A series that prepares students for secondary school-leaving exams.

The completely new editions of English File 1 and 2, based on the principles that have made English File so popular. Key features: 100% new lessons that work, that are fun, and that get students talking. An expanded Vocabulary Bank. A new Grammar Bank section with rules and exercises. Practical English lessons, a focus on functional language supported by the New English File Study Link Videos. The same unequalled level of teacher support. More photocopiable materials for teachers, with an extra grammar and communicative activity for every lesson.

The Pre-intermediate coursebook that gets students talking, and that helps teachers and students more than any other. Key features English File gets students talking — fun, motivating lessons that really work. English File helps teachers — the best Teacher's Book there is, full of extra ideas and photocopiables, and a great teacher's website. English File helps students — a full student package including Workbook, MultiROM, and website, all working together and cross-referenced by Study Link.

With each page focusing on one verb, this title offers graphs, diagrams, and illustrations to help learners understand and remember. It includes review pages to consolidate learning, and an answer key for reference. Designed for self-study, it can also be used in the classroom, and is useful in preparing for BEC and other Business English exams.

It's time for lots of noisy fun! Flip flop, flip flap, clickety-clickety clackety clack! Slurp some spaghetti, crash and bang, hear the trees go ping and the mice go clang! This is a perfect first collection of noisy poems for sharing aloud, delightfully illustrated by award-winning artist Nick Sharratt.

This is a delightful first poetry book in a picture book format, illustrated in colour throughout by award-winning artist Nick Sharratt. The poems are just right for this age bracket with themes such as wishing for snow, putting up decorations, peeking at your Christmas stocking, delivering presents by rocket ship and of course baby Jesus. Poets include Tony Mitton, Julia Donaldson, Hiawyn Oram, and Judith Nicholls.

Previously published as At Home with Shape & Size, this title has been fully revised and updated to ensure it is in line with current National Curriculum requirements. The design has also been changed to make the activities clearer and easier to follow. Covers matching shapes, sets of shapes, 2D shapes, same/different in shapes, sets and patterns, completing pattern, repeating pattern and symmetry, same/different sizes, comparative sizes, positional words, 3D shapes.

ProFile teaches students about business and the language of business simultaneously. Overview: This three-level, topic-based course takes students progressively through the main themes of business. It has a carefully graded language syllabus, systematic practice of all four skills, integrated case-studies, and authentic video interviews on CD-ROM. How can it be used? As a stand-alone Business English course. As the core Business English element in a wider-ranging language training programme. Who is it for? Students who need to use their English to communicate at work. Students who want to build their knowledge of business as they improve their English. Students who need to develop their communication skills for future career development. Key features: Clear introduction to business for teachers and students. Global content and authentic sources. Integrated video CD-ROM with Student' s Book. Progressive language syllabus. Fluency-driven case-studies (levels 2 and 3). Complete commercial writing syllabus.

Children are fascinated by traditions in different cultures and religions and this anthology celebrates the diversity of festivals around the world. Taking the reader through the year, there are poems about the lion dance in Singapore, the fishing festival in Nigeria, the doll festival in Japan and many more, as well as celebrations much loved in the UK. Useful footnotes give extra details about the festivals, making them really come to life. Poets include John Agard, Judith Nicholls, Wes Magee and Jack Prelutsky, and the collection is fully illustrated in colour and black and white.

Presents a text that encourages very young children to walk and talk like the animals — including waddling like a penguin, stomping like a rhino, and jumping and wiggling to the monkey bop. On the accompanying CD, it is narrated over a calypso melody and punctuated with boisterous animal noises.

Presents a funny text that encourages very young children to walk and talk like the animals — including waddling like a penguin, stomping like a rhino and jiving and jiggling and jumping and wiggling to the monkey bop. It is entertaining with of scope for interaction and play.

Why do we measure time in the way that we do? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? This book explores time measurement and the organisation of time into hours, days, months and years using a range of examples, from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's Leap Year, to the 1920s' project for a fixed Easter.

Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', has now become a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates our identity? Do we really have free will? Could consciousness itself be an illusion? Exciting new developments in brain science are opening up debates on these issues, and the field has now expanded to include biologists, neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers. This controversial book clarifies the potentially confusing arguments, and the major theories using illustrations, lively cartoons, and experiments. Topics include vision and attention, theories of self and will, experiments on action and awareness, altered states of consciousness, and the effects of brain damage and drugs.

As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' art by asking such questions as: What has made a work of art qualify as modern (or fail to)? How has this selection been made? What is the relationship between modern and contemporary art? Is 'postmodernist' art no longer modern, or just no longer modernist — in either case, why, and what does this claim mean, both for art and the idea of 'the modern'? Cottington examines many key aspects of this subject, including the issue of controversy in modern art, from Manet's Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (1863) to Picasso's Les Demoiselles, and Tracey Emin's Bed, (1999); and the role of the dealer from the main Cubist art dealer Kahnweiler to Charles Saatchi.

ARRROOO! Poor Little Lost Cowboy. He's strayed away from his mummy, and cannot find her anywhere. As he searches for her he bumps into a cactus, bumps his bottom, and finally bumps himself into a hole. Ouch! At last he meets a kindly toad who gives him some very sound advice — stay put, and your mummy will find you. Caroline has a strong sales track record: her previous book for OUP, Hungry Hen has sold over 30,000 copies worldwide. Simon Puttock is an increasingly high profile author and publishes with Macmillan and Egmont — this is his first book for OUP.

Over 600 concise articles, arranged in alphabetical order, which explain and illustrate points of grammar, usage, vocabulary, idiom, style, and pronunciation. For this new edition, the whole book has been thoroughly revised and, in places, reorganized and rewritten.

Read at Home is a new series designed for young, beginner readers. It features all the popular Oxford Reading Tree characters in 12 exciting stories specially written for parents to support their children's reading at home. These entertaining stories, with real life and fantasy adventures, are carefully graded across 4 levels, and contain built-in progression and vocabulary repetition throughout. The Handbook gives practical advice on the stages children go through in Learning to Read. It explains the 5 early stages of reading development from listening to stories, to Getting Ready to Read (level 1), Starting to Read (level 2), Becoming a Reader (level 3), Building Confidence in Reading (level 4) to Reading with Confidence. At every step there are suggestions on how to support the child's reading and lots of easy games and activities that provide valuable reinforcement. This will give parents real confidence in supporting their child's reading in an enjoyable way. In addition there are questions parents often ask, a section on home/school links — invaluable for parents when a child starts school, and a full list of the 100 Common Words repeated and highlighted in the books. There are also website details and addresses for key literacy organizations in the UK.

On a restaurant on a boat, in faraway Hong Kong, lives a little mouse. This enchanting story tells of his adventures when, one New Year's night, he magics a carved wooden dragon into life and together they fly through midnight skies, over lands you and I only dream of...

The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Middle Ages. Yet Vikings were also traders, settlers, and farmers, with a complex artistic and linguistic culture, whose expansion overseas led them to cross the Atlantic for the first time in European history. Highlighting the latest archaeological evidence, Julian Richards reveals the whole Viking world: their history, society and culture, and their expansion overseas for trade, colonization, and plunder. We also look at the Viking identity, through their artistic expression, rune stones, their ships, and their religion. The Viking story is also brought up to date, by examining their legacy from the medieval Icelandic sagas to 19th Century nationalism, Wagner, and the Nazis.

Dodder, Baldmoney, Cloudberry, and Sneezewort are the last four gnomes in Britain and were first introduced to us in the Carnegie Medal-winning book, The Little Grey Men. In this charming book their story continues and we find them tucked up in their cosy home, next to the Folly, for winter. But when they're awakened from their sleep with the terrible news that the Folly is drying up, they must pack up their belongings and head off in their boat, the Jeanie Deans, to find a new home where they can be safe once again. Along the way they face many dangers and their journey is sometimes perilous and packed with adventure.