Newsademic is an easy-to-understand international newspaper, written and edited in a style that assists English Language teaching and learning. Newsademic is a fortnightly publication (20 articles) and associated website. Both British and American English versions of the newspaper are available. The easy-to-read newspaper features the top world news stories that have made headlines during the previous two weeks. - Focus on international news events that shape and affect the world that we all live in today - Carries no advertising
A monthly title covering the diverse History of Britain. Topics covered include: Amazing people from British history including Florence Nightingale, Isaac Newton and Charles Dickens. The people and culture of the British Isles. Celts, Gaelic, Welsh, Irish, Scottish and English. The battles and wars from Hastings and The War of the Roses to World War II. The British Monarchs through the ages. William the Conqueror, The Tudors, Henry VIII and Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II From Stone Age Britain to The Industrial Revolution and a modern day history of a changing Britain.
Welcome to Britain! UK experience while checking, expand and consolidate the knowledge of English. In 20 chapters, everything worth knowing is mediated by British cultural studies: the typical British humor to the royal family, from the bustling metropolis of London to the far reaches of Scotland, from the tea to the pop culture. Vocabulary English-German. On each chapter is followed by a variety of exercises on vocabulary and grammar to in order to apply what they have read and learned immediately and test can.
Gambling permeated the daily lives of eighteenth-century Britons of all classes. This book explicates the relationship between the rampant gambling in eighteenth-century England, the new forms of gambling-inspired capitalism that transformed British society, and novels that interrogate the new socio-economy of long odds and lucky breaks.
For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain was the dominant world power, its strength based in large part on its command of an Empire that, in the years immediately after World War I, encompassed almost one-quarter of the earth s land surface and one-fifth of its population. Writers boasted that the sun never set on British possessions, which provided raw materials that, processed in British factories, could be re-exported as manufactured products to expanding colonial markets.
