This bestselling text by Charles Barber recounts the history of the English language from its ancestry to the present day.

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This innovative volume presents an in-depth study of the language used by participants in business meetings. The cutting-edge research draws on the Cambridge, and Nottingham Business English Corpus (CANBEC), a unique resource which brings together meetings of different types both within and between companies, involving speakers whose roles and responsibilities vary, and who represent a range of nationalities and first languages. Keywords, concordance lines and discourse analysis provide thorough insights into aspects such as the structural stages of meetings, participants' discursive practices, interpersonal language and creativity, and power and constraint. The author concludes by making practical suggestions for using these findings to inform the teaching of business English.

"This volume provides an incisive overview of the current state of materials design in language teaching. Seventeen original chapters explore the issues involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of materials in language programs in a wide variety of settings and contexts. This stimulating collection considers different approaches to materials design - including teacher-developed classroom materials, commercial materials, and technology-driven materials. Discussion questions and tasks follow each chapter to make this volume useful to both prospective and practicing teachers alike"--Provided by publisher.

"Using Corpora in the Language Classroom shows teachers how to use corpora and corpus tools to expand student learning. Together with its companion website, this teacher-friendly book demystifies corpus linguistics with clear explanations, instructions and examples. It provides the essential knowledge, tools, and skills teachers need to enable students to discover how language is really used. Clear and concise, this volume provides: -An overview of corpus linguistics -Clear explanations of terminology -Tasks and activities that invite readers to interact with the material -Principled instructions for creating classroom materials and activities, including how to create corpora to address specific class needs"--Provided by publisher.

"This volume provides an incisive overview of the current state of materials design in language teaching. Seventeen original chapters explore the issues involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of materials in language programs in a wide variety of settings and contexts. This stimulating collection considers different approaches to materials design - including teacher-developed classroom materials, commercial materials, and technology-driven materials. Discussion questions and tasks follow each chapter to make this volume useful to both prospective and practicing teachers alike"--Provided by publisher.

Set of four authentic KET past papers from Cambridge ESOL. Cambridge Key English Test 5 contains four complete KET past papers from Cambridge ESOL. These official papers provide candidates with an excellent opportunity to familiarise themselves with the content and format of the KET examination and to practise examination techniques. The book contains practice material for Paper 1 (Reading and Writing) and Paper 2 (Listening), along with attractive colour visual material for Paper 3, which enables students to prepare thoroughly for the paired Speaking test. The audio CD set contains the recordings for Paper 2 (Listening). Cambridge University Press is the only official publisher of past papers from Cambridge ESOL. The Student's Book with answers features a comprehensive answers section and includes four complete past papers from University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations. A Student's Book without answers is also available.

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Kid's Box is a six-level course for young learners. Bursting with bright ideas to inspire both teachers and students, Kid's Box gives children a confident start to learning English. It also fully covers the syllabus for the Cambridge Young Learners English (YLE) tests. This Resource Pack contains extra photocopiable activities to reinforce and extend each unit of the Pupil's Book, allowing teachers to cater for mixed-ability classes, as well as tests suitable for YLE preparation. Level 6 completes the Flyers cycle (CEF level A2).

This reference and practice book looks at the most colourful and fun area of English vocabulary - idioms. This book will appeal to students at advanced level who want to understand and use the English really used by native speakers, and students preparing for higher level exams, such as CAE, CPE and IELTS. Over 1,000 of the most useful and frequent idioms, which learners are likely to encounter are presented and practised in typical contexts, so that learners using this book will have hundreds of idioms 'at their fingertips'. The book is informed by the Cambridge International Corpus, to ensure idioms are presented in authentic and natural contexts and the Cambridge Learner Corpus to ensure common learner errors in advanced exams are covered.

Called away suddenly from holiday to a secret meeting in New Zealand, British spy Ian Munro senses that he is being followed. Who is following him? And why is the coded information he is given so secret that others are prepared to kill for it? Can Munro escape his followers and crack the code? Cambridge English Readers offers award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, and a wide range of genres provide reading for every student's ability. Thought-provoking topics and lively up-to-date language motivate learners to read until the end. So what are you waiting for? Choose your book and have fun with extra online resources Cambridge University Press website. This is the paperback-only version. It is also available with Audio CD with complete text recordings from the book.

