Brigit Viney

This exciting and substantial CD-ROM offers a wealth of extra practice material covering all the language in English Grammar in Use Third Edition.

Oxford Bookworms Factfiles - Key features * Non-fiction readers for all ages, featuring a wide range of topics such as famous cities, sport, science, the environment and the media. * High-quality, full-colour photographs to complement the text. * Exercises at the back of each book to check students' understanding, plus ideas for extended activities and project work. * Ideal for cultural and cross-curricular studies. * Selected titles available on cassette and CD.

This resource book of vocabulary practice activities enables teachers to teach vocabulary communicatively in the classroom. Learner-centred in its approach, the material has the dual aim of helping students acquire vocabulary and develop skills and strategies for effective learning. Redesigned from the original version, this photocopiable resource pack retains a fresh approach to vocabulary learning. The book provides a variety of stimulating activities which require learners to actively use the target vocabulary. It develops learning skills, helping learners to become more efficient in organising, storing and remembering new vocabulary. It is easy to use with clear teacher's notes on the left hand pages and facing photocopiable worksheets on the right. The resource book is accompanied by a cassette (Lower Intermediate to Intermediate only) for further practice of the key vocabulary.

About a quarter of the people in the world today speak or use English. In homes and schools, offices and meeting rooms, ships and airports, people are speaking English...How has this happened? How did English begin, and what will become of it in the future? The history of the English language is a journey through space and time, from thousands of years ago to today and beyond, and to all parts of the world. Come on that journey and meet the monks and soldiers, the kings and scientists, the printers, poets, and travellers who have helped to make the English of today.