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Publications catalogue 2018

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ABC Adventures is an effective and enjoyable three-book series for very young learners. Cognitive and basic motor skills will be developed in book 1, providing the necessary skills to learn the alphabet and single letter sounds through analytic phonics in books 2 and 3.

ABC Adventures

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This comprehensive collection of 125 children’s songs is conveniently organized into five themes. The audio CDs contain many familiar tunes including classroom songs, nursery rhymes, folk songs, and sing-alongs. Educators, parents, and kids will find the melodies lively and refreshing.

Songbirds

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Make phonics learning fun! Sounds Fun! Phonics is developed to build the path to fluency for young language learners.

Sounds fun!

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Sounds Great is a five-level phonics series developed for young EFL/ESL learners. Sounds Great includes a vast assortment of activities in each unit that allow learners to develop their reading and writing skills. The fun chants following each unit will engage the learners’ interests while facilitating vocabulary acquisition.

Sounds Great

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Sounds Great Readers is a 5-level series that ensures learners can recognize and pronounce phonics correctly.

Sounds Great Readers

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Compass Readers is a 70-book, 7-level collection of readers designed for elementary to intermediate English-language learners. This series provides a unique array of fiction and non-fiction graded readers that have been creatively designed to develop vocabulary, reading comprehension, and reading fluency.

Compass Readers

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Young Learners Classic Readers uses a simple approach that captures the young reader’s attention. This award winning series provides 60 traditional tales rewritten in easy-to-understand American English, over 6-levels, with colorful illustrations. Young English-language learners will enjoy developing their vocabulary and reading fluency throughout this series.

Young Learners Classic Readers

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Compass Classic Readers provides beginning and intermediate English-language learners accessible adaptations of the greatest works of literature. This series provides 60 carefully designed and retold tales in easy-to-understand American English using vocabulary and sentence structures appropriate for each of the 6 levels.

Compass Classic Readers

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English Chest is a six-level course book series for children offering a full curriculum for young EFL students. Each language builder, song, game, and activity has been specifically developed to improve reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills.

English Chest

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Drive. Each book in the series focuses on a separate skill. This allows students to concentrate on the necessary techniques and strategies typically related to standardized tests of English for that particular skill. Each level of the series targets 500 different headwords so that students completing all four levels will be able to study 2,000 different headwords.

Drive Series

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Communicate and Motivate is the perfect four-level course for mature students at a low level or who need a fresh communicative approach!

Communicate & Motivate

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Grammar Starter. This vibrant series provides fun and accessible grammar lessons for young learners.

Grammar Starter

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Grammar Success is a three-book series designed to introduce pre-intermediate level young learners to the basics of English grammar. Grammar Success combines clear explanations of each grammar target with concrete examples of real life use.

Grammar Success

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Easy English Grammar is a five book clear and concise grammar reference for elementary school aged learners of English. Blending concrete grammar explanations and exercises with engaging activities help students acquire a solid foundation in the 40 basic, high-frequency structures of English.

Easy English Grammar

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Grammar Planet is a three-book grammar series designed to help learners acquire a solid foundation of basic, high-frequency grammar structures. To solidify and expand learners’ knowledge of grammar and to encourage steady progress, this series uses a spiral curriculum which reviews previous grammar points while simultaneously incorporating new, more complex structures.

Grammar Planet

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Grammar Galaxy is a three-book grammar series designed to improve higher-elementary learners’ accuracy in using the basic structure of English. Characters provide context to keep the content meaningful, fun, and engaging. Simple tables, clear explanations, and realistic examples give students a clear, intuitive understanding of high-frequency grammar structures.

Grammar Galaxy

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Active English Grammar is intermediate-level series providing thorough understanding of the mechanics of the English language. Extensive in scope yet easy to follow, the Active English Grammar series provides a thorough and practical understanding of the mechanics of the English language.

Active English Grammar

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Essential English Grammar is a comprehensive reference and practice book for English language learners. Designed for intermediate and advanced students, Essential English Grammar combines reference-style grammar explanations with focused practice activities.

Essential English Grammar

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Super Easy Reading is an effective three-level series designed to develop the core reading skills of elementary English language learners. The reading passages/chants are specifically designed to stimulate learners' interest and encourage them to take an active role in learning new language skills.

