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Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's greatest and best loved tragedies. In this series for GCSE English Literature, we analyse all aspects of the play, ensuring that you gain a full understanding of the various complexities - including the context and a detailed analysis of all the scenes - helping whilst you study and revise. Furthermore, we have two dedicated chapters on preparing for your exam, so when it comes to the big day you know what to expect.

Joanna Gray has been training people for over twenty years in the art of voice training and accent reduction to achieve Received Pronunciation, otherwise known as BBC English. Joanna has successfully helped thousands of people across the world to reduce an accent and attain a high standard of English and has worked with professionals from all walks of life, including doctors, lawyers, accountants, CEO's and actors to name but a few.

Focalisez votre apprentissage de l'anglais sur les verbes les plus fréquemment utilisés. Apprenez seulement les 100 verbes dont vous aurez besoin dans votre vie quotidienne pour parler du passé, du présent et du futur.

Why is it important to learn collocations and idioms? An appreciation of collocations and idioms will help you to use the words you know more accurately. In other words, you’ll make (not do) fewer mistakes. Mastering collocations, idioms, and phrases means no more struggle, pausing, or confusion while dealing with any of the major skills of the language (writing, reading, speaking, and listening). This is the most effective method to use English words in a correct but natural way.

This course consists of lessons centered on an audio blog that is completely in English. These audio blogs take you around English-speaking countries and introduce you to many different aspects of these countries, including culture, history, folklore, arts, and more. These blogs will also teach you all about many different cities and what they are famous for. Along the way, you'll pick up sophisticated expressions and advanced grammar.

You may have asked yourself whether there is some effective method that can make you speak English fluently, efficiently, and with confidence. Well, there is such a method! Advanced English Conversations will first and foremost help you gain mastery and command of those tricky idioms and phrases that are so common in English. In this audiobook, you are going to be acquainted with 100 active dialogues that present the language functionally. In other words, you are going to learn exactly where and how to use the phrases effortlessly and with ease.

Add some kick to your characters with some quick and simple dialect training. Paul Meier has been training actors for over 25 years and now offers his experience to the casual pretender in these entertaining presentations. You will find accent tips, colloquialisms, and charismatic character concepts that will add to your storytelling, roleplaying, or cosplay.

England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens: Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive - and to be a queen. Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At 16, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful, with red-gold hair. Many men loved her and died for her. But she also had many enemies - men who said: "The death of Mary is the life of Elizabeth."

Did you know that learning the 1,000 most frequently used words will familiarize you with 87.8 percent of all vocabulary used in every day conversation? That is almost 88 percent of all conversations that you’ll have. If you can master the pronunciation of these frequently used words, then you will sound like a native speaker in no time! Instead of concentrating on the countless rules (and exceptions to those rules) of the English language, you will be focusing on the essentials that will get you up to speed and speaking in a polished manner - and having fun while doing it.

Grasping the use of English myriad idiomatic expressions is an essential part of learning, practicing and using the language adequately. Frankly, in most instances, they allow us to express complex ideas in a more simplified manner so that other people can relate to them more quickly. In fact, idioms are the best way to express what we want to say, especially in a more elegant and vibrant, and also economical manner. Naturally, it is a matter of practice to reach the level of proficiency to use idioms correctly. In this guide loads of the most common and effective idioms are presented in a ...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective...

Do you want to master the vocabulary required to conduct conversations freely in various situations? Listen to "English Vocabulary Master - Phrasal Verbs in Situations". This audio course on an intermediate/advanced level is aimed to teach and consolidate knowledge of the most popular phrasal verbs that occur most frequently in everyday conversations and written texts. Learning takes place through the association of meanings in contexts.

Add some kick to your characters with some quick and simple dialect training. Paul Meier has been training actors for over 25 years and now offers his experience to the casual pretender in these entertaining presentations.

In this speech training manual, we teach you how to produce all British English sounds. Each chapter in the book covers one sound. First, we explain how to place your tongue, lips, and jaw for the target sound. Then you repeat the sound in words, phrases, sentences, proverbs, famous quotations, verses, and tongue twisters. In addition, you drill contraction exercises, words with silent letters, and French expressions used in business in the English-speaking world. This is the most complete and comprehensive resource for business speech training.

In the first part of this speech training manual, we provide practical exercises for difficult speech patterns, such as word endings, consonant clusters, schwa, and strong and weak forms of words. The second part is devoted to connected speech patterns. The third part deals with natural flow of speech, intonation, sentence stress, and onomatopoeia. The fourth part covers how to make your speech interesting to listen to using power, pitch, pace, and pause.

This book is designed for beginner/intermediate students of the English language who wishes to improve his/her English fluency to the next English level. This is a simple English learning guide that presents English learning in a fun and exciting way. You don’t have to learn by following the boring/harsh method of the formal learning system. It is possible to learn and have fun at the same time!

The complete method. 300 essential words and phrases, 140 common expressions, the 100 most common verbs, the 1000 essential words. How to learn a language differently ? With our learning method : I listen, I repeat, I speak. We rely on pronunciation, oral rehearsal, listening, combined with words, essential phrases, and a vocabulary list. 20% of the words are used 80% of the time.

Este curso está diseñado especialmente para hablantes de español que buscan construir una base sólida en inglés. Comenzando con frases y palabras básicas, el curso te ayudará a comprender y comunicarte en inglés en situaciones cotidianas. A lo largo del curso, aprenderás saludos, presentaciones, preguntas sociales, colores, números y expresiones útiles que te permitirán desenvolverte en un entorno de habla inglesa.

Easy Reading for ESL Students: Book 3 is a comprehensive audiobook designed especially for intermediate and advanced students of English as a Second Language. The book was developed and tested by full-time teachers of English. There are 12 stories accompanied by comprehension, vocabulary, speaking, and writing exercises. The stories are short (400-500 words). Each story and its exercises can be completed in 60 minutes.

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn English With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in English — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will...