Mark Farrell Books

Ideas & Issues Intermediate stimulates real discussion in the English-language classroom. Its Four Skills programme combines reading and listening practice with grammar and vocabulary revision and follow-up writing tasks. The book's integrated approach encourages Intermediate-level students to compare different points of view on a wide range of topical issues and guides them towards successful communication. Ideas & Issues Intermediate is suitable for students on general English courses, or those working towards the Cambridge First Certificate.

This text offers students the opportunity to learn about daily life and culture in the different countries where English is spoken as a first language. It shows the similarities and differences between life in Britain, the USA, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica and Trinidad. The book provides information through a wide variety of reading texts, colour photographs and illustrations. Also included are regular and frequent exercise sections focusing on reading and listening comprehension and language skills development.

This book provides excellent supplementary material for the English class or for the self-study learner. The tasks are enjoyable and entertaining, while creating genuine learning opportunities. The photocopiable worksheets: can be used as a fun vocabulary task for the whole class at the start or finish of a lesson; can be selected for topics which fit into coursework, as they are not graded for difficulty; are ideal for use with students working at different speeds or who need work on particular word sets; provide ready made homework tasks; are motivating self-study materials for use during the holidays, when accompanied by the answers; are an invaluable support for the language teacher as they are completely self-contained and need no preparation.