Progressive Skills in English 1: Course Book Do you need English in your studies? Then you need the Progressive Skills in English Course. The course builds the skills required for lectures, tutorials, reading research and written assignments in English. Now with fantastic, extensive online resources at www.skillsinenglish.com Listening skills include: waiting for definitions recognizing time signposts predicting the next word from context understanding location Speaking skills include: organizing a talk choosing the tense taking turns checking sounds in a dictionary giving a scientific explanation introducing a talk Reading skills include: preparing to read recognizing advice dealing with new words finding and using topic sentences transferring information to a table Writing skills include: organizing information into paragraphs gathering and recording information using chronological markers referring to tables and figures writing about a photograph Go to www.skillsinenglish.com for fantastic, free student resources to practise, and improve on your skills. Resources include practice activities for: vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening and speaking. Did you know? Progressive Skills is also available in separate Listening & Speaking, Reading and Writing courses. Accompanying Progressive Skills in English 1 Workbook and Teacher's Book also available.

Israel Bond may seem like a simple-if-sexy salesman for Mother Margolies' Old World Chicken Soup, but when the Holy Land needs his skills - his quickness with a pun, his second-to-none semitic seduction techniques, and (if absolutely necessary) his abilities at actual espionage - then the man known by the code name Oy-Oy-7 (licensed not only to kill, but to say prayers over the corpse) is there to do what needs be done. In a land surrounded by its enemies, Oy-Oy-7 is called on to guard the nation's great benefactor, the generous but odd Lazarus Loxfinger. Is there more to Loxfinger than meets the eye? Bond aims to find out, even if doing so requires sleeping with dozens of exotic beauties! In the mid-1960s, when Playboy was serializing the adventures of the world's most famous superspy, they interspersed them with the rollicking adventures of Israel's most hilarious weapon, Israel Bond. After the book editions of what the Chicago Tribune called "probably the funniest secret agent parodies ever written" had sold over a million copies, they were allowed to fall out of print. Decades later, all four books in the Israel Bond series are now back in new editions!

Noted educator Tom Little and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Katherine Ellison reveal the home-grown solution to turning American students into life-long learners. The longtime head of Park Day School, Tom Little embarked on a tour of 43 progressive schools across the country. In this book, his life’s work, he interweaves his teaching experience, the knowledge he gleaned from his trip, and the history of Progressive Education. As Little and Katherine Ellison reveal, these educators and schools invigorate learning and promote inquisitiveness by allowing the curriculum to grow organically out of children's questions—whether they lead to studying the senses, working on a farm, or re-creating a desert ecosystem in the classroom. We see curious students draw on information across disciplines to think in imaginative yet practical ways, like in a "Mini-Maker Faire" or designing and building a chair from scratch. Becoming good citizens was another of Little's goals. He believed in the need for students to learn how to become advocates for themselves, from setting rules on the playground to engaging in issues of social justice in the wider community. Using the philosophy of Progressive Education, schools can prepare students to shape a vibrant future in the arts and sciences for themselves and the nation.

Progressive Skills in English 2: Course Book Do you need English in your studies? Then you need the Progressive Skills in English Course. The course builds the skills required for lectures, tutorials, reading research and written assignments in English. Now with fantastic, extensive online resources at www.skillsinenglish.com Listening skills include: understanding signpost language recognizing the organization of a lecture recognizing change of sub-topic predicting content from linking words note-taking: classification Speaking skills include: showing understanding showing lack of understanding talking about research taking part in a tutorial giving a talk with slides Reading skills include: finding information quickly predicting content distinguishing between fact and possibility Writing skills include: comparing events and ideas connecting ideas with and/but recording and displaying results using basic paragraph structure: point, explanation, example Go to www.skillsinenglish.com for fantastic, free student resources to practise, and improve on your skills. Resources include practice activities for: vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening and speaking. Did you know? Progressive Skills is also available in separate Listening & Speaking, Reading and Writing courses. Accompanying Progressive Skills in English 2 Workbook and Teacher's Book also available.

Progressive Skills in English 4: Workbook Do you need English in your studies? Then you need the Progressive Skills in English Course. The course builds the skills required for lectures, tutorials, reading research and written assignments in English. Now with fantastic, extensive online resources at www.skillsinenglish.com Listening skills include: note-taking, using scientific numbering using lecture handouts effectively understanding a speaker’s arguments understanding concessions recognizing start / end of digressions Speaking skills include: clarifying issues in a discussion raising / dealing with an objection expressing and dealing with uncertainty summarizing referring to research Reading skills include: highlighting key points recognizing and recording sources making inferences reacting to texts understanding sentence relationships Writing skills include: linking sentences restating (avoiding plagiarism) supporting statements with evidence writing about graphs using lexical cohesions Go to www.skillsinenglish.com for fantastic, free student resources to practise, and improve on your skills. Resources include practice activities for: vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening and speaking. Did you know? Progressive Skills is also available in separate Listening & Speaking, Reading and Writing courses. Accompanying Progressive Skills in English 4 Course Book and Teacher's Book also available.