Listening Success is a five-level series that will support students’ development of listening comprehension skills through focused practice with dialogs and monologues structured around common functional language patterns
Upper-intermediate
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It’s Not News, It’s Fark is Drew Curtis’s clever examination of the state of the media today and a hilarious look at the go-to stories mass media uses when there’s just not enough hard news to fill a newspaper or a news broadcast. Drew exposes eight stranger-than-fiction media patterns that prove just how little reporting is going on in the world of reporters today.
English in Pictures 4 is the last of the four-part series aiming to take learners from the beginner to pre-intermediate level. The course is based on grammar and basic vocabulary syllabus and was designed to help students master basic sentence patterns and communicate in the most common situations (e.g. giving directions).
Master UK knitter and author Bliss demonstrates how even rank beginners can knit simple garments for 3- to 24-month-old children. This concentrates on 15 projects graduated either in terms of technique or in level of difficulty. Photography is magazine-lush and close-up enough for readers to pick out individual stitches; the illustrations, too, provide easy-to-understand accompaniments to very straightforward directions. The patterns are classic silhouettes that allow for colorful interpretation or elegant monochromatic hues: a garter-stitch scarf, cushions with buttonholes, two-needle socks, ...
