Focus Second Edition is an even richer version of the best-selling English language learning series for upper secondary students. Through its proven 3Ms methodology (Motivation, Memory, and Meaning), cutting-edge digital solutions and high-quality educational videos from the BBC, the course offers everything students and teachers have requested. Find out more at english.com/focus

Focus Second Edition is an even richer version of the best-selling English language learning series for upper secondary students. Through its proven 3Ms methodology (Motivation, Memory, and Meaning), cutting-edge digital solutions and high-quality educational videos from the BBC, the course offers everything students and teachers have requested. Find out more at english.com/focus

The Workbook that works alongside Real Life Upper Intermediate Students' Book, has grammar and vocabulary practice with easy access to relevant reference information, step by step guidance for writing specific text types, skills practice and exam training. It is accompanied by a Multi-Rom with the audio for the workbook listening exercises and a range of interactive skills practice, designed to build language and exam skills.

Grammar practice with grammar reference on the same page with simple explanations and examples. * Exam practice tasks in the skills section. * Extensive writing practice to build skills for typical exam text types, with model texts and explanations on the structure and content. * 6 self-assessment tests corresponding with the Active Study sections in the Students' Book. The answer key is provided for students to assess their progress before attempting the tests in the Test Master. * Exam trainer sections with the exam tests. The exam trainer provides comprehensive exams training and practice tests. * Activities to build reading, listening, speaking and English-in-use exam skills. * Exam tips on how to deal with exam tasks. * Exam Test for every two Exam Trainers, with answer key for students to assess their progress. * Includes a bank of language functions covered in the Students' Book. * A full word list organised by topic. * Audio for the listening exercises is in the Skills Multi-ROM, which contains: - Skills practice exercised for each of the twelve units, including interactive communication tasks where students can role play and record their part of the dialogue. - Self-assessment tests (from the workbook) - Mid-year and end-of-year tests to prepare students for the class tests - Topic wordlists from the Workbook with audio and example sentences - Practice exercises on the topic vocabulary - Functions list from the workbook (with audio) - The audio for the workbook - Also included in the Active Teach so that the teacher can use the exercises in class.

Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage and fields, the English lord bent upon forcing the Irish from their land so he can tumble the cottages and clear the fields for grazing. Times are never easy on Maidin Bay, but this year, a terrible blight attacks the potatoes. No crop means starvation. Twelve-year-old Nory must summon the courage and ingenuity to find food, to find hope, to find a way to help her family survive.


From the Hardcover edition.

It's almost Thanksgiving, and Richard Best can't stop thinking about Ms. Rooney's Candy Corn contest. Whoever can guess the exact number of yellow-and-orange candies in the jar on Ms. Roney's desk gets to keep them all. The only problem is Richard has to read a page in a library book for each guess.



Smelly Matthew, who sits in front of him, knows they'll never win. "We're the worst readers in the class, " he says. But Richard won't give up. He can already taste those Candy Corns. And before he knows it, he has. Three fat juicy ones.



What will Ms. Rooney do when she finds out?

Get Involved! provides authentic contexts and empowers students to talk about real-life issues with confidence through the Collaborative Projects that feature in every unit of the Student's Book. Whole-class engagement is integral to each lesson and Brain Teaser puzzles based on target grammar allow students to show different talents in the classroom. Three genres of video in every unit expose students to English as it is really spoken and help them develop their language and video literacy skills. Gamified activities on the Student's App encourage students to practise English outside the classroom.

Hollis Woods has been in so many foster homes she can hardly remember them all. She even runs away from the Regans, the one family who offers her a home.
When Hollis is sent to Josie, an elderly artist who is quirky and affectionate, she wants to stay. But Josie is growing more forgetful every day. If Social Services finds out, they'll take Hollis away and move Josie into a home. Well, Hollis Woods won't let anyone separate them. She's escaped the system before; this time, she plans to take Josie with her.
Yet behind all her plans, Hollis longs for her life with the Regans, fixing each moment of her time with them in pictures she'll never forget.

"From the Hardcover edition.

The author of the beloved Kids of the Polk Street School series introduces a new generation of readers to a multicultural group of kids who enjoy all the activities of an after-school center.
I'M #1 That's what Mitchell McCabe's favorite T-shirt says. He'd like to be Number One at the Zigzag Afternoon Center, where there are lots of fun activities to choose from: swimming, nature walks, field trips, art, even homework help. And YAY--there's snack time But Mitchell is worried. What if he's the only kid who doesn't get a prize on Prize Day? Luckily, Mitchell realizes he's a winner at something terrific.
In this delightful new series, award-winning author Patricia Reilly Giff introduces readers to a quirky, lovable group of kids, capturing all the excitement and surprises of new friends and after-school fun.

It's September again.What does it mean for Richard "Beast" Best to be left back? It means being teased by his old friends while he's stuck facing the same old teacher in the same old classroom. He even has to take a special reading class with "babies" like Emily Arrow and Matthew Jackson. And just like last year, he can't help getting into trouble.But with the help of Mrs. Paris, the reading teacher, Beast starts to enjoy reading and just might find a way to help the second grade win the school banner for best class.

Elizabeth is drawn into a dramatic story from the American Revolution when she discovers a portrait of her ancestor, a girl called Zee, who has a striking resemblance to Elizabeth. The girls' lives intertwine and Elizabeth's present-day story alternates with Zee's. As Elizabeth learns about Zee, and walks where Zee once walked and battles raged, the past becomes as vivid and real as the present.

The Online Workbook provides interactive versions of the activities in the Optimise Workbook and audio. The Online Workbook marks students' work and collates into the Gradebook. Teachers can manage multiple classes, set tasks and monitor progress.

Real Life brings English to life and makes learning enjoyable and achievable through practical tasks and evocative topics. Real Life gives students English to talk about issues that are important to their lives. With a light and colourful look and feel, it is more socially oriented with a focus on real people and situations and appeals to average and less motivated students who need a more manageable path to exam success.