Bill Bowler Books

"As soon as the orphaned Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody's life."--Back cover.

This is a graded reading series with language support on every page. These readers are ideal for students who need extra motivation and a more structured reading program.

My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu. But the Durrells find that, reluctantly, they must share their various villas with a menagerie of local fauna - among them scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies. Recounted with immense humour and charm My Family and Other Animals is a wonderful account of a rare, magical childhood. 'Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' Sunday Telegraph 'A bewitching book' Sunday Times

This is a practical and imaginative addition to the New Headway. It helps students to express themselves clearly and confidently by training them in the key areas of pronunciation. There is practice of individual sounds, with a guide to suitable exercises for speakers of particular languages. There is a focus on lexical sets. Training is given in stress and intonation patterns for accurate, functional use. Help is provided with the features of connected speech.

These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include 'The Happy Prince', who was not as happy as he seemed; 'The Selfish Giant', who learned to love little children; 'The Star Child', who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents. . . . Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.

This is a practical and imaginative addition to the New Headway. It helps students to express themselves clearly and confidently by training them in the key areas of pronunciation. There is practice of individual sounds, with a guide to suitable exercises for speakers of particular languages. There is a focus on lexical sets. Training is given in stress and intonation patterns for accurate, functional use. Help is provided with the features of connected speech.

A multi-level course, supported by a broad range of supplementary material, which targets both accuracy and fluency in all four language skills.

Available at four levels – Elementary, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, and Upper-Intermediate – this course improves students’ listening and speaking through extra training in pronunciation. This extra training includes word and sentence stress, intonation, and the production of individual sounds. Key features • Sounds and spelling • Stress and intonation • Connected speech

When Wallace the inventor meets Wendolene in her wool shop, he falls in love with her at once. But why does her dog, Preston, hate Wallace's dog, Gromit? Then, after Wallace's new sheep-shaving and pullover-making machine falls into the wrong hands, things start to go very wrong. Can Gromit save Wallace from the danger of a 'close shave'?

Today is Wednesday 2nd October. If I am back in this very room in the Reform Club on Saturday 21st December by eight forty-five in the evening, I win. Phileas Fogg bets a small fortune that he can go round the world in eighty days a huge sum of money in 1872, worth more than a million pounds today.When he sets off on his amazing journey with his clever servant, Passepartout, they cannot afford the slightest delay. Will the two travelers have time to help Princess Aouda, when the brave and beautiful young woman is threatened with a cruel fate?Detective Fix believes that Mr Fogg is a bank robber, and plans to arrest him. Will that be the end of Phileas Fogg s chance to save his fortune?Real Reads are accessible texts designed to support the literacy development of primary and lower secondary age children while introducing them to the riches of our international literary heritage. Each book is a retelling of a work of great literature from one of the world s greatest cultures, fitted into a 64-page book, making classic stories, dramas and histories available to intelligent young readers as a bridge to the full texts, to language students wanting access to other cultures, and to adult readers who are unlikely ever to read the original versions.

A multi-level course, supported by a broad range of supplementary material, which targets both accuracy and fluency in all four language skills.

"Sherlock Holmes the case of the blue diamond"-- Cover.

It's Gromit the dog's birthday, and his friend Wallace gives him an unusual present - a pair of Techno-trousers. At first Wallace uses the trousers to take Gromit for walks, but when the penguin comes to stay, he uses them one night for something different - very different. This strange story won the Oscar(r) for Best Animated Short Film in 1993.

For thousand of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his diary.But soon people begin to die. Who or what is the killer? Is Tutankhamun angry with them for opening his tomb? And who is the beautiful French girl with the face of Tutankhamun's long-dead wife?

Use these fully illustrated classic and contemporary plays for reading practice or performance. Each script offers performance notes, character lists, exercises, and glossaries.

How do you get a licence if you want to keep a monkey? What can you do if your wife has a lover? How can you see into the future? Where can you go for an exciting but cheap holiday somewhere hot and far away? How can you persuade your girlfriend or boyfriend to marry you? The characters in these six original short plays are looking for answers to these questions. While trying to solve their problems, people get into some very funny situations. Each play gives an amusing view of life today, and there is often an unexpected ending.

This is a graded reading series with language support on every page. These readers are ideal for students who need extra motivation and a more structured reading program.

'What's your job?' Yukio asks. 'I'm a sorcerer, ' the old man smiles, 'and I need a young apprentice.' One day, Yukio - a young boy from old Japan - leaves his sister in the country and looks for a job in the town. He finds interesting work there, as a sorcerer's apprentice. But why must Yukio wait to learn magic? And what happens after he puts a spell on a broom when the sorcerer is away

This is a graded reading series with language support on every page. These readers are ideal for students who need extra motivation and a more structured reading program.

Designed for intermediate-level students who wish to improve their pronunciation, this addition to the "Headway" English language teaching series contains exercises which are suitable for classroom use, the language laboratory or for students working independently.

Introducing the series, this book has plot outlines and background information for each story. It contains activity and project answer keys, photocopiable tests and test answer keys.

A topic-based course that allows learners to extend their language skills while learning about the world around them.

A course in English pronunciation to complement New Headway.

One of the worlds most successful primary courses, the Happy Series is a six-level course thats perfectly in step with your students development. Published 2010-03-01

Speaking is one the most challenging of the four skills for lower-level learners of English and this brand-new collection of activities is designed to both support and motivate students. Packed with useful functional language, this resource is an ideal accompaniment to any Elementary or Pre-Intermediate coursebook. CEF LEVEL A1 - A2

A course in English pronunciation to complement New Headway. // Attention: If no attachments (CDs, booklets etc.) are shown in the photo, they are not included.

Intended for adults and young adults, this is a needs-based supplementary series.

A course in English pronunciation to complement New Headway.

A topic-based course that allows learners to extend their language skills while learning about the world around them.

A needs-based supplementary series for adults and young adults.

The Coursebook contains three teaching modules with each focusing on one overall topic. The language is recycled and tested over four main units and a review unit, with specific skills such as reading, writing and speaking all being developed through exercises.

This workbook is part of a language teaching course designed to provide a thorough grounding in the basic rules and patterns of English pronunciation, from individual sounds to sentence stress, connected speech and intonation.

Contains Language review sections in each unit cross-referenced to a Grammar section. This title covers vocabulary learning, from learning new words in their lexical sets, to developing systems of vocabulary understanding. It promotes fluency in all four language skills through a variety of activities, and is supported by Teacher's Books.

One of the worlds most successful primary courses, the Happy Series is a six- level course thats perfectly in step with your students development.

Designed for intermediate-level students who wish to improve their pronunciation, this addition to the "Headway" English language teaching series contains exercises which are suitable for classroom use, the language laboratory or for students working independently.

Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities, and exciting, fully dramatized audio for every story, the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for students while making it easy for you to develop their reading and language skills. Listen along with downloadable MP3 Audio.