New Releases by Andy Hopkins

Extensive reading is essential for improving fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary, low-level reading material for younger learners. This level 3 Popcorn ELT Reader is based on the popular animated film _Home_, about the adventures of Oh, an alien and Tip, a teenage girl and their search for a new home.

Mr. Verloc is an anarchist and he wants to see a revolutiohn in Britain. But his is a lazy man and just wants to look after his shop. Then Mr. Vladimir orders him to bomb the Greenwich Observatory in London. Mr. Verloc does not want to bomb this building. Wil he do the job? An what will happen when it all goes wrong?

Drie rijke en gierige boeren proberen een vossenfamilie te doden, omdat deze al hun pluimvee opeet. Maar meneer Vos is erg slim. Met kleurenillustraties en opdrachten. Vanaf ca. 9 jaar.

Born in the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya in 1940, Maathai grew up in a close-knit Kikuyu community where food, fresh water and fuel were plentiful. As postwar colonialism brought with it European crops and farming methods, the environmental balance was disrupted. This title talks about one womans struggle to save the trees.

Paris, 1792, people are dying. Aristocrats are running from angry revolutionaries, and a brave Englishman is helping them. He and his friends are taking them to England. But who is this Englishman, this ''Scarlet Pimpernel''? The revolutionaries really want to know and then they can kill him.

Word count 5,140 Suitable for young learners

Based on extensive observation of personnel in real companies, this series is designed for students who are working or intend to work in a secretarial, administrative or clerical environment. Building confidence through authentic tasks, the two-stage series trains students to be effective communicators in the workplace. It also provides students with a solid grammar and vocabulary base, with language items clearly presented and practiced throughout. Grammar back-ups, Wordfiles and Phrasebook entries provide an at-a-glance reminder of key gramamr, vobaculary and functional language.

The Longman Fiction series consists of simplified works of fiction and covers a wide range of language levels from lower intermediate to advanced. Each book contains an introduction with background information on both the story and original author. This text is lower intermediate level.

Every year some species of animal disappear - we never see them again.Every year cities, factories and pollution eat up more land - land that animalsneed. Every year hunters kill more elephants, rhinoceros and tigers. Animalseverywhere are in danger - what can we do to save them?

This video builds on the language foundation provided in the first two levels of the series. The emphasis is on developing fluency and accuracy, with skills work, particularly writing.

Look Ahead is a four-level series for upper secondary and young adult learners of English, taking them from beginning level to First Certificate preparation. The Longman classroom series is the institutional version of this multimedia project, created by a consortium consisting of: BBC English, British Council, Longman ELT, Cambridge Examinations (UCLES), with the cooperation of the Council of Europe.

The one book/disk package that every PC user needs to have whether or not he/she fears that inevitably his/her PC will crash. Data recovery is only half the book. The other half deals with prevention. The author shows you several time-tested ways of utilizing preventive maintenance. The author also discusses all of the DOS commands that deal with file recovery, such as FDISK, FORMAT, CHKDSK, etc. The disk contains many useful utilities.

This is part of a two-level course specially written for adults who are looking for a springboard to further learning. Divided into sections on grammar, vocabulary and skills, it gives both student and teacher flexibility in using it and encourages learner independence.

Lord Foxfields Traum ist es, auf der Insel Tanakuata im Pazifischen Ozean eine neue Gesellschaft zu gründen, in der alle Menschen in Frieden miteinander leben. Bald schon wird die Idylle zum Alptraum. (Science fiction).

This book develops students'' ability to write effectively for different purposes. It aims to build up confidence in writing in a variety of styles and is suitable for students preparing for ARELS, COCO and FCE. Each unit also contains discussion and analysis work and follow-up writing tasks.

A weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins''s parents - and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. For when Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island in his sea chest - where ''X'' marks the spot of a stash of buried pirate gold. Setting sail with his friends on the ship Hispaniola to recover the treasure, Jim soon realizes that he''s not the only one who knows about the hoard. Suddenly he is thrown into a world of treachery, mutiny, castaways and murder and, at the centre of it all, is the charming but sinister Long John Silver, who will stop at nothing to grab his share of the loot.