Christopher Tribble Books

'Oh, why, dear God, did I marry him?' Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment, and when real life continues to fail to live up to her romantic expectations, the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi.' This modern translation by Flaubert's biographer, Geoffrey Wall, retains all the delicacy and precision of the French original. The edition also contains a preface by the novelist Michèle Roberts. --back cover

OUTLINES includes the following special features:* A stimulating selection of text types and written styles, including postcards and small ads, instructions, persuasive writing, narrative and composition. * Practice in writing skills relevant to students’ immediate needs as well as groundwork for higher level writing, providing useful preparation for a range of EFL exams (e.g. FCE)* Discussion and analysis activities in each unit, leading to follow-up writing tasks. * An extensive key, including model texts, which enables students to systematically analyse, assess and improve their own writing.

This text aims to develop writing skills for elementary students. It uses techniques of editing and revising to build student's confidence to write and it incorporates a variety of text types and written styles - messages, invitations, postcards, persuasive writing, reports and descriptions. Thus the material is designed to develop students' ability to write effectively for different purposes. There are discussion and analysis activities in each unit which lead to follow up writing tasks. In addition, there is a key with model texts, to help students to revise and improve their own writing.It includes the following special features:* A lively selection of text types and written styles, including messages, invitations, reports and descriptions. * Practice in writing skills relevant to students’ immediate needs as well as groundwork for higher level writing.* Discussion and analysis activities in each unit, leading to follow-up writing tasks. * An extensive key, including model texts, which enables students to systematically analyse, assess and improve their own writing.