs, each with a specific grammar focus, and is suitable for students from elementary to intermediate level. For each of the songs there is a clear page of teaching notes followed by a motivating song worksheet, a grammar exercise page and a fun grammar game for classroom use. The material is especially suitable for younger learners but could also be used successfully with adults.

Новый ускоренный курс для подготовки к ЕГЭ состоит из пяти глав: Listening, Reading, Grammar and Vocabulary, Writing, Speaking. Каждая глава имеет два раздела: один формирует необходимые умения и навыки, второй их отрабатывает и закрепляет. Многие упражнения направлены на преодоление типичных ошибок русскоязычных учащихся, выявленных в помощью Кембриджского учебного корпуса. Пособие содержит два полных типовых КИМа: Diagnostic Test и Exam Practice Paper, а также образцы устных и письменных ответов с разбором. Тексты к заданиям по аудированию находятся в бесплатном доступе онлайн. После введения устной части ЕГЭ материалы в формате экзамена будут также доступны онлайн.

For this updated edition, David Bevington has included in his introductory section a thorough consideration of recent critical and stage interpretations of Antony and Cleopatra, demonstrating how the theatrical design and imagination of this play make it one of Shakespeare's most remarkable tragedies. The edition is attentive throughout to the play as theatre: a detailed, illustrated account of the stage history is followed, in the commentary, by discussion of staging options offered by the text. The commentary is especially full and helpful, untangling many obscure words and phrases, illuminating sexual puns, and alerting the reader to Shakespeare's shaping of his source material in Plutarch's Lives. This is a scholarly edition, but its scholarship is not intrusive: it will also satisfy those approaching the play for the first time.

Troilus and Cressida, long considered one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays, is both difficult and fascinating. Largely neglected during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it has recently proved popular and rewarding on the stage as well as in the study. This edition questions certain received ideas about the play's text, especially the relationship between quarto and folio and offers several new readings of old problems. Dawson's textual choices are often surprising but at the same time carefully grounded. He views the play from a performance perspective — both in the commentary as well as in the detailed section on stage history in the introduction. The introduction also covers the cultural context in which the play was written, probes the controversy about its early performance and provides extensive analysis of character, language, genre and contemporary significance.

The Tempest is one of the most suggestive, yet most elusive of all Shakespeare's plays, and has provoked a wide range of critical interpretations. It is a magical romance, yet deeply and problematically embedded in seventeenth-century debates about authority and power. In this updated edition, David Lindley has thoroughly revised the introduction and reading list to take account of the latest directions in criticism and performance. Including a new section on casting in recent productions, Lindley's introduction explores the complex questions this raises about colonisation, racial and gender stereotypes, and the nature of the theatrical experience. Careful attention is also given to the play's dramatic form, stagecraft, and use of music and spectacle, to demonstrate its uniquely experimental nature.

How does writing relate to speech? What impact does it have on social organisation and development? How do unwritten languages differ from those that have a written form and tradition? This book is a general account of the place of writing in society. Drawing on contemporary and historical examples, from clay tablets to touchscreen displays, the book explores the functions of writing and written language, analysing its consequences for language, society, economy and politics. It examines the social causes of illiteracy, demonstrating that institutions of central importance to modern society are built upon writing and written texts, and are characterised by specific forms of communication. It explores the social dimensions of spelling and writing reform, as well as of digital literacy, a new mode of expression and communication posing novel challenges to the student of language in society.