Timesaver British History Highlights

Timesaver 40 Combined Skills Lessons for the Common European Framework (with CD)

ENGLISH PRACTICE & PROGRESS:
GRAMMAR: Elementary
Coleen Degnan-Veness

• 64 pages

A collection of lively grammar activities covering the main grammatical areas for students at this level. Ideal for consolidating or recycling grammar.

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ISBN 1900702894

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ENGLISH PRACTICE & PROGRESS:
GRAMMAR: Pre-intermediate / Intermediate
Jane Rollason

• 48 pages

A further collection of grammar resources covering all the main grammar points of a pre-intermediate to intermediate English language syllabus. Ideal for further practice and consolidation of new structures.

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ISBN 1900702908

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ENGLISH PRACTICE & PROGRESS:
LANGUAGE GAMES: Elementary / Intermediate
Jane Myles

• 64 pages

A collection of enjoyable language practice games ranging from elementary to intermediate levels. Games include quizzes, wordsearches, crosswords and puzzles.

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ISBN 1900702932

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ENGLISH PRACTICE & PROGRESS:
PHRASAL VERBS & IDIOMS: Pre-intermediate / Advanced
Peter Dainty

• 48 pages

Fun and stimulating activities for both presentation and practice of the most commonly used phrasal verbs and idioms in English. Suits a variety of levels.

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ISBN 1900702940

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ENGLISH PRACTICE & PROGRESS:
VOCABULARY: Elementary
Sue Finnie & Danièle Bourdais

• 64 pages

Fun, simple activities covering the basic lexical areas that students at this level need. Ideal for practice and consolidation of vocabulary.

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ISBN 1900702916

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ENGLISH PRACTICE & PROGRESS:
VOCABULARY: Pre-intermediate / Intermediate
Julie Woodward

• 48 pages

More motivating activities covering a wide range of topics and activity types. Ideal for practice and extension of vocabulary at pre-intermediate/intermediate level.

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ISBN 1900702924

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WORKSHEET WIZARD
Software - All levels
MGM/Clarity

This unique, great-value resource on CD ROM contains a searchable library of tried and tested magazine articles and language worksheets in English, French, German and Spanish, covering all levels with lots of motivating, engaging topics. Search for activities by language, language area, level, topic, or key word. Furthermore, Worksheet Wizard's easy-to-use Exercise Generator enables you to create instant worksheets from coursework, your own texts or students' essays - even today's news downloaded from the Internet!

Click to see UK GSCE versions of French, German, or Spanish Worksheet Wizard.

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ISBN 1900702967

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TIMESAVER BRITISH HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS (with free poster)

Bill Bowler & Lesley Thompson

• 96 pages
• Pre-Intermediate – Upper-Intermediate

This fascinating title presents highlights of British history in a way which will directly appeal to teenage students. Topics include Crazy Kings and Cool Queens, Worst Wars and Dreadful Disasters. Students are prompted to link historical events to present day situations, and personal project suggestions are included.

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ISBN: 1-904720-29-3

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TIMESAVER CULTURE, CUSTOMS & LIFESTYLE IN THE UK & IRELAND
Julia Starr Keddle & Martyn Hobbs

• 96 pages
• Pre-Intermediate – Upper Intermediate

This stimulating resource provides a real insight into everyday culture, customs and lifestyle from the UK and Ireland presented through activities, reading texts and communicative games.

Topics include Glastonbury music festival, Teenage birthdays, Top City Guides and many more.

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ISBN: 1-904720-13-7

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TIMESAVER EXTRACTS 2
by Nigel Newbrook

• Advanced
• 96pp
• CD or cassette

This book provides 14 authentic extracts from modern and classical literature, each exploring a different theme, from the best of English authors and novels: Bridget Jones’s Diary, Jane Austen, About a Boy, H.G. Wells, and Captain Correlli’s Mandolin, and more. Each extract is accompanied by useful background information on the authors and the context of their novels. The extracts are followed by two photocopiable exercises and include a wide variety of language practice, such as reading comprehension, vocabulary exercises, discussion activities, role-play, and composition topics, gap fill exercises, and develops reading skills, summary techniques and stylistic appreciation for the Cambridge CAE and CPE examinations.

All the extracts are read aloud on the accompanying audio component.

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ISBN 1900702223 with audio CD
ISBN 1900702770 with audio cassette
Publication date: March 2003

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• Pre-intermediate / Upper-intermediate
• 96 pages

This book is an enjoyable, exciting and interactive introduction to British culture with lots of photocopiable exercises and activities. Many traditional celebrations are covered such as Pancake Day, Christmas and Bonfire Night as well as more contemporary events including the Notting Hill Carnival, Chinese New Year and Ramadan. This book will help you to reduce your preparation time, make your lessons more topical and seasonal, and will provide you and your students with a rich and detailed picture of the traditional and modern faces of British culture.

