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The series develops communication skills by focusing on what language to use and how to sound natural.

Each lesson follows a clear, easy-to-follow format that provides students with plenty of opportunities to listen to natural English and practise in pairs and groups. A Conversation Strategy section in every unit gets students to notice features of spoken English employed by English speakers in conversation, before practising it themselves.

The Student Audio CD includes multiple versions of key dialogues, providing more exapmles of the strategies in context and models for conversation practice.

American English

The series develops communication skills by focusing on what language to use and how to sound natural.

Each lesson follows a clear, easy-to-follow format that provides students with plenty of opportunities to listen to natural English and practise in pairs and groups. A Conversation Strategy section in every unit gets students to notice features of spoken English employed by English speakers in conversation, before practising it themselves.

The Student Audio CD includes multiple versions of key dialogues, providing more exapmles of the strategies in context and models for conversation practice.

American English

The series develops communication skills by focusing on what language to use and how to sound natural.

Each lesson follows a clear, easy-to-follow format that provides students with plenty of opportunities to listen to natural English and practise in pairs and groups. A Conversation Strategy section in every unit gets students to notice features of spoken English employed by English speakers in conversation, before practising it themselves.

The Student Audio CD includes multiple versions of key dialogues, providing more exapmles of the strategies in context and models for conversation practice.

American English

The series develops communication skills by focusing on what language to use and how to sound natural.

Each lesson follows a clear, easy-to-follow format that provides students with plenty of opportunities to listen to natural English and practise in pairs and groups. A Conversation Strategy section in every unit gets students to notice features of spoken English employed by English speakers in conversation, before practising it themselves.

The Student Audio CD includes multiple versions of key dialogues, providing more exapmles of the strategies in context and models for conversation practice.

American English

The series develops communication skills by focusing on what language to use and how to sound natural.

Each lesson follows a clear, easy-to-follow format that provides students with plenty of opportunities to listen to natural English and practise in pairs and groups. A Conversation Strategy section in every unit gets students to notice features of spoken English employed by English speakers in conversation, before practising it themselves.

The Student Audio CD includes multiple versions of key dialogues, providing more exapmles of the strategies in context and models for conversation practice.

American English

The series develops communication skills by focusing on what language to use and how to sound natural.

Each lesson follows a clear, easy-to-follow format that provides students with plenty of opportunities to listen to natural English and practise in pairs and groups. A Conversation Strategy section in every unit gets students to notice features of spoken English employed by English speakers in conversation, before practising it themselves.

The Student Audio CD includes multiple versions of key dialogues, providing more exapmles of the strategies in context and models for conversation practice.

American English

The series develops communication skills by focusing on what language to use and how to sound natural.

Each lesson follows a clear, easy-to-follow format that provides students with plenty of opportunities to listen to natural English and practise in pairs and groups. A Conversation Strategy section in every unit gets students to notice features of spoken English employed by English speakers in conversation, before practising it themselves.

The Student Audio CD includes multiple versions of key dialogues, providing more exapmles of the strategies in context and models for conversation practice.

American English

The series develops communication skills by focusing on what language to use and how to sound natural.

Each lesson follows a clear, easy-to-follow format that provides students with plenty of opportunities to listen to natural English and practise in pairs and groups. A Conversation Strategy section in every unit gets students to notice features of spoken English employed by English speakers in conversation, before practising it themselves.

The Student Audio CD includes multiple versions of key dialogues, providing more exapmles of the strategies in context and models for conversation practice.

American English

The world's favourite listening course now with more listening and more testing.

Tactics For Listening Third Edition features Jack Richards' practical-English methodology and easy-to-teach format, now updated for today's classroom and self-assessment needs.,

*More Listening practice. New dictation activities help students perfect their listening skills

*Extra help with pronunciation. New pronunciation activities help students to make themselves understood.

*New Tactics for Testing sections. New sections at the back of the Student Book feature Grant Trew's proven approach to test preparation for key local and international English tests. Ideal for assigning as homework.

*Teacher's Book with Testing Prog

People, places, and Listening combines great listening and vocabulary development with quality test preparation that helps learners improve their scores.

Listening passages with real appeal:

People ... from Louis XIV to Michiko Koshino

Places ... from the artic tundra to Kangwon Resort

Things ... from special effects to panda bears

Activities that prepare learners for key standardized tests:

*Multiple-choice comprehensive questions prepare learners for the TOEIC test and the TOEFL test

*New words are recycled in regular Vocabulary Reviews

*Learners develop their ability to work out meaning from context

*Unit Quizzes check learners' progress and build

The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been acrimonious, and those involved have always really been contesting values - to do with morality, politics and class. THE LANGUAGE WARS examines the present state of the conflict, its history and its future. Above all, it uses the past as a way of illuminating the present. Moving chronologically, the book explores the most persistent issues to do with English and unpacks the history of 'proper' usage. Where did these ideas spring from? Which of today's bugbears and annoyances are actually venerable? Who has been on the front line in the language wars? THE LANGUAGE WARS examines grammar rules, regional accents, swearing, spelling, dictionaries, political correctness, and the role o

This is a collection of 160 stories from over forty cultures. The stories are grouped thematically: fooling the devil, shape shifters, the not-quite-human, numbskulls and noodleheads, true loves and false, likely and unlikely heroes, and death and the world's end.