A modern, speaking-centred general English course that helps students use language naturally. Students at Elementary level and above have gaps in their language knowledge and performance which inhibit their progress. The natural English syllabus is based on research into these language gaps and the course brings together current ideas in a stylish, principled, and easy-to-teach set of materials. — Natural English is a syllabus strand which enables students to integrate frequent, natural language into their language framework. — Students learn to use real language naturally, through thinking and rehearsal time, confidence-building practice, and task-centred speaking. — The listening syllabus teaches students how to listen. A slot-in listening booklet features the tapescripts plus decoding and pronunciation exercises. — Teacher's Book lesson plans, a product of the authors' teacher training expertise, talk teachers through the course materials. — Teacher's Book chapters cover teaching principles, techniques, and ideas, plus a selected bibliography. — Humour engages and motivates through cartoons, and the listening and reading material.

Oxford Team! is an exciting new three-level English course for younger students by Norman Whitney. Its key features are: • a lively cartoon adventure story at the beginning of each unit. • a clear and systematic introduction to English grammar. • careful attention to vocabulary development. • reading texts on a wide variety of up-to-date topics. • a thorough approach to writing, including model texts and plenty of preparation. • helpful practice in speaking and listening. • a song in every unit. • regular and thorough revision work. • optional projects and stories. Each level of Oxford Team! consists of: • Student's Book. • Workbook. • Teacher's Book (including tests). • Class cassettes.

Oxford Team! is an exciting new three-level English course for younger students by Norman Whitney. The key features of the Workbook are: • further practice of the communication points introduced in the Student's Book. • two pages of grammar practice in each unit. • further practice of the vocabulary presented in the Student's Book. • reading texts on a wide variety of up-to-date topics. • further practice in writing, including plenty of preparation. • Progress Check section at the end of every unit. • regular and thorough revision work after every four units, corresponding to the revision section in the Student's Book. • Wordlist with phonetic transcription to assist with pronunciation. Each level of Oxford Team! consists of: • Student's Book. • Workbook. • Teacher's Book (including tests). • Class cassettes.

- Pacesetter is a four-level course for teenagers with a communicative approach. New language is presented in contexts relevant to teenagers and in ways which actively involve students in the learning process. — Grammar is the starting point of the syllabus. The problem-solving approach to grammar helps students to work out for themselves the meaning and use of structures. Practice activities help students use the grammar in everyday situations. — Motivating topics draw on students' own experiences and develop their interest in the world around them. — Integrated skills work presents students with a variety of activities that develop their confidence and fluency in speaking, reading, writing and listening. The variety of texts, discussions and dialogues is supported by practical tasks that help students to use and understand the new language. — A systematic vocabulary syllabus combined with learning-to-learn skills encourage students to develop their own strategies for remembering new words. — A lively photo-story in the first two levels presents informal language and a cultural reference as it follows the everyday lives of a group of British teenagers. The two upper levels contain a series of free-standing short stories which develop extensive reading skills. — Practical 'Learn to learn' features help students to develop their study skills, record new vocabulary and organize their language learning. — You can start the course either with Pacesetter Starter, which is for beginners, or Pacesetter Elementary, which is suitable for those who have achieved a basic level of English. — A helpful review section at the end of each unit summarizes the main learning points and provides a reference for revision work. — Three consolidation units in each level revise key grammar points, vocabulary and dialogues through controlled and freer activities. The projects at the end of these units provide an opportunity for students to produce more substantial and personal pieces of work.

