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Study Writing is for students at intermediate level and above who need to develop their writing skills and write better academic essays, projects, research articles or theses.
Study Writing encourages students to develop their writing strategies, seek feedback on their own writing and analyse expert writers' texts in order to become more reflective and effective writers.

Study Writing helps learners to write more effectively by:
• introducing key concepts in academic writing such as the role of generalizations and definitions and the application of principles like the Clarity Principle and the Honesty Principle
• exploring the use of information structures, including those used to develop and present an argument
• familiarizing learners with the charac

These practice tests from Cambridge ESOL are designed to evaluate the English level of primary learners aged 7-12. They provide the first step towards the Cambridge ESOL main suite exams (including KET, PET, and FCE). There are 3 sets of tests for each of the 3 levels: Cambridge Starters, Cambridge Movers and Cambridge Flyers. Each set contains 3 full-colour tests, a cassette/CD, and answer booklet.

These practice tests from Cambridge ESOL are designed to evaluate the English level of primary learners aged 7-12. They provide the first step towards the Cambridge ESOL main suite exams (including KET, PET, and FCE). There are 3 sets of tests for each of the 3 levels: Cambridge Starters, Cambridge Movers and Cambridge Flyers. Each set contains 3 full-colour tests, a cassette/CD, and answer booklet.

These practice tests from Cambridge ESOL are designed to evaluate the English level of primary learners aged 7-12. They provide the first step towards the Cambridge ESOL main suite exams (including KET, PET, and FCE). There are 3 sets of tests for each of the 3 levels: Cambridge Starters, Cambridge Movers and Cambridge Flyers. Each set contains 3 full-colour tests, a cassette/CD, and answer booklet.

These practice tests from Cambridge ESOL are designed to evaluate the English level of primary learners aged 7-12. They provide the first step towards the Cambridge ESOL main suite exams (including KET, PET, and FCE). There are 3 sets of tests for each of the 3 levels: Cambridge Starters, Cambridge Movers and Cambridge Flyers. Each set contains 3 full-colour tests, a cassette/CD, and answer booklet.

Full-colour preparation material for Cambridge Young Learners English Tests. Fun activities balanced with exam-style questions practise all the areas of the syllabus in a communicative way. The material is specifically designed to focus on those areas most likely to cause problems for young learners at these levels. The second edition has been updated and extended, with each unit now forming the basis for a lesson of 75 to 90 minutes. The website to accompany the Fun for Starters, Movers, Flyers series includes interactive versions of tasks from the Student's Books.

Key Features

* The second edition has been updated and extended to provide additional classroom material. Each unit now forms the basis for a lesson of 75 to 90 minutes.
* Each unit includes bri

Full-colour preparation material for Cambridge Young Learners English Tests. Fun activities balanced with exam-style questions practise all the areas of the syllabus in a communicative way. The material is specifically designed to focus on those areas most likely to cause problems for young learners at these levels. The second edition has been updated and extended, with each unit now forming the basis for a lesson of 75 to 90 minutes. The website to accompany the Fun for Starters, Movers, Flyers series includes interactive versions of tasks from the Student's Books.

Key Features

* The second edition has been updated and extended to provide additional classroom material. Each unit now forms the basis for a lesson of 75 to 90 minutes.
* Each unit includes bri

Merging cognitive science with educational agenda, Gardner shows how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to current educational materials, practices, and institutions, and makes an eloquent case for restructuring our schools. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author.

English Accents and Dialects is an essential guide to contemporary social and regional varieties of English spoken in the British Isles today. Together with invaluable overviews of numerous regional accents and dialects, this fifth edition provides you with a detailed description of key features of Received Pronounciation (RP) as well as several major non-standard varieties of English. Key features: -main regional differences are followed by a survey of speech in over 20 areas of the UK and Ireland, audio samples of which are available for you to download at www.hodderplus.com/linguistics -includes recent findings on London English, Aberdeen English and Liverpool English -contains new entries on Hull, Manchester, Carlisle, Middlesbrough, Southampton, London West Indian, Lancashire and

Careful, Connie, please. Your little sister's eyes are looking angry. Look at the sudden lines around her mouth. Connie, a sister is a good thing. Even a younger sister. 'Mercy, who are you going out with?'

Connie gets an answer to her question, but it is not the answer she wants to hear. And what is the price of peace between sisters?

Word count 16,068

Red Dog was a Red Cloud kelpie, an Australian sheepdog. His life was full of excitement and adventure. He travelled all over Western Australia, and never really had an owner. But he had many, many friends, and he always knew where to go for a good meal.

Louis de Bernières collected these stories about the life of a real dog in Western Australia. They are all true stories - some are funny, some are sad, but all are unforgettable. Everybody should have a friend like Red Dog.

For a child in the great city of Venice in the thirteenth century, there could be nothing better than the stories of sailors. There were stories of strange animals, wonderful cities, sweet spices, and terrible wild deserts where a traveller could die.

One young boy listened, waited, and dreamed. Perhaps one day his father and uncle would return. Perhaps he too could travel with them to great markets in faraway places. For young Marco Polo, later the greatest traveller of his time, a dangerous, exciting world was waiting...