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A new series of ready-made, unscripted, authentic listening materials, which feature native and nonnative speakers. Created by Sheila Thorn of THE LISTENING BUSINESS these materials train, rather than just test, the students in listening. They boost students' confidence in their listening skills by exposing them to authentic texts, and introduce the learner to the grammatical structures and lexis which are used most frequently in spoken English. The materials also help students deal with those aspects of informal spoken English which they find so challenging, e.g. assimilation, elision, linking and colloquial expressions.Each topic in the series is at 3 levels (Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced) and has a bookwith a CD, and includes 5 interviews (different interviews at every level), each followed by detailed comprehension and language practice exercises which can be used in the classroom or for self-study.The series reflects the latest academic theories on the importance of authentic listening practice in language acquisition. The series also shows our new awareness of the huge differences between spoken and written English highlighted by recent research on spoken English corpora. Forthcoming titles are listed below, and the series will feature over 100 native and near-fluent non-native English speakers from all the main regions of Britain, as well as Australia, Canada, the USA, South Africa, Africa, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Russia, South Korea, Sweden and Turkey.The books come with a free CD, transcripts and glossaries. Teachers' notes are free on line, containing classroom support and background notes. |
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Give yourself a head start! Collins School Dictionary is the perfect companion for all students aged 10-14. With a clear design and in colour throughout, it is easy to use and full of useful features to help build language confidence and help with work and study. This new edition of Collins School Dictionary has been developed with teachers to be the perfect tool for school work and homework. The clear layout makes finding entries exceptionally easy, and full definitions are given in simple language, often in complete sentences. With over 20,000 entries, many new or updated, it includes national curriculum vocabulary up to Key Stage 3 or 4 as well as general vocabulary for students aged 10+. A special supplement on spelling follows the main dictionary. It outlines key spelling rules and lists words that are commonly confused or misspelled, so it helps students to identify and master the trickiest spelling problems. This student-friendly dictionary is an invaluable reference for all school students. |
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A thoughtful, captivating and ultimately uplifting novel from this uniquely talented author She has just two weeks. Two weeks to teach him how to fall in love — with his own life. Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night, when Christine is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin. Adam is there, poised, threatening to jump. Adam is desperate — but Christine makes a crazy deal with him. His 35th birthday is looming and she bets him that before then she can show him life is worth living. Despite her determination, Christine knows what a dangerous promise she's made. Against the ticking of the clock, the two of them embark on wild escapades, grand romantic gestures and some unlikely late-night outings. Slowly, Christine thinks Adam is starting to fall back in love with his life. But is that all that's happening...? A novel to make you laugh, cry and appreciate life, this is Cecelia Ahern at her thoughtful and surprising best. |
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Collins Primary Literacy Pupil Book 5 features fiction from Michael Morpurgo and Roald Dahl, poetry from Benjamin Zephaniah, and exciting non-fiction from news reports and more. Pupil Book 5 covers a wide variety of text types and topics, and provides engaging activities to help you deliver the objectives of the renewed Framework. * Three clear levels of differentiation throughout ensure you provide the right work for every child * Stimulating activities, role plays and group work including comprehension, speaking and listening, and writing will get your pupils thinking, talking and writing * Lots of ideas for planning and writing stories, articles and poems * Top children's authors will grab your pupils' attention and ensure they love. reading |
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Collins Primary Literacy Homework Book 3 is a write-in booklet providing a range of consolidation and extension activities. * Creating a link between school and home, Homework Book 3 provides a range of engaging activities that consolidate and extend skills learned in lessons * Three clear levels of differentiation cater for different abilities * Learning objective is clearly stated at the top of each page so that the child is in control of their own learning. |
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Collins Primary Literacy Homework Book 4 is a write-in booklet providing a range of consolidation and extension activities. * Creating a link between school and home, Homework Book 4 provides a range of engaging activities that consolidate and extend skills learned in lessons * Three clear levels of differentiation cater for different abilities * Learning objective is clearly stated at the top of each page so that the child is in control of their own learning. |
