Cambridge University Press

A small, low-level monolingual English dictionary for beginners and pre-intermediate learners of English.

The Speaking Test Preparation Pack for ВЕС Preliminary is a comprehensive teacher resource pack from Cambridge ESOL to help teachers who are preparing students to take the ВЕС Preliminary Speaking test. Written by experienced examiners, it provides clear explanations of what each of the three parts of the ВЕС Preliminary Speaking test involves. The step-by-step guidance and practical exercises help your students develop their speaking skills so that they perform with confidence on the day of the test. The Speaking Test Preparation Pack for ВЕС Preliminary includes: • over seven hours of teaching material. • Teacher's Notes which explain in detail how to use the Student Worksheets with your class. • Student Worksheets which you can photocopy or print. • a set of candidate visuals for you to use in class for realistic Speaking test practice. • a DVD showing students taking an authentic ВЕС Preliminary Speaking test so that your students can see what they will have to do on the day of the test.

The Speaking Test Preparation Pack for IELTS is a comprehensive teacher resource pack from Cambridge ESOL to help teachers who are preparing students to take the IELTS Speaking test. Written by experienced examiners, it provides clear explanations of what each of the three parts of the IELTS Speaking test involves. The step-by-step guidance and practical exercises help your students develop their speaking skills so that they perform with confidence on the day of the test. The Speaking Test Preparation Pack for IELTS includes: • Teacher's Notes which explain in detail how to use the Student Worksheets with your class. • Student Worksheets which you can photocopy or print. • Candidate tasks for you to use in class for realistic Speaking test practice. • DVD showing real students taking an IELTS Speaking test so that your students can see what they will have to do on the day of the test.

Kid's Box is a six-level course for young learners. Bursting with bright ideas to inspire both teachers and students, Kid's Box American English gives children a confident start to learning English. It also fully covers the syllabus for the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) tests. This Workbook covers all of the target language from Student's Book 3, providing further practice in a fun context. Level 3 begins the Movers cycle (CEF level A1).

Playway to English Second edition is a new version of the popular four-level course for teaching English to young children. Pupils acquire English through play, music and Total Physical Response, providing them with a fun and dynamic language learning experience. In the cards pack: Flashcards, for colourful vocabulary presentation and practice Storycards, for children to reconstruct stories from the course.

Enjoyable story-based practice for the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) Tests. Storyfun for Starters Student's Book provides full-colour preparation material for the Cambridge Young Learners English Test: Starters. It contains ten stories with accompanying activities. Students can enjoy reading and listening to stories to practise key areas of the syllabus. Enjoyable activities including games, projects and poems are balanced with exam-style questions to make learning fun. Unit-by-unit wordlists provide an easy reference for vocabulary learning.

Six full practice tests plus easy-to-follow expert guidance and exam tips designed to guarantee exam success. As well as six full practice tests, First Certificate Trainer offers easy-to-follow expert guidance and exam tips designed to guarantee exam success. The first two tests are fully guided with step-by-step advice on how to tackle each paper. Extra practice activities, informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a bank of real candidates' exam papers, focus on areas where students typically need most help. This 'without answers' edition is ideal for class use. Audio CDs featuring the listening activities from the tests are available separately or with the 'with answers' edition.

Fun for Flyers provides full-colour preparation material for the Cambridge Young Learners English Test: Flyers. 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 this level. The Fun for Flyers Teacher's Book includes creative teaching tips, photocopiable activities, and a full, photocopiable practice test. The Audio CDs, available separately, include listening material to accompany the Student's Book. The website to accompany the series includes interactive versions of some activities from the Student's Books.

A photocopiable resource book for teachers of English for Academic Purposes. Instant Academic Skills provides ready-to-teach, photocopiable lessons for busy teachers who want to give their students extra practice in general academic skills. The lessons cover all four skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and can be taught individually or as a learning 'unit'. Challenging activities develop skills vital to academic success such as identifying key ideas and details, predicting content and efficient note-taking, while lively speaking tasks get learners ready to participate in debates and presentations. The Audio CD includes a variety of native and non-native accents in typical academic scenarios such as lectures, interviews and formal talks.

Intercultural Language Activities offers practical teaching ideas which encourage learners to reflect on their own language and culture, as well as that of others. Topics covered in the fourteen chapters include childhood, food, sport, icons, politics and body language. The book also helps learners mediate in situations of cultural misunderstanding and start web-based intercultural exchanges. It examines interview techniques, how people present themselves, and ways to interpret cultural symbols and characteristics, such as those found in postcards, advertisements and online newspapers. In engaging with these topics, learners become intercultural explorers and raise their level of communicative competence. This is an invaluable resource for any teacher who wishes to combine language learning with cultural exploration. In addition, the accompanying CD-ROM provides print-friendly photocopiable worksheets and reading texts which can be put to immediate use.

Kid's Box is a six-level course for young learners. Bursting with bright ideas to inspire both teachers and students, Kid's Box American English gives children a confident start to learning English. It also fully covers the syllabus for the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) tests. This Workbook covers all of the target language from Student's Book 1, providing further practice in a fun context. Level 1 begins the Starters cycle.

