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Original / British English (Available February 2008) Joanna Jimbuku is a nurse in Australia. She works with a Flying Doctor. One day a baby is very ill. Joanna takes the baby to Sydney. Its her first visit to a big city, and she loves it. Does she stay in the city or go home?

Contemporary / British English (Available May 2008) Babe leaves the farm for the city. He wants to make some money. ‘But nobody wins in the city,’ says Bob, a chimpanzee. ‘And nobody helps anybody. U

Contemporary / American English (Available May 2008) Bruce is different from other young men. When he gets angry, his body changes. It grows. It turns green. The Hulk is born! The Hulk is very strong and very dangerous. But where did he come from? And why is the army interested in him? Bruce wants some answers.

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Macbeth, a brave soldier, is trusted by the Scottish king. Then a strange meeting with three witches makes him greedy for power. Macbeth wants to be king. He and his evil wife make murderous plans. But how many people will have to die before their dreams come true? This Penguin Reader play is written for acting making English come alive

Paola Traverso Every night, Dorothy delivers dreams - to adults, children and even pets. Ususally everyone gets the dream they want, but one dark night Dorothy can''t see, and she delivers the wrong dreams... But in this delightful, original tale everything ends happily as a chorus of cats comes to the rescue!

This edition has been abridged and simplified to provide graduated reading exercises for students of Russian. Vocabulary and sentence structures have been selected because oftheir high frequency and practical value to the learner. Words which are difficult to understand in context or falt out ofthe fasyreaders frequency rnodules are explained by footnotes in simple Russian or by illustrations.

Contemporary / British English (Available February 2008) Everybody tells Forrest Gump that hes an idiot. But hes a great football player, and he plays the harmonica beautifully. Hes also a brave soldier. But can he ever marry the girl he loves? This story of his journey through life is sometimes sad and sometimes very funny.

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) In 1673 young John Ridd meets a little girl called Lorna Doone. Seven years later they meet again, and fall in love. But the Doones are a family of robbers and murderers. One of them, Carver, killed Johns father and now wants to marry Lorna. Can John save Lorna from her worst fears?

Contemporary / American English (Available May 2008) Detective Somerset has seven days before he can retire from work and escape from the city. Detective Mills is starting his first week on the job. This story is about seven days and seven shocking murders. The serial killer has one thing on his mind seven deadly sins.

Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) 2001: A Space Odyssey a great film and a famous novel. An object is found on the Moon. Who made it? Men travel into space to find out a billion kilometres to the rings of Saturn. Something is waiting for them

Inman leaves the horrors of the American Civil War and begins a long, dangerous journey home to Ada, the woman he loves. Along the way, he witnesses great poverty, cruelty, and violence. Will he ever see Ada again? And if he does, will she recognize the man he has become?

Arthur Conan Doyle et al. Selection, introduction, notes and activities by John Douthwaite These stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Edgar Wallace, Edmund Crispen and Geoffrey Bush, Margery Allingham and Julian Symons focus on the development of the detective genre: from the rationality of the Victorian investigator to the modern theme of the criminal as anti-hero.

Joseph Conrad Retold by James Butler Activities by Louis Vaughan Human interest Marlow, a merchant sailor, travels through colonial Africa. He makes a perilous journey by steamboat to rescue Kurtz, an agent, who is seriously ill. He arrives at Kurtzs station to find that the agent has taken control of the whole area. In his complete isolation from civilised society Kurtz has instituted a brutal system of human sacrifice and magic to enthral the natives. Dossiers: Conrad and the Colonial Experience and others Exit test

S'ils ont le même format ces guides ne sont pas tous faits sur le même modèle. Et le vocabulaire proposé change sensiblement d'une langue à l'autre. Mais tous se penchent uniquement sur les besoins spécifiques des voyageurs. Avec une belle volonté pédagogique, des tas de petites notations sur les moeurs, c'est la garantie d'acquérir un bagage linguistique dérivé d'une méthode qui a fait ses preuves.

When Father and Mother Wolf find a baby boy near their den they decide to keep him and raise him with their own cubs. The terrible tiger Shere Khan finds out about the boy and demands him for his meal but the wolves refuse and chase the tiger away. Can they keep the boy safe forever?

Chambers Paperback Thesaurus helps you find the right word for every occasion. It provides alternatives for about 9,000 common English words and also gives words with the opposite meaning (antonyms) where appropriate. In addition, there are around 200 panels that contain lists of words ranging from the technical (phobias, parts of the brain, architectural terms) to the more general (breeds of dog, currencies of the world, types of cake). Key features include: over 155,000 synonyms and antonyms suitable for school and general use updated to include new synonyms special panels of hyponyms answer the question ''What kinds of ...are there?'' It also includes clear and attractive layout, and informative supplement of words grouped by ending.

Chinese Paradise is intended for children of 10 12 years old in English speaking countries who are learning Chinese as beginners. It has three levels, each of which consists of: Students Book A and B, accompanied with CD, and cards of words and expressions. Workbook A and B accompanied with CD and expressions.

Penguin Readers are written by specialist ELT authors. The language, vocabulary, style and content of every book is carefully graded to make sure it suits the learner''s own language ability. Every Penguin Reader has a range of activities in the book and accompanying Factsheet to help increase comprehension and develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.

Un des premiers chefs-d''oeuvre réalistes de Honoré de Balzac, oú il peint les moeurs de son temps et les types humains. Le Pére Goriot, ancien industriel, vieillard de soixante-neuf ans environ, s''etait retire dans une pension triste et pauvre a Paris. Il elait venu avec sa garde-robe magnifique de I''homme d''affaires et une nombreuse argenterie. Il s''est ruine et condamne a une vie miserable pour assurer une existence luxueuse a ses deux filles, qui l''exploitent pour obtenir de I''argent et du pouvoir.

Talk Now ! est une mthode originale d''initiation conue pour tous ceux qui veulent se familiariser avec une langue trangre trs rapidement. Ralise de manire simple, efficace et ... multimdia, Talk Now! permet d''acqurir immdiatement les rudiments de la langue, en quelques clics. Idal pour les dbutants, grce une prise en main et une navigation aises et intuitives. Elle couvre tous les sujets de la vie quotidienne et des voyages. Travaillez et comparez votre prononciation grce la fonction enregistreur. Constatez rgulirement vos progrs (suivi des scores et diplmes).Ce CD-Rom Intgre un dictionnaire en images imprimable et contient une aide et conseils dans la langue native ou dans toute autre langue de la collection Talk Now!