English for Careers is a series which prepares pre-work students for starting their career. Everything in each Student's Book is vocation-specific, which means students get the language, information, and skills they need to help them get a job in their chosen career.
A specialist course for medical students, doctors, and advanced nurses who want to work in English-speaking countries.
Siblings Jodie and Mark have arrived at the train station for their annual month-long visit to their grandparents' farm. Stanley, the hired help, shows the kids the scarecrows, which he made by following the instructions in his special superstition book. As time goes on, Jodie and Mark discover that the scarecrows sometimes come to life.
Siblings Billy and Sheena Deep are spending their summer vacation on the Caribbean island of Ilandra with their uncle named Dr. Deep. A zoo crew wants Dr. Deep to find and trap a mermaid that has been reported in the area. While swimming, Billy is almost killed by a hammerhead shark but is saved by the mermaid whom Dr. Deep traps in a large glass tank.
The Morris family, and their friend Clay out on a day trip, attempt to find Zoo Gardens amusement park, but fail as they forgot the map, so instead they stumble upon HorrorLand. The family car inexplicably explodes in the parking lot and the monstrous ticket-taker promises it will be 'taken care of'. When the various attractions the family explores at the park all threaten to kill them, they attempt to escape HorrorLand and save their lives.
What did it mean to be a man in medieval England? Most would answer this question by alluding to the power and status men enjoyed in a patriarchal society, or they might refer to iconic images of chivalrous knights. While these popular ideas do have their roots in the history of the aristocracy, the experience of ordinary men was far more complicated.
