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Countdown to First Certificate bridges the gap between intermediate level and the First Certificate exam. It introduces learners to graded exam format tasks while giving them a strong foundation in vocabulary and grammar. Written and designed to appeal to teenagers.

Key features
* 100% new edition with up-to-date texts and visually dynamic magazine look.
* Streamlined 12 unit structure to fit the modern syllabus with a greater focus on vocabulary and grammar than before.
* Combines a strong focus on grammar, vocabulary-building, and writing with a teen-friendly approach that is highly motivating.
* Lots of grammar practice on the Grammar Zoom pages, Language in Use, Writing and in the Workbook.
* Wordpower and Vocabulary sections reinforce vocabulary it

Adapted by Elizabeth Ann Moore

Adventure

After their father is mysteriously forced to leave home, the three children and their mother leave their comfortable house in London and go to live in a cottage in the country near a railway track. The children soon make friends with the Station Master, the Porter and a friendly old gentleman, who waves to them from the morning train.
Peter, Bobbie and Phyllis enjoy several exciting adventures and even become the heroes of the village. But the mystery of their father remains unsolved, until one day...

Dossier:
Early railways

Exit test

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In "the stifling heat of equatorial Newark", a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the startling and surprising theme of Roth's wrenching new book: a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect it has on a closely-knit, family-oriented Newark community and its children.

At the centre of Nemesis is a vigorous, dutiful, twenty-three-year old playground director, Bucky Cantor, a javelin thrower and a weightlifter, who is devoted to his charges and disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war alongside his contemporaries. Focusing on Cantor's dilemmas as polio begins to ravage his playground - and on the everyday

Fairy tale & fantasy

Alice follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and finds herself in the magical world of Wonderland, where anything can happen. She grows bigger and smaller and she meets a lot of very strange characters! These include the Caterpillar on his mushroom, the smiling Cheshire Cat, the Hatter and the March Hare at their mad tea party, the Queen of Hearts at her crazy game of croquet, and many more!

Dossiers:
A Drink Called Tea
A Real Queen

Exit test
Series: Green Apple | Level: Starter | Exam: ket trinity

Book + audio CD/CD-ROM win/mac

Bringing learners up to date with the language they need for business today, this book explains words and expressions and also provides practice in using the new language. This second edition reflects recent developments in technology, global relations and financial practice. With vocabulary drawn from the Cambridge Business English Corpus - a collection of real English compiled from authentic sources including business magazines, professional journals and educational books - learners can be sure that the language they're learning is up-to-date, relevant and natural.

This collection of short stories brilliantly illustrates the development of the new literary styles and perspectives that emerged during the course of the twentieth century.

Lesson on a Tortoise
by D. H. Lawrence
A teacher has a challenging class

The Teddy-bears' Picnic
by William Trevor
A newly married couple hit a problem

The Rough Crossing
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Crossing the Atlantic can be stormy

Lamb to the Slaughter
by Roald Dahl
A pregnant wife has a problem on her hands

The Rich Brother
by Tobias Wolff
Is there a limit to helping a brother?

The Blood Bay
by Annie Proulx
A cowboy takes a dead man's shoes

Neupravená kniha v angličtině v originále.

The new adult English course from Cambridge University Press

English Unlimited is a six-level goals-based course for adults. Centred on purposeful, real-life objectives, it prepares learners to use English independently for global communication. Through universal topics and activities, and a focus on intercultural competence as a 'fifth skill', this international coursebook helps learners become more sensitive, more effective communicators. Teaching natural, dependable language, and with CEF goals at its core, it brings real life into the classroom and gives learners the skills and strategies to communicate confidently outside it. Explore sections provide the extra ingredients for enhancing communicative ability, from further development of speaking skills to independent

A beautiful boxed set containing all seven Harry Potter novels in paperback. These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potter to the next generation of readers. It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON .

The boxed set contains paperback editions of:

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

THE BRO CODE provides men with all the rules they need to know in order to become a "bro" and behave properly among other bros. THE BRO CODE has never been published before. Few know of its existence, and the code, until now, has been verbally communicated between those in the 'bro'. Containing approximately 150 "unspoken" rules, this code of conduct ranges from the simple (bros before hos) to the complex (the hot-to-crazy ratio, complete with bar graphs and charts). With helpful sidebros THE BRO CODE will help any ordinary guy become the best bro he can be. Let ultimate bro and co-author Barney Stinson and his book, THE BRO CODE share their wisdom, lest you be caught making eye contact in a devil's three-way (two dudes, duh.)

Sample Articles from THE BRO CODE: Article

It's Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to abandon. She knows the Gaults, as Protestants, are no longer welcome in Ireland and that danger threatens. She is headstrong and decides that somehow she must force her parents into staying.

The Star Rover is the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life-and long stretches in a straitjacket-by withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, including incarnations as a French nobleman and an Englishman in medieval Korea.
Based on the life and imprisonment of Jack London's friend Ed Morrell, this is one of the author's most complex and original works.
As Lorenzo Carcaterra argues in his Introduction, The Star Rover is "written with energy and force, brilliantly marching between the netherworlds of brutality and beauty."
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the first American edition, published in 1915.
Includes short "Reading group guide".

Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention. But when Skippy falls for Lori, the frisbee-playing Siren from the girls' school next door, suddenly all kinds of people take an interest - including Carl, part-time drug-dealer and official school psychopath ...A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, "Skippy Dies" scours the corners of the human heart and wrings every drop of pathos, humour and hopelessness out of life, love, Robert Graves, mermaids, M-theory, and everything in between.

The Book was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2