‘Look at the parrots!
‘The small dog has the football! The small dog has the football!
Jack is on his summer holidays. He’s at the seaside with his grandma and grandad. Alfie is Jack’s dog. He’s on holiday too!
‘It’s late. Sophie is asleep in her bed and she is having a lovely dream. She is dreaming about a day at the circus. In her dream she meets Giggles the clown and Juliet the ballet dancer.
There are lots of colourful animal idioms in English. This book presents 60 common ones in humorous graphics. Written for foreign learners of English, the book gives clear explanation to each idiom, followed by concise example sentences.
The Scholastic DVD Readers combine graded reading with authentic audio-visual material that is sure to appeal to teenage students around the world. From the ancient Scottish tradition of the 'Burryman' to the Monster Raving Loony Party, Eccentric Britain introduces you the nation's creative, colourful and eccentric citizens! With DVD material from the BBC. CEF level: B1 (Intermediate).
Timesaver Interactive is an exciting new series of interactive whiteboard materials for use in the English Language Teaching classroom. Video prompts for class discussion contains twelve ready-to-use lessons, all packed with motivating activities designed to exploit the potential of the interactive whiteboard. Student worksheets and full teacher s note accompany each lesson
Jennifer Wilson is the latest victim in a growing number of suicides and only one person can help – the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes. As Sherlock launches an investigation, he becomes caught up in one of the most dangerous cases of his career. A contemporary re-telling of Conan-Doyle’s classic story adapted from the award-winning BBC series, ‘Sherlock’.
In 2006, YouTube.com featured an extraordinary film clip that showed the emotional reunion between two young men and their pet lion, Christian, in Kenya. Before long it had been watched by millions of people all over the world.
Jenny has just turned sixteen and is determined to escape her stifling suburban homelife by going to Oxford University. When she meets glamorous older man David, she starts to reassess her life and her ambitions…
Follow the fortunes of Becky Sharp, one of English literature’s most colourful heroines, as she uses her wit, charm and ruthless ambition in an attempt to forge a place for herself in high society. With Fact Files on William Thackeray, the Napoleonic Wars, and Young Men in Regency England
In 1985, top mountaineers Joe Simpson and his friend Simon Yates went climbing in the Peruvian Andes. After a series of accidents, Simon was forced to cut the rope which held him and Joe together. At the time, Simon believed that he was sending his friend to his death…
We need to fight for what is right. And equal pay for women is right.’ The year is 1968. Rita O’Grady and her friends work as machinists at the Ford car factory in Dagenham. It is detailed work, carried out in hot, noisy conditions. So why are the women paid the same as unskilled workers? Is it because the work is unskilled? Or is it because they are women?
127 Hours is the extraordinary true story of Aron Ralston who, after a canyoneering accident in Utah, was forced to amputate his own arm to survive.
Following the death of her husband, Mrs Dashwood and her three daughters, Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, are forced to leave their family home and move to a small cottage in Devon. There, Marianne meets and falls in love with the charismatic Mr Willoughby but she is left distraught by his inconsistent behaviour.
Johnny English, the world’s most unlikely spy, is back!