Kid's Box is a six-level course for young learners. Bursting with bright ideas to inspire both teachers and students, Kid's Box American English gives children a confident start to learning English. It also fully covers the syllabus for the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) tests. This Workbook covers all of the target language from Student's Book 2, providing further practice in a fun context. Level 2 completes the Starters cycle.

Kid's Box is a six-level course for young learners. Bursting with bright ideas to inspire both teachers and students, Kid's Box American English gives children a confident start to learning English. It also fully covers the syllabus for the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) tests. The Student's Book presents and practises new language through amusing stories and fantastic songs and activities, making the learning process a joy. Level 3 begins the Movers cycle (CEF level A1).

Kid's Box is a six-level course for young learners. Bursting with bright ideas to inspire both teachers and students, Kid's Box American English gives children a confident start to learning English. It also fully covers the syllabus for the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) tests. The Student's Book presents and practices new language through amusing stories and fantastic songs and activities, making the learning process a joy. Level 1 begins the Starters cycle.

This short course includes 40-50 hours of essential exam practice, tips and strategies to prepare students for the Cambridge ESOL PET examination. PET Direct prepares students for the Cambridge ESOL PET examination. The Teacher's Book with Class Audio CD provides lesson plans, activity ideas and exam-taking advice to accompany each spread of the Student's Book. It also includes a full answer key, audio transcripts and 12 photocopiable activities.

Enjoyable story-based practice for the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) Tests. Storyfun for Flyers Teacher's Book includes audio CDs with recordings of the stories and listening activities from the Storyfun for Flyers Student's Book. The stories are exploited to present YLE tasks in a motivating and easy-to-use way. Each story unit provides enough material to cover between 90-180 minutes class time. Enjoyable activities including games, projects and poems are balanced with exam-style questions to make learning fun. Teaching tips and photocopiable activities are also included and teachers can be confident the test preparation provides coverage of key areas of Flyers grammar and vocabulary.

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ability. George Keegan, a Dublin lawyer, wakes to find himself lying in bed in a pool of blood. He can't remember what happened the night before. He soon has a clue when he sees the body of his girlfriend and colleague, Orla, on the TV news. But who killed Orla if he didn't? And why? George wants to know. And so does Inspector Sean Murphy of the Dublin police.

Written by IELTS material writers with many years experience, these candidate revision guides are recommended as part of your revision for the IELTS test. They provide candidates with essential advice ('tips') for each part of the test and include: clear examples and explanations; general tips for each component to help with revision; and sections on how to revise, and what to do on the day of the test. On the CD-ROM is a full IELTS practice test; sample answers for the Writing; and a video of a Speaking test.

Written by IELTS material writers with many years' experience, these candidate revision guides are recommended as part of your revision for the IELTS test. They provide candidates with essential advice ('tips') for each part of the test and include: clear examples and explanations; general tips for each component to help with revision; and sections on how to revise, and what to do on the day of the test. On the CD-ROM is a full IELTS practice test; sample answers for the Writing; and a video of a Speaking test.

Basic Grammar in Use, Third edition, is the lower-level text in the Grammar in Use series. It focuses on the fundamental grammar structures normally taught in basic or introductory courses. Each of the 116 units in the Student's Book is presented in a two-page spread, with simple explanations on the left-hand page and practice exercises to check understanding on the right. This edition, without answers, can be used in the classroom or for self-study. It includes a CD-ROM featuring exercises, tests, and games.

Read This! is a three-book reading series designed for adult and young adult ESL students at the high beginning to intermediate levels. Read This!, Level 2 contains fifteen stories relating to the fields of Health Care, Animal Studies, Food and Nutrition, Criminal Justice, and Psychology. For example, students read about how the first vaccine was discovered, how Europeans came to see their first giraffe, and the potentially fatal risk of Internet addiction. The nonfiction readings are written in an accessible narrative style, and the vocabulary and exercise material are appropriate for low intermediate to intermediate-level students. This enjoyable and fascinating text eases students into reading content-rich texts.

The Basic Grammar in Use Workbook provides students with further opportunities to practice difficult grammar points and consolidate their understanding of related topics covered in Basic Grammar in Use, Third edition. It offers a wide range of challenging activities and opportunities to work with grammar structures in meaningful contexts.

Tendai comes to live in an isolated African village. Tendai is a runner, a dreamer and a storyteller. When landmines turn his world upside down, he runs, dreams and tells stories to try to deal with a terrible tragedy. A gripping story of victory over man-made evil, and of a young man who never gives up. Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CDs including complete text recordings from the book.

The view that Russia has taken a decisive shift towards authoritarianism may be premature, but there is no doubt that its democracy is in crisis. In this original and dynamic analysis of the fundamental processes shaping contemporary Russian politics, Richard Sakwa applies a new model based on the concept of Russia as a dual state. Russia's constitutional state is challenged by an administrative regime that subverts the rule of law and genuine electoral competitiveness. This has created a situation of permanent stalemate: the country is unable to move towards genuine pluralist democracy but, equally, its shift towards full-scale authoritarianism is inhibited. Sakwa argues that the dual state could be transcended either by strengthening the democratic state or by the consolidation of the arbitrary power of the administrative system. The future of the country remains open.