Super Easy Reading

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Very Easy Reading is a four-level reading course designed for the young beginning reader. Through this series, students are exposed to new vocabulary and structures in a controlled manner, making each reading very accessible and enjoyable to the new reader.

Very Easy Reading

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Reading Lamp is a three-level series designed to introduce young students to reading English. As beginning readers work their way through the series, they will continually reinforce high-frequency sight words while focusing on learning a limited number of new vocabulary items in each unit.

Reading Lamp

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Reading Table is a three-level series designed to introduce young students to reading English. As beginning readers work their way through the series, they will continually reinforce high-frequency sight words while focusing on learning a limited number of new vocabulary items in each unit.

Reading Table

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Reading Shelf is a three-level series designed to develop reading skills of high-beginning students of English. It extends students fundamental reading skills while presenting accessible activities to practice listening, speaking, and writing skills in English.

Reading Shelf

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Reading Time is a three-level reading series designed for young, beginner EFL students. Throughout the series, students will expand their basic reading ability, acquire useful and relevant vocabulary, and develop their writing skills. To capture and maintain the interest of young readers, each book in the series contains fiction and non-fiction passages.

Reading Time

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Beginner readers will enjoy their first steps in reading with the series Real Easy Reading. The fun and entertaining non-fiction passages of Real Easy Reading motivate students to read, a fundamental step in language acquisition, and allow students to naturally acquire vocabulary relevant to nature, culture, science and other topics of interests.

Real Easy Reading

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School Subject Readings is a thee-book series for upper-level elementary learners. It captivates their interests through a rich variety of interesting topics and stimulating activities.

School Subject Readings

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Reading Starter is a three-book reading series designed for beginner-level learners of English. To capture and maintain the interest of young learners, each book in the series contains a variety of reading types including short stories, e-mails, diary entries, charts, newspaper articles, and more.

Reading Starter

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Reading Wise is a three-book reading series for high beginners and pre-intermediate learners of English. Each of the twenty units per book includes a variety of activities based on the main story of the unit that are sure to keep learners engaged and active as they practice their language skills.

Reading Wise

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Core Nonfiction Reading is a three-book series for mature high-beginner and intermediate learners. The nonfiction content highlights a wide range of appropriate university-level topics that incorporate info-graphics. Comprehensive activities are included, which not only test memory of facts and details, but also the ability to make inferences.

Core Nonfiction Reading

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Reading Success helps students progress their reading ability from beginner to intermediate. The series presents a wide range of fiction and nonfiction texts on topics ranging from daily life to current affairs.

Reading Success

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Reading Jump: Thematically grouped passages focus on entertainment, art, health or sports, the environment, science, social science, people, culture, nature, and history to give students a wide range of interesting topics. In addition to practicing reading skills, students are also able to hone their writing, listening, and speaking skills with the variety of activities and exercises included.

Reading Jump

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More School Subject Readings is a three-level course in reading fluency. Incorporating the important features of a North American textbook, each book utilizes fiction and nonfiction readings to keep learners engaged. The readings include stories, letters, journal entries, and articles and cover various academic subjects, such as history, literature, social sciences, and astronomy.

More School Subject Readings

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Reading Builder is a three-level reading series designed for EFL students to expand their reading skills. To engage the interest of learners, each book in the series contains a variety of reading forms including fictional stories, letters, articles, advertisements, and more. In addition, each reading passage is accompanied by a variety of exercises utilizing all four language skills.

Reading Builder

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Reading Discovery is a three-level reading textbook series presented in full color for middle school students with pre-intermediate to intermediate levels of English language proficiency. The four skills components of reading, speaking listening and writing are integrated within each unit. Non-fiction content includes speaking tasks for writing, as well as listening activities designed to develop vocabulary and reinforce fluency as preparation for pre-TOEFL courses.

Reading Discovery

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Reading for Speed and Fluency is the perfect tool to develop reading speed and fluency. In order to develop reading speed, students need to read appropriately leveled text at an accelerated pace.

Reading for Speed and Fluency

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Reading Jump Plus is a three-book reading series designed for students who began with Reading Jump, but functions well on its own. The series is specifically targeted for high-beginning to intermediate learners of English who seek additional opportunities to learn. Each reading passage within Reading Jump Plus has been designed with the EFL student in mind.

