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The Student's Book Pack is structured to contain one lesson per
double page spread throughout the entire book. Each unit covers a
range of material and highlighted sections help to develop the core
skills. The accompanying eBook provides a page faithful, electronic
version of the Student's Book.
The Workbook provides extra language and vocabulary practice that
supports the units of the Student's Book making it ideal for
homework. This version comes with the key. READING/LISTENING - All
Workbook and some Student's Book texts are read aloud on the
accompanying CD - this will provide students with further listening
and pronunciation practice. To provide them with integrated
listening and writing practice there is also a series of dictations
for them to check their understanding. As they are usually working
alone on the Workbook, students will be able to work at their own
pace and practise key language further. TRANSLATION - Student's at
this lower level are given the opportunity to link the language
learnt with their own language. WRITING - Special feature at lower
levels is that all Writing work is contained here, in the back of
the Workbook, covering a wide variety of genres pertinent to
students' every day needs. READING - Each Workbook has a complete
Macmillan Reader for the relevant level at the back of the book
allowing students to naturally expand their language outside of the
everyday classes.
For ease of use and practicality Straightforward Second Edition is
structured to provide one lesson per double-page spread (A/B/C/D),
lasting around 90 minutes. All lessons are interlinked to promote
better and more memorable learning, but there is the flexibility to
pick out certain key sections to focus on certain language points.
GRAMMAR - Clear and uncomplicated grammar explanations present new
grammar elements. Students are always supported by the Language
Reference pages at the back of their book allowing them to further
work on a difficult area and understand the language. VOCABULARY -
Difficult and out of context words from the text are presented in
the glossary so students are not distracted by these lexical
hurdles. READING - Texts are accessible for the relevant level,
realistic and from a variety of different sources/contexts.
FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE - Students are not expected to learn in a
vacuum and their interests and curiosities are met with 'Did you
know' sections. CEF/SELF ASSESSMENT - Each unit culminates in a
self assessment box so students can check and monitor their own
progress and become more independent learners. The checklist is a
selection of clear 'can-do' statements and therefore links to the
CEF and portfolio elements of the course. FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE -
This section helps students to deal with common, every-day
situations in an English-speaking environment - what we might think
of as survival language
The Teacher's Book contains teaching notes and extra tasks and
ideas for every lesson plus more detailed notes on the language and
cultural content of the Student's Book material. The Teacher's
Resource CD accompanies the book and contains short videos and
links to the Methodology sections. eBook provides electronic
version of print Student Book.
For ease of use and practicality Straightforward Second Edition is
structured to provide one lesson per double-page spread (A/B/C/D),
lasting around 90 minutes. All lessons are interlinked to promote
better and more memorable learning, but the is the flexibility to
pick out certain key sections to focus on certain language points.
GRAMMAR - Clear and uncomplicated grammar explanations present new
grammar elements. Students are always supported by the Language
Reference pages at the back of their book allowing them to further
work on a difficult area and understand the language. VOCABULARY -
Difficult and out of context words from the text are presented in
the glossary so students are not distracted by these lexical
hurdles. READING - Texts are accessible for the relevant level,
realistic and from a variety of different sources/contexts.
FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE - Students are not expected to learn in a
vacuum and their interests and curiosities are met with 'Did you
know' sections. CEF/SELF ASSESSMENT - Each unit culminates in a
self assessment box so students can check and monitor their own
progress and become more independent learners. The checklist is a
selection of clear 'can-do' statements and therefore links to the
CEF and portfolio elements of the course. FUNCTIONAL LANGUAGE -
This section helps students to deal with common, every-day
situations in an English-speaking environment - what we might think
of as survival language.
The second in the late Philip Kerr's iconic 'Berlin Noir' trilogy,
The Pale Criminal sees detective Bernie Gunther return to hunt one
of the most evil killers in human history. It is 1938 and Bernie
Gunther is back on the mean streets of Berlin with his new partner,
Bruno Stahlecker, another ex-police officer. But on a seemingly
straightforward stakeout, Bruno is killed, and Bernie suddenly
finds himself tapped for a much bigger job. A serial sex murderer
is killing Aryan teenage girls in Berlin - and what's worse, he's
making utter fools of the police. Gunther is forced to accept a
temporary post in Obergruppenfuehrer Reinhard Heydrich's state
Security Service, with a team of men underneath him tasked purely
with hunting the killer. But can he trust his team any more than he
can trust his superiors? An unflinching, fast-paced thriller
exploring the grisly excesses of Nazi subculture, The Pale Criminal
will be loved by fans of Robert Harris and Frederick Forsythe. 'For
Christmas, I would like all of Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir novels.'
