Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turns to living. And they say that the best way to learn a language is to fall in love with a native speaker… Selected from the book A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo

John is very poor. He has no money and no food. But he has a very clever cat called Puss in Boots. With just a sack and some grain, Puss in Boots helps his friend. John now has beautiful clothes, a palace to live in, and a princess to marry. How does Puss in Boots do it? 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.

Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turns to living. And they say that the best way to learn a language is to fall in love with a native speaker... Selected from the book A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an alien species. The city is disorientating, the people unfriendly, the language a muddle of personal pronouns and moody verbs. But with increasing fluency in English surviving turns to living. And they say that the best way to learn a language is to fall in love with a native speaker... Selected from the book A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.

Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for children learning English as a foreign or second language. All animals need food. Some animals get food from plants, and some eat other animals. Food is not easy to find, so animals are often hungry. Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language. Recommended for children aged 4+, the five levels of Readers and Activity Books follow the CEFR framework (Pre-A1 to A2) and include language activities that help develop key skills and provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) Starters, Movers and Flyers exams. This Level 2 Reader is A1 in the CEFR framework and supports YLE Movers exams. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the past tense and some simple adverbs.

The home of trusted full-colour visual dictionaries for everyday use. A photographic guide to the key words and phrases in Chinese. This attractive pocket-sized book is a perfect travel companion and provides a practical guide to China and Chinese language and culture. Everyday words are arranged in themes with carefully selected up-to-date images to illustrate key words and phrases, and an English and Chinese index help you to find words quickly as you learn. 3,000 essential words and phrases for modern life in China are at your fingertips with topics covering food and drink, home life, work and school, shopping, sport and leisure, transport, technology, and the environment. Great care has been given to represent modern Chinese culture and enhance your experience of China and its people, including customs, celebrations, and festivals. Plus, download your free audio to hear native speakers pronounce the word for each image and get your pronunciation pitch perfect.

The home of trusted Mandarin dictionaries for everyday language learning. A clear, modern Chinese to English and English to Chinese dictionary. The essential reference book for Chinese: an up-to-date dictionary and a user-friendly language supplement in one handy volume. Designed for learners of Chinese or English, from beginner up to university level, this is the ideal text for anyone who needs easy access to both a dictionary and a practical language supplement. Extensive coverage of today's English and Chinese, with thousands of phrases and examples guiding the user to the most appropriate translation. Help with the pronunciation of Chinese words, including Pinyin for all Chinese headwords, translations, phrases and examples. Pinyin is the official phonetic system for transcribing Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet, and is accepted in all Chinese-speaking countries. Includes both simplified and traditional Chinese characters. Simplified characters are generally used in mainland China and Singapore, while traditional characters are mainly used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. The Language in Action supplement offers practical help with everyday language for both Chinese and English. The radical index is a clear guide to looking up Chinese characters, helping the user to navigate the dictionary and find Chinese characters without knowing their pronunciation.

Read and discover all about food around the world... Where are cacao trees grown? What drink can you make from cherries? These motivating non-fiction readers are rich in content and beautifully illustrated. Fascinating information in carefully graded language appeals to a broad range of students and supports English across the curriculum, making the series perfect for CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). Stunning colour photos, maps, diagrams and charts support understanding, while activities and projects develop language and critical thinking skills.

Read and discover all about food around the world. Where are cacao trees grown? What drink can you make from cherries? These motivating non-fiction readers are rich in content and beautifully illustrated. Fascinating information in carefully graded language appeals to a broad range of students and supports English across the curriculum, making the series perfect for CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). Stunning colour photos, maps, diagrams and charts support understanding, while activities and projects develop language and critical thinking skills.

This practical guide is written primarily for subject teachers who teach through English to students whose first language is not English. Produced with Cambridge International Examinations, the Toolkit helps teachers to develop language awareness to support their students with the academic language they need to be successful in subjects taught through English. With reflective questions and activities, it can be used either for self-study or in training modules. Useful for both content and English language teachers, it is aimed primarily at those who teach students for whom English is not their first language - for example as part of a bilingual or CLIL programme or in an international English-medium school. Language Awareness in Teaching: A Toolkit for Content and Language Teachers includes classroom tasks to help content teachers give language support to their students, advice on how content and English language teachers can work together to build language support for students, and language issues that relate directly to Cambridge IGCSE subjects. Language Awareness in Teaching: A Toolkit for Content and Language Teachers is part of The Cambridge Teacher Series, edited by senior colleagues at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, which has a longstanding tradition of involvement in high quality, innovative teacher education and continuing professional development.

Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for children learning English as a foreign or second language. Polar bears, seals, and penguins live in the Arctic and Antarctica. They must work hard to find food and look after their babies. Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language. Recommended for children aged 4+, the five levels of Readers and Activity Books follow the CEFR framework (Pre-A1 to A2) and include language activities that help develop key skills and provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) exams. This Level 3 Activity Book is A1+ in the CEFR framework and supports YLE Movers exams. The activities encourage children to practice longer sentences with up to three clauses, some expression of future meaning, comparisons, contractions and relative clauses.

Planned by the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. Writing task is the main line of this book. It synthesizes language learning and expression function learning as the teaching method, in order to enhance the interaction and communication in class. Topics in this book are very close to the foreign students' life in China.

Planned by the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. Writing task is the main line of this book. It synthesizes language learning and expression function learning as the teaching method, in order to enhance the interaction and communication in class. Topics in this book are very close to the foreign students' life in China.

Planned by the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. Writing task is the main line of this book. It synthesizes language learning and expression function learning as the teaching method, in order to enhance the interaction and communication in class. Topics in this book are very close to the foreign students' life in China. .

Planned by the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. Writing task is the main line of this book. It synthesizes language learning and expression function learning as the teaching method, in order to enhance the interaction and communication in class. Topics in this book are very close to the foreign students' life in China.

Planned by the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. Writing task is the main line of this book. It synthesizes language learning and expression function learning as the teaching method, in order to enhance the interaction and communication in class. Topics in this book are very close to the foreign students' life in China.