Reading Jump Plus

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Short Articles for Reading Comprehension is a three-level reading course intended for upper-intermediate to advanced students learning to read English. The non-fiction passages found throughout this series present students with a wide range of informative articles that will help transition students from a learning-to-read stage to a reading-to-learn stage of language development.

Short Articles for Reading Comprehension

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Reading Challenge is a three-book, non-fiction, reading series designed for intermediate English language learners. The series presents a wide range of topics through controlled language aimed to engage the interest of readers while ensuring that the content remains accessible.

Reading Challenge

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Reading Formula with Note-Taking is a textbook designed to hone students’ reading strategies and note-taking skills. Students will be challenged with content similar in style to that typically found on standardized tests designed to evaluate English proficiency such as academic paragraphs and short passages.

Reading Formula with Note-Taking

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Reading for the Real World: This four-book series deals with a wide range of nonfiction topics that appeal to students with diverse interests. Readings and activities in the book improve students' fluency and comprehension skills.

Reading for the Real World

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Reading the World Now is a three-book series designed for students who are seeking to bridge their English language reading from adapted texts to native texts. Upon reading an upper-intermediate to advanced level of written materials, students are ready to move from comprehending adapted texts designed for second language learners to reading materials written for readers whose first language is English.

Reading the World Now

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On Point teaches upper-intermediate and advanced readers to analyze, critically evaluate, and intelligently respond to texts. Learners discuss and develop well-reasoned, supported opinions on a wide range of high-interest topics. This series is constructed from popular media outlets, such as The Atlantic, The Independent, and The Telegraph.

On Point

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Issues Now in the News: this best selling series provides interesting and relevant real news stories that spark discussion and interest!

Issues Now in the News

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Extensive Reading for Academic Success is a four-book series that presents academic-style reading passages designed advanced English language learners. Each book in this series contains 80 passages covering a remarkably wide range of topics, divided into broad categories.

Extensive Reading for Academic Success

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Listening Starter is a three-level series designed to assist young learners of English in improving their English listening comprehension. It presents the skills needed to listen effectively through a range of everyday topics relevant to the students’ own lives.

Listening Starter

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Listening Time: This three-level listening series is designed for young, beginner to low level intermediate students. Each book in the Listening Time series contains listening passages and conversations followed by a variety of activities designed to reinforce the vocabulary, grammar, themes and concepts being introduced in each unit.

Listening Time

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Listening Jump This series is targeted at students between the end of their elementary school education and middle school. At this stage of English education, students are assumed to already have received a fair level of English instruction. They will typically be competent in processing basic information in English through short exchanges.

Listening Jump

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Listening Express with dictation is a three-book series offering engaging listening scenarios and includes themes and topics which were carefully selected to appeal to 21st century learners. Key new vocabulary and grammar are introduced regularly and presented naturally within each dialogue or short talk.

Listening Express with dictation

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Listening Practice through Dictation is a four-book series that presents basic listening transcription activities. Each unit is comprised of five exercises based on a single listening text, which may be a dialog, monolog or continuous prose.

Listening Practice through Dictation

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Listening Success is a five-book series covering a wide variety of topics which reinforce language patterns typically used in everyday situations. Learners become familiar with common phrases, expressions, and functional language patterns through the multiple dialogs, and each unit concludes with a test to consolidate learning objectives.

Listening Success

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Target Listening is a practical, engaging series that helps students improve overall communicative skills through listening tasks presented in natural conversational English. All activities incorporate focused, practical vocabulary words used in everyday situations.

Target Listening

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Developing Listening Skillsuses topically based listening passages to introduce high-frequency vocabulary and phrases. Suitable for classroom or self-study. Developing Listening Skills leads the student from easy to more difficult listening exercises within a units and over the course of the series.

Developing Listening Skills

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Dynamic Listening & Speaking is a two-level conversational listening and speaking series for students of English at the high-beginner to low-intermediate level. Audio support materials and oral exercises work together to provide students with the tools needed to improve their real-life English conversation skills.

Dynamic Listening & Speaking

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Listening to the News is a three-book series designed to improve listening comprehension skills for academic purposes while providing interesting topics related to culture, news, and current events.

Listening to the News

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Speaking Time is a fun, easy-to-use three-level speaking series designed for elem1entary school students of English. The activities presented in each unit of the books help students expand their basic speaking skills through guided practice. Additional listening and pair-work activities provide opportunities for students to hear spoken models and practice their own oral communicative skills in communicative activities.

