Cambridge University Press

Discover the pleasure of reading with this new seven-level series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks specifically written for teenagers and young adults. Lucho and Eva are paired together for a History project. The first stage is to draw a 'Mind Map' of all their ideas. But Lucho's mind map has a mind of its own and starts to grow. The map leads Lucho and Eva on an adventure involving the ancient theft of gold in a lost city in the Colombian jungle. Graded to seven levels with the teenage language learner in mind, Cambridge Discovery Readers exposes students to English in a lively and engaging way. Attractive and original illustrations help students to check their understanding, while integrated activities consolidate new vocabulary and encourage independent learning. British and American versions for each title expose learners to different varieties of English. Each book is also available with a CD-ROM with additional vocabulary practice activities and a complete audio recording. The accompanying website includes lesson plans and worksheets for every title, as well as teaching tips and a level placement test giving teachers all the support they need to encourage extensive reading amongst their students.

Discover the pleasure of reading with this new seven-level series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks specifically written for teenagers and young adults. From the Highlands to its islands, from terrifying tales of history to its modern cities such as Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland has a fascinating story to tell. Explore the country through its fantastic festivals, innovative inventions, and much more. Graded to seven levels with the teenage language learner in mind, Cambridge Discovery Readers exposes students to English in a lively and engaging way. Attractive and original illustrations help students to check their understanding, while integrated activities consolidate new vocabulary and encourage independent learning. British and American versions for each title expose learners to different varieties of English. Each book is also available with a CD-ROM with additional vocabulary practice activities and a complete audio recording. The accompanying website includes lesson plans and worksheets for every title, as well as teaching tips and a level placement test giving teachers all the support they need to encourage extensive reading amongst their students.

The new graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. Further adventures for twins Andy and Mary (A Little Trouble in Amsterdam, Level 2). This time Andy and Mary, are away with their father in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales in the UK. After discovering a locked door in a supposedly abandoned mine, Mary's curiosity is aroused. What is someone hiding in the mine? And who is the man watching them through the binoculars? This paperback is in British English. It is also available with a CD-ROM and Audio CD with vocabulary games and complete text recordings from the book.

A four-level skills series for adults and young adults Learners can develop the skills they need to use English confidently wherever they are — at home, at work, travelling, studying or just in social situations with English-speaking friends. This edition comes without answers.

Over the last two centuries, Ireland has produced some of the world's most outstanding and best-loved poets, from Thomas Moore to W. B. Yeats to Seamus Heaney. This introduction not only provides an essential overview of the history and development of poetry in Ireland, but also offers new approaches to aspects of the field. Justin Quinn argues that the language issues of Irish poetry have been misconceived and re-examines the divide between Gaelic and Anglophone poetry. Quinn suggests an alternative to both nationalist and revisionist interpretations and fundamentally challenges existing ideas of Irish poetry. This lucid book offers a rich contextual background against which to read the individual works, and pays close attention to the major poems and poets. Readers and students of Irish poetry will learn much from Quinn's sharp and critically acute account.

This book teaches the basics of academic essay writing to intermediate-level students. In Writers at Work: The Essay, students use the process approach to write different genres of essays common at the post-secondary level. Each chapter uses a five-step approach in which students brainstorm ideas, write a first draft, revise their work following peer feedback, and share their finished work.

A collection of photocopiable activities specially written for ESOL teachers, based on and clearly referenced to the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum. A collection of photocopiable activities specially written for ESOL teachers, based on and clearly referenced to the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum.Adapting traditional materials to make them relevant for your ESOL lessons takes precious time and considerable effort. ESOL Activities takes the hard work out of lesson preparation with a selection of activities based on, and clearly referenced to, the Adult ESOL Core Curriculum. Written by experienced ESOL teachers, each volume offers carefully selected skills activities ideal for students of general ESOL courses in the UK and Ireland, as well as learners preparing for the UK Skills for Life examinations, ESOL for Work examinations and government citizenship tests. Each of the activities is free-standing, and comprehensive teacher's notes give a clear indication of the preparation required, as well as suggestions for adapting the tasks for different learning abilities. There are also self-study exercises linked to every activity, which are perfect for use as ready-made homework tasks.This volume is suitable for Entry Level 1.

Modern Russian history began with the «Great Reforms» of 1861-4 which emancipated the serfs and introduced public self-government to assist the state in managing rural administration and change. In this capacity, peasant and zemstvo self-government, established partly on the basis of Western administrative theory, was important to the solvency of the entire state, autocracy's political evolution, and the fate of the rural gentry, peasants, and townspeople. This book is the first full-scale account of the development of rural self-government from the «Great Reforms» to its bureaucratization in the counterreforms of 1889-90 and their implementation during the following decade. Drawing on a wide range of archival material in Moscow and Leningrad, Pearson pinpoints the concrete problems that Russian officials experienced in introducing rural self-government, and shows that the land captain and zemstvo counterreforms, like the earlier «Great Reforms», resulted from practical statist considerations.

Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book argues that improved body consciousness can relieve these problems and enhance one's knowledge, performance, and pleasure. The body is our basic medium of perception and action, but focused attention to its feelings and movements has long been criticized as a damaging distraction that also ethically corrupts through self-absorption. In Body Consciousness, Richard Shusterman refutes such charges by engaging the most influential twentieth-century somatic philosophers and incorporating insights from both Western and Asian disciplines of body-mind awareness.

This book studies the important issue of the possibility of conceptual change--a possibility traditionally denied by logicians--from the perspective of philosophy of mathematics. The author also looks at aspects of language, and his conclusions have implications for a theory of concepts, truth and thought. The book will appeal to readers in the philosophy of mathematics, logic, and the philosophy of mind and language.

The defining feature of relevant logic is that it forces the premises of an argument to be really used and thus become «relevant» in deriving its conclusion. This book introduces the reader to relevant logic and provides it with a philosophical interpretation. The logic is analyzed in the context of possible world semantics and situation semantics, which are then applied to provide an understanding of the various logical particles (especially implication and negation) and natural language conditionals. The book concludes by examining various applications of relevant logic.

When is it correct to say that a person's freedom is restricted? Kristján Kristjánsson offers a critical analysis of the main components of a theory of negative liberty: the nature of obstacles and constraints, the weight of obstacles, and the relation of freedom to power and autonomy. Through this discussion, which examines much of the contemporary work on political freedom, he develops his own theory of negative liberty, the so-called «responsibility view», which meets many of the goals of advocates of positive liberty while retaining its distinctive «negative» nature.

The volume offers an explanatory account of the progress of academic language proficiency testing in the UK (and later Australia), from the British Council's English Proficiency Test Battery (EPTB), through the revolutionary English Language Testing Service (ELTS) to the present solution of IELTS. The three stages of academic language testing in the UK over the last 50 years move from grammar through real life to features of language use. At the same time, comparison of predictive validities suggests that all three measures account for very similar shares of the variance (about 10%) and that therefore the choice of an academic language proficiency test is determined only in part by predictive validity: other factors such as test delivery, test renewal in response to fashion, research and impact on stakeholders, and assessment of all four language skills are also important.

A learner's dictionary that includes school curriculum vocabulary. This dictionary is perfect for students studying school subjects in English. All the words you need, from chemistry to geography, maths to economics, are explained in clear, simple language. Useful notes on grammar, collocation and common learner errors as well as thousands of example sentences help you understand and use words in a natural way. The dictionary has hundreds of useful illustrations, and a centre section to help with your studies. The unique study section focuses on useful study techniques and topics such as writing essays, using numbers and developing revision skills. Word Partner boxes show how words are used together, and Learner Error notes taken from the Cambridge Learner Corpus — based on real student errors from Cambridge ESOL papers — help you to avoid typical mistakes.

The Touchstone Video Resource Book contains photocopiable student worksheets and step-by-step teaching notes detailing how to use the worksheets and exploit the video in class. Quizzes are also included.

The Touchstone Video Resource Book contains photocopiable student worksheets and step-by-step teaching notes detailing how to use the worksheets and exploit the video in class. Quizzes are also included.

Easy and enjoyable to teach, Touchstone offers a fresh approach to the teaching and learning of English. The Touchstone Video Resource Book contains photocopiable student worksheets and step-by-step teaching notes detailing how to use the worksheets and exploit the video in class. Quizzes are also included.

Easy and enjoyable to teach, Touchstone offers a fresh approach to the teaching and learning of English. The Touchstone Video Resource Book contains photocopiable student worksheets and step-by-step teaching notes detailing how to use the worksheets and exploit the video in class. Quizzes are also included.

Passages, Second Edition, is a thoroughly revised edition of Passages, the successful two-level, multi-skills course that takes adult and young-adult learners of English from the high-intermediate to advanced level. The interleaved Teacher's Edition features complete teaching instructions, audio scripts, answer keys, and fresh ideas for presenting and expanding upon the main exercise types in the Student's Book. Also included are written and oral quizzes for each unit, language summaries, and photocopiable games, readings, and projects.

Using the popular medium of Microsoft Office(r), the Cambridge ICT Starters series offers a complete ICT course for children from five years of age. Through lively activities, illustrations and screen displays, key skills such as how to make multimedia presentations are learnt.

Using the popular medium of Microsoft Office(r), the Cambridge ICT Starters series offers a complete ICT course for children from five years of age. Through lively activities, illustrations and screen displays, key skills such as how to make multimedia presentations are learnt.

Using the popular medium of Microsoft Office(r), the Cambridge ICT Starters series offers a complete ICT course for children from five years of age. Through lively activities, illustrations and screen displays, key skills such as how to make multimedia presentations are learnt.

Using the popular medium of Microsoft Office(r), the Cambridge ICT Starters series offers a complete ICT course for children from five years of age. Through lively activities, illustrations and screen displays, key skills such as how to make multimedia presentations are learnt.

Using the popular medium of Microsoft Office(r), the Cambridge ICT Starters series offers a complete ICT course for children from five years of age. Through lively activities, illustrations and screen displays, key skills such as how to make multimedia presentations are learnt.