Didáctica: lengua inglesa y alfabetización

OXFORD BOOKWORMS 5. THE DEAD OF JERICHO (DEXTER, COLIN)

Chief Inspector Morse is drinking a pint of beer. He is thinking about an attractive woman who lives not far away. The woman he is thinking of is hanging, dead, from the ceiling of her kitchen. On the floor lies a chair, almost two metres away from the woman's feet. Chief Inspector Morse finishes his pint, and orders another. Perhaps he will visit Anne, after all. But he is in no particular hurry. Meanwhile, Anne is still hanging in her kitchen, waiting for the police to come and cut her down. She is in no hurry, either.

OXFORD BOOKWORMS 2. NEW YORKERS – SHORT STORIES AUDIO CD PACK (AMERICAN ENGLISH) (HENRY, O.)

Ideal for elementary or pre-intermediate learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love.O. Henry's famous short stories - sensitive, funny, sympathetic - give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers.

OXFORD BOOKWORMS 2. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING CD PACK (SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM)

There are two love stories in this fast-moving comedy. Brave young Claudio and Leonato's pretty daughter Hero are in love and want to marry, but Don John has a wicked plan to stop their wedding. Will he succeed, or will the truth come out? Will Claudio and Hero marry, after all? Beatrice and Benedick are always arguing with each other, but how do they really feel? Perhaps they are more interested in each other than they seem to be! Their friends work hard to bring them closer together.

OXFORD BOOKWORMS 1. THE PRESIDENT’S MURDERER CD PACK (BASSETT, JENNIFER)

The President is dead! A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him - people with lights, and dogs, and guns. A man is standing in front of a desk. His boss is very angry, and the man is tired and needs to sleep. But first he must find the other man, and bring him back - dead or alive. Two men: the hunter and the hunted. Which will win and which will lose? Long live the President!

OXFORD BOOKWORMS 3. THE SECRET GARDEN AUDIO CD PACK (BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON)

Ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house.There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden ... which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key.

OXFORD BOOKWORMS 3. TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION AUDIO CD PACK (ALAN POE, EDGAR)

Ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night ... is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror ... is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round?These famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, that master of horror, explore the dark world of the imagination, where the dead live and speak, where fear lies in every shadow of the mind ...

OXFORD BOOKWORMS 5. GHOST STORIES CD PACK (BORDER, ROSEMARY)

After dinner we turned the lights out and played 'hide-and-seek'. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with . . . with this cold person - not speaking, not knowing who it was. Slowly the others found us, hid with us, until we were all there - all thirteen. Thirteen? But there were only twelve people in the house! We touched each other in the dark, counting. Thirteen. Quickly, nervously, I lit a match to see . . .

OXFORD BOOKWORMS 4. THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS AUDIO CD PACK (BUCHAN, JOHN)

Ideal for intermediate and more confident learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. 'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.'Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous enemy is chasing him as well - the mysterious 'Black Stone'. Who are these people? And why do they want Hannay dead?

OXFORD BOOKWORMS 4. THE AFRICAN QUEEN (FORESTER, C.S.)

The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat. No one would expect a missionary's sister and a rough, uneducated mechanic to take a boat like that down a dangerous river through the forests of Central Africa. But Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnutt do just that. Why do they do it? The First World War has just begun, and Rose has a wild and crazy plan. She and Charlie set off down the river and come close to death many times, but they survive all dangers - except the danger of falling in love . . .

OXFORD BOOKWORMS 3. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND CD PACK (LINDOP, CHRISTINE)

What do you find in these two countries at the end of the world? One is an enormous island, where only twenty million people live - and the other is two long, narrow islands, with ten sheep for every person. One country has the biggest rock in all the world, and a town where everybody lives under the ground; the other has a beach where you can sit beside the sea in a pool of hot water, and lakes that are bright yellow, green, and blue. Open this book and start your journey - to two countries where something strange, beautiful or surprising waits around every corner.

OXFORD BOOKWORMS 2. STORIES FROM THE FIVE TOWNS CD PACK (BENNETT, ARNOLD)

Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is Toby Hall. Why does he decide to visit Number 11 Child Row, and who does he find there? And then there are the Hessian brothers and Annie Emery - and the little problem of twelve thousand pounds.

WHAT’S UP? ESSENTIALS D CUADERNO (JACKSON, SARAH LOUISE / MYERS, CATHERINE)

What?s up? Essentials Your student will? Be inspired and motivated by the fresh original topics and dynamic and varied activities. Learn more than just English with a wealth of cross-curricular content that ranges from Maths to Music and from Science to Citizenship. Know exactly what to do at all times with clearly-presented objectives and attractive intuitive design and structure. You will? Feel confident that your are covering all the requirements of the curriculum with a balanced and carefully-designed syllabus that gives equal weight to grammar, vocabulary and the four skills. Meet the needs of all your students with a wide range of supplementary and assessment materials that cater specifically for mixed-ability groups. Specific books to help ALL your students follow your classes. Your student will? Follow the class more easily with simpler exercises and instructions and explanations in Spanish. Feel more integrated. Use full-colour, attractive books. You will? Help students reach achievable goals with reduced contents. Work in parallel with Essentials and the normal Student?s book in the same class, as they both feature the same structure and methodology. Have all the answers available in separate booklet. www.pearsonELT.es

INTRODUCTION TO TEACHING ENGLISH (HADFIELD, CHARLES / HADFIELD, JILL)

Ideal for the novice teacher, this book features sample lessons with explanatory comments on the teaching techniques and methods used. Areas covered include grammar, functions, vocabulary, pronunciation, and the four skills, as well as planning, assessment and classroom management. Name of Series:Oxford Basics