Bill Bowler Book order (chronological)

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.

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

'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

Dominoes 3 : The Faithful Ghost and Other Tall Tales (Book & CD) A 'Tall Tale' is a story that's hard to believe, and the five tall tales in this book all tell of ghosts. Some have dark secrets buried in the past, others bring messages for the living. Some are laughable, some are sad, and some are just evil. Sometimes there's a logical explanation for the strangest happenings, but often things cannot be explained by logic alone. Either way, you're sure to find some frightening reading between the covers of this book.

Follows the adventures of Phileas Fogg, an imperturbable English gentleman, as, in 1872, he tries to win his wager that he can travel around the world in eighty days.

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'?

What does a poor young woman do when she loses her boyfriend or wants to find one? What little lies do we tell to make ourselves look better in the eyes of those that we love? How can a friend save someone who is sure that they are going to die? What happens when someone's clever plans all go wrong? These sweetly surprising short stories - about both good times and bad - are sometimes sad, and sometimes funny. But all of them are sure to make you think--Cover p. [4]

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good--you will get that' When life feels difficult, Pollyanna has learned to play "The Glad Game". In any situation, no matter how dire it may seem, she challenges herself to find the silver-lining. However, orphaned at a young age and forced to live with her hard-hearted Aunt Polly, Pollyanna has had a lot of opportunities to practice. With her infectious cheer, she is soon convincing some of the town's most troubled residents to rediscover the things they're glad about, until even her sunny disposition is tested. A classic of the Golden Age of Children's Literature, Pollyanna has become a synonym for optimism, and inspired countless readers to find hope in the hardest of situations.

Prospero, the Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda are far away from home, alone on an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. They want to return to Milan...Then, one day, Prospero sees a ship near the island carrying his greatest enemies. Prospero, with the help of his magic and the island spirit, Ariel, makes a magic storm - a tempest - to bring them to the island.

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

A two-level, topic-based course with an emphasis on culture for children who have done two years of reading and writing. Happy Earth bridges the gap between primary and secondary courses.

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.

Introduce children to reading and writing English in the wider world of Happy Street. Explore a world of fascinating facts with the topic-based approach of Happy World. And introduce children to the big issues that affect every child on earth and prepare them for exams with Happy Earth. With Happy, you'll have happy students at all levels of primary!

A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.

These fantasies and true-to-life fables were created by Oscar Wilde for his own sons. Here is the tale of the Prince who is not as happy as he seems, of the Selfish Giant who learns how to love children, and of the Star-Child who suffers bitter trials when he rejects his parents.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 for Best Animated Short Film in 1990.

Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' Sunday Telegraph Ten-year-old Gerald doesn't know why his older brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on the lunch table, the family home on the Greek island of Corfu is a bit like a zoo so they should feel right at home... Gerald joyfully pursues his interest in natural history in the midst of an unconventional and chaotic family life - all brilliantly retold in this very funny book.

"For thousands of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun sleeps 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?"--Page 4 of cover

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 include sounds and spelling, stress and intonation, and 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.