Speaking Time

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Just Speak Up: This series has been developed to introduce a wide variety of speaking topics to students. Each unit also presents a number of activities to scaffold speaking tasks for lower-level or less secure speakers. However, it is not mandatory for higher-level and more advanced speakers to systematically work through all of the activities.

Just Speak Up

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The content of Speaking Tutor covers a wide range of content-based topics and language material over twelve units per level. Speaking Tutor is designed to encourage the student to move from individualized self-study to cooperative pair- and group-work interaction.

Speaking Tutor

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Talk a Lot is a new conversation series for young adult and adult learners of the English language. Understanding that speaking is often the most daunting aspect of acquiring a language, Talk a Lot has been carefully constructed to ease students into each topic before they begin speaking.

Talk a Lot

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Speaking by Speaking is designed to support the intermediate English language learner. A variety of conversations expose students to a wide range of significant, modern topics, while useful expressions provide students with a context for each dialog.

Speaking by Speaking

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Very Easy Writing aims to provide an easily-approached, solid foundation-level writing course for young English learners. The whole series features fundamental language structures that are essential for functioning in emergent writing environments.

Very Easy Writing

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Guided Writing is a three-level series designed to stimulate creativity in young English learners while developing the foundational skills required writing mistake-free sentences and simple paragraphs. The series provides students with exercises and activities centered on modeled writing which allow them to develop their writing and creative thinking skills.

Guided Writing

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Guided Writing Plus provides students with exercises and activities centered on modeled writing which allow them to augment their writing and creative thinking skills.

Guided Writing Plus

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Writing Starter is a three-book writing series designed to expand learners’ writing ability with relevant, useful, and accessible process writing-based techniques. The writing passages found in this series allow learners to comfortably progress from writing sentences to well-organized paragraphs.

Writing Starter

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Writing Bright is a three-book series designed to guide learners through the development of their writing skills and vocabulary. This series also provides a framework for sentence writing and develops paragraph writing skills with exposure to a variety of subjects, including science, history, and geography.

Writing Bright

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Write On provides students with step-by-step writing support as they progress through each unit. Learners will build their ability to structure their writing in an effective and highly-engaging manner.

Write On

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Writing First provides English language learners structured practice in paragraph writing. Each unit takes students step by step through the process of developing personal paragraphs about themselves. All of the topics in Writing First relates to personal experiences, allowing students to focus on the process of writing through familiar ideas.

Writing First

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The content of Writing Tutor covers a wide range of content-based topics and language material over twelve units per level. Writing Tutor is designed to encourage the student to move from producing solid sentences to complete essays over the series. Clear guidance is given at every stage to ensure clear output goals.

Writing Tutor

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Essay Writing for Beginners is an easy, interactive guide to essay writing for students preparing to take the TOEFL iBT test. The two-book series teaches independent and integrated writing techniques. Each book features four steps which facilitate a simple and clear essay writing process.

Essay Writing for Beginners

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1000 Basic English Words is a four-book series, designed to introduce 1000 essential English words to EFL learners and to reinforce the students’ learning through the systematic recycling and review of each of these words.

1000 Basic English Words

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4000 Essential English Words is a six-book series that is design to focus on practical high-frequency words to enhance the vocabulary of learners from high beginning to advance levels. The 600 words in each book of this series along with the additional target words presented in the appendices included in the first three books of the series are the most useful words in English.

4000 Essential English Words

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Illustrated Everyday Idioms provides a comprehensive and entertaining way for students to learn common English idioms. With easy-to-read definitions and examples of 600 of the most common idioms in English, the lessons will both entertain and enlighten students while presenting idioms in a variety of contexts.

Illustrated Everyday Idioms

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English for Everyday Activities: Unlike most illustrated dictionaries, this is an integrated series that features text with clear and colorful pictorial detail. The book covers a range of activities from everyday life, such as using public transportation, preparing food, and using an ATM. This new edition offers updated units related to using current technologies.

English for Everyday Activities

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Everyday Survival English provides a fresh and interesting approach to studying the basic vocabulary and expressions necessary for interacting with others in English. Written as a story and presented in a comic format, the six main characters in the book guide learners step by step through important aspects of commonly encountered situations.

