This reference book contains over 300 games, and is designed to help parents and other adults who supervise and entertain small groups of children. The book is divided into three sections: physical and mental, life skills, and educational. The physical and mental games are for fun and fitness, birthday parties, family get-togethers, and rainy days indoors. The life skill games teach children map and compass reading, first aid, outdoor cooking, home safety, campcraft, knotting and other handy things to know. These activities are designed to encourage independence, resourcefulness and...

This comprehensive English book provides lessons and exercises for a wide range of students, including primary pupils in Grades 5 and 6, intermediate to advanced ESL students, and remedial pupils needing revision of basic skills. This second book in the series extends students' knowledge of grammar and punctuation, and provides more advanced exercises in comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, conversation and writing technique. This is an ideal book for home study, but is also suitable for the mixed-ability, multicultural classroom.

This comprehensive English book provides lessons and exercises for a wide range of students, including secondary pupils in Grades 7 and 8, advanced ESL students, and more senior pupils needing revision of basic skills. This final book in the series revises the parts of speech, and then progresses to advanced grammar, punctuation, sentence analysis and parsing. More complex exercises are provided in comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, conversation and writing technique, including poetry analysis. This book is ideal for home study, and is also suitable for the mixed-ability, multicultural...

This workbook provides almost 200 pages of ideas for writing practice, starting with sentences, progressing to paragraphs, and finally offering a variety of composition topics. The sentence and paragraph exercises are organised into themes, such as animals, transport and sports, while the composition exercises give practice in narrative, descriptive, informative and persuasive essays. Plenty of space is provided for each exercise, so that students can keep a record, in one handy book, of all the writing performed over a period of time. The book can be shared by several family members, (making...

This comprehensive English course is designed for children in Grades 5 to 7, for intermediate ESL students, for pupils in higher grades who need more practice with basic skills, and for students who study at home. Every chapter consists of grammar, reading comprehension, phonic spelling, vocabulary, conversation, writing practice, and general knowledge. At the back of the book are several extra sections including conversation topics for ESL students, extra writing topics, a phonics summary, dictations, a booklist, and answers to all the exercises. This book is based on the "Essential English"...

This comprehensive English course is designed for children in Grades 7 to 9, for advanced ESL students, for Grade 10 to 12 pupils who need more practice with basic skills, for students who study at home, and for adults who would like to learn advanced grammar and increase their general knowledge of the world. Every chapter consists of grammar, reading comprehension, phonic spelling, vocabulary, conversation, writing practice, and general knowledge. At the back of the book are several extra sections including conversation topics for ESL students, extra writing topics, a phonics summary,...

This comprehensive English course is designed for children in Grades 3 to 5, for upper-elementary to intermediate ESL students, for pupils in higher grades who need more practice with basic skills, and for students who study at home. Every chapter consists of grammar, reading comprehension, phonic spelling, vocabulary, conversation, writing practice, and general knowledge. At the back of the book are several extra sections including handy phrases for ESL students, extra writing topics, a phonics summary, dictations, a booklist, and answers to all the exercises. This book is based on the...

This bilingual English/ Mandarin text and workbook provides lessons, examples and exercises especially for Chinese students, to help them learn the art of writing. The book begins simply, focusing on sentences, followed by paragraphs. From here, all types of essays are practised, including narrative, descriptive, informative, persuasive, discussion, comparative, instructive and letter writing. The book is aimed mainly at middle school students, but people of any age can enjoy using this book to improve and practise their writing style.