Sam Mendes, Guardian 'Blends high-powered storytelling with a rich
piece of historical re-creation' Independent 'Kerr makes his star
turns - Heydrich, Himmler, et al - eerily believable' The Times
'Powerful period flavour; a gruff, subversive hero; Kerr delivers
the good' Literary Review 'Echoes of Raymond Chandler . . . vivid
and well-researched' Evening Standard
Set in the South of France, a fiendishly clever thriller about the
back-stabbing literary world, from the bestselling author of the
Bernie Gunther series of prize-winning historical novels. Robert
Harris's THE GHOST meets Patricia Highsmith If you want to write a
murder mystery, you have to do some research... or pay someone else
to do it for you. In a luxury flat in Monaco, John Houston's
supermodel wife lies in bed, a bullet in her skull. Houston is the
world's most successful thriller writer, the playboy head of a
literary empire that produces far more books than he could ever
actually write. Now the man who has invented hundreds of
bestselling killings is wanted for a real murder and on the run
from the police, his life transformed into something out of one of
his books. And in London, the ghostwriter who is really behind
those books has some questions for him too...
Berlin detective Bernie Gunther bows out at last in the 14th and
final book of the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling
series. With an introduction by Ian Rankin. 'One of the greatest
anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD 'One of the greatest master
story-tellers in English' ALAN FURST Berlin, 1928, the height of
the Weimar Republic. Bernie is a young detective working in Vice
when he asked to investigate the Silesian Station killings: four
prostitutes murdered in as many weeks, and in the same gruesome
manner. Bernie hardly has time to acquaint himself with the case
files before another murder occurs. Until now, no one has shown
much interest in these victims - there are plenty in Berlin who'd
like the streets washed clean of such degenerates. But this time
the girl's father runs Berlin's foremost criminal ring, and he's
prepared to go to extreme lengths to find his daughter's killer. It
seems that someone is determined to rid Berlin of anyone less than
perfect. The voice of Nazism is becoming a roar that threatens to
drown out all others. But not Bernie Gunther's...
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD As Berlin
prepares for the 1936 Olympic Games, Bernie is caught between
violently opposing factions in a story that comes full circle in
1950s' Cuba. Berlin 1934. The Nazis have been in power for just
eighteen months but already Germany has seen some frightening
changes. As the city prepares to host the 1936 Olympics, Jews are
being expelled from all German sporting organisations - a blatant
example of discrimination. Forced to resign as a homicide detective
with Berlin's Criminal Police, Bernie is now house detective at the
famous Adlon Hotel. Two bodies are found - one a businessman and
the other a Jewish boxer. As Bernie digs to unearth the truth, he
discovers a vast labour and construction racket designed to take
advantage of the huge sums the Nazis are spending to showcase the
new Germany to the world. It is a plot that finds its dramatic and
violent conclusion twenty years later in pre-revolutionary Cuba.
THE ACCLAIMED TRILOGY FROM THE MASTER THRILLER WRITER '[Philip
Kerr's] Bernie Gunther novels are extraordinary' Ian Rankin The
first three in the Bernie Gunther series, March Violets, The Pale
Criminal and A German Requiem are true crime classics that
transport readers to the rotten heart of Nazi Berlin, and introduce
the cynical, wise-cracking private eye who sought justice within
it. MARCH VIOLETS Bernhard Gunther is a private eye, specializing
in missing persons. And in Hitler's Berlin, he's never short of
work... Winter 1936. A man and his wife shot dead in their bed. The
woman's father, a millionaire industrialist, wants justice - and
the priceless diamonds that disappeared along with his daughter's
life. As Bernie follows the trail into the very heart of Nazi
Germany, he's forced to confront a horrifying conspiracy. A trail
that ends in the hell that is Dachau... THE PALE CRIMINAL It is
1938 and Bernie Gunther is back on the mean streets of Berlin with
his new partner, Bruno Stahlecker, another ex-police officer. But
on a seemingly straightforward stakeout, Bruno is killed, and
Bernie suddenly finds himself tapped for a much bigger job. A
serial sex murderer is killing Aryan teenage girls in Berlin - and
what's worse, he's making utter fools of the police. Gunther is
forced to accept a temporary post in Obergruppenfuehrer Reinhard
Heydrich's state Security Service, with a team of men underneath
him tasked purely with hunting the killer. But can he trust his
team any more than he can trust his superiors? A GERMAN REQUIEM In
the bitter winter of 1947 the Russian Zone is closing ever more
tightly around Berlin. When an enigmatic Russian colonel asks
Bernie Gunther to go to Vienna, where his ex-Kripo colleague Emil
Becker faces a murder charge, Bernie doesn't hesitate for long.