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Collins Primary Literacy Homework Book 5 is a write-in booklet providing a range of consolidation and extension activities. * Creating a link between school and home, Homework Book 5 provides a range of engaging activities that consolidate and extend skills learned in lessons * Three clear levels of differentiation cater for different abilities * Learning objective is clearly stated at the top of each page so that the child is in control of their own learning. |
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Collins Primary Literacy Homework Book 6 is a write-in booklet providing a range of consolidation and extension activities. * Creating a link between home and school, Homework Book 6 provides a range of engaging activities that consolidate and extend skills learned in lessons * Three clear levels of differentiation cater for different abilities * Learning objective is clearly stated at the top of each page so that the child is in control of their own learning. |
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Collins Primary Literacy Pupil Book 3 features fiction from Roald Dahl and Humphrey Carpenter, poetry from Michael Rosen, and exciting non-fiction on garden birds, Divali and more. Pupil Book 3 covers a wide variety of text types and topics, and provides engaging activities to help you deliver the objectives of the renewed Framework. * Three clear levels of differentiation throughout ensure you provide the right work for every child * Stimulating activities, role plays and group work including comprehension, speaking and listening, and writing will get your pupils thinking, talking and writing * Lots of ideas for planning and writing stories, articles and poems * Top children's authors will grab your pupils' attention and ensure they love reading. |
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Collins Primary Literacy Pupil Book 1B features fiction from Georgie Adams, poetry from Pamela Mordecai, and exciting non-fiction on the Eden Project and the farm. Pupil Book 1B covers a wide variety of text types and topics, and provides engaging activities to help you deliver the objectives of the renewed Framework. * Three clear levels of differentiation throughout ensure you provide the right work for every child * Stimulating activities, role plays and group work including comprehension, speaking and listening, and writing will get your pupils thinking, talking and writing * Lots of ideas for planning and writing stories, articles and poems * Top children's authors will grab your pupils' attention and ensure they love reading * Pupil Book 1B contains Units 5-8. |
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Written by teachers for teachers to perfectly support the renewed framework, Collins Primary Literacy is a whole school language program that builds key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills through structured creative work. It provides practical teaching ideas and clear assessment for every unit, so that you can focus on teaching. With fiction, non-fiction and poetry by best children's authors for your class to read and explore, Collins Primary Literacy provides engaging activities matched to the Renewed Framework that will save you time and give you lots of ideas. Each unit is built around three distinct phases — Engage, Explore and Create — during which children move through a learning pathway that develops key literacy skills. Active learning is at the heart of Collins Primary Literacy, with an emphasis on speaking, listening and drama work. Children are encouraged to work reflectively, with built-in opportunities for paired work and critical thinking. Opportunities for assessment are threaded throughout the teaching sequence, with further support given in the form of progress sheets for assessing writing. |
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Written by teachers for teachers to perfectly support the renewed framework, Collins Primary Literacy is a whole school language program that builds key reading, writing, speaking and listening skills through structured creative work. It provides practical teaching ideas and clear assessment for every unit, so that you can focus on teaching. With fiction, non-fiction and poetry by best children's authors for your class to read and explore, Collins Primary Literacy provides engaging activities matched to the Renewed Framework that will save you time and give you lots of ideas. Each unit is built around three distinct phases — Engage, Explore and Create — during which children move through a learning pathway that develops key literacy skills. Active learning is at the heart of Collins Primary Literacy, with an emphasis on speaking, listening and drama work. Children are encouraged to work reflectively, with built-in opportunities for paired work and critical thinking. Opportunities for assessment are threaded throughout the teaching sequence, with further support given in the form of progress sheets for assessing writing. |
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DIVERGENT — a major motion picture in 2014. Illustrated with more than 100 photographs — many never before seen — this eye-catching volume takes you inside the film version of Divergent where you'll discover the factions, meet the initiates and enter the thrilling dystopian world. Follow the journey from the aptitude test to the Choosing Day Ceremony; then fall into the Dauntless Pit and witness the rigours of life in the Dauntless compound. INSIDE DIVERGENT is a thrilling glimpse into the initiate's world. |
