* Provides photocopiable material to support and extend the video (Alliance) content*Alliance can be used alongside the Market Leader course, or as free-standing material for students of good intermediate level* Activities in each unit focus on background information; review of the storyline; prediction of future developments; gist and detailed comprehension; character assessment; vocabulary; functional language and roleplay reflecting the business skill or content of each unit* Also includes video script and answer key
ISBN: 0-582-43534-X
Издательство:
Pearson Education Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2003
The quest for the Vampaneze Lord continues for the hunters of the dusk. Darren gets an unwelcome taste of reality when he is forced to go back to school and his past catches up with him. THE SAGA OF DARREN SHAN BOOK 8 Maturing at one fifth the rate of a normal human, Darren has the looks of a fifteen year old, even though he is very much older. Vampire Prince and vampaneze killer he may be, but someone has shopped him to the authorities and it`s time for Darren to go back to school. But school is not the only thing Darren has to come to terms with: faces from the past, the death of a clan member, a clash with a vampire hunter and blood-thirsty vampaneze mean Darren`s past is catching up with him - fast. It`s time for the allies of the...
ISBN: 978-0-00-713780-0
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: июль 2012
When Allie`s class puts on a play, every girl in Room 209 wants to try out for the part of the princess - including Allie, Sophie and (ew!) Cheyenne. Not everyone can be the leading lady - but who will try to steal the show, who will get scared, and who will get a tiny bit jealous? Some not-so-friendly competition puts some of Allie Finkle`s rules to the test ...There are no small parts. Only small actors. May the best man - or woman - win. If you want to get anywhere, you can`t play by the rules.
ISBN: 978-0-330-45378-3
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Allie Finkle is excited when a new girl, who comes all the way from Canada, joins her class at Pine Heights Elementary. Now Allie won`t be the new girl anymore! But her excitement turns to dismay when the new girl, Cheyenne, starts telling everyone in the fourth grade what to do! Soon Cheyenne has everyone, including Allie`s best friends, Caroline, Sophie, and Erica, believing that if they don`t do what she says, they`ll be what Cheyenne accuses them of being - babies! But Allie isn`t sure she`s ready to be all grown-up yet. Not if it means chasing boys at recess, not playing her favorite games anymore, and being herself! Praise for Meg and Allie Finkle: In Cabot`s first foray into novels for kids who are still in single digits, her...
ISBN: 978-0-545-04044-0
Издательство:
Scholastic Inc
Дата выхода: март 2012
Allie is excited when Erica`s sister Missy enters the regional Twirltacular baton competition and Erica is allowed to bring all her best friends to watch. But Allie is also invited to Brittany Hauser`s birthday party on the same day and will be driven in a stretch limo. She decides a little white lie is the best way to keep everyone happy,
ISBN: 978-0-330-45379-0
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: август 2011
The third fabulous book in bestselling author Meg Cabot`s funny and sassy series for tweens! Allie is excited when Cheyenne joins her class – now she won’t have to be the ‘new girl’ any more! But Cheyenne wears zip-up boots, likes boys, thinks imaginary games are for ‘big babies’ and tells everyone what to do. Still, Allie won’t be bossed around – it’s time to teach the ‘new girl’ some tough rules! Such Friendly people don’t tell other people that their games are babyish. Snowboots may not look as good as high-heeled zip-up boots, but they will never let you down. All you need is friends.
ISBN: 978-0-230-70014-7
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Комедия Уильяма Шекспира «Все хорошо, что хорошо кончается» на английском языке, входит в серию книг «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале». Эта коллекция собрана из бессмертных произведений великих мастеров пера, написанных ими на их родном языке. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углублённо изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения...
ISBN: 978-5-519-49775-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2016
A fresh new edition of Shakespeare`s ambiguous, bittersweet fairy tale, developed by and for the RSC, includes new interviews with acclaimed directors Gregory Doran and Stephen Fried, and actor Guy Henry, looks at specific productions in the play`s history, and an illuminating introduction by acclaimed scholar Jonathan Bate.
This title includes an Introduction and Notes by John Lester, formerly Head of English at Havering College of Further and Higher Education. From the rain forests of Almayer`s Folly to the Mediterranean coast of "The Rover", Conrad`s first and final completed novels are played out against contrasting backgrounds. Almayer, in Borneo, is hopelessly obsessed by his deluded dreams for himself and his daughter, which take no account of her falling in love with a handsome Balinese prince. Peyrol, the rover, returns to a France at war and finds the actions of those around him still overborne by memories of revolutionary terror. For the orphaned Lieutenant Real and Arlette love offers release but their romance seems doomed by the demands of his...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-664-5
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Helen Knightly has spent a lifetime trying to win the love of a mother who had none to spare. And as this electrifying novel opens, she steps over a boundary she never dreamt she would even approach. But while her act is almost unconscious, it also seems like the fulfilment of a lifetime`s buried desire. Over the next twenty-four hours, her life rushes in at her as she confronts the choices that have brought her to this crossroads.
ISBN: 978-0-330-45689-0
Издательство:
Picador USA
Дата выхода: июль 2011
When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily. A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours, this searing, fast-paced novel explores the complex ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion, and the line between love and hate. It is a challenging, moving, gripping story, written with the...
How far would you go to find yourself? The lyrical, life-affirming new novel from the bestselling author of Private Peaceful There were dozens of us on the ship, all up on deck for the leaving of Liverpool, gulls wheeling and crying over our heads, calling good-bye! That is all I remember of England. When six-year-old orphan Arthur Hobhouse is shipped to Australia after WWII he loses his sister, his country and everything he knows. Overcoming enormous hardships with fellow orphan Marty, Arthur is finally saved by the extraordinary people he meets and by his talent for boat-design and sailing. Now he has built a special boat for his daughter Allie - a solo yacht designed to carry her to England in search of his long-lost sister. Will the...
ISBN: 978-0-00-723058-7
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
Otto, an ordinary German living in a shabby apartment block, tries to stay out of trouble under Nazi ride. But when lie discovers his only son has been killed fighting at the front he`s shocked into an extraordinary act of resistance, and starts to drop anonymous postcards attacking Hitler across the city. It caught, he will be executed. Soon this silent campaign comes to the attention of ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich, and a murderous game of cat-and-mouse begins. Whoever loses, pays with their life.
ISBN: 978-0-14-118938-3
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
This award-winning graded readers series is full of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. Southampton, England, 1912. Hannah Frost`s father is in America and her mother and brother are leaving Southampton to join him. However, Hannah is recovering from a serious illness and must rest. She expects to travel with the housekeeper, Marnie, in a few weeks` time, on a new ship called the Titanic. Then, on the day of her trip, Hannah wakes up This paperback is in British English.
ISBN: 978848323-682-6
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2012
The new graded readers series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. Southampton, England, 1912. Hannah Frost`s father is in America and her mother and brother are leaving Southampton to join him. However, Hannah is recovering from a serious illness and must rest. She expects to travel with the housekeeper, Marnie, in a few weeks` time, on a new ship called the Titanic. Then, on the day of her trip, Hannah wakes up alone ...The book comes with a CD-ROM and Audio CD with vocabulary games and complete text recordings.
ISBN: 978848323-407-5
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
The spectacular international bestseller that introduced Washington-based homicide detective Alex Cross and launched James Patterson`s career as one of the fastest-selling thriller writers in the world - now reissued in striking new cover style. He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids, it was headline news. Then one of them was found - dead - and the whole nation was in uproar. For such a high-profile case, they needed the top people - Alex Cross, a black detective with a PhD in psychology, and Jezzie Flanagan, an ambitious young Secret Service agent - yet even they were no match for the killer. He had the unnerving ability to switch from blood-crazed madness to clear-eyed sanity in an instant. But...
ISBN: 978-0-00-647615-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2012
An introduction to the alphabet for beginner readers.Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language. Recommended for children aged 4+, the eight levels of Readers and six levels of Activity Books follow the CEFR framework (Pre-A1 to A2+) and include language activities that help develop key skills and provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) Starters, Movers and Flyers exams.The Starter level introduces phonics and sight words. Each book contains two versions of the story: the first with single words focusing on phonics, and the second with full sentences introducing...