Oxford University Press

The Pre-intermediate coursebook that gets students talking, and that helps teachers and students more than any other.

The Pre-intermediate coursebook that gets students talking, and that helps teachers and students more than any other.

A series that prepares students for secondary school-leaving exams.

A series that prepares students for secondary school-leaving exams.

The completely new editions of English File 1 and 2, based on the principles that have made English File so popular. Key features: 100% new lessons that work, that are fun, and that get students talking. An expanded Vocabulary Bank. A new Grammar Bank section with rules and exercises. Practical English lessons, a focus on functional language supported by the New English File Study Link Videos. The same unequalled level of teacher support. More photocopiable materials for teachers, with an extra grammar and communicative activity for every lesson.

The Pre-intermediate coursebook that gets students talking, and that helps teachers and students more than any other. Key features English File gets students talking — fun, motivating lessons that really work. English File helps teachers — the best Teacher's Book there is, full of extra ideas and photocopiables, and a great teacher's website. English File helps students — a full student package including Workbook, MultiROM, and website, all working together and cross-referenced by Study Link.

With each page focusing on one verb, this title offers graphs, diagrams, and illustrations to help learners understand and remember. It includes review pages to consolidate learning, and an answer key for reference. Designed for self-study, it can also be used in the classroom, and is useful in preparing for BEC and other Business English exams.

It's time for lots of noisy fun! Flip flop, flip flap, clickety-clickety clackety clack! Slurp some spaghetti, crash and bang, hear the trees go ping and the mice go clang! This is a perfect first collection of noisy poems for sharing aloud, delightfully illustrated by award-winning artist Nick Sharratt.

Max's little sister, Sadie, is cute, cuddly — and a real nuisance! Smash! There goes his snow den. Splash! That's the end of his nice quiet swim. Max wishes she'd just go somewhere else, so that things can go back to the way they used to be — just him and Mum. But when he and Sadie are caught in a snowstorm, Max proves what a brilliant big brother he can be.

This is a delightful first poetry book in a picture book format, illustrated in colour throughout by award-winning artist Nick Sharratt. The poems are just right for this age bracket with themes such as wishing for snow, putting up decorations, peeking at your Christmas stocking, delivering presents by rocket ship and of course baby Jesus. Poets include Tony Mitton, Julia Donaldson, Hiawyn Oram, and Judith Nicholls.

Previously published as At Home with Reading, this title has been fully revised and updated to ensure it is in line with current National Curriculum requirements. The design has also been changed to make the activities clearer and easier to follow. Covers matching pictures, sequencing, initial sounds, recognizing same letters, the alphabet, matching words, prepositions, sentences and rhyming words.

Previously published as At Home with Writing, this title has been fully revised and updated to ensure it is in line with current National Curriculum requirements. The design has also been changed to make the activities clearer and easier to follow. Covers straight pathways, drawing pathways, writing and recognizing letters.

Previously published as At Home with Counting, this title has been fully revised and updated to ensure it is in line with current National Curriculum requirements. The design has also been changed to make the activities clearer and easier to follow. Covers numbers 1-20, missing numbers, recognizing sets, counting, sequencing, adding, number bands, more/less than.

Previously published as At Home with Shape & Size, this title has been fully revised and updated to ensure it is in line with current National Curriculum requirements. The design has also been changed to make the activities clearer and easier to follow. Covers matching shapes, sets of shapes, 2D shapes, same/different in shapes, sets and patterns, completing pattern, repeating pattern and symmetry, same/different sizes, comparative sizes, positional words, 3D shapes.

Previously published as At Home with Numbers, this title has been fully revised and updated to ensure it is in line with current National Curriculum requirements. The design has also been changed to make the activities clearer and easier to follow. Covers number recognition, sets, counting, more and less, adding and subtracting.

This best-selling dictionary contains over 9,000 entries on all aspects of science. It provides comprehensive coverage of biology (including human biology), chemistry, physics, the earth sciences, and astronomy. The entries are supported by over 200 clear diagrams and illustrations, and fully cross-referenced for ease of use. Other features include short biographies of leading scientists, full page illustrated features on subjects such as the Solar System and Genetically Modified Organisms, and chronologies of specific scientific subjects including plastics, electronics, and cell biology. Both concise and wide-ranging, this dictionary is an ideal handy reference work for students, and a great introduction for non-scientists.

Children are fascinated by traditions in different cultures and religions and this anthology celebrates the diversity of festivals around the world. Taking the reader through the year, there are poems about the lion dance in Singapore, the fishing festival in Nigeria, the doll festival in Japan and many more, as well as celebrations much loved in the UK. Useful footnotes give extra details about the festivals, making them really come to life. Poets include John Agard, Judith Nicholls, Wes Magee and Jack Prelutsky, and the collection is fully illustrated in colour and black and white.

Presents a text that encourages very young children to walk and talk like the animals — including waddling like a penguin, stomping like a rhino, and jumping and wiggling to the monkey bop. On the accompanying CD, it is narrated over a calypso melody and punctuated with boisterous animal noises.

Presents a funny text that encourages very young children to walk and talk like the animals — including waddling like a penguin, stomping like a rhino and jiving and jiggling and jumping and wiggling to the monkey bop. It is entertaining with of scope for interaction and play.

Why do we measure time in the way that we do? At what point did minutes and seconds come into being? This book explores time measurement and the organisation of time into hours, days, months and years using a range of examples, from Ancient Rome and Julius Caesar's Leap Year, to the 1920s' project for a fixed Easter.

Printed music and writing about music involve the use of complex systems of notation and a wealth of technical terms in several languages. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms provides clear, succinct, definitions of a comprehensive range of the musical terms, in English and other European languages, that are likely to be encountered in Western music. Over 2,500 A-Z entries range across a spectrum of subjects, among them: rhythm, metre, forms, genres, pitch, scales, chords, harmony and counterpoint, notational systems, composition and analysis, performance practice, tempo, expression, musical periods, artistic movements, computer applications, acoustics, and many more. Entries provide etymologies, and are fully cross-referenced. Some are illustrated with music examples and tables. An appendix lists all composers mentioned in the Dictionary, with their dates. It is an ideal book for students and teachers of music — it covers all the terms required in the SMAB musical theory exams — as well as for professional musicians, those learning to play musical instruments, and members of choirs, and musical groups. It will also be a useful quick reference book for concert-goers, CD-collectors, and radio listeners.

Beautiful Bananas is an imaginative picture book in the African folktale tradition. A little girl sets off through the jungle to take a beautiful bunch of bananas to her grandfather. On the way she encounters a number of wild, but friendly animals who take her bananas, but then apologize and replace them with various treats, until finally an elephant gives her another bunch of bananas. A beautiful circular tale, the kind of which often appears in folklore around the world.

From creepy school computers to bungling bank robbers; from lost villages to deadly Christmas presents... Funny and serious, exciting and intriguing, here are fourteen wonderful new mystery stories to perplex and amaze you.

This clear and concise new introduction examines all the major debates and issues using a wide range of well-known examples. It discusses the challenge of using verbal and written language to analyse a visual form. Dana Arnold also examines the many different ways of writing about art, and the changing boundaries of the subject of art history. Topics covered include the canon of Art History, the role of the gallery, 'blockbuster' exhibitions, the emergence of social histories of art (Feminist Art History or Queer Art History, for example), the impact of photography, and the development of Art History using artefacts such as the altarpiece, the portrait, or pornography, to explore social and cultural issues such as consumption, taste, religion, and politics. Importantly, this book explains how the traditional emphasis on periods and styles originates in western art production and can obscure other critical approaches, as well as art from non western cultures.