The long-awaited, totally new edition of the Advanced level, providing a real challenge and stimulus for Advanced learners. Up-to-date international topics stimulate interest and discussion, focus on lexis, spoken language, streamlined structure and design for maximum clarity and sense of progress. A range of reading texts of different genres – newspaper articles, magazine extracts, literature – cater for various interests within a group.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .” With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of history’s most explosive eras—the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, Dickens vividly captures the terror and upheaval of that tumultuous period. At the center is the novel’s hero, Sydney Carton, a lazy, alcoholic attorney who, inspired by a woman, makes the supreme sacrifice on the bloodstained streets of Paris.
At first glance, a piano may seem like an intimidating instrument that would be very difficult to learn how to play, but despite what your seventh-grade piano teacher may say, playing piano isn't brain surgery. It just takes time, practice, and patience.