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ISBN 1900702401

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TIMESAVER FOR REAL! ENGLISH IN EVERYDAY SITUATIONS
by Martin Ford & David King

• Intermediate
• 96pp
• CD or cassette

This book offers teachers a wealth of activities based on reading and listening realia (authentic or simulated-authentic) at an elementary to upper-intermediate level. Supports teachers presenting a ‘Background to Britain’ through a range of authentic and semi-authentic maps, menus, and street plans. The book presents real cities, real events, and real people. The activities offer content for a discussion about Britain, comparing and contrasting that society with the student’s own, as well as providing some practical material for an eventual study tour trip to the UK. Timesaver for Real! offers material which aids integrated skills development (with a focus on reading, listening and vocabulary) and revises specific structures in an enjoyable and meaningful way. Examples of activities include: Shopping at the CD Megastore (Music types- likes and dislikes); TV listings (matching programmes to people profiles); Contemporary Teenage Fiction (matching blurbs to covers); Maps of Britain and Local Towns (jigsaw pair work).

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ISBN 1900702231 with audio CD
ISBN 1900702762 with audio cassette
Publication date: March 2003

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TIMESAVER HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL DAYS IN THE USA
Jane Myles

• Elementary – Intermediate
• 96 pages

Aimed at students who have 1 to 3+ years of English, age group 11-16 years old. The book is designed to provide a range of games and activities which extend students’ knowledge of US culture. Topics include Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hannukah, Groundhog Day, Cinco de Mayo, Fourth of July.

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ISBN 1900702592

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TIMESAVER LONDON! (With free map)
By Sarah Johnson and Jane Myles

• Elementary / Intermediate
• 80 pages

This book contains a variety of reading texts, activities and games on every aspect of London life – sightseeing, travel, sport, shopping, museums, galleries and, of course, on Londoners themselves.
Each activity provides structured language and vocabulary practice, with suggestions for discussion and follow-up pairwork and groupwork.

Topics cover areas as diverse as Hamley’s Toy Shop, Cockney Rhyming Slang, Party in the Park and London Football Clubs as well as the more historical side of London: Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and the Tower of London.

A free poster-sized map of the capital also comes with Timesaver London! with accompanying ideas for class exploitation.

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ISBN: 1-900702-98-3

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TIMESAVER: NEWSPAPER ARTICLES TO GET TEENAGERS TALKING

Peter Dainty

• 88 pages
• Upper-Intermediate / Advanced

A collection of articles from a variety of British newspapers covering themes from environment and war to food and shopping. Great material to get your students discussing the issues of the day!

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Moral issues

Work and education

Lifestyle

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ISBN: 1904720307

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TIMESAVER NEW YORK
Denise Kiernan

• Elementary - Intermediate
• 80 pages

This book contains a variety of reading texts, activities and games covering diverse aspects of New York city. Each activity provides structured language and vocabulary practice, with suggestions for discussion and follow-up pairwork.

Topics cover areas as diverse as New York Cabbies, 9th Avenue Food Fair and Friends TV show as well as the more historical side of New York: Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty and The Jazz Age.

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ISBN: 1904720064

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REAL VIDEO TIMESAVERS
TEEN LIFE – UK! (with video or DVD)
By Barry Tomalin

• Intermediate / Advanced
• 64 pages
• Video (VHS) / DVD: 1.5 hours

Teenagers live and breathe a world of sophisticated media with which traditional teaching materials struggle to compete. Teen Life – UK! brings highly motivating material - originally written for teenagers watching the UK’s Channel 5 – into your classroom.

Each video extract is 5-8 minutes long and taken from a Channel 5 programme. Extracts include teenagers talking about relationships, a soap opera set in a UK secondary school, and a cross-curricular science programme. Extracts come with on-screen support to aid comprehension.

The accompanying resource book provides photocopiable pages, carefully structured around each programme. They include comprehension exercises, extension activities and self-study material.

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ISBN: 190070224X with Video
ISBN: 1904720579 with DVD

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TIMESAVER CROSS-CURRICULAR ENGLISH ACTIVITIES
Melanie Birdsall

• All levels
• 96 pages

Aimed at students who have 1 to 3+ years of English, age group of 11-16 years old. The book is divided into five sections: Geography, Science, History, Life Skills and Maths. The activities in the book aim to practise and extend the student’s knowledge of English and the other subject area. The activities are stimulating, interesting and fun.

