A classroom-tested English course for adults and young adults, Inside Out has been designed to develop real-life communicative skills and powers of self-expression. Creative grammar work. Learners organise and develop their knowledge of grammar. Easy-to-use exercises put rules into practice — and are then recycled as speaking activities. All grammar work is backed up with clear summaries. Personalised speaking tasks. A series of challenging speaking tasks focuses on learners' own experiences and opinions. Choices within tasks encourage learners to take charge of interactions. Structured planning time is built into tasks, improving both fluency and accuracy. Contextualised lexis. Lexical items are seen in context, showing how words and phrases function and how they collocate with each other. Focus exercises highlight and recycle lexis to help learners build a bigger and better active vocabulary. Realistic listening and reading. A rich selection of accessible and entertaining texts: cartoons, postcards and letters, and extracts from newspapers, magazines and novels. Listenings include conversations, interviews and classic pop songs. Inside Out Pre-intermediate Student's Book provides over 90 hours' teaching material.

This popular Proficiency course has now been fully revised and updated to reflect the changes in the revised Cambridge Proficiency Examination. Key features: — Ten topic-based units with motivating and stimulating material to help students develop and practise the advanced language and skills required to pass the exam. — Help sections give advice on how to approach the exam, including speaking tips and answering multiple choice questions. — Extensive practice of summary and composition writing skills. — Focus on word building, vocabulary development and help with phrasal verbs. — Exam practice section in every to enable students to prepare throughly for the exam.

In People Like Us you'll meet people from different countries all over the world. But remember that your culture is not just your country. It's what you do and how old you are. It's where you live. It's the things you like doing and the things you don't like doing. It's the way you talk and your education. It's about your friends, your family and your own character. This is your cultural identity. People Like Us has three aims: • to help you find out about other cultures. • to help you find out more about your own culture. • to help you enjoy practicing your English. People Like Us, for adult and young adult learners of English, is an integrated skills course exploring cultural values and attitudes. Based on over twenty hours of recorded interviews, People Like Us allows you to sample the lifestyles, attitudes and opinions of eleven real people from around the world. As well as learning about other cultures, you will be invited to reflect on your own culture. In this way, People Like Us will help build your cross-cultural awareness.