Oxford University Press

This new edition of Success at First Certificate keeps all the features that have made it so popular and can successfully be used as a preparation course for upper intermediate exams throughout the world.

A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities. • It has a carefully graded, structural syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. • The emphasis on grammar and vocabulary acquisition is combined with many opportunities for lively communicative tasks. • New language is presented in context through picture stories and a variety of entertaining characters. Practice and reinforcement is provided by child-centred activities such as songs, rhymes, and games. • Colourful illustrations and photographs provide visual explanations and make the pages bright and attractive. • The clear presentation makes it suitable for use even in large classes. • The Get Set — Go! Alphabet Book is an optional component to accompany the series, which teaches children the Roman alphabet.

A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities. • It has a carefully graded, structural syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. • The emphasis on grammar and vocabulary acquisition is combined with many opportunities for lively communicative tasks. • New language is presented in context through picture stories and a variety of entertaining characters. Practice and reinforcement is provided by child-centred activities such as songs, rhymes, and games. • Colourful illustrations and photographs provide visual explanations and make the pages bright and attractive. • The clear presentation makes it suitable for use even in large classes. • The Get Set — Go! Alphabet Book is an optional component to accompany the series, which teaches children the Roman alphabet.

A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities. • It has a carefully graded, structural syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. • The emphasis on grammar and vocabulary acquisition is combined with many opportunities for lively communicative tasks. • New language is presented in context through picture stories and a variety of entertaining characters. Practice and reinforcement is provided by child-centred activities such as songs, rhymes, and games. • Colourful illustrations and photographs provide visual explanations and make the pages bright and attractive. • The clear presentation makes it suitable for use even in large classes. • The Get Set — Go! Alphabet Book is an optional component to accompany the series, which teaches children the Roman alphabet.

A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities. • It has a carefully graded, structural syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. • The emphasis on grammar and vocabulary acquisition is combined with many opportunities for lively communicative tasks. • New language is presented in context through picture stories and a variety of entertaining characters. Practice and reinforcement is provided by child-centred activities such as songs, rhymes, and games. • Colourful illustrations and photographs provide visual explanations and make the pages bright and attractive. • The clear presentation makes it suitable for use even in large classes. • The Get Set — Go! Alphabet Book is an optional component to accompany the series, which teaches children the Roman alphabet.

An innovative course in language and communication skills. — Uses communication skills as its main focus. Goes beyond traditional language skills to teach the strategies and techniques (both verbal and non-verbal) that we all use to convey even the simplest message. — Encourages learners to try out a broad range of communication activities within the framework of a carefully graded and structured language course. — Organized around nine broad communicative themes. Topics range from 'Starting a conversation' and 'Saying the right thing' to non-verbal techniques such as 'Gesture', 'Eye contact' and 'Body language'. — Each unit includes: varied listening practice, discussion of cultural differences, vocabulary-building, quizzes and puzzles, and role plays. Each unit ends with a 'Language Focus' section to reinforce essential grammar. — Active Grammar appendix provides further information and exercises on the main grammar points covered. Contains additional grammar points that are not actively taught but which are still useful and relevant to students at this level.

I-Spy is an imaginative four-part course for children starting English at primary school. I-Spy provides: • A spiral syllabus, to ensure thorough recycling of language. • Lively, original cassette material, to develop listening skills and pronunciation. • Challenging, interesting tasks, to train children in learning skills. • Humorous, imaginative characters and cartoons, to create an enjoyable learning context. • The Rubbish cartoon, to encourage listening and reading for pleasure. I-Spy 2 materials: • Course Book. • Activity Book. • Teacher's Pack (Teacher's Book, Photocopy Masters Book, and Passwords Poster) with online support. • Cassettes. • Poster Pack. • Flashcard Pack. • Student's Site with games and competitions at www.oup.com/elt/i-spy.

A motivating three-level course with a clear, coherent structure and built-in flexibility. Lifelines combines thorough language presentation and practice with human-interest topics and texts. It provides core material of 70-100 hours per level. — An up-to-date, friendly course which draws on a wide range of approaches to provide students with the balance of reflection, practice, and use necessary for effective language learning. — The material is exceptionally involving and high in human interest — a hallmark of this popular author. — The language syllabus is clear, comprehensive, and realistic in length. — There is a discovery approach to language learning which encourages students to develop independent skills. This is reinforced by a comprehensive Grammar Reference at each level. — It combines strong skills development, systematic vocabulary work, and an emphasis on functional English, with constant recycling. At Elementary level a 'Functional Language' reference draws together the practical everyday language that students need. — An independent pronunciation syllabus introduces the IPA and covers English sounds, stress, and intonation.