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ISBN 1900702584

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TIMESAVER EXTRACTS
Nigel Newbrook

• Upper-intermediate / Advanced
• 92 pages (68 photocopiable pages)

A collection of literary extracts from 14 major English novels that span nearly 200 years, accompanied by photocopiable language exploitation pages. Each unit exploits a different theme and provides a wide variety of language practice, as well as developing reading skills, summary techniques, and stylistic appreciation. Background notes on the authors and the extracts themselves are given in the form of dictation and gap-fill exercises. The Teacher’s Notes provide ideas for role-play, composition and further discussion.

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ISBN 1900702347

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TIMESAVER PLAYS: Short plays for the English Classroom
Jane Myles

• Intermediate
• 80 pages

Contains 12 short photocopiable plays for the EFL classroom. Most of the playlets contain characters who are near in age (14—16 years old) to the students using the book. The situations will be familiar to most teenagers. Each short play poses a moral dilemma with different endings, which the students discuss. They are also encouraged to create their own endings.

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ISBN 1900702606

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TIMESAVER 40 COMBINED SKILLS LESSONS FOR THE COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK (with CD)
Lynda Edwards

• 96 pages
• A1 – A2 levels
• CD

A comprehensive collection of 40 ready-to-go combined skills worksheets closely adhering to the Common European Framework descriptors at A1 and A2 levels. Real life topics and contextualised skills practice will motivate students and the ‘Can Do’ checklist at the end of each lesson allows students to assess their progress.

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ISBN: 1-904720-15-3

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TIMESAVER 40 MORE COMBINED SKILLS LESSONS FOR THE COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK (with CD)
Lynda Edwards

• 112 pages
• B1 level

This invaluable resource provides focused, communicative practice of all four skills for teenage students at CEF level B1. All lessons have vocabulary activities and culminate in speaking and writing tasks. The ‘Can-do’ checklist at the end of each lesson allows students to check their progress against the Common European Framework descriptors.

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ISBN: 1-904720-28-5

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TIMESAVER 50 MIXED-ABILITY GRAMMAR LESSONS
Jane Rollason

• Elementary - Intermediate
• 136 pages

This rich resource provides grammar practice activities for the mixed-ability class covering the main Elementary, Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate structures. Each lesson contains three graded levels of activity based around each structure.

Activities include language games, quizzes and articles and are suitable for individual study and whole class participation.

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ISBN: 1904720072

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TIMESAVER GRAMMAR ACTIVITIES:
Elementary
Coleen Degnan-Veness

• Elementary
• 96 pages

Aimed at students who have 0-1 years of English, age group of 11-12 years old. This book is designed to provide fun and stimulating grammar activities which teachers can use easily to complement their standard ELT syllabus.

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ISBN 190070255X

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TIMESAVER GRAMMAR ACTIVITIES:
Pre-intermediate / Intermediate
Jane Rollason

• Pre-intermediate / Intermediate
• 80 pages

A further resource of lively material to introduce and practise grammar at pre- and intermediate level. Includes logic problems, personality tests, quizzes, word searches, games, group and pair work tasks. The follow-up title to Timesaver Grammar Activities (Elementary).

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ISBN 1900702614

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TIMESAVER PHRASAL VERBS & IDIOMS
Peter Dainty

• Pre-Intermediate / Advanced
• 80 pages

Fun and stimulating activities for both presentation and practice of the most commonly used phrasal verbs and idioms in English. Ideal for all classes and especially for students studying for exams.

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ISBN 1900702622

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TIMESAVER PROJECT WORK
by Janet Hardy Gould

• Elementary/Intermediate
• 96pp

Fifteen engaging and motivating projects on wide ranging topics specifically at teenagers: from "Create a New Pop Group" to "Survive in the Jungle" and from "Design a New Outfit" (for a pop or sports star) to "Create a class Website".

Each project contains an activity or worksheet to encourage the student to engage in the topic. Each project requires the student to practise a variety of the four skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening. Students also learn/revise key items of vocabulary grammar relating to their chosen project.

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ISBN 1900702282
Publication date: March 2003

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TIMESAVER VISUAL GRAMMAR
By Mark Fletcher and Richard Munns

• Elementary / Intermediate
• 80 pages

This book provides a comprehensive collection of the main grammar points covered at elementary, pre-intermediate and intermediate levels, practised through a series of fun and lively picture prompts.

Ideal as consolidation and to provide further practice of recently acquired structures, either in class or as self-study at home. Activity types include gap fill and matching exercises, dialogue completion, and question and negative formation.

Language points covered range from elementary structures such as present continuous and ‘going to’ to high intermediate tenses such as passives and future perfect.

