Learn Spanish quickly & easily with the Talk Spanish Pack which combines the bestselling Talk Spanish & Talk Spanish 2. Featuring interactive audio & a wealth of enjoyable activities its successful step-by-step approach will rapidly develop your language skills & encourage you to make genuine progress right from the start. This pack will take you from absolute beginner to a level where youll be able to engage in conversations on a whole range of subjects from food to property. It will give you the language skills to get to know people & cope confidently in everyday situations. The pack

Includes:: one 128-page course book one 160-page course book & four 75-minute audio CDs. Talk Spanish (9780563520139) & Talk Spanish 2 (9781406612851) are also available to buy as individual packs at GBP14.99 each.

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Talk Spanish 2 is the ideal way to improve your Spanish
- whether youre returning to the language & dont want to start from scratch
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Talk Spanish 2 is the ideal way to improve your Spanish
- whether you're returning to the language & don't want to start from scratch
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Talk Spanish is the ideal course for absolute beginners. Designed for adults learning at home or in a class it covers all the basic language you'll need in everyday situations so you can make the most of your visit from the moment you arrive! Talk Spanish's rewarding step-by-step approach makes progress rapid & is effective in teaching even the least confident of language learners. Illustrated in full colour & featuring a wealth of enjoyable activities it makes learning Spanish fun. The native speakers on the audio will give you a real flavour of the Spanish you're likely to hear
- & you're encouraged to join in & put your new-found language skills to the test! This pack contains a 128-page course book & two 60-minute audio CDs. The book is also available separately (9780563520122).
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Talk Spanish Grammar is the ideal resource for anyone setting out to learn Spanish at home or in a class. Using the tried-&-tested principles of the bestselling Talk series it demystifies grammar & guides you through the key structures of Spanish in a way that's really easy to follow even if you have no experience at all of grammar & grammatical terminology. With its straightforward approach & attractive layout Talk Spanish Grammar promotes a real understanding of how Spanish works & how it relates to English. It contains clear explanations & hundreds of useful examples learning tips & strategies. Interesting practice activities reinforce the language patterns & help you remember what you've learned. Talk Spanish Grammar can be used successfully alongside any learning materials & is also the perfect companion for the bestselling Talk Spanish & Talk Spanish 2. 272-page book. ...

Have you been taken to what youve been assured is the perfect house deep in the French countryside only to find theres no electricity or running water? Gone to the doctor with a nasty cough & been diagnosed with a rather more personal complaint? Walked into an half-empty restaurant only to be told that its complet? If the answer to any of the above is oui Talk to the Snail" is the book for you. Find out how to get served in a restaurant; the best way to deal with French hypochondria; learn the language of love sex & suppositories (not necessarily in that order); its all here in this funny informative seriously useful guide on how to get what you really want from the French. With advice on essential phrases & bons mots to cover all eventualities & illustrated with witty real-life anecdotes " Talk to the Snail" is a book that no self-respecting Francophile
- or Francophobe
- can afford to be without. Dont go to France without reading this book. & dont even think of buying a house there."

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Following on from Toms life with six cats in UNDER THE PAW he now picks up the story in TALK TO THE TAIL updating readers on what has happened with his feline friends as well as looking back for more confessions about his animal-loving past. Readers of Toms previous book will be delighted to read what has happened to his six eccentric cats. Why does Janet keep bringing 1980s sweet wrappers into the house? Will 24-hour surveillance of The Bear using a state-of-the-art cat GPS system finally solve the mystery of his wanderlust? Tom also writes about his bumbling forays into the remainder of the animal kingdom. He attempts to overcome his crippling fear of horses with disastrous results chase ostriches in Kenya put his hand into a tigers mouth for 0.9 seconds & he meets his alter-doggo -- the spaniel Tom regularly walks who likes to roll around in dead animals. Where will it all end? Will he give in to temptation & get a dog a goat or even more cats? With this soppy creature-obsessive anything is possible. Gerald Durrell has lots of family & other animals but Tom Cox has MY ANIMALS & OTHER FAMILY. ...

P. D. James brings a lifetime of reading & writing crime fiction to bear on this personal history of the genre from the birth of the detective story through Wilkie Collins & Conan Doyle to the golden age of crime & the rise of Agatha Christie Dorothy L. Sayers Ngaio Marsh & Margery Allingham. There is a chapter on great American crime writers such as Raymond Chandler & Dashiel Hammett & P. D. James also discusses many of her favourite detectives from Sherlock Holmes to Kurt Wallender. ...

A London mum & Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. Yet now despite their differences they're the firmest of friends... Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad" by Bee Rowlatt & May Witwit is a touching & poignant portrait of an unlikely friendship. Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut & blow dry? May's a tough-talking hard-smoking lecturer in English. She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad dodging bullets before breakfast bargaining for high heels in bombed-out bazaars & battling through blockades to reach her class of Jane Austen-studying girls. Bee on the other hand is a London mum of three busy fighting off PTA meetings & chicken pox dealing with dead cats & generally juggling work & family while squabbling with her globe-trotting husband over the socks he leaves lying around the house. They should have nothing in common. But when a simple email brings them together they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture religion & age. " Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad" is the story of two women who share laughter & tears & swap their confidences dreams & fears. & between the grenades the gossip the jokes & the secrets they also hatch an ingenious plan to help May escape the bombings of Baghdad... Bee Rowlatt is a former show-girl turned BBC World Service journalist. A mother of three & would-be do-gooder she can find keeping her career going while caring for her three daughters (and husband) pretty tough even in leafy North London. May Witwit is an Iraqi expert in Chaucer & sender of emails depicting kittens in fancy dress. She is prepared to face every hazard imaginable to make that all-important hairdresser's appointment." ...

This book has been written to clarify the strategies that are available to practitioners to enable them to plan effective child centred experiences. The book explores how to use Talking & Thinking Floorbooks & the ways in which we can consult children in all areas of play. Introduction by Claire Warden: All of the documents that we use in early education across the UK talk about the issues that are going to be explored in this book. Areas covered include childe centred planning autonomy citizenship building on what they know greater involvement in planning & motivation. It would appear from the training across the United Kingdom that people are aware of what they want to do but lack a clear methodology to achieve it. The Talking & Thinking Floorbook A has been adopted by many centre to support child initiated planning. They are being used in Primary one & two classrooms to develop thinking skills. ...