A motivating three-level course with a clear, coherent structure and built-in flexibility. Lifelines combines thorough language presentation and practice with human-interest topics and texts. It provides core material of 70-100 hours per level. — An up-to-date, friendly course which draws on a wide range of approaches to provide students with the balance of reflection, practice, and use necessary for effective language learning. — The material is exceptionally involving and high in human interest — a hallmark of this popular author. — The language syllabus is clear, comprehensive, and realistic in length. — There is a discovery approach to language learning which encourages students to develop independent skills. This is reinforced by a comprehensive Grammar Reference at each level. — It combines strong skills development, systematic vocabulary work, and an emphasis on functional English, with constant recycling. At Elementary level a 'Functional Language' reference draws together the practical everyday language that students need. — An independent pronunciation syllabus introduces the IPA and covers English sounds, stress, and intonation.

This new series of video-based courses is aimed at professional people who need to improve their language and communication skills in specific business areas. Each course takes a common business function such as giving a presentation or participating in a meeting, and takes learners through a stage-by-stage analysis of the skills and language they need to perform these functions effectively in English.

A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities. • It has a carefully graded, structural syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. • The emphasis on grammar and vocabulary acquisition is combined with many opportunities for lively communicative tasks. • New language is presented in context through picture stories and a variety of entertaining characters. Practice and reinforcement is provided by child-centred activities such as songs, rhymes, and games. • Colourful illustrations and photographs provide visual explanations and make the pages bright and attractive. • The clear presentation makes it suitable for use even in large classes. • The Get Set — Go! Alphabet Book is an optional component to accompany the series, which teaches children the Roman alphabet.

A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities. • It has a carefully graded, structural syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. • The emphasis on grammar and vocabulary acquisition is combined with many opportunities for lively communicative tasks. • New language is presented in context through picture stories and a variety of entertaining characters. Practice and reinforcement is provided by child-centred activities such as songs, rhymes, and games. • Colourful illustrations and photographs provide visual explanations and make the pages bright and attractive. • The clear presentation makes it suitable for use even in large classes. • The Get Set — Go! Alphabet Book is an optional component to accompany the series, which teaches children the Roman alphabet.

A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities. • It has a carefully graded, structural syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. • The emphasis on grammar and vocabulary acquisition is combined with many opportunities for lively communicative tasks. • New language is presented in context through picture stories and a variety of entertaining characters. Practice and reinforcement is provided by child-centred activities such as songs, rhymes, and games. • Colourful illustrations and photographs provide visual explanations and make the pages bright and attractive. • The clear presentation makes it suitable for use even in large classes. • The Get Set — Go! Alphabet Book is an optional component to accompany the series, which teaches children the Roman alphabet.

A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities. • It has a carefully graded, structural syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. • The emphasis on grammar and vocabulary acquisition is combined with many opportunities for lively communicative tasks. • New language is presented in context through picture stories and a variety of entertaining characters. Practice and reinforcement is provided by child-centred activities such as songs, rhymes, and games. • Colourful illustrations and photographs provide visual explanations and make the pages bright and attractive. • The clear presentation makes it suitable for use even in large classes. • The Get Set — Go! Alphabet Book is an optional component to accompany the series, which teaches children the Roman alphabet.

A motivating three-level course with a clear, coherent structure and built-in flexibility. Lifelines combines thorough language presentation and practice with human-interest topics and texts. It provides core material of 70-100 hours per level. — An up-to-date, friendly course which draws on a wide range of approaches to provide students with the balance of reflection, practice, and use necessary for effective language learning. — The material is exceptionally involving and high in human interest — a hallmark of this popular author. — The language syllabus is clear, comprehensive, and realistic in length. — There is a discovery approach to language learning which encourages students to develop independent skills. This is reinforced by a comprehensive Grammar Reference at each level. — It combines strong skills development, systematic vocabulary work, and an emphasis on functional English, with constant recycling. At Elementary level a 'Functional Language' reference draws together the practical everyday language that students need. — An independent pronunciation syllabus introduces the IPA and covers English sounds, stress, and intonation.

Now children may Go out of doors, Without their coats, To candy stores. The apple branches And the pear May float their blossoms Through the air, And Daddy may Get out his hoe To plant tomatoes In a row, And, afterwards, May lazily Look at some baseball On TV. From May by John Updike From January to December, Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark trace all the months of the year in this rich collection of poems for children. Eight twelve poems are chosen for each month to capture the essence of a particular time and season. Narrative poems, very short poems, funny poems, sad poems — each month offers quite a variety, chosen especially for children aged 9 to 14. February boasts poems by Sara Teasdale and Walter de la Mare. April offers Langston Hughes and Tennyson. John Updike is a contributor to May and August. And the other months are made particularly memorable with poems from Emily Bronte, Longfellow, D. H. Lawrence, Rupert Brooke, Emily Dickinson, and many others. The poems are illustrated by a variety of artists in an open and easy-to-read format that blends the poetry with the artwork. Included are an index of authors and artists, and of titles and first lines. The lavish design and the thoughtful, diverse selection of poems make this an ideal resource for classroom and library, a special gift for a young poet, or the perfect choice for beginning or adding to a child's first personal library.