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ISBN: 1-904720-01-3

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TIMESAVER VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES:
Elementary
Sue Finnie & Danièle Bourdais

• Elementary
• 96 pages

Aimed at students who have 0-1 years of English, age group of 11-12 years old. This book is designed to provide interesting and exciting grammar activities which teachers can use easily to complement their standard ELT syllabus.

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ISBN 1900702 576

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TIMESAVER VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES:
Pre-intermediate / Intermediate
Julie Woodward

• Pre-intermediate / Intermediate
• 80 pages

Fun, simple activities which teachers can use with students to practise vocabulary. Covers a wide range of vocabulary topics and is ideal for presenting and practising vocabulary. Activities include crosswords, logic problems, personality tests, quizzes, word searches and board games, and can be used for self-study or homework, as well as supplementing course work. The follow-up to Timesaver Vocabulary Activities (Elementary).

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ISBN 1900702649

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NEW TIMESAVERS FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS
edited by Camilla Punja & Cheryl Pelteret

• All levels
• 96 pages (70 photocopiable pages)

This book is a selection of ready-made visual ideas with illustrative, photcopiable worksheets on topics including home, food and drink, holidays, occupations and schools, as well as realia such as maps and forms. There is also a section at the back with grammar activities. This book can be adapted for use at all levels.

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ISBN 1900702398

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TIMESAVER GAMES
edited by Jane Myles

• Pre-intermediate / Intermediate
• 96 pages

Timesaver Games contains dozens of timesaving and motivating, photocopiable activities for immediate use in the classroom. Suitable for use in all teaching situations, including mixed ability classes or even given as homework, the exercises enable you and your students to consolidate newly acquired language whilst having fun with puzzles. There is a rich variety of activity types, including personality quizzes, cultural games, wordsearches, theme-based board games, pronunciation games, logic puzzles, crosswords and memory games.

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ISBN 190070241X

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TIMESAVER MIND TWISTERS, PUZZLES & GAMES
By Adrian Wallwork and Anna Southern

• Elementary / Intermediate
• 80 pages

A collection of over 50 entirely authentic games and puzzles, adapted for the ELT classroom. Students will love the quirky activities which give them real motivation to communicate.

Activities can be selected by language point, and are ideal for practising or consolidating new structures in a fun, informal way. Shorter activities are perfect as warmers or time-fillers while longer activities can be used as the basis for a whole lesson.

Activity types include lateral thinking problems, quizzes, riddles, jokes, mazes and memory games.

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ISBN: 1-904720-00-5

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TIMESAVER PERSONALITY QUIZZES
edited by Vivienne Lambert

• Elementary / Upper Intermediate
• 80pp

Teenagers have no greater interest than themselves! One of the most compelling features of almost any teen magazine, anywhere in the world is the personality quiz. This book provides 50 of the most engaging personality quizzes covering all the areas of teenager interest including Love and Romance, Friendship, Travel and Adventure, Clothes and Fashion, Family, and more. The quizzes are attractively illustrated and motivate by focusing on the teenager’s interests: "Are you a good friend?", "How fit are you?" "Are you a shopaholic?" Lexical and structural indexing and clear levelling make it easy to find the language point to be practised.

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ISBN 1900702207
Publication date: March 2003

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TIMESAVER RAPS! FOR LEARNING ENGLISH
by Sarah Johnson and Katherine Stannett

• Elementary/Pre-Intermediate
• 64pp
• CD or cassette

ELT songs and jazz chants are now brought right up-to-date with 25 cool raps to support lexical and grammatical development. Fun activities with funny illustrations extend the language points, with a full index to help the teacher find the right rap. Topics range from "American Cousins", focusing on the differences between the UK and the US, to Football, Christmas, Halloween and many more. Professionally produced studio recorded audio on cassette or CD.

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Animal House
Have You Ever...
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ISBN 1900702215with audio CD
ISBN 1900702487 with audio cassette

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TIMESAVER: MORE RAPS FOR LEARNING ENGLISH (with CD)
Katherine Stannett with Emma Grisewood

• 64 pages
• Elementary/Intermediate

A further collection of 25 raps providing fun and stimulating material to use in the teenage classroom. The raps will extend the student’s vocabulary and give extra practice in relevant structures. Activities include quizzes, word searches, crosswords and games as well as listening tasks.

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ISBN: 1904720420 (includes CD)

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TIMESAVER STORYBOARD: 24 Stories Through Pictures (with CD)
Mark Fletcher & Richard Munns

• 80 pages
• Pre-Intermediate – Intermediate

This essential resource contains 24 picture stories each accompanied by a variety of mixed-skills tasks, culminating in the students writing their own version of the story. The stories cover various genres including reportage, human interest stories and comedy. A CD with transcripts and interviews is also provided.

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