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Big Nate is back the sixth instalment of his own super-funny series. Big Nate is created by Lincoln Peirce, who inspired Jeff Kinney, author of 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid'. Big Nate is in the zone! Nate Wright is down on his luck. In fact he's so far down, it seems it can't get any worse... Until for some reason everything changes, and Nate is on top. All of a sudden, he can do no wrong! But why? And more importantly... how long will it last? |
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I'll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name's Simon. I think you're going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he'll be dead. And he was never the same after that. There are books you can't stop reading, which keep you up all night. There are books which let us into the hidden parts of life and make them vividly real. There are books which, because of the sheer skill with which every word is chosen, linger in your mind for days. The Shock of the Fall is all of these books. The Shock of the Fall is an extraordinary portrait of one man's descent into mental illness. It is a brave and groundbreaking novel from one of the most exciting new voices in fiction. |
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An absorbing and romantic Quick Read from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Laura Foster has always been a hopeless romantic. And that's fine. Isn't it? Because as well as being a romantic, Laura is sensible. She's passionate about her job, she has a big dream (a beautiful children's bookshop for kids), she works incredibly hard. She is also madly in love with her boyfriend Nick. So all should be just fine. But Nick happens to have a very complicated family background. Nick's family are making things very difficult for Laura. Why are they being so hostile? And by pushing Laura away, are they going to make Nick have to choose between the woman of his dreams and his very own family? |
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The sweeping novel from the author of 'Purple Hibiscus', shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and winner of the Commonwealth Writers Award. This highly anticipated novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of a vicious civil war in which a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood. The three main characters in the novel are swept up in the violence during these turbulent years. One is a young boy from a poor village who is employed at a university lecturer's house. The other is a young middle-class woman, Olanna, who has to confront the reality of the massacre of her relatives. And the third is a white man, a writer who lives in Nigeria for no clear reason, and who falls in love with Olanna's twin sister, a remote and enigmatic character. As these people's lives intersect, they have to question their own responses to the unfolding political events. This extraordinary novel is about Africa in a wider sense: about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race; and about the ways in which love can complicate all of these things. |
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This is the compelling story of Blitzkrieg: the 'lightning war' by which Hitler and his generals overwhelmed the Allied armies in Western Europe. Written in five parts, the book begins with Hitler's rise to power in pre-war Germany, while part two considers the opening stages of the Second World War, including the conquests of Poland and Norway. The third part focuses on both the tactical thinking behind Blitzkrieg as well as the materiel — pre-eminently the Panzer tank — that made it possible. The fourth and fifth parts offer a more detailed examination of the campaigns that drove the German armies through the Low Countries and into France, ending with the German's 'fatal flaw', which made possible the evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk. Reissued by William Collins, Len Deighton's 'Blitzkrieg' is the story of Hitler's triumph and Europe's darkest hour. Few writers have understood it as well as Deighton, and perhaps none has been able to describe it so tellingly. |
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This structured map skills course uses a simple colourful layout to introduce young pupils to using and drawing maps and plans. Mapstart 1 is a structured introduction to map work for 6-7 year olds. It assumes no previous experience of map skills and establishes a sound foundation for graphic concepts, skills and vocabulary at a very simple level. Mapstart 1 has been designed with the following purposes in mind: to build children's spatial awareness through the use of familiar objects, toys, the locality of the school and space photos; to extend children's understanding and use of vocabulary associated with spatial location, organisation and movement; to provide continuity through the book by the use of vertical aerial photos; to introduce children to the perspective of plans and maps and to the representational characteristics of maps; to encourage children to observe features and relationships in oblique and vertical photos and maps; to foster children's appreciation of the Earth as a globe. |
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Collins First Dictionary is the ideal introduction to A to Z dictionaries for children from age 4 up to early primary school. The definitions use simple, full sentences that reflect the child's experience of the world, and the attractive contemporary artw. |
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