Gunther is convinced that shooting an American Nazi-hunter is one
crime he didn't commit. But Vienna is not the peaceful haven Bernie
expects it to be. Communism is the new enemy, and with the
Nuremberg trials over, some strange alliances are being forged
against the Red Menace - alignments that make many wartime
atrocities look lily-white by comparison.
The twelfth book in the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling
series, perfect for fans of John le Carre and Robert Harris. 'One
of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' Lee Child France, 1956.
Bernie Gunther is on the run. If there's one thing he's learned,
it's never to refuse a job from a high-ranking secret policeman.
But this is exactly what he's just done. Now he's a marked man,
with the East German Stasi on his tail. Fleeing across Europe, he
remembers the last time he worked with his pursuer: in 1939, to
solve a murder at the Berghof, Hitler's summer hideaway in the
Bavarian Alps. Hitler is long dead, the Berghof now a ruined shell,
and the bizarre time Bernie spent there should be no more than a
distant memory. But as he pushes on to Berlin and safety, Bernie
will find that no matter how far he thinks he has put Nazi Germany
behind him, for him it will always be unfinished business. The
Berghof is not done with Bernie yet.
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD Summer
1942. When Bernie Gunther is ordered to speak at an international
police conference, an old acquaintance has a favour to ask. Little
does Bernie suspect what this simple surveillance task will
provoke... One year later, resurfacing from the hell of the Eastern
Front, a superior gives him another task that seems
straightforward: locating the father of Dalia Dresner, the rising
star of German cinema. Bernie accepts the job. Not that he has much
choice - the superior is Goebbels himself. But Dresner's father
hails from Yugoslavia, a country so riven by sectarian horrors that
even Bernie's stomach is turned. Yet even with monsters at home and
abroad, one thing alone drives him on from Berlin to Zagreb to
Zurich: Bernie Gunther has fallen in love.
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD Posing as
an escaping Nazi war-criminal Bernie Gunther arrives in Buenos
Aires and, having revealed his real identity to the local chief of
police, discovers that his reputation as a detective goes before
him. A young girl has been murdered in peculiarly gruesome
circumstances that strongly resemble Bernie's final case as a
homicide detective with the Berlin police. A case he had failed to
solve. Circumstances lead the chief of police in Buenos Aires to
suppose that the murderer may be one of several thousand ex Nazis
who have fetched up in Argentina since 1945. And, therefore, who
better than Bernie Gunther to help him track that murderer down?
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD Bernie
Gunther has learned the hard way that there's no way to distinguish
'the one from the other'. The cynical P.I. has the moral clarity to
see through the deceit and hypocrisy of both friend and foe - a
lifesaving skill in the dangerous years of postwar Germany. Munich,
1949: Amid the chaos of defeat, it's home to all the backstabbing
intrigue that prospers in the aftermath of war. A place where a
private eye can find a lot of not-quite-reputable work: cleaning up
the Nazi past of well-to-do locals, abetting fugitives in the
flight abroad, sorting out rival claims to stolen goods. It's work
that fills Bernie with disgust - but it also fills his sorely
depleted wallet. Then a woman seeks him out. Her husband has
disappeared. She's not looking to get him back - he's a wanted man
who ran one of the most vicious concentration camps in Poland. She
just wants confirmation that he's dead. It's a simple enough job.
But in post-war Germany, nothing is simple...
Berlyn, 1933. Hardebaard speurder Bernard – “Bernie” –
Günther word deur ’n miljoenêr-sakeman ingeroep om die
moord op sy dogter en skoonseun op te los en waardevolle
juwele wat tydens die inbraak gesteel is, te vind. Gewoonlik
is Günther op die spoor van vermiste persone, maar in dié
onstuimige politieke klimaat betree hy ’n donker
onderwêreld waar misdaad, korrupsie en onderhandelinge
met Nazi-leiers aan die orde van die dag is. Sy soektog
ontbloot ’n skandaal wat hoëkoppe soos Hermann Goering
en Heinrich Himmler betrek ...
