'My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories.' But those childhood days are long gone, and now a great distance divides sister and brother, children and mother. The stories in this volume of World Stories come from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The writers are Romesh Gunesekera, M. Athar Tahir, Chitra Divakaruni, Anu Kumar, Anne Ranasinghe, Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Vijita Fernando, and Amara Bavani Dev.
Ideal for elementary or pre-intermediate learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.'For me, Watson, life is not so interesting,' says Holmes. 'I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days?'Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man runs up the stairs to Holmes' room. He has a story to tell about a strange crime that took place in Norwood. But who is the criminal? And is he dangerous? Life, for Holmes, suddenly starts to get interesting.
What?s up? Essentials Your student will? Be inspired and motivated by the fresh original topics and dynamic and varied activities. Learn more than just English with a wealth of cross-curricular content that ranges from Maths to Music and from Science to Citizenship. Know exactly what to do at all times with clearly-presented objectives and attractive intuitive design and structure. You will? Feel confident that your are covering all the requirements of the curriculum with a balanced and carefully-designed syllabus that gives equal weight to grammar, vocabulary and the four skills. Meet the needs of all your students with a wide range of supplementary and assessment materials that cater specifically for mixed-ability groups. Specific books to help ALL your students follow your classes. Your student will? Follow the class more easily with simpler exercises and instructions and explanations in Spanish. Feel more integrated. Use full-colour, attractive books. You will? Help students reach achievable goals with reduced contents. Work in parallel with Essentials and the normal Student?s book in the same class, as they both feature the same structure and methodology. Have all the answers available in separate booklet. www.pearsonELT.es
Everybody took photos of Prince William when he first arrived at the University of St Andrews. Crowds of photographers came to the little Scottish town next to the sea and took pictures of this new student the nineteen-year-old grandson of the Queen of England. But nobody photographed Kate Middleton on her first day at the university. She moved in quietly, ready to begin her studies in art history. She was just an ordinary student with an ordinary future in front of her. Or was she?
Ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money.But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.
Great stories to read and enjoy, with language support, activities, and projects. Level 5 contains 900 headwords.It's a normal day. Rosie and Alice are in the backyard. But there's something in the bushes - can it be a dinosaur? What's happening? Ben and Max need to find Grandpa, but he's not at home he's 400 million years away!
Ideal for new learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.In Hamburg, Germany, Professor Otto Lidenbrock comes home with an old Icelandic book. In it there is a message about a journey to the centre of the Earth.This is the beginning of one of Jules Verne's most exciting stories.'Is this message true? We must go to Iceland and see!' says Lidenbrock excitedly. But his nephew, Axel, wants to stay at home.Can Lidenbrock and Axel - and their Icelandic guide, Hans - find the centre of the Earth? And can they all get home alive after their many underground adventures?
Ideal for elementary or pre-intermediate learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully ... It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!'In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend - or an enemy?
Ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. 'When we are happy, we are always good,' says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy.'Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party.
'My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories.' But those childhood days are long gone, and now a great distance divides sister and brother, children and mother. The stories in this volume of World Stories come from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The writers are Romesh Gunesekera, M. Athar Tahir, Chitra Divakaruni, Anu Kumar, Anne Ranasinghe, Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Vijita Fernando, and Amara Bavani Dev.
Ideal for elementary or pre-intermediate learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.'For me, Watson, life is not so interesting,' says Holmes. 'I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days?'Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man runs up the stairs to Holmes' room. He has a story to tell about a strange crime that took place in Norwood. But who is the criminal? And is he dangerous? Life, for Holmes, suddenly starts to get interesting.
What?s up? Essentials Your student will? Be inspired and motivated by the fresh original topics and dynamic and varied activities. Learn more than just English with a wealth of cross-curricular content that ranges from Maths to Music and from Science to Citizenship. Know exactly what to do at all times with clearly-presented objectives and attractive intuitive design and structure. You will? Feel confident that your are covering all the requirements of the curriculum with a balanced and carefully-designed syllabus that gives equal weight to grammar, vocabulary and the four skills. Meet the needs of all your students with a wide range of supplementary and assessment materials that cater specifically for mixed-ability groups. Specific books to help ALL your students follow your classes. Your student will? Follow the class more easily with simpler exercises and instructions and explanations in Spanish. Feel more integrated. Use full-colour, attractive books. You will? Help students reach achievable goals with reduced contents. Work in parallel with Essentials and the normal Student?s book in the same class, as they both feature the same structure and methodology. Have all the answers available in separate booklet. www.pearsonELT.es
Everybody took photos of Prince William when he first arrived at the University of St Andrews. Crowds of photographers came to the little Scottish town next to the sea and took pictures of this new student the nineteen-year-old grandson of the Queen of England. But nobody photographed Kate Middleton on her first day at the university. She moved in quietly, ready to begin her studies in art history. She was just an ordinary student with an ordinary future in front of her. Or was she?
Ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money.But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.
Great stories to read and enjoy, with language support, activities, and projects. Level 5 contains 900 headwords.It's a normal day. Rosie and Alice are in the backyard. But there's something in the bushes - can it be a dinosaur? What's happening? Ben and Max need to find Grandpa, but he's not at home he's 400 million years away!
Ideal for new learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.In Hamburg, Germany, Professor Otto Lidenbrock comes home with an old Icelandic book. In it there is a message about a journey to the centre of the Earth.This is the beginning of one of Jules Verne's most exciting stories.'Is this message true? We must go to Iceland and see!' says Lidenbrock excitedly. But his nephew, Axel, wants to stay at home.Can Lidenbrock and Axel - and their Icelandic guide, Hans - find the centre of the Earth? And can they all get home alive after their many underground adventures?
Ideal for elementary or pre-intermediate learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully ... It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!'In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend - or an enemy?
Ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. 'When we are happy, we are always good,' says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy.'Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party.