As an intensive course, Expert helps support your ambitious students as they prepare for Cambridge English exams.Revised for the 2015 update to the Cambridge exams, Expert 3rd Edition develops language awareness and communication skills as well as test-taking skills.Expert 3rd edition includes: more listening practice than ever before, extra support for new writing tasks, extended exam preparation for "use of English" tasks, and a wide range of vocabulary extension tools.
A self-study reference and practice book for advanced students of English. Advanced Grammar in Use second edition covers all the areas of grammar that an advanced-level student needs. - Contains 100 units of grammar reference and practice materials; - Includes additional exercises, appendices and coverage more specifically aimed at the advanced learner; - Has a comprehensive Grammar Review to allow learners to check language areas they have already studied; - Is informed by the Cambridge International Corpus to ensure the language is authentic and up to date; - Provides ideal support for students preparing for the Cambridge English: Advanced or Cambridge English: Proficiency examinations or the IELTS examination. The CD-ROM offers...
Having firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was retained by The Strand Magazine to contribute a series of twelve short stories, which began with `A Scandal in Bohemia` in 1891 and were published monthly for the next year.The stories, in which the master sleuth receives a stream of clients presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries in his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, were instantly popular and by the time of the publication of the final story, `The Copper Beeches`, they had become the mainstay of the magazine.They included such classic tales as `The Five Orange Pips` and `The Adventure of the Speckled Band`, and...
ISBN: 9781840228311
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 2021
Книга содержит неадаптированный текст рассказов Артура Конан Дойла ТРИ СТУДЕНТА и ПОСЛЕДНЕЕ ДЕЛО ШЕРЛОКА ХОЛМСА на английском языке, сопровождающийся упражнениями, комментариями и словарем. Перевод наиболее трудных предложений дается в сносках, а сложные элементы выделены и объяснены в комментариях.
ISBN: 978-985-15-2399-9
Издательство:
Попурри
Дата выхода: октябрь 2014
First published in 1865, Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass has been been perennially popular with both adults and children alike. It follows the tale of curious Alice and her fall through the rabbit hole into a fantasy world filled with anthropomorphic and peculiar creatures. A lasting classic that plays with logic and the bizarre, this tale cannot fail to delight readers with its mix of prose and poetry.
When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richards funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richards will, Cora was clearly heard to say: It`s been hushed up very nicely, hasn`t it… But he was murdered, wasn`t he?In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery...
A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane...From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp.What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.
Agatha Christie`s disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Gipsy`s Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea - and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy.There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after.Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals` warnings: `There`s no luck for them as meddles with Gipsy`s Acre.`Michael Rogers is a man who is about to learn the true meaning of the old saying `In my end is my beginning...`
ISBN: 9780008196394
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: январь 2017
Aladdin meets an evil wizard who tricks him into finding a magic lamp. But a genie helps him escape the wizard and return home. Then Aladdin falls in love with the Royal Princess and wants to marry her. Can the magic lamp help his dreams to come true? Macmillan English Explorers have been written specifically for young learners of English. They bring first language teaching methods to reading lessons in first foreign language classrooms.
ISBN: 9780230719804
Издательство:
Macmillan ELT
Дата выхода: январь 2010
Original / British English Ali wants to take photos of people and places in Istanbul, but he has a big problem. He hasn`t got a camera. How can he get one?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7801-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
‘Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”’So begins the tale of Alice, who follows a curious White Rabbit down a hole and falls into Wonderland, a fantastical place where nothing is quite as it seems: animals talk, nonsensical characters confuse, Mad Hatters throw tea parties and the Queen plays croquet. Alice’s attempts to find her way home become increasingly bizarre, infuriating and amazing in turn.A beloved classic, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has...
Люис Кэрролл – английский писатель, создавший свой собственный жанр, названный "парадоксальная литература" и подаривший миру произведения, которые и по сей день остаются самыми любимыми среди читателей всех возрастов. "Алиса в стране чудес" и "Алиса в зазеркалье", рассказывает о девочке по имени Алиса, оказавшейся в удивительной стране, столь не похожей на привычный нам мир. Здесь еда и напитки могут...
ISBN: 9785171541675
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: февраль 2023
Сказка «Алиса в Стране чудес» английского писателя, математика и философа, которого мы знаем под литературным псевдонимом Льюис Кэрролл, — одна из самых известных книг, написанных на английском языке. Впервые она была опубликована в 1865 году, но по сей день пользуется популярностью как у детей, так и у взрослых, считаясь одним из лучших образцов литературы в жанре абсурда. Чтобы облегчить чтение и...
ISBN: 9789851536777
Издательство:
Попурри
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
В книге представлены известные сказки Л. Кэрролла «Путешествие Алисы в Стране чудес» и «Сквозь зеркало, и Что там нашла Алиса». Оба произведения даны на языке оригинала.Знакомство с оригиналами творений классиков зарубежной литературы, науки, искусства поможет сегодняшним студентам составить более точное представление о неповторимой стилистике каждого автора, а также расширит словарный запас, знания...
ISBN: 9785534053319
Издательство:
Юрайт
Дата выхода: октябрь 2017
«Алиса в Зазеркалье», которая была опубликована в 1871 году как продолжение «Алисы в Стране чудес», – одна из самых известных книг, написанных на английском языке. Сюрреалистическая сказка о приключениях маленькой героини в полной абсурда волшебной стране настолько серьезна и глубока, что вот уже более столетия остается любимым чтением детей и взрослых. А лингвистические загадки Кэрролла, огромное...
ISBN: 978-985-15-3787-3
Издательство:
Попурри
Дата выхода: декабрь 2018
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, first published in 1865, tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.
ISBN: 978-5-517-07543-7
Издательство:
Рипол Классик
Дата выхода: август 2022