Everyday Survival English

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Everyday English for Young People uses lively, colorful pictures to teach English vocabulary central to the everyday lives of teens. The characters are secondary school students who play video games, practice soccer, do homework, give class presentations, go shopping at a mall, use instant messaging, and do all the other things young people do.

Everyday English for Young People

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The English You Need for Office is the first of a two part series covering the essential vocabulary of the office for general staff and the second for executives. The Picture Process approach allows a lively and flexible presentation of the basic vocabulary of topics like using a copying machine, sending a fax, making telephone calls and office safety.

The English You Need for Office

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The English You Need for Business is the second of a two part series covering the essential business vocabulary for executives. The Picture Process approach allows a lively and flexible presentation of the basic vocabulary of topics like making a presentation, following up after a sales visit and having a business lunch.

The English You Need for Business

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Communicating in Business English is designed for people interested in developing their communication skills for business. The focus of this book is on functional English that people need to communicate within various business environments.

Communicating in Business English

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Talk About Travel is a workbook designed for students who are interested in developing their English skills for the purpose of traveling or working in the field of tourism and hospitality. Units throughout the book progressively build a foundation for the experiences travelers can expect during an international trip.

Talk About Travel

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Travel and Tourism prepares learners with essential English skills for travel.

Travel and Tourism

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English for Restaurant Workers: The book contains essential knowledge for those working in the restaurant industry! The material in this book teaches learners about common experiences and practices of international western food restaurants.

English for Restaurant Workers

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Everyday English for Hospitality Professionals helps future workers in the hotel and restaurant fields develop the English vocabulary they need for interacting with customers and colleagues.

Everyday English for Hospitality Professionals

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Basic Skills for the TOEFL® iBT is a 3-level, 12-book test preparation series designed for beginning-level students of the TOEFL® iBT. Each level consists of four books: Reading, Listening, Speaking, and Writing. Over the course of the series, students build on their current vocabulary to include common TOEFL and academic vocabulary.

Basic Skills for the TOEFL® iBT

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Building Skills for the TOEFL® iBT: In this graded test preparation course, learners will be able to familiarize themselves with question types found on the TOEFL® iBT while covering a variety of disciplines to boost their reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills. Each book provides comprehensive coverage of the designated skill and offers learners extensive practice.

Building Skills for the TOEFL® iBT

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Developing Skills for the TOEFL® iBT: In this graded test preparation course, learners will be able to familiarize themselves with question types found on the TOEFL® iBT while covering a variety of disciplines to boost their reading, listening, speaking, and writing skills. Each book provides comprehensive coverage of the designated skill and offers learners extensive practice.

Developing Skills for the TOEFL® iBT

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Sharpening Skills for the TOEFL® iBT provides students preparing to take the TOEFL® iBT test with four comprehensive, accurate practice tests to hone their test-taking ability. Each of the four tests includes reading, listening, speaking, and writing sections of the same style found on the actual TOEFL® iBT test.

Sharpening Skills for the TOEFL® iBT

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Very Easy TOEIC® is designed for beginning-level students of English as an introduction to the TOEIC. Each of the twelve units deals with one of the main grammatical points seen in the TOEIC®. Each unit provides grammatical and listening exercises based on the specific points dealt with in that unit.

Very Easy TOEIC®

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Starter TOEIC® is designed to assist students through focused practice while developing familiarity with the format of the TOEIC®.

Starter TOEIC®

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The Taking the TOEIC® series is designed for students who need to start preparing or refine their skills for areas tested in the TOEIC®: listening, grammar, and reading. The series uses a range of tools and easy explanations to familiarize students with each part of the TOEIC®, along with questions they can expect to encounter.

Taking the TOEIC®

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Developing Skills for the TOEIC® Test is designed for intermediate-level students of English who need to refine their skills in preparation for the test.

Developing Skills for the TOEIC® Test

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TOEIC® Analyst is designed to prepare students for the TOEIC® test through analysis of common TOEIC® question types and strategies for approaching each question.

TOEIC® Analyst

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Target TOEIC® is designed to provide thorough and realistic preparation for the TOEIC® test though authentic test practice. In order to ensure that students are getting authentic test practice, this new edition has been updated to incorporate changes recently made to the TOEIC® test.

Target TOEIC®

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