Oxford University Press

An excellent grounding in all four language skills. — The course is built on a clear structural syllabus, providing young children with a solid foundation in all four language skills and the confidence to communicate effectively. — Vocabulary and structures are presented at a pace young children can follow and are continuously recycled and revised, ensuring steady progress. — Language is presented and practised through varied and enjoyable activities, including songs, games, and a delightful storyline featuring the adventures of a group of children, clowns, and a monkey. — A 'You and Me' section in every unit allows children to personalize their learning by talking about themselves and doing very simple project work. — Attractive illustrations, photographs, and a large sheet of colourful activity stickers all help to keep motivation high. — The optional Starter Book is an ideal foundation book for learners unfamiliar with the Roman alphabet.

An excellent grounding in all four language skills. — The course is built on a clear structural syllabus, providing young children with a solid foundation in all four language skills and the confidence to communicate effectively. — Vocabulary and structures are presented at a pace young children can follow and are continuously recycled and revised, ensuring steady progress. — Language is presented and practised through varied and enjoyable activities, including songs, games, and a delightful storyline featuring the adventures of a group of children, clowns, and a monkey. — A 'You and Me' section in every unit allows children to personalize their learning by talking about themselves and doing very simple project work. — Attractive illustrations, photographs, and a large sheet of colourful activity stickers all help to keep motivation high. — The optional Starter Book is an ideal foundation book for learners unfamiliar with the Roman alphabet.

An excellent grounding in all four language skills. — The course is built on a clear structural syllabus, providing young children with a solid foundation in all four language skills and the confidence to communicate effectively. — Vocabulary and structures are presented at a pace young children can follow and are continuously recycled and revised, ensuring steady progress. — Language is presented and practised through varied and enjoyable activities, including songs, games, and a delightful storyline featuring the adventures of a group of children, clowns, and a monkey. — A 'You and Me' section in every unit allows children to personalize their learning by talking about themselves and doing very simple project work. — Attractive illustrations, photographs, and a large sheet of colourful activity stickers all help to keep motivation high. — The optional Starter Book is an ideal foundation book for learners unfamiliar with the Roman alphabet.

This monograph extends the basic concepts of Darwinian evolution to accommodate recent findings and perspectives from the fields of biology, physics, chemistry and mathematics. The book drives to the heart of the debate on the origins of life and the maintenance of order in complex biological systems. It focuses on the concept of self-organization — the first time this concept has been incorporated into evolutionary theory. The author shows how complex systems, contrary to expectations, can spontaneously exhibit stunning degrees of order, and how this order in turn is essential for the emergence and development of life on Earth.

This is a sociolinguistic study of how people create and exchange coherent oral life stories. Linde claims such stories serve a number of psychological and social purposes, including the development and expression of a sense of self and the solidification and definition of relationships and group memberships. She focuses on different coherence systems, including `common sense' and its peculiarly American nature.

- A fascinating guide to our language and its history. — The principal authority on the origin and development of English words.

A three-level course reflecting the interests of young teenagers. — WOW! takes the form of a lively (fictitious) TV programme for young people which is itself called WOW!, or Window on the World. It appeals directly to young teenage learners by following the familiar conventions and genres of youth TV: quizzes, travel reports, documentary features, interviews and cartoons across a range of lively and often exciting topics. — It has a clear structural syllabus which provides students with a systematic and thorough foundation in grammar, from the simple present to the third conditional. Grammar points are clearly identified, explained, and practised through the imaginative contexts provided by the television programme format. — Everyday functional English is taught through regular, humorous cartoon sketches. Controlled development of all four language skills, pronunciation, and vocabulary are also systematically covered throughout the three levels. — Each level provides 90-120 hours of work and consists of twenty units divided into three parts. The first two parts present and practise new structures and functions, and the third part recycles the new language (through an exciting serial story in level 1, and through integrated skills development in levels 2 and 3). — Every second unit is followed by a revision and extension section which recycles and develops the grammar, vocabulary, and skills that have been covered in the units. — Supplementary Grammar and Practice Books at each level provide further explanations and practice of the grammar syllabus. The exercises are easy for the student to understand and can be done as homework or revision without the teacher's guidance.

A course for people studying computer science or working with computers. It covers a wide range of computing areas, giving practice in all four language skills. Particular emphasis is placed on the vocabulary and grammar of the English used in computer science.

A course for people studying computer science or working with computers. It covers a wide range of computing areas, giving practice in all four language skills. Particular emphasis is placed on the vocabulary and grammar of the English used in computer science.

This reader is aimed at students with an advanced knowledge of the English language. It is a collection exploring the trials of life from youth to old age, featuring stories by Evelyn Waugh, Saki, Roald Dahl, Susan Hill, Raymond Carver and Frank Sargeson.

A selection of short stories in the Bookworm Collection series. The texts are neither graded nor adapted, and each book contains biographical information about the authors, notes on the texts, and language activities.

A unique anthology which casts its net far and wide across seven centuries of unaccompanied European choral music, this book is a fascinating selection of thirty pieces, ideal for enterprising choirs looking for something out of the ordinary to enliven their repertoire. Diversity and eclecticism are the hallmarks of this stimulating collection: the pieces range from two to eight voices; from monuments of the Renaissance to miniature canons by Lawes, Schubert, and Brahms; from Sumer is icumen in to Stanford and Grieg. This is a truly European anthology, encompassing the music of composers from England, France, Spain, Norway, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. The contents are arranged chronologically, and though they include a few classics of the genre that no such survey can afford to ignore, the majority of pieces are unjustifiably lesser known. All are newly edited from their sources, at original pitch and in original note-values wherever practical; minimal editorial intervention allows this music to breathe afresh. There are notes on each piece, and prose translation for non-English texts.

This is a collection of contributed essays on the social history of the English language. It will be the second volume in the Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics series, edited by Edward Finegan. Linguists are increasingly aware that external social contact can be as significant as internal grammatical structure in instigating and determining the direction of changes within a language's syntax, phonology, and lexicon. Despite this fact, however, existing textbooks on the history of English give scant attention to this sociolinguistic perspective. The present work is designed to serve as a much needed supplement to such texts. The essays in the volume, written by recognized authorities in their fields, address each of the traditional periods of English. Topics covered include: the social status and uses of English, the relations between English and co-existent languages, the relations between varieties of spoken and written language, language as a political and socio-economic instrument, and attitudes towards varieties of English. The book should attract supplementary use in courses in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics as well as in the history of the English language.

Focusing on rapid vocabulary development as an effective means to early communicative confidence, this title has a gradual syllabus which never overloads the student and incorporates cyclical revision. It also offers practice material, including role-play, transfer activities, songs, and games.

Focusing on rapid vocabulary development as an effective means to early communicative confidence, this title has a gradual syllabus which never overloads the student and incorporates cyclical revision. It also offers practice material, including role-play, transfer activities, songs, and games.

A three-level course reflecting the interests of young teenagers. — WOW! takes the form of a lively (fictitious) TV programme for young people which is itself called WOW!, or Window on the World. It appeals directly to young teenage learners by following the familiar conventions and genres of youth TV: quizzes, travel reports, documentary features, interviews and cartoons across a range of lively and often exciting topics. — It has a clear structural syllabus which provides students with a systematic and thorough foundation in grammar, from the simple present to the third conditional. Grammar points are clearly identified, explained, and practised through the imaginative contexts provided by the television programme format. — Everyday functional English is taught through regular, humorous cartoon sketches. Controlled development of all four language skills, pronunciation, and vocabulary are also systematically covered throughout the three levels. — Each level provides 90-120 hours of work and consists of twenty units divided into three parts. The first two parts present and practise new structures and functions, and the third part recycles the new language (through an exciting serial story in level 1, and through integrated skills development in levels 2 and 3). — Every second unit is followed by a revision and extension section which recycles and develops the grammar, vocabulary, and skills that have been covered in the units. — Supplementary Grammar and Practice Books at each level provide further explanations and practice of the grammar syllabus. The exercises are easy for the student to understand and can be done as homework or revision without the teacher's guidance.

An advanced-level programme which offers a complete pronunciation package for English language students studying English literature. It provides a thorough grounding in the basic rules and patterns of English pronunciation from individual sounds to sentence stress, connected speech and intonation.

Part of a four-year course for secondary students learning English, taking them from beginner to intermediate level, this teacher's text has been designed to accompany the elementary level.

A three-level course reflecting the interests of young teenagers. — WOW! takes the form of a lively (fictitious) TV programme for young people which is itself called WOW!, or Window on the World. It appeals directly to young teenage learners by following the familiar conventions and genres of youth TV: quizzes, travel reports, documentary features, interviews and cartoons across a range of lively and often exciting topics. — It has a clear structural syllabus which provides students with a systematic and thorough foundation in grammar, from the simple present to the third conditional. Grammar points are clearly identified, explained, and practised through the imaginative contexts provided by the television programme format. — Everyday functional English is taught through regular, humorous cartoon sketches. Controlled development of all four language skills, pronunciation, and vocabulary are also systematically covered throughout the three levels. — Each level provides 90-120 hours of work and consists of twenty units divided into three parts. The first two parts present and practise new structures and functions, and the third part recycles the new language (through an exciting serial story in level 1, and through integrated skills development in levels 2 and 3). — Every second unit is followed by a revision and extension section which recycles and develops the grammar, vocabulary, and skills that have been covered in the units. — Supplementary Grammar and Practice Books at each level provide further explanations and practice of the grammar syllabus. The exercises are easy for the student to understand and can be done as homework or revision without the teacher's guidance

A course which develops all-round competence in English. — There are 12 free-standing units which cover a range of important topics, such as: Types of accommodation; Dealing with complaints; The business traveller. — Each unit contains a balanced variety of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. A Language study section in each unit concentrates on the language structures that occur frequently in the context of hotel work. — The reading and listening materials are authentic wherever possible and have been put together with the co-operation of a number of hotel chains, independent hotels, and tour operators. The text types vary from formal letters to computerized bills and rooming lists. — Key vocabulary is introduced in context through the reading and listening passages, and is developed in Word study sections. The Vocabulary section at the end of each unit consists of a monolingual glossary of important words and expressions.

The «Hotline» English programme has been designed as a four-year course for secondary students, taking them from beginner to intermediate level. Distinguishing features of this programme include the contemporary use of language, project work which practices all four learning skills, constant revision, photostories, a learning diary and a pronunciation guide at the back of each text. The course features a student's book, a teacher's guide, a workbook and a cassette at every level. The workbook includes cross-cultural activities, which invite comparisons between the student's own culture and foreign cultures, in order to develop an awareness of cultural differences and similarities. There is also a self-assessment check in each workbook, which gives learners the opportunity to reflect on parts of the text which were useful, difficult or interesting, and allows them to assess their own progress.

- The series consists of six graded reading comprehension books. — Each book has ten reading passages followed by exercises which check comprehension, consolidate grammar points, and develop vocabulary skills. — A variety of texts is featured, including adventure stories, science fiction, and factual passages. — A picture dictionary at the back of each book gives visual explanations of the words used. — Full-colour illustrations aid comprehension and add to the books' appeal.

A three-level course reflecting the interests of young teenagers. — WOW! takes the form of a lively (fictitious) TV programme for young people which is itself called WOW!, or Window on the World. It appeals directly to young teenage learners by following the familiar conventions and genres of youth TV: quizzes, travel reports, documentary features, interviews and cartoons across a range of lively and often exciting topics. — It has a clear structural syllabus which provides students with a systematic and thorough foundation in grammar, from the simple present to the third conditional. Grammar points are clearly identified, explained, and practised through the imaginative contexts provided by the television programme format. — Everyday functional English is taught through regular, humorous cartoon sketches. Controlled development of all four language skills, pronunciation, and vocabulary are also systematically covered throughout the three levels. — Each level provides 90-120 hours of work and consists of twenty units divided into three parts. The first two parts present and practise new structures and functions, and the third part recycles the new language (through an exciting serial story in level 1, and through integrated skills development in levels 2 and 3). — Every second unit is followed by a revision and extension section which recycles and develops the grammar, vocabulary, and skills that have been covered in the units. — Supplementary Grammar and Practice Books at each level provide further explanations and practice of the grammar syllabus. The exercises are easy for the student to understand and can be done as homework or revision without the teacher's guidance.

A three-level course reflecting the interests of young teenagers. — WOW! takes the form of a lively (fictitious) TV programme for young people which is itself called WOW!, or Window on the World. It appeals directly to young teenage learners by following the familiar conventions and genres of youth TV: quizzes, travel reports, documentary features, interviews and cartoons across a range of lively and often exciting topics. — It has a clear structural syllabus which provides students with a systematic and thorough foundation in grammar, from the simple present to the third conditional. Grammar points are clearly identified, explained, and practised through the imaginative contexts provided by the television programme format. — Everyday functional English is taught through regular, humorous cartoon sketches. Controlled development of all four language skills, pronunciation, and vocabulary are also systematically covered throughout the three levels. — Each level provides 90-120 hours of work and consists of twenty units divided into three parts. The first two parts present and practise new structures and functions, and the third part recycles the new language (through an exciting serial story in level 1, and through integrated skills development in levels 2 and 3). — Every second unit is followed by a revision and extension section which recycles and develops the grammar, vocabulary, and skills that have been covered in the units. — Supplementary Grammar and Practice Books at each level provide further explanations and practice of the grammar syllabus. The exercises are easy for the student to understand and can be done as homework or revision without the teacher's guidance.