It’s a BIG world out there and today’s young learners have BIG goals. BIG ENGLISH engages students with fun topics and activities that motivate them to learn English. BIG ENGLISH aims to make sure that every student has the tools they need to succeed. Balanced development of language skills and CLIL lessons are the core of this course, but it has so much more! Critical thinking about BIG ideas and Culture Connections challenge students to learn and think about the BIG wide world around them, helping them build 21st century skills. Assessment for Learning encourages self-efficacy and develops learner confidence to think BIG.
It's a BIG world out there and today's young learners have BIG goals. Big English engages students with fun topics and activities that motivate them to learn English. Big English aims to make sure that every student has the tools they need to succeed. Balanced development of language skills and CLIL lessons are the core of this course, but it has so much more! Critical thinking about BIG ideas and Culture Connections challenge students to learn and think about the BIG wide world around them, helping them build 21st century skills. Assessment for Learning encourages self-efficacy and develops learner confidence to think BIG.
"Zadie Smith's fizzing first novel is about how we all got here - from the Caribbean, from the Indian sub-continent, from the thirteenth place in a long-ago Olympic bicycle race - and about what here turned out to be. It's an astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious, and the voice has real writerly idiosyncrasy. I was delighted by WHITE TEETH, and often impressed. It has ... bite."
The Iraq War. The Military Offensive, from Victory in 21 Days to the Insurgent Aftermath
From the best-selling author of The First World War and Intelligence in War comes the most up-to-date and informed study yet of the Iraq War. John Keegan, whom the New York Review of Books calls "the best historian of our day", now brings his extraordinary expertise to bear on perhaps the most controversial war of our time. In exclusive interviews with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and General Tommy Franks, John Keegan has gathered information about the war that adds immeasurably to our grasp of its causes, complications, costs, and consequences.
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5It took Vonnegut more than 20 years to put his Dresden experiences into words. He explained, "there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again." Slaughterhouse Five is a powerful novel incorporating a number of genres. Only those who have fought in wars can say whether it represents the experience well. However, what the novel does do is invite the reader to look at the absurdity of war. Human versus human, hedonist politicians pressing buttons and ordering millions to their deaths all for ideologies many cannot even comprehend.