Fun for Starters provides full-colour preparation material for the Cambridge Young Learners English Test: Starters. Fun activities balanced with exam-style questions practise all the areas of the syllabus in a communicative way. The material is specifically designed to focus on those areas most likely to cause problems for young learners at this level. The Fun for Starters Audio CD includes listening material to accompany the Student's Book. The website to accompany the Fun for Starters, Movers, Flyers series includes interactive versions of some activities from the Student's Books.

MORE! is a four-level course from a highly respected author team that's bursting with features for lower secondary students. With dedicated reading, culture, grammar, vocabulary, skills and cross-curricular learning sections, plus a wide range of flexible components, you really do get more with MORE! Each level of MORE! contains 80-90 hours of class material. Teachers can draw on a wide range of multimedia components to make lessons and homework varied and enjoyable, such as the free Student's Book CD-ROM, Testbuilder CD-ROM, DVDs, and MORE! Online which can be accessed via the course website. The Teacher's Resource Pack contains unit tests, review tests, and term tests, as well as entry-level tests and end-of-year tests. There are extra grammar practice and communication activities for each unit of the course. The free Testbuilder CD-ROM allows teachers to create their own tests. They can preview each test question before selecting it, and can create 'A' and 'B' versions of each test so that students sitting next to each other don't share answers. Exam skills (KET-, PET- and Trinity-style) questions are also available.

face2face Test Generator, featuring ExamView(R) Assessment Suite is a brand new assessment package to accompany the face2face course. Providing an accurate and flexible way to monitor and evaluate students' progress, it covers all areas of language learning - grammar, vocabulary, listening, reading, speaking and writing. face2face Test Generator includes 12 progress tests (one per unit), one mid-course achievement test and one end-of-course achievement test. Multiple versions of each progress and achievement test can be printed, containing the same questions but in a different order. Quick and easy to use, and with a clear scoring system, face2face Test Generator allows you to tailor tests to meet your students' needs. This includes writing your own test questions using a range of possible formats, selecting the questions you'd like and changing the order of questions. Just save the tests that you create, then email them to your students or print them out to use in class. Alternatively, you can deliver the tests via a local area network, which even enables the objective part of the test to be marked automatically, saving you valuable time. A comprehensive user guide will help you get the most out of using the Test Generator, including guidelines on how to grade speaking and writing tasks.

Fun for Starters provides full-colour preparation material for the Cambridge Young Learners English Test: Starters. Fun activities balanced with exam-style questions practise all the areas of the syllabus in a communicative way. The material is specifically designed to focus on those areas most likely to cause problems for young learners at this level. The Fun for Starters Teacher's Book includes creative teaching tips, photocopiable activities, and a full, photocopiable practice test. An Audio CD, available separately, includes listening material to accompany the Student's Book. The website to accompany the series includes interactive versions of some activities from the Student's Books.

This publication highlights the need for test developers to provide clear explanations of the ability constructs which underpin tests offered in the public domain. An explanation is increasingly required or if the validity of test score interpretation and use are to be supported both logically and with empirical evidence. The book demonstates the application of a comprehensive test validation framework which adopts a socio-cognitive perspective. The framework embraces six core components which reflect the practical nature and quality of an actual testing event. It examines Cambridge ESOL writing tasks from the following perspectives: Test Taker, Cognitive Validity, Context Validity, Scoring Validity, Criterion-related Validity and Consequential Validity. The authors show how an understanding and analysis of the framework and its components in relation to specific writing tests can assist test developers to operationalise their tests more effectively, especially in relation to criterial distinctions across test levels.

Ready-made photocopiable lessons for Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) or bilingual education programmes. Photocopiable lessons designed to widen your pupils' knowledge of the world outside the classroom. Ideal for giving your English classes a cross-curricular element, or as support material for Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) or bilingual education programmes. Topics covered include art and drama, literacy, maths, science and the environment.