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 ...

It was just a smooth round metal ball, less than a metre in diameter. Although it was still hot from its journey through the huge nothingness of space, it looked quite harmless. But what was it, exact...

Practical English Grammar: explanations of structures. * Many example sentences illustrating contemporary spoken and written usage. * Frequent comparisons between formal and informal style.recordings ...

* Practical English Grammar: explanations of structures. * Many example sentences illustrating contemporary spoken and written usage. * Frequent comparisons between formal and informal style.recording...

After dinner we turned the lights out and played "hide-and-seek". In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with . . . with this cold person ...

*Teaching Techniques in English as a Second Language - This series is designed to meet the needs of the busy classroom teacher. Teachers new to ESL will rely on these books for practical, step-by-s...

*Teaching Techniques in English as a Second Language - This series is designed to meet the needs of the busy classroom teacher. Teachers new to ESL will rely on these books for practical, step-by-s...

A warm summer night. The moon shines down on the quiet houses and gardens. Everyone is asleep. Everyone except the man in pyjamas and slippers, standing on the wet grass at the end of his garden, watc...

This series gives teachers, trainers, and trainee teachers practical guidance in key aspects of language teaching. Each book includes an introduction and up to 100 classroom ideas, materials, and tech...

Heat and dust - these simple, terrible words describe the Indian summer. Year after year, endlessly, it is the same. And everyone who experiences this heat and dust is changed for ever. We often say,...

"I like work. I find it interesting . . . I can sit and look at it for hours." With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But thi...

* Vocabulary shows how appropriate linguistic models of the lexicon, and knowledge of the ways in which vocabulary is learned and stored, can transform a seemingly vast, shapeless mass of words into...

This is the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death. Why does her story begin where it should end? Certain people wanted her death to be an ending. Why? What were they afraid of? Karen Silk...

Conradin is ten years old. He lives alone with his aunt. He has two big secrets. The first is that he hates his aunt. The second is that he keeps a small, wild animal in the garden shed. The animal...

General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He´s an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesn´t like being blackmailed. So he asks private detecti...

When Nicola arrives in Crete a day early, she gets more than just an extra day of holiday. She comes to a village where no one can be trusted, and she becomes involved in a murder mystery that puts...

"Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one." But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson, l...

People who ride racehorses love the speed, the excitement, the danger - and winning the race. Philip Nore has been riding for many years and he always wants to win - but sometimes he is told to lose. ...

Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her ow...

* Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing - This book provides a clear and authoritative discussion of the basic concerns which underlie the development and use of language tests, and a synth...

On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man´s wife, the children´s mother. The children were al...

This is a love story you won´t forget. Oliver Barrett meets Jenny Cavilleri. He plays sports, she plays music. He´s rich, and she´s poor. They argue, and they fight, and they fall in love. So they ge...

Music And Song shows how piece of music can be exploited in an immense variety of ways in the language classrom.

* Secong Language Research Methods - Based on a set of four research parameters, this book discusses the development of research questions and hypotheses, naturalistic and experimental research, dat...

* Teaching English Overseas: An Introduction - This book for native-speaker teachers of English preparing to work overseas looks at how social, political, economic, and cultural factors can influenc...

* Reading innovates ideas on how to approach reading in the language classroom, and a variety of text-related activities. * In the final section teachers can explore the attitudes of their own learn...

Lexical Phrases and Language Teaching - Recent second language acquisition research is used here to present a language teaching programme based on the use of `prefabricated language`. The authors sh...

"England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens, Mary the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to b...

It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no wa...

"You look exactly like him! You can take the dead boy´s place and no one will ever know the difference. You´ll be rich for life!" And so the plan was born. At first Brat Farrar fought against the ide...

Classroom Dynamics explores some of the problems teachers have with managing groups. Suggests various strategies which can be used to lead groups more effectively. Describes over 100 classroom acti...

In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests. In the far distant future, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of six...