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This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies. First published as a lavish colour coffeetable book, this new expanded paperback edition has double the original number of contributions from many celebrities including Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Eric Clapton, Bryan Ferry, Sebastian Faulks, Kate Adie, Kevin Spacey, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Richard Mabey , Simon Jenkins, John Sergeant, Benjamin Zephaniah, Joan Bakewell, Antony Beevor, Libby Purves, Jon

Open Forum is three-level series that exposes students to engaging and informative content while developing essential listening and speaking skills. Each level contains listening selections and discussion activities related to a range of academic content areas, including communications, technology, business, and the social sciences. Each chapter provides presentation and practice of important listening and speaking skills so that students can develop effective learning strategies. Open Forum also offers vocabulary and pronunciation strands to complement the instruction.

*Repeated exposure to the content areas prepares students for the academic classroom and builds confidence.

*Diverse listening selections including radio interviews, news, reports, mono

Q: Skills for Success is Oxford's first two-strand English course. The Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking strands can be used separately or together to form a complete 200-hour programme at each level.

Q's question-centred approach provides a unique critical thinking framework for each unit. This develops key cognitive skills such as analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating - in addition to developing language skills that are essential for academic success.

Q puts more emphasis on student learning outcomes than any other paired skills English series. Learning outcomes are clearly labelled at the start of each unit and reviewed again at the end of the unit. This helps students to become more responsible learners.

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Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Wellington leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is organized to benefit all who walk on four legs. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten. And something new and unexpected emerges. "Animal Farm" - the history of a revolution that went wrong - is George Orwell's brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of power.

When ship after ship goes down in the Atlantic, Dr Pierre Aronnax and his servant, Conseil, journey from Paris to learn more. What - or who - is attacking these ships?
Aronnax, Conseil, and the Canadian, Ned Land, find the answer to this question when they meet the strange Captain Nemo.
After a long journey under the sea in Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, the doctor and his friends plan to leave for the surface.
But how can they escape?

OXFORD DOMINOES:

Four-level graded readers series, perfect for reading practice and language skills development at upper-primary and lower-secondary levels.
A full-colour, entertaining, interactive readers series

It's Gromit the dog's birthday, and his friend Wallace gives him an unusual present a pair of techno-trousers. At first Wallace uses the trousers to take Gromit for walks, but when the penguin comes to stay, he uses them one night for something different very different. This strange story won the Oscar® for Best Animated Short Film in 1990.

 
Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities, and exciting, fully dramatized audio for every story, the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for students while making it easy for you to develop their reading and language skills.

'My first journey was a pilgrimage to Mecca. I got on a donkey and said "Goodbye" to my parents in Tangier when I was 21. My mother cried.' In this way Ibn Battuta, one of the greatest travellers in the world, begins telling his story to his nephew, Ahmed. His many journeys take him to new and interesting places far from home. He sees many strange and wonderful things, has many funny and frightening experiences, and meets many different people along the way. This is his story...

OXFORD DOMINOES:

Four-level graded readers series, perfect for reading practice and language skills development at upper-primary and lower-secondary levels.
A full-colour

'Are you scared, Gordon?' asks Heather.

Four friends talk of ghosts in a hotel in Scotland. That night Gordon sees and hears something strange in his room. But is it really the ghost of Lord McCoy?

These six stories tell of ghosts - friendly, sad, and bad - from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, America - and Egypt!

OXFORD DOMINOES:

Four-level graded readers series, perfect for reading practice and language skills development at upper-primary and lower-secondary levels.
A full-colour, entertaining, interactive readers series, that offers students an enjoyable reading experience while building their language skills through integrated language activities, projects, and contextualized g

For thousand of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his diary. But soon people begin to die. Who or what is the killer? Is Tutankhamun angry with them for opening his tomb? And who is the beautiful French girl with the face of Tutankhamun's long-dead wife?

OXFORD DOMINOES:

Four-level graded readers series, perfect for reading practice and language skills development at upper-primary and lower-seconda

Fay loves making The Friends' Hour for Studio Five, but her boss - Jason - is always angry with her. One day, a young man - Simon Jones - phones her show. Soon Fay must find Simon, and work hard to keep her job. Then her best friend - Wing - stops helping her. What can Fay do now? Can she and Wing stay friends?

OXFORD DOMINOES:

Four-level graded readers series, perfect for reading practice and language skills development at upper-primary and lower-secondary levels.
A full-colour, entertaining, interactive readers series, that offers students an enjoyable reading experience while building their language skills through integrated language activities, projects, and conte

A man from the British royal family leaves an expensive gold and emerald crown at Holder and Stevenson's - one of the best banks in London. When someone tries to take the crown from Mr Holder's desk, he asks Sherlock Holmes for help. Who wants the crown and why? Only Sherlock can find the answers.

OXFORD DOMINOES:

Four-level graded readers series, perfect for reading practice and language skills development at upper-primary and lower-secondary levels.
A full-colour, entertaining, interactive readers series, that offers students an enjoyable reading experience while building their language skills through integrated language activities, projects, and contextualized

'He's an intelligent man. He was once rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.' One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees - and thinks - a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.

OXFORD DOMINOES:

Four-level graded readers series, perfect for reading practice and language skills development at upper-primary and lower-secondary levels.
A full-colour, entertaining, interactive readers series, that