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With stunning new design and layout and the most up-to-date travel information, the market's most indispensable phrasebook and dictionary has been reinvented for e-readers and is better than ever. Gem Afrikaans will give you the right word at the right time - every time.
In all of the most common travel situations, you need the reassurance that you can communicate with ease. A reliable, portable and easy-to-use phrasebook is a travel essential, and...
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This guide to Scots is a perfect buy for anyone who is intrigued by the expressive Scots language. Besides explaining the meaning of Scottish words and phrases, it also contains features about aspects of Scottish culture from the bagpipes to William Wallace.
This wee guide to Scots is essential for those interested in one of the UK's most fascinating dialects, and is a lively introduction for those scunnered by the vocabulary used north of the border....
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Español
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El Collins Easy Learning Verbos Ingleses es una guía completa sobre los verbos ingleses, diseñada para los hablantes de castellano que estudian inglés, con claras explicaciones e infinidad de ejemplos ilustrativos.
Está dividida en dos secciones: una sección en castellano en la que se explican los aspectos esenciales de la gramática de los verbos ingleses, sus formas y sus usos, con ejemplos de uso ilustrativos para cada punto, seguida de un...
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A practical teacher guide book for helping students to improve their communication skills in English.
How can teachers bridge the gap between the language of the classroom and the world outside?
The lively activities in this book give learners a chance to experiment creatively with newly-acquired language so they can communicate in a meaningful way in real-life situations.
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
• Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for all
• Charlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane Eyre
• Mark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
• Jacques Prévert, the writer known in France as 'the People's Poet'
• Ayn Rand, whose writing expressed her own philosophical ideas
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who wrote about...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents: Mayer Amschel Rothschild who started a bank which made his family rich Cornelius Vanderbilt who became one of the richest people in the USAW. K. Kellogg who started the world's biggest cereal company Elizabeth Arden who built the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics company Walt Disney who started the famous entertainment company Soichiro Honda who started the Honda motorbike and car company
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello-player Louis Armstrong, the American trumpet-player and singer Frank Sinatra, the Italian-American singer and actor Édith Piaf, France's famous singing star Maria Callas, the Greek opera singer Elvis Presley, the man who changed pop music.
Level 3 is equivalent to CEF level B1. About the Amazing People series: A unique opportunity for learners of English...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sun Rene Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said 'I think, therefore I am 'Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity works Carl Friedrich Gauss, 'the Prince of Mathematicians 'Charles Babbage who invented computers Ada Lovelace.
Level 2 is equivalent to CEF level A2-B1. About the Amazing People series: A unique opportunity for...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents: Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press. Louis Braille, creator of an alphabet for blind people. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. Thomas Edison, inventor of the electric light bulb. Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the wireless system. John Logie Baird, inventor of the television.
Level 1 is equivalent to CEF level A2.
About the Amazing People series: A...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
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William the Conqueror, the first Norman King of England
Saladin, historic Muslim leader
Genghis Khan, famous leader of the Mongol empire
Catherine the Great, the woman who turned Russia into an empire
Abraham Lincoln who stopped slavery in the USA
Queen Victoria, the famous British Queen
This book is Level 1 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 1 is equivalent to CEF level A2.
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Este manual de vocabulario está diseñado para ayudar a los estudiantes de inglés a ampliar su conocimiento del vocabulario de la lengua inglesa. Es un libro fácil de usar que constituye un recurso valioso para estudiantes y profesores pues es ideal para usar tanto en clase como en casa.
El Collins Easy Learning Vocabulario de Inglés está dividido en 50 áreas temáticas, que van desde situaciones cotidianas como la familia, los amigos y las...
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Level 1 is equivalent to CEF level A2.
About the Amazing People series:
A unique opportunity for learners of English to read about the exceptional lives and incredible abilities of some of the most insightful people the world has seen.
Each book contains six short stories, told by the characters themselves, as if in their own words. The stories explain the most significant parts of each character’s life, giving an insight into how they came to...
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Collins Easy Learning English Vocabulary is designed to help learners of all ages build their vocabulary. This easy-to-use, topic-based book is an invaluable resource for students and teachers, and is ideal for use in the classroom and for home study.
Collins Easy Learning English Vocabulary is a topic-based vocabulary book, covering over 50 topics, from everyday themes such as family, friends, and hobbies, to topics for travel, work, business and...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents: Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher Socrates, the great Greek philosopher Aristotle, the first to organize scientific knowledge William Wilberforce who ended the British slave trade Karl Marx who wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital Mahatma Gandhi who helped free India from British rule
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Collins Easy Learning English Verbs is an accessible guide to English verbs. With simple explanations of English verbs and the way they work, this book will prove indispensable for anyone who wants to improve their knowledge of English verbs.
Using clear explanations and examples, all the essential grammar of verbs, such as tense and aspect, is covered. This book also provides a detailed look at verbs, which are especially important or difficult...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the first great works of English Literature
William Shakespeare, writer of the greatest plays in history
Charles Dickens who wanted to make England a better place
Victor Hugo, the French writer who cared about the poor
Leo Tolstoy, the man who wrote War and Peace
Rudyard Kipling who wrote The Jungle Book and won a Nobel Prize
This book is Level 3 in the...
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The punctuation workout for sticklers and rookies alike. The punctuation panda is back! Armed with a permanent marker, a smidgen of confidence, and a copy of 'Can You Eat, Shoot and Leave?', everyone now has the chance to become a member of the punctuation elite. Established punctuation sticklers: Fine-tune existing skills, taking guilty pleasure from testing your (already somewhat unsettling) seventh sense. Confused novices: Never again inflict flawed...
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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
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Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize
Andrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor people
John D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all away
Thomas Barnardo who created homes for poor children
Henry Wellcome who used his money for medical research
Madam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American community
About the Amazing People...
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A practical teacher guide book for teaching spoken English to young children
Easy to read and full of practical information, Introducing English to Young Children: Spoken Language explains how very young and young children begin to acquire English, suggesting how teachers and parents can 'tune into' young children's developmental needs and support them.
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Collins Easy Learning How to Use English is designed to help learners of all ages use individual words correctly, and choose the right words and structures for the meaning they want to convey. With its clear layout and simple explanations, this book is ideal for learners of English who want to improve their English for work, study and travel.
Collins Easy Learning How to Use English not only explains what English words mean, but also provides information...
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