Smerige nagklubs, smeulende filmsterre, oorvol lykshuise
en onderonsies met die Gestapo lei uiteindelik tot ’n
skokkende onthulling. Die roman speel af in Nazi-Duitsland
– ’n milieu wat Kerr met vernuf skets.
Dié Afrikaanse uitgawe van March Violets is die eerste boek
in Kerr se Berlin Noir-reeks, sy eerste Bernie Günther-
trilogie. Vertalings van die volgende twee romans in die
reeks, The Pale Criminal en A German Requiem, verskyn in
2019.
Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a ?brilliantly innovative
thriller-writer, ? Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping,
noir-tinged mysteries that are nothing short of spellbinding. In
this second book of the Berlin Noir trilogy, "The Pale Criminal"
brings back Bernie Gunther, an ex-policeman who thought he?d seen
everything on the streets of 1930s Berlin?until he turned freelance
and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly
excesses of Nazi subculture. Hard-hitting, fast-paced, and richly
detailed, "The Pale Criminal" is noir writing at its blackest and
best.
Everybody knows somebody who is a heavy metal fan - fact! If you
are already a fan, our hats off to you. If not, let Philip Kerr be
your guide as he takes you back through his life and shows how
metal has shaped and enhanced every bit. Diving into Heavy Metal!
is a journey of discovery, beginning with Philip as a naive child
who found himself transfixed by an incredible sound. There tends to
be a misrepresentation of heavy metal fans as weird misfits, and
many books and films lampoon the subject. Not so in Philip's book
as he invites the reader into the story of a community of fans
across the world joined by their love of this extraordinary music.
Many aspects of metal are covered as Philip discovers them on his
journey: heavy metal, thrash metal, glam metal and more. He'll show
you some of the more major events in music history, take you to a
Sabbat gig in Derby, to see Guns N' Roses in Manchester, to the
Clash of the Titans at the Birmingham NEC, and to the artillery
barrage otherwise known as Motoerhead! He'll also shed light on
some of the murkier parts of the scene as he delves into the world
of death metal. Whether you're a long-time fan, a recent initiate
or a complete newbie, Diving into Heavy Metal! has something for
everyone. And while the narrative bursts with humour and passion,
it's also above all an honest look at this music that so many fans
centre their lives around and without which, Philip says, he isn't
sure where he'd be!
Bernie Gunther returns in the thirteenth book in the Sunday Times
and New York Times bestselling series, perfect for fans of John le
Carre and Robert Harris. 'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever
written' LEE CHILD 'Kerr leads us through the facts of history and
the vagaries of human nature' TOM HANKS 'One of the greatest master
story-tellers in English' ALAN FURST 1957, Munich. Bernie Gunther's
latest move in a string of varied careers sees him working for an
insurance company. It makes a kind of sense: both cops and
insurance companies have a vested interest in figuring out when
people are lying to them, and Bernie has a lifetime of experience
to call on. Sent to Athens to investigate a claim from a fellow
German for a sunken ship, Bernie takes an instant dislike to the
claimant. When he discovers the ship in question once belonged to a
Greek Jew deported to Auschwitz, he is convinced the sinking was no
accident but an act of vengeance. And so Bernie is once again drawn
inexorably back to the dark history of the Second World War, and
the deportation of the Jews of Salonika - now Thessaloniki. As
Europe prepares to move on to a more united future with Germany as
a partner rather than an enemy, at least one person in Greece is
ready neither to forgive nor forget. And, deep down, Bernie thinks
they may have a point.
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'A man doesn't work for his enemies unless he has little choice in the matter.' So says Bernie Gunther. It is 1954 and Bernie is in Cuba. Tiring of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky, Bernie acquires a boat and a beautiful companion and quits the island. But the US Navy has other ideas, and soon he finds himself in a place with which he is all too familiar - a prison cell.
After exhaustive questioning, he is flown back to Berlin and yet another prison cell with a proposition: work for French intelligence or hang for murder. The job is simple: he is to meet and greet POWs returning to Germany and to look out for one in particular, a French war criminal and member of the French SS who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer. The French are anxious to catch up with this man and deal with him in their own ruthless way. But Bernie's past as a German POW in Russia is about to catch up with him - in a way he could never have foreseen.
Bernie Gunther's seventh outing delivers more of the fast-paced and quick-witted action that we have come to expect from Philip Kerr. Set in Cuba, a Soviet POW camp, Paris and Berlin, and ranging over a period of twenty years from the Thirties to the Fifties, Field Grey is an outstanding thriller by a writer at the top of his game.
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