A dictionary designed for learners who need to understand, speak, read and write English for business.Key featuresVocabulary from the main areas of business, including: accounting,banking, computing, finance, import and export, international trade,law, management, sales, shipping and the stock exchange. Clear explanations of over 4,000 business words and phrases, pronunciation, collocations, American variants, notes on grammar and usage. Over5,000 authentic examples.
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! From purple potato salad to lottery winnings, the stories in this engaging collection will humor you, surprise you, and invite students to learn English through a sparkling avenue! Drawn from authentic news articles, folktales, and poetry, each of the 24 two-color selections is supported with photographs and illustrations. The pre-reading, reading, and post-reading activities include filling in the blanks, matching, interpreting graphs, and discussing solutions to problems. These books can be used either as independent text or with the support of The Oxford Picture Dictionary. The cassettes contain recordings of all the readings.
Lyra's Oxford opens in the thrilling comfort and familiarity of Jordan College, where
Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon sit on the sun-drenched roof looking
out over all of Oxford. But their peace is shattered when a strange
bird-a witch's daemon, on its own-tumbles out of the sky. It is Ragi,
daemon of Yelena Pazhets, and he seeks a healing elixir from an
infamous Oxford alchemist (and rumored man slaughterer) to cure his
witch of a strange new disease from the South. Lyra and Pan decide to
help and guide him-witches are friends, of course-but the closer their
winding walk leads them to the alchemist's house, the stronger Lyra's
sense that she's walking into a deadly trap.
Oxford Heroes is a new three-level course for teenagers which takes them from beginner to intermediate level. Every unit of Oxford Heroes is divided into three complete lessons, providing a clear progression from new language to skills work. The MultiROM is an Audio Cd and an Interactive CD-ROM
Containing more than 5.000 entries, this dictionary covers metaphorical phrases, similes, familiar sayings, and proverbs, providing illustrative quotations from sources as varied as the Bible, the Spectator, and Agatha Christie. It explains meanings and provides historical information for well-known idioms such as cost an arm and a leg, knoks spots off, once in a blue moon, the tip of the iceberg, and many more. Full of fascinating facts, this dictionary is ideal for anyone with interest in the origins of the colloquial, quirky byways of the English language. Idioms are arranged alphabetically by key word for easy reference. Sayings in British English are supplemented by American English and other expressions.
