Here you will find four Wordskills publications that we previously offered for sale on our main site.
- Aesop's Fables - Grammar Practice
- First Certificate Traveller
- 301 Phrasal Verbs
- Negotiation Skills for Students of English
We've moved them to here and re-organised them a bit. They cover a range of themes that will help you improve your English. Even though they have been on sale for many years the content is still highly relevant to language development even if the context may be dated (the links to the Wordskills Webstore are out of date and the format of the FCE examination changed in 2008). To compensate for this we have decided to offer these epublications at reduced prices. Prices are shown in Euro ( 1 EURO approximately USD $1.35, or approximately UK GBP £0.85 at time of writing. )
Electronic Downloads
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Licensing For Individual or Many Students
The original ePublications were licensed as either individual or school editions, determining the extent to which the publication and pages within it could be photocopied for use by classes, or used only by the student purchasing it for individual use, and thus priced separately. We still make that licensing distinction but we make it easier now.If you are the only person who will be using the epublication and you won't be photocopying for distribution to others then select the Single Student option on the Buy Now button drop down menu. If you are buying the ePublication for use by a class or group of students then select the Many Students option on the Buy Now button drop down menu. You'll notice that the prices for classroom use are really low. If you plan to use the ePublication with more than 3 students it makes sense to buy a Many Students license.
The Publications
First Certificate Traveller
Paper 3 Practice Tests, Answer Key, First Certificate Survival Guide with word lists for examination preparation, and a copy of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days on which the tests are based.
A total of 8 Practice Tests, each test representing a Paper 3 Use of English examination in the University of Cambridge's FCE (First Certificate in English). Each practice test has 65 test items - a total of 520 test items - that test the vocabulary and grammar expected of a First Certificate student. Each practice test has 5 parts: a gap fill test, a multiple choice test, a word transformation exercise, a sentence transformation exercise and an error correction exercise, typical of an FCE Paper 3 examination ( pre-2008). Learners of English at an intermediate level taking IELTS, SATs and TOEFL tests may also find these resources valuable.
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301 Phrasal Verbs
301 Phrasal Verbs covers the most common phrasal verbs, prepositions and adverbs, their meanings, and provides example sentences illustrating their use. The phrasal verbs are also listed by meaning. Phrasal verbs play an important part in everyday English. A knowledge of phrasal verbs, and when to use them will be useful in international tests of English, such as IELTS, SATs, TOEFL and Cambridge EFL examinations. There are 4 exercises and answer keys in the epublication. 77 pages in PDF format.
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Aesop's Fables - Language Activities for the ESL Classroom
A collection of 32 classroom activities for intermediate students of English. Activities are based on Aesop's Fables, dating mostly from the 6th century B.C.
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Negotiation Skills For Advanced Students Of English
- Plan dialogues with your clients in English
- Anticipate and plan in advance your answers to difficult questions
- Identify from your client's language his or her priorities and decision-making critera
- Explore your client's needs and show how you can satisfy those needs
- Use the language of signals to identify when a client is ready to change their position
- Identify your own power profile and how you can use it to persuade others
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