Pearson LongmanTop course books

1. American English Catalog Azar All About the USA American Ways English Extra Longman Cornerstone Longman ESL Literacy

2. British English Catalog BBC Active Whiteboard Early Years Come Outside Series Sails Foundation Series Words and Pictures Words and Pictures: Fun with Phonics World writing The Big Picture Literacy File

Product summaries

American English CatalogLongman CornerstoneWeb-site: www.longmancornerstone.com/Level: Kindergarten - Grade 5Product description:

Longman Cornerstone is a multilevel program designed for elementary English learners and struggling readers. The program blends rigorous, research-based reading and language skills instruction together with a balance of content area readings and age-appropriate, high-interest stories.Features : Practice Book contains extension activities for each skill taught. Assessment Book provides progress-monitoring. Teaching resources and transparencies model daily language practice and vocabulary development exercises. Phonics and Word Analysis Kit builds foundational phonicsand vocabulary skills. Accelerates academic vocabulary acquisition through explicit instruction.Provides an easy-to-use roadmap to lifelong academic success.Components:Student book, Price: $55.75Practice book, Price: $11.75Teacher’s Edition: $92.50Audio CDs: $122.25

English ExtraLevel: Low-Beginning – High-BeginningWeb-site: http://www.longmanhomeusa.com/products.php?mid=189&pid=english_extraProduct Description

English Extra incorporates a communicative, multiskills approach toEnglish language learning. Organized around universal themes that provideopportunities for language use in students’ own lives, English Extrabegins with the self and home, and moves out into the broader contextof school, town or city, and workplace.Features: Lessons move from teacher-directed learning to self-directed and independent language

acquisition. Clear and concise language and life-skills objectives are incorporated.Components:Student book, Price: $17.75Activity Book, Price: $13.00Teacher’s Manual, FreeText & Activity Book, Price: $24.50Value Pack: Text, Activity Book, Price: $40.75Classroom audio, Price: $61.75

Longman ESL Literacy

Level: Entry-level/Literacy, Grades 3-8Product DescriptionLongman ESL Literacy offers a basic introduction to English for students who are not ready for a Level 1 course. Its thorough integration of the four basic language skills helps students acquire communication and literacy skills necessary to function in real-life situations.Features: Large hardcover format features vocabulary of 10,000 academic and instruction words Combined dictionary and thesaurus is appropriate for both young learners and mixed-ability classes.Components:Hardcover: $19.95Pedagogical Teacher’s Guide: $9.95

GrammarAzarLevel: Beginning – AdvancedProduct Description:

Clear, direct and comprehensive, the Azar-Hagen Grammar Series uses a Grammar-Based Teaching approach—blending grammar methodology with communicative methods. Features: Direct, in-depth grammar practice A variety of exercise types including warm-up, comprehension, completion, reading, listening, interview, and writing. Written forms, spelling, and punctuation, as well as spoken forms and pronunciation.Components:Basic English GrammarStudent Book with Audio CDs and Answer Key, Price: $39.25Workbook, Price: $18.50Teacher’s Guide, Price: $35.75Fundamentals of English GrammarStudent Book with Answer Key, Price: $40.25Workbook with Answer Key, Price: $16Teacher’s Guide with Power Point CD, Price: $39.50Understanding and Using English GrammarStudent Book with Answer Key and Audio CDs, Price: $40.25Teacher’s Guide with Power Point DVD, Price: $39.50 Focus on GrammarLevel: Beginning – AdvancedProduct Description:

Focus on Grammar helps students understand and practice English grammar through contextualized listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. Focus on Grammar combines controlled and communicative practice with critical thinking skills and ongoing assessment.

Features: Streamlined charts, notes, and examples make grammar easy to learn. High-interest readings in a variety of real-life formats are rich in content. Grammar to Writing sections build composition skills.Components:Student Book Level 1-5. Price: $35Student Book with Audio CD, Price: $40.25Teacher’s Edition, Price: $35Workbook, Price: $19.75 Grammar Essentials Graded Exercises in EnglishLevel: Intermediate – AdvancedWeb-site: http://www.longmanhomeusa.com/products.php? mid=189&pid=grammar_essentialsProduct Description:

A grammar review companion for any skills course with over 100 grammar points. Students of all abilities can practice and review the critical grammar skills they need to achieve fluency in English.Features: Step-by-step presentation of grammar points follows the familiar scope and sequence of skills-based courses.Components:Student book, Price: $22.50

Grammar to Go English Grammar PracticeLevel: Beginning – AdvancedWeb-site: http://www.longmