Short Stories for Students is designed to provide readers with information and discussion about a wide range of important contemporary and historical works of short fiction, and it does that job very well. However, I want to use this guest foreword to address a question that it does not take up. It is a fundamental question that is often ignored in high school and college English classes as well as research texts, and one that causes frustration among students at all levels, namely why study literature at all?

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Business Language To Go

Now, forget about dictionaries and grammar books: you don't have the time for that! Instead, listen to Business Language To Go, a series that is all about chunks of language as used in business contexts.

Talking Business:This course gives you useful language and phrases to improve your spoken communication skills in English in different business situations.

Words in the News (Business stories): This list of “Words in the News” contains vocabulary, explanations,dictionary type definitions.

English for Business Studies is a course for upper-intermediate and advanced level students who need to be able to understand and talk about the key business and economic concepts. The Student's Book contains 28 units and covers the full range of business and economic issues, from Work and motivation, to Exchange rates and International trade.
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English Too, English Language Learners Workbook for Middle School Intermediate Level Students
This workbook is a diagnostic tool as well  as a curriculum for English Language Learners.Many of the quizzes and longer tests are designed as pretest instruments for determining base levels.

The lessons are geared to the mastery language levels for middle school students.
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