3 new books in the series for students of English as a foreign language, with audio CDs.

This funny play is about rich people. These people always want more money, so Volpone and his servant play a game. People think Volpone is dying. They bring beautiful things for him. They want his money after he dies. But what will happen to Volpone’s money? Who will win – and who will lose? Retold by Tonya Trappe.

Intelligent Business is the Pearson award-winning business English course that features informative and authentic material from the Economist. What happens when your students haven't worked in business before? They need to learn business concepts like mergers and acquisitions. They need to know essential career skills, like presenting and summarising. On top of this, they need to learn useful business English. The Coursebook assumes that students have a limited prior knowledge of the business world, so it teaches business concepts and skills as well as business English. There's an authentic reading from The Economist© magazine in every unit, so you won't have to go through the business news pages for reading texts. And every Coursebook has a free Style Guide for business letters, faxes and emails.

Career skills sections help to develop key communicative skills Each unit ends with a Dilemma and Decision page which enables students to review language whilst completing problem-solving activities Thorough writing support is provided with a dedicated Style Guide Booklet Each unit opens like an addition of The Economist (c) The Coursebook includes a CD with all the listening material

Role Plays for Today is a photocopiable resource book for use with adult and teenage EFL and ESOL students from elementary to advanced levels. It provides teachers with an instant resource of up-to the-minute role play activities which can be used to support or extend any English teaching course. The activities can be adapted for use with classes of any size. Features include: 39 enjoyable, ready to use role plays divided into five 'real world' categories - Services, Shopping, Social life, Lifestyle and Creative role plays - which provide extensive and varied speaking practice in pair and group situations Target language boxes on each worksheet to remind students and teachers of key expressions and functional language appropriate for the role play language activities and discussion questions in the teacher's notes which help prepare and motivate students for the role play, and suggestions for further activities, helping to ensure a well-rounded lesson grammar, functional language and vocabulary areas likely to be activated are given for each role play in the contents and teacher's notes an index of grammar, functions and vocabulary at the back of the book

The team arrives for another day at the office. The workers are happy, but their bosses have a surprise for them. Is it going to be a nice surprise—or not?

CALL ME MUMMY. ITLL BE BETTER IF YOU DO. Glamorous, beautiful Mummy has everything a woman could want. Except for a daughter of her very own. So when she sees Kim - heavily pregnant, glued to her phone and ignoring her eldest child in a busy shop - she does what anyone would do. She takes her. But foul-mouthed little Tonya is not the daughter that Mummy was hoping for. As Tonya fiercely resists Mummys attempts to make her into the perfect child, Kim is demonised by the media as a scummy mummy, who deserves to have her other children taken too. Haunted by memories of her own childhood and refusing to play by the medias rules, Kim begins to spiral, turning on those who love her. Though they are worlds apart, Mummy and Kim have more in common than they could possibly imagine. But it is five-year-old Tonya who is caught in the middle...

CALL ME MUMMY. ITLL BE BETTER IF YOU DO. Glamorous, beautiful Mummy has everything a woman could want. Except for a daughter of her very own. So when she sees Kim - heavily pregnant, glued to her phone and ignoring her eldest child in a busy shop - she does what anyone would do. She takes her. But foul-mouthed little Tonya is not the daughter that Mummy was hoping for. As Tonya fiercely resists Mummys attempts to make her into the perfect child, Kim is demonised by the media as a scummy mummy, who deserves to have her other children taken too. Haunted by memories of her own childhood and refusing to play by the medias rules, Kim begins to spiral, turning on those who love her. Though they are worlds apart, Mummy and Kim have more in common than they could possibly imagine. But it is five-year-old Tonya who is caught in the middle...

For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest in aspects of his language. So how can we better understand Shakespeare? David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare's language, making his plays easily accessible to modern-day audiences. Covering the five main dimensions of language structure - writing system, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary and conversational style - this book demonstrates how examining these linguistic 'nuts and bolts' can help us achieve a greater appreciation of Shakespeare's linguistic creativity. Explains clearly the terms required to understand Shakespeare's language, assuming no prior specialist knowledge Includes many examples from Shakespeare's plays and poems, providing essential context for the reader Contains a lively and original A-Z Appendix of Shakespeare's 'false friends' - words which seem familiar to us today, but in fact have a completely different meaning

Intelligent Business is the Pearson award-winning business English course that features informative and authentic material from the Economist. What happens when your students haven’t worked in business before? They need to learn business concepts like mergers and acquisitions. They need to know essential career skills, like presenting and summarising. On top of this, they need to learn useful business English. The Coursebook assumes that students have a limited prior knowledge of the business world, so it teaches business concepts and skills as well as business English. There’s an authentic reading from The Economist© magazine in every unit, so you won’t have to go through the business news pages for reading texts. And every Coursebook has a free Style Guide for business letters, faxes and emails.

Has Mrs Brown killed Granny on the beach? Why does Mrs Hill want to leave her husband? Who wants to steal the Professor’s invention? And what is little Johnny trying to say? Discover the answers when you read the plays in this book. They are plays about ordinary people and the unusual, often funny, things that happen to them.

Roald Dahl fans will rejoice at the opportunity to bring their favorite books and characters to life. Five of Dahl's hugely popular, beloved books have been adapted into winning plays for children. With useful tips on staging, props, and costumes, these plays can be produced with a minimum amount of resources and experience. Teachers, parents, and children everywhere will recognize Quentin Blake's appealing classic cover art and will find these easy-to-perform plays to be a great source of entertainment!

Roald Dahl fans will rejoice at the opportunity to bring their favorite books and characters to life. Five of Dahl's hugely popular, beloved books have been adapted into winning plays for children. With useful tips on staging, props, and costumes, these plays can be produced with a minimum amount of resources and experience. Teachers, parents, and children everywhere will recognize Quentin Blake's appealing classic cover art and will find these easy-to-perform plays to be a great source of entertainment!

Roald Dahl fans will rejoice at the opportunity to bring their favorite books and characters to life. Five of Dahl's hugely popular, beloved books have been adapted into winning plays for children. With useful tips on staging, props, and costumes, these plays can be produced with a minimum amount of resources and experience. Teachers, parents, and children everywhere will recognize Quentin Blake's appealing classic cover art and will find these easy-to-perform plays to be a great source of entertainment!

Oscar Wilde’s infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing the hypocrisies of fashionable society are on display here in this collection of his finest plays. A genius both of and ahead of his time, he built his craft on the eternal questions of right and wrong—with pithy dialogue as fresh today as when it was written. .

William Shakespeare's plays have been celebrated for more than 400 years, and his words have shaped our world today. Fifteen of his timeless tales are retold for modern children in this beautifully illustrated collection. Meet unforgettable characters such as the vengeful ghost in Hamlet, the bickering couple in Muck Ado About Nothing, the hilarious pranksters in Twelfth Night, and many more besides.