Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day...

On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her . . . and ...

All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. They could not see the people holding on to the ...

* Crime Never Pays ... or does it? Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Patricia Highsmith and Graham Greene, where murder is committed ... with varyi...

Hurricane Mabel is far out in the Atlantic Ocean and moving slowly northwards. Perhaps it will never come near land at all. But if it hits the island of San Fernandez, many thousands of people will di...

* High Season is for trainees and employees in the hotel and tourist industry. * Each of the twelve main units deals with a key aspect of the industry and contains a variety of activities based on a...

As they walk through a park in the distant future, Harl and Ellen talk about their work and their lives. But they will never have a life together because their work as scientists is more important to ...

San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate t...

"Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here´s the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Re...

Matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few weeks´ time. He wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But his parents say he´s too young to leave home - he must stay in th...

When Tug wakes up, he is not in his own bedroom at home. The door is locked and there are bars across the window. Loud music hammers through the house and through his head. Then a woman comes in and s...

High up on a stone seat in the great open-air theatre of Athens, Alexis, son of Leon, watches the Festival of Plays - and dreams of seeing his own play on that famous stage. So, as the summer pa...

Down by the river bank, where the wind whispers through the willow trees, is a very pleasant place to have a lunch party with a few friends. But life is not always so peaceful for the Mole and the Wat...

Sam Sylvester is a teacher who wants his class to have ambition, and to do great things in life. So he enters them for a sporting competition against the rich students of Greycoats School. The team t...

When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Me...

* Language Testing in Practice - This book relates language testing practice to current views of communicative language teaching and testing.

* Pronunciation explains the basic principles and terminology of this important, but often neglected, aspect of language teaching. * It helps teachers to evaluate materials and approach pronunciation...

Beginners contains over 100 activities for both absolute and `false` beginners. For both adults and children

Pronunciation is a resource of imaginative ideas and techniques for teaching pronunciation. It goes beyond exercises based on a description of the of the phonemic system by coming to grips with the ...

Spotlight on Britain is a fascinating account of life in the UK. Topics include London,TV and radio, Liverpool and the Beatles, Stratford and Shakespeare, and Northen Ireland. * Ideal for use as a cl...

A young country girl comes to live and work in Dublin. Jo is determined to be modern and independent, and to have a wonderful time. But life in a big city is full of strange surprises for a shy countr...

Winnie the Witch is a prize-winning storybook about Winnie and her black cat Wilbur, now retold for young learners of English. * The activities offer a motivating approach to practising and reinforci...

People love and need animals. They keep them in their homes and on their farms. They enjoy going to zoos, and watching animals on films and on TV. Little children love to play with toy animals. But...

Recycling how much rubbish do you throw away in a year? It could be more than a tonne or less than a hundred kilograms, but it`s still too much...

* Principle and Practice in Applied Linguistics - A comprehensive overview of the many diverse areas in applied linguistics today. * The papers range from second language acquisition to discourse an...

* Writing provides an introduction to both traditional and more recent approaches to the teaching of this skill, and shows how current teaching materials put these approaches into practice. * The r...

* Exam Classes contains 90 practical and original activities for teaching exam classes. It includes sections on the four skills plus `Grammar`and `Integrating skills`. There is an exam task-type in...

* Communication in the Language Classroom looks at how to make guidance to teachers on how to make lessons more effective by giving learners better opportunites for interaction and communicat...

Dolphin Readers Level 3: Just Like Mine are graded ´read and do´ fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

Chris leaves his home in a small town in Australia to go and study at the University of Sydney. He needs to finda somewhere to live. But it´s not easy to find a house to share in a big city. Ever...

Cathy Wilson is driving to Norfolk, to begin her new job with the Harvey family. She is going to look after the two young children, Tim and Susan. Cathy meets the children´s father, and their grandmot...

A resource book which starts from ideas and guides students to the words needed to express them.