- Gripping adventure story, in the tradition of Peter Hopkirk's classic books on Central Asia — Colourful and opinionated descriptions of the people Burnaby encountered — not only an adventure story, but a fascinating cultural document of its time — First published in 1898; now reissued by popular demand In the savage winter of 1876 Captain Frederick Burnaby rode 1,000 miles eastwards from Constantinople to see for himself what the Russians were up to in this remote corner of the Great Game battelfield. With wars between Turkey and Russia imminent, he wanted to discover, among other things, whether the Sultan's armies were capable of resisting a determined Tsarist thrust towards Constantinople. Frederick Gustav Burnaby was no ordinary officer. For a start he was reputed to be the strongest man in the British Army. Nor was he all brawn, being fluent in seven languages and possessing a vigorous and colourful prose style--as readers of this Great Game classic will discover. With his servant Radford, he spent five months riding across some of the cruellest winter landscape in the world before hastening home to write this best-seller.

- The first comprehensive and authoritative grammar for native English speakers. — Incorporates an authoritative review of and topic reference for English grammar. — Written by one of the world's leading grammarians, The Oxford English Grammar is a completely new book which combines an authoritative review of and topic reference for English grammar. Opening with an outline of national, regional, and social variation in English, the book details descriptive and prescriptive approaches, and attitudes to English amongst both native and non-native speakers. This is followed by an account of the development of grammar, and a review of modern approaches to this complex subject. The central section of the book is a presentation of current English grammar at sentence, clause, phrase, and word level; with the last chapters covering grammar in relation to discourse, word-formation, lexis, pronunciation and intonation, punctuation, and spelling. A full index is provided, and examples of usage are drawn from a wide range of sources, including use of the new International Corpus of English at University College London. Written in a readable and absorbing style, The Oxford English Grammar is an essential reference for English-speakers around the world.

A readable introduction to British institutions, attitudes and daily life. • Covers in 23 chapters all aspects of British life, giving students a real insight into what it means to live in Britain. • Gives the essential facts about Britain and looks at the attitudes and beliefs which shape them. • Describes both the public face of Britain — the Britain of the national and international news — and the private daily life of the British people. • Provides lots of detailed extra information alongside the main text, often in the form of charts and graphs, extracts from popular fiction and newspapers and so on. • Asks questions at the end of each chapter to encourage analysis of the text and to stimulate cross-cultural comparisons. • Is attractively illustrated in full colour. • Provides suggestions for further reading. • Includes a detailed index to make it easy to locate specific items of information.

Topic-based skills training for teenagers. • The aim of the series is to develop confidence and fluency in each of the four major language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. • It provides both skills training and language practice within a clear structural and lexical framework. • At each level, the four skills are covered in two books which can be used in parallel or separately: Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking. • Each unit in Reading and Writing requires students to read and understand a text before producing their own written work. In Listening and Speaking learners listen to a recorded text and produce related oral work. • Within each book there is a systematic development of sub-skills such as reading for gist and for detail, writing drafts, listening for gist, negotiating, and using context to guess meaning. • The 'spiral' syllabus introduces sub-skills, practises them thoroughly, then recycles and develops them throughout the series. • The grammatical syllabus is clearly set out along with the skills syllabus. The controlled language base allows teachers to fit the material easily around the syllabus of any main coursebook. • The series is specifically designed to appeal to teenagers, with topics of interest to the age-group and eye-catching, full-colour artwork.

A supplementary skills series for teenagers in which the four skills are divided into two strands — Reading and Writing, and Listening and Speaking. Double Take develops skills and gives opportunities for language practice within a clear structural and lexical framework.

A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities. • It has a carefully graded, structural syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. • The emphasis on grammar and vocabulary acquisition is combined with many opportunities for lively communicative tasks. • New language is presented in context through picture stories and a variety of entertaining characters. Practice and reinforcement is provided by child-centred activities such as songs, rhymes, and games. • Colourful illustrations and photographs provide visual explanations and make the pages bright and attractive. • The clear presentation makes it suitable for use even in large classes. • The Get Set — Go! Alphabet Book is an optional component to accompany the series, which teaches children the Roman alphabet.

A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities. • It has a carefully graded, structural syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. • The emphasis on grammar and vocabulary acquisition is combined with many opportunities for lively communicative tasks. • New language is presented in context through picture stories and a variety of entertaining characters. Practice and reinforcement is provided by child-centred activities such as songs, rhymes, and games. • Colourful illustrations and photographs provide visual explanations and make the pages bright and attractive. • The clear presentation makes it suitable for use even in large classes. • The Get Set — Go! Alphabet Book is an optional component to accompany the series, which teaches children the Roman alphabet.

A structural syllabus combined with child-centred activities. • It has a carefully graded, structural syllabus which provides steady progression in all four skills. • The emphasis on grammar and vocabulary acquisition is combined with many opportunities for lively communicative tasks. • New language is presented in context through picture stories and a variety of entertaining characters. Practice and reinforcement is provided by child-centred activities such as songs, rhymes, and games. • Colourful illustrations and photographs provide visual explanations and make the pages bright and attractive. • The clear presentation makes it suitable for use even in large classes. • The Get Set — Go! Alphabet Book is an optional component to accompany the series, which teaches children the Roman alphabet.