- Pacesetter is a four-level course for teenagers with a communicative approach. New language is presented in contexts relevant to teenagers and in ways which actively involve students in the learning process. — Grammar is the starting point of the syllabus. The problem-solving approach to grammar helps students to work out for themselves the meaning and use of structures. Practice activities help students use the grammar in everyday situations. — Motivating topics draw on students' own experiences and develop their interest in the world around them. — Integrated skills work presents students with a variety of activities that develop their confidence and fluency in speaking, reading, writing and listening. The variety of texts, discussions and dialogues is supported by practical tasks that help students to use and understand the new language. — A systematic vocabulary syllabus combined with learning-to-learn skills encourage students to develop their own strategies for remembering new words. — A lively photo-story in the first two levels presents informal language and a cultural reference as it follows the everyday lives of a group of British teenagers. The two upper levels contain a series of free-standing short stories which develop extensive reading skills. — Practical 'Learn to learn' features help students to develop their study skills, record new vocabulary and organize their language learning. — You can start the course either with Pacesetter Starter, which is for beginners, or Pacesetter Elementary, which is suitable for those who have achieved a basic level of English. — A helpful review section at the end of each unit summarizes the main learning points and provides a reference for revision work. — Three consolidation units in each level revise key grammar points, vocabulary and dialogues through controlled and freer activities. The projects at the end of these units provide an opportunity for students to produce more substantial and personal pieces of work.

A topic-based four-level primary course with an emphasis on developing reading and writing skills. — Characters such as Zabadoo the genie, Bob the fish, and the mad inventors, Gizmo and Hoot, present classroom language, help with reading in English, and practise grammar in a way that makes sense to children. — At the end of each unit, children work on a short project. — 'Time for Fun' revision sections remind children what they have learned and help them prepare for the tests. — In levels 1 and 2 life in Britain is presented through 'Will's website', so that learners can compare British life with their own country. — Each level includes a Christmas play, and a play based on a traditional tale — Little Red Riding Hood, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, and Rumpelstiltskin. — Zabadoo! Plus helps children adapt to the more formal approach of a secondary course.

- This series of three books provides practice tests for the revised Business English Certificate exams at Preliminary, Vantage and Higher levels. — The exams are available in 60 countries worldwide, and reflect the ALTE (Association of Language Testers in Europe) level system. They cover the four language skills of Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking, and with the revisions now incorporate certain features of the CEIBT exams, and reflect developments in other exams such as PET, FCE and CAE. — Each book contains four complete Practice Tests. Two editions are available, with or without answers. The With Answers editions include sample written answers which are assessed in detail, with errors corrected, good points highlighted, and marks given.

Provides students of all ages with easy-to-follow guidance on how to structure an essay and how to select and research the most appropriate subject to write on. The first section covers gathering and developing information; the second offers schematic sumaries to the first part.

• Framework Science helps students to meet appropriate, challenging expectations • Framework Science ensures paced progression from KS2 through KS3 • Framework Science encourages students' engagement with science • Framework Science brings about a transformation of the teaching and learning experience First came the National Curriculum, then the QCA Scheme of Work. Then 2002 brought the KS3 Science Framework. KS3 Science is evolving, and so are our resources, so you can be confident we are supporting you and your colleagues in your implementation of new classroom strategies. Students' Books •Designed in a format students will find friendly and accessible •Colourful, engaging text and illustrations •Key words highlighted in 'language bank' boxes

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

«The best of the classic «Jazz Chants for Children», along with a collection of new chants and songs by author Carolyn Graham. They offer children an exciting and fun way to practise the intonation patterns of American English.»

This anthology brings together a stimulating and entertaining collection of works from the confident and creative period of 1660-1700. The literature of this time is by turns refined, poignant, and brash. Alongside major works such as Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel and Mac Flecknoe, printed in their entirety, is a substantial group of lyrics by Rochester, while Milton's Paradise Lost provides a running commentary on the Restoration scene. Scurrilous satires and pamphlets, diaries, theatrical prologues, translations and striking work by women poets and autobiographers illustrate the period in politics, religion, philosophy and in attitudes to town and country, love and friendship.

This brand-new grammar provides clear and simple explanations of today's written and spoken Russian. Comprehensive and easy to use, with coverage of all the key points of Russian grammar, it is the ideal reference tool for beginner and intermediate students, whether at school, college, or learning on their own. Thousands of examples in an instantly accessible layout show how the language works. The verb tables are clear and easy-to-use and all grammatical terms are explained in a glossary.

Short and Scary! includes stories of ghosts, monsters, and aliens — as well as some much more unexpected scares! Over forty stories in one book — all of them very, very short! None of the stories are more than two pages long, but each of them is special and thought-provoking. Drawn from a range of sources, including folk tales, urban myths, and narrative jokes, as well as original stories, the stories are ideal for use in the classroom.

Short and Shocking is full of stories with a twist in the tail — each surprising and stimulating in its own way. Over forty stories in one book — all of them very, very short! None of the stories are more than two pages long, but each of them is special and thought-provoking. Drawn from a range of sources, including folk tales, urban myths, and narrative jokes, as well as original stories, the stories are ideal for use in the classroom.

Meet Clovis, the roaringest tiger in the whole world Clovis is a very noisy little tiger. He knows he has the loudest roar in the whole jungle. And Clovis thinks that everyone else should know it too. He's good at roaring, but he's very good at hiding — and that's when the trouble begins. The other animals soon tire of him jumping out and shocking them with his loud roar! — but what can they do to stop him?

From the formation of the Russian state in the 14th century to the political power struggles of the 1990s and the uncertainties of the new millennium, this new history offers a fresh and systematic account of Russian history across six tumultuous centuries. With greater access to previously unobtainable material, and with the gradual depoliticization of what was once an intellectual Cold War battleground, historians are now able to tell the story of Russia more dispassionately and with greater precision than was formerly possible. Drawing on the best contemporary scholarship, and informed throughout by the latest archival research into previously classified sources, thirteen international experts here reassess and reinterpret the history of one of the world's great powers. What emerges is a powerful sense of national destiny — of repeated themes, unchanging conditions, and cycles of circumstance. Throughout Russian history, all-powerful autocrats like Ivan the Terrible or Stalin have maintained their authority through brutality; but their omnipotence was always under threat, circumscribed by geography, compromised by bureaucratic incompetence, pervasive corruption, and resistance from below. A curious combination — a veneer of omnipotence, a void of operational power — has periodically dissolved into 'times of trouble', as in 1598, 1917, and 1991, when the impotence of the regime became transparent to all. Russian rulers have also had to contend with the same immense physical challenges — a hugely dispersed population, a perennial dearth of means and men to govern, a primitive infrastructure. Plagued by natural disasters, hamstrung by structural problems, the Russian economy — whether pre-revolutionary capitalist, Soviet socialist, or post-Soviet semi-capitalist — has had enormous and disruptive difficulties adapting to the competitive world of international markets. Another immutable, elemental fact has been Russia's multinational composition, which continues to generate discontent and disorder. Yet Russia is a great survivor, as the years from 1995 show, charaterized by economic recovery, institution-building, and a new mood of self-assertion in world politics. For too long Russian history has been dominated by myths and counter-myths, concocted by those seeking either to legitimize the existing order or to destroy it. This book — containing many little-known illustrations — represents an important attempt to rethink Russian history and to provide a new understanding of Russia's complex but ever-fascinating historical development. A compelling story in its own right, it is also essential reading for anyone with a private or professional interest in Russia and its place in the world.

A truly beautiful picture book, in which Brian Wildsmith sets out the life of Jesus: his birth, his childhood in Nazareth, his baptism and temptation, his teaching and miracles, and finally the entry in to Jerusalem, culminating in his death and resurrection.

'World music' emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with other cultures. This book draws readers into a remarkable range of these historical encounters, in which music had the power to evoke the exotic and to give voice to the voiceless. In the course of the volume's eight chapters the reader witnesses music's involvement in the modern world, but also the individual moments and particular histories that are crucial to an understanding of music's diversity. World Music is wide-ranging in its geographical scope, yet individual chapters provide in-depth treatments of selected music cultures and regional music histories. The book frequently zooms in on repertoires and musicians — such as Bob Marley, Bartok, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan — and attempts to account for world music's growing presence and popularity at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Builds on the firm foundation laid in American Headway 1.