Rosalie Kerr Libros

Provides practice exam questions for the CAE exam, which replicate the real test papers. Photocopiable answer sheets give students practice in transferring their answers from the test paper. The With Answers edition helps teachers and students learn about the mark scheme through detailed notes and real examples of student composition.

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. In this story, the great detective returns to hunt for Jack the Ripper.

The Oxford Bookworms Library extends the range of activities and teaching support of Oxford Bookworms and includes in each book an Activities section of Before Reading, While Reading and After Reading exercises. The six stages offer stories at different levels of ability.

Patrick Aldermann, an accountant with a company that makes toilets, is passionate about his roses, which he prunes ruthlessly, 'deadheading' any blossoms a minute past their prime so as to make space for the younger blooms. Not much of a gardener, Dalziel views Patrick as a strong contender for the title of Most Boring Man in Yorkshire. Pascoe, though, has noticed that senior executives at the toilet company 'gentlemen, you might say, just a minute past their prime' have an unlucky habit of dying. And when they do, it's all but inevitably Patrick who, like a lucky young bloom, is poised to take their place.

¿Qué sucede cuando un gran aeropuerto norteamericano queda bloqueado? ¿Puede una tormenta de nieve paralizar un inmenso conglomerado de vehículos, aviones, personas e instalaciones de sofisticada tecnología? En el aire, cuarenta jets escasos de combustible y cargados de pasajeros vuelan en círculos esperando permiso para aterrizar; en tierra, varios millares de pasajeros impacientes, un equipo de técnicos y controladores aéreos desbordados de trabajo... Es inevitable que se produzcan momentos de tensión, fallos humanos, situaciones emotivas que pueden romper el delicado equilibrio del aeropuerto y desencadenar la tragedia. En esta novela el suspense y la emoción crecen página a página; la combinación de las historias relatadas va tejiendo un argumento explosivo, de alta tensión, que seduce al lector impidiéndole abandonar la lectura hasta el final.

Katherine Mansfield, influenciada estilísticamente por el escritor ruso Chéjov, es considerada una pionera del cuento moderno en inglés. En esta colección de 15 relatos, Mansfield ofrece 'destellos' de momentos de vida de sus protagonistas. A través de impresiones fugaces, logra retratar de manera precisa y sobria la compleja vida emocional y mental de las mujeres. Sus historias, a menudo de carácter autobiográfico, abordan eventos cotidianos y aspectos aparentemente triviales, pero siempre buscan un momento revelador en el interior de sus personajes. Las narraciones incluyen: El jardín de fiesta, En la bahía, El señor y la señora Dove, La vida de la señora Parker, Miss Brill, Su primer baile, El extraño, La lección de canto, El viaje, Día festivo, Una familia ideal, Matrimonio a la moda, La joven, La doncella de cámara, Las hijas del recientemente fallecido coronel Pinner.

When James and Matthew spent the weekend with Henry Tillotson in 1954, they took an instant liking to the country house that Henry had inherited from his father. His wife was a bit odd though - she never seemed to get out of bed. Gossip suggested that Henry had inherited her as well.

In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife, Mararet, home to his farmhouse in the English countryside. Margaret is a strange, unpleasant woman, determined, it seems, to make Henry's life miserable. 'Poor Henry!' say his friends, as they visit at weekends and holidays. 'What an awful life he has!' But Henry is not at all the sad and disappointed man we might expect him to be. He manages to enjoy life, and indeed, has quite a lot of fun, one way and another ... Mary Wesley's story takes a sharp but light-hearted look at love, sex, and marriage - and the things people will do to get what they want

Contains five complete practice tests for the Cambridge First Certificate in English. This edition contains details about the mark schemes for Papers 2 and 5, together with sample student answers for Paper 2, full tapescripts and keys.

A set of five practice tests for the new Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English exam. The authors' close involvement in the CAE enables students to practice examination questions which genuinely replicate the real test papers.

BEC practice tests are available at preliminary, vantage and higher levels and reflect the ALTE (Association of Language Testers in Europe) level system. They cover the four language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, and, with the revisions, now incorporate certain features of the CEIBT exams, and reflect developments in other exams such as PET, FCE and CAE.