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EAP Now! Preliminary is designed to help students learn intermediate level English language skills, with a particular emphasis on vocabulary and grammar. It addresses the needs of students moving from General English to EAP or those who would like to progress into vocational courses.

* Each unit contains seven thematically-linked skills to facilitate student learning.
* Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing skills for EAP are addressed
in one text.
* For additional practice extra speaking activities are included within units.
* Additional EAP skills are addressed including Grammar, Critical Thinking and English for the Internet Age, providing contemporary skills for today's student.
* To promote

Adventure

Four true, breathtaking stories of adventure and courage which take us across the ocean, the ice of the Antarctic, the sky and the desert.
‘Lost at Sea’ tells the adventures of a family sailing round the world and their battle to survive in the ocean after a shipwreck.
In ‘The Impossible Journey’ we follow Sir Ernest Shackleton as he and his men make their way on foot towards the South Pole.
The brave young woman in ‘Amy Johnson, Woman Pioneer’ attempts a heroic solo flight from England to Australia.
In ‘David Livingstone’s Last African Expedition’ we meet the great explorer on his last expedition to find the source of Africa’s longest river, the Nile.

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Crime

The Chumash are American Indians who live in California. When an unscrupulous property developer starts building new homes in Coyote Canyon, the Chumash become angry – the development is located on their ancient cemetery.
During the night of the Fourth of July celebrations a mysterious American Indian warrior appears and a murder is committed. Suspicion falls immediately on the Chumash, but four young people – Michelle, Bill, Nick and Pam – investigate further and find that the truth is rather more complicated…

Dossiers:
Independence Day
American Indians

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Adventure

Ellie is mad about music: she dreams of becoming a singer and she desperately wants to go to the Glastonbury Festival, where her favourite singer, Murphy, will be playing. But with an overprotective Dad and important exams to take, it seems that Ellie’s dreams will have to remain just that, dreams. But one day she sees a competition in a music magazine…

Dossiers:
Education in England
Yorkshire
Festivals in Britain and Ireland

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Series: Reading & Tr

Adventure

Three young women need to get to London from Ireland in time for Christmas. When all flights are cancelled, they are forced to share a car and make the journey by road. They each have their own personal problems, but they have to decide together what to do when they find a briefcase full of money. Then they realise that a car is following them…

Dossiers:
The Emerald Isle
Indians in Britain

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After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the days, then the hours, then the seconds until his release tick away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in apparently adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America. Together they embark on a very strange journey across the States, along the way solving the murders which have occurred every winter in one small American town. But they are being followed by someone with whom Shadow must make his peace ... Disturbing, gripping and profoundly strange, Gaiman's epic new novel sees him on the road to the heart of America.

Oscar Wilde's comic masterpiece of love and mistaken identity was a great hit when it first appeared on the stage in 1895 and has remained hugely popular with theatre audiences ever since.

Much Ado About Nothing is Shakespeare's famous comedy / drama about the war of power and understanding between men and women and the disguises they wear in their romantic relationships.

Mohandas Gandhi was one of the most influencial leaders and civil rights campaigners that the world has ever known. This biography tells the story of Gandhi's life and achievements, from his policy of non-violent action that led India to independence from British control, to his work on poverty, expanding women's rights and the building of religious and ethnic unity.

A companion piece to White Fang, The Call of the Wild is the story of Buck, a domestic dog who is suddenly stolen and sold to gold prospectors. In this new - and hard - life, Buck's natural instincts are awakened to the call of the wild.

Shylock lends money to the merchant Antonio but the stakes are high. When Antonio cannot pay him back, Shylock demands a terrible punishment. This Macmillan Reader is written as a playscript and includes original extracts.

What is Camellia sinensis? How did tea help to start the American Revolution? And how are monkeys connected to tea? Find out the answer to these questions and more in the story of one of the world's most popular drinks.

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Series: Easyread | Level: Level 2 | Exam:  skladem (ihned expedujeme)