OUR GRAMMAR BOOKS

Our grammar books are a fun and practical way to learn essential English grammar.

Each chapter includes:

  • a realistic dialogue showing how the grammar is used by native English speakers
  • an explanation of the grammar, with example sentences
  • practice exercises (with answers)

+ fun illustrations and speech bubbles to help you learn
+ check your progress with a test at the end of the book

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Learn the basics, including:

  • the present simple
  • the present continuous
  • there is / there are
  • have / have got
  • imperatives
  • frequency
  • quantity
  • possession
  • want/would like/need

Make real progress with topics including:

  • past simple and present perfect
  • the future with will, the present continuous and going to
  • adjectives and adverbs
  • long numbers, percentages, etc
  • comparatives and superlatives
  • prepositions of place
  • might/may/could/should
  • indefinite pronouns
  • collocations

Forge ahead with topics including:

  • the present perfect continuous
  • the past continuous
  • the past perfect
  • the passive
  • phrasal verbs
  • conditionals
  • question tags
  • might/may
  • have to/must
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EVERYDAY ENGLISH DIALOGUES

Our everyday English dialogue books from A2 to C1 level include a huge variety of realistic scenarios, with some dry British humour.

This is how native English speakers really speak to each other – in the family and when dealing with others. 

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Very easy everyday

  • Meeting someone new
  • A boring weekend
  • Airport
  • Dinner for two
  • A bad dream

and 45 more

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Easy everyday

  • Running late
  • Too hot
  • Asking the way
  • Class survey
  • Planning a dinner party

and 45 more

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Intermediate everyday

  • A disastrous holiday
  • What do you recommend?
  • A new dress
  • Hotel bill
  • Christmas present

and 45 more

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More intermediate everyday

  • Police station
  • Feeling ill
  • At the doctor’s
  • Holiday plans
  • Teenager

and 45 more

“Interesting dialogues. Just right for two students. Easy to learn and fun to perform!” (Amazon review)

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Advanced everyday

  • A very bad day
  • Saving energy
  • Applying to university
  • World Cup
  • Transport options

and 35 more

From 50 more Intermediate Everyday English Dialogues

BUSINESS ENGLISH DIALOGUES

Our 80 business English dialogues cover a wide range of situations encountered at work. They’re written by an English teacher who is also a lawyer. A number of these scenarios are based on real life!

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Intermediate business

  • Katie’s looking for a new job. Follow her conversations as she calls a recruitment agency, drafts her CV, meets the recruitment agent, has a job interview, discusses the employment contract, is shown round the office and talks to a friend about whether she made the right decision about the job.
  • A company’s computers are starting to cause problems. Is there a business case for some new ones? Can they negotiate a good price?
  • A company is losing staff. Can the directors work out what’s going wrong and what can be done about it?
  • Bessie thinks she deserves a promotion. Can she persuade her manager?
  • Has Justin committed fraud against the company?
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Advanced business

  • Abel asks Bonnie to conduct a competitive analysis. What can the company learn from its competitors?
  • Why does the company decide on a pay freeze, and how do staff react to the bad news?
  • Can Arthur persuade Florence to stock an innovative new product in her department store?
  • What happens when a key member of staff has a serious accident? Will his colleagues cope without him?
  • Sue is offered a big promotion, but it means moving to one of the overseas offices. What will her decision be?
  • Laurel receives some positive client feedback, but Felix is so disappointed with a contractor that he’s considering cancelling the contract. Things are even worse for Bernard’s company, and he obtains legal advice.
  • Louise has made a very serious mistake.

“Molto utile e molto pratico lo consiglio a tutti” (Amazon review)

 

Learning English should be fun!

  • Read and re-read these 270 dialogues to improve your understanding and use of English, while hopefully enjoying yourself!
  • All dialogues include comprehension questions with answers, and help with tricky vocabulary.
  • For elementary (A1 to A2), lower intermediate (A2 to B1) and intermediate (B1 to B2) learners, we have activity books with lots and lots of fun but challenging activities to help you practise your English without getting bored.

 

OUR FUN FACTS NON-FICTION BOOK

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This is a book for intermediate learners who want to improve their non-fiction comprehension and vocabulary. The book is written in reasonably easy English, and there are lots of fun and challenging language activities to test your comprehension and to help you learn from the vocabulary and grammar used in the book. There are helpful word lists too.

 

The book is researched and written by me (not by AI!) and I hope you find the topics as interesting as I did. This is a large book, and every topic gets 1 or 2 pages. There are lots of colour illustrations – mainly photos – to add interest and help you learn.

  • What does it feel like to go over the Niagara Falls?
  • How confident are you of winning a fight against an eagle?
  • What is suspicious about the deaths of 7 American presidents?
  • How were thousands of women killed by their dresses?
  • What’s the job that’s done by both rats and dolphins?
  • Could your parents be Russian spies?
  • What’s the difference between Hobson’s choice and Morton’s Fork?
  • How did a mouse kill a man?

And lots more…

OUR ACTIVITY BOOKS

These books – for elementary, lower intermediate and intermediate levels – will help you to consolidate your English. There are lots and lots of different, challenging but fun things to do, to help you with vocabulary, grammar, speaking, comprehension, online research and writing. With black and white illustrations.

 

  • Quizzes
  • Word games
  • Idioms
  • Writing and speaking prompts
  • Research tasks
  • Comprehension questions
  • Stories and dialogues
  • True or False
  • Jokes
  • Choose!

and lots more…

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