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Extensive reading is essential for improving fluencyand there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-levelreading material for younger learners.The Smurfs are popular with children all over the world, famousfor their charming personalities and exciting adventures.Clumsy Smurf wants to make some magic so he steals a page fromGargamels spell book.But the spell turns Clumsy into a green monster!Can Papa Smurf reverse the spell or will Clumsy stay green forever?BEGINNER LEVELBOOK ...

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in theELT classroom for contemporary graded material that will instantlyappeal to students. Inspired by Eric Schlossers best-sellingexpos of the American fast food industry, Fast Food Nation is athought-provoking story about a fictional chain of US burger restaurantsand the people whose lives they affect.

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in theELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material thatwill instantly appeal to students. Bob Marley was one of the worldsmost influential reggae artists, famous for his ground-breakingmusic and strong Rastafarian beliefs. This compelling biographyfocuses on Marleys musical and spiritual journey, beginning withhis early days in Kingston, Jamaica and his rise to internationalfame with the band The Wailers, before his premat...

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in theELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material thatis suitable for Beginner-level students. Blog Love is a 21st centurystory about a lonely Japanese student in London, who keeps adaily blog.

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a realneed in the ELT classroom for contemporary graded material thatwill motivate students to read.Billy Elliot is based on the award-winning filmand tells the story of a young boy who follows his dream, againstall the odds.It also provides an insight into British culture and family relationships.comes with CD & online resourcesFull colour insidesPerfect also for native English speaking children who are strugglingwith their readingA classic Br...

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a realneed in the ELT classroom for contemporary graded material thatwill motivate students to read.This compelling biography tells the story of one of the worldsmost famous presidents; from his schooldays in Hawaii andIndonesia, to his time as a community activist in Chicago, and hissubsequent route to the White House.comes with CD & online resourcesFull colour insidesPerfect also for native English speaking children and adultswho are struggli...

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in theELT classroom for contemporary graded material that will stimulatestudents. An Education is based on the 2009 hit British filmof the same name. Set in 1960s London, An Education is a coming-of-agestory about sixteen-year-old Jenny, who yearns for a lifefar removed from that of her parents and their dull suburban values.

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in theELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material thatwill instantly appeal to students.At the age of twenty-one, Tim is told an incredible family secretby his father: all the men in his family have the ability to relivetheir past. He decides to use his new gift to win the heart ofthe beautiful Mary with hilarious and moving results.About Time is based on the 2013 movie by Richard Curtis, writer ofNotting Hill & Love ...

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary graded material that will stimulate students. In 2008, YouTube.com showed an extraordinary clip of the reunion between two young men and their pet lion in Kenya. It was watched by millions of people around the world. A Lion Called Christian is the true story of two Australians who bought a pet lion cub called Christian in the 1970s and his subsequent journey to his rightful home in the wild.

Timesavers are a series of supplementary photocopiablematerials for English teachers to use with students aged11 and upwards.This edition is a brand-new collection of low-level listeningactivities for lower-level students of English.Activities include radio show interviews, quizzes and vox pops,covering a range of fun and motivating topics from Pushy Parentsto Collecting Football Shirts.This resource is an ideal accompaniment to any Elementary or Pre-Intermediatecoursebook.CEF LEVEL A1 - A240 re...

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in theELT classroom for contemporary graded material that will motivatestudents to read. 127 Hours is the extraordinary true storyof Aron Ralston who, after a canyoneering accident in Utah,was forced to amputate his own arm to survive

A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolfs The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics.More than any of Virginia Woolfs other novels, The Waves conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for...

A black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City - people whose millions were made in railroads, shipping, land speculation and banking. In this morally and aesthetically bankrupt world, Lily, age twenty-nine, seeks a husband who can satisfy her cravings for endless admiration and all the trappings of wealth. But her quest comes to a scandalous end when s...

Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbecks Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel West in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and broken dreams, yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human, yet majestic in...

Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as the type that loses the girl) and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious, philosoph...

In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed. Karen Blixen was forced to return to Denmark in 1931 and it was there that she wrote this classic account of her experiences. A poignant farewell to her beloved farm, Out of Africa describes her strong friendships with the people of her area, her affection for the landscape and animals, and great love for the adventurer Denys Fi...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENNING MANKELLOliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape.In Oliver Twist, Dickens graphically conjures up the capitals underworld, full of prostitutes, thieves, and lost and homeless children, and gives a voice to the disadvantaged and abused.ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK...

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM AND CAROL ANN DUFFYIn this vivid portrait of one day in a womans life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.

An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy

My literary hero is John Dos Passos - Adam Curtis (filmmaker) A modernist masterpiece, capturing ... the fragmented lives it sketches, in a dazzling kaleidoscope of New York City in the 1920s Christopher Hudson, Evening StandardDos Passos has invented only one thing, an art of story-telling. But that is enough to create a universe Jean-Paul SartreThe best modern book about New YorkD.H. LawrenceA modernist masterwork that has more in common with films than traditional novels, John Dos Passos Manh...