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Tips for Teaching Culture provides research and practical techniques for teaching intercultural communication. Topics include language, nonverbal communication, identity, culture shock, cross-cultural adjustment, traditional ways of teaching culture. and social responsibility.

This practical reference book shows English language teachers how to teach the North American sound system and provides practical tips, clear explanations, diagrams, and sample classroom activities. Each chapter covers one of the five main areas of pronunciation - vowels, consonants, stress, rhythm, and intonation. The companion audio CD provides listening material for select activities.

This practical reference book links specific techniques for using Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) with contemporary CALL research. The book and CD-ROM demonstrate why and how to use CALL to teach vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, listening, speaking, communication skills, and content-based language.

There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.' Thus Bram Stoker, one of the greatest exponents of the supernatural narrative, describes the demonic subject of his chilling masterpiece Dracula, a truly iconic and unsettling tale of vampirism.

With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. From its first publication in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been printed in over 700 editions. It has inspired almost every conceivable kind of imitation and variation, and been the subject of plays, opera, cartoons, and computer games. The character of Crusoe has entered the consciousness of each succeeding generation as readers add their own interpretation to the adventures so thrillingly 'recorded' by Defoe. Praised by eminent figures such as Coleridge, Rousseau and Wordsworth, this perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das Kapital to illustrate economic theory. However it is readers of all ages over the last 280 years who have given Robinson Crusoe its abiding position a

Going for Gold Upper Intermediate is designed to develop students' language skills and provide a general introduction to the requirements of the FCE exam. It provides enjoyable and contemporary topics, motivating practice activities, a graded introduction to Cambridge exam style tasks, regular opportunities for reviewing and testing and a supportive writing reference section including model answers and useful language.

Going for Gold is a two level course designed to develop students' language skills and provide an introduction to the requirements of the Cambridge First Certificate Examination. It is also suitable for students wishing to sit the Cambridge Certificate in English Language Skills (CELS).

The intermediate level provides 'enjoyable and contemporary topics, thorough language and skills training, and motivating practice activities' in addition to a graded introduction to Cambridge exam style tasks, regular opportunities for reviewing and testing and a 'supportive writing reference section including review of sub-skills, model answers and useful language'.

The language maximiser contains grammar and vocabulary consolidation and extension and extra skills practice to

Going for Gold is a two level course designed to develop students' language skills and provide an introduction to the requirements of the Cambridge First Certificate Examination. It is also suitable for students wishing to sit the Cambridge Certificate in English Language Skills (CELS).

The intermediate level provides 'enjoyable and contemporary topics, thorough language and skills training, and motivating practice activities' in addition to a graded introduction to Cambridge exam style tasks, regular opportunities for reviewing and testing and a 'supportive writing reference section including review of sub-skills, model answers and useful language'.

The language maximiser contains grammar and vocabulary consolidation and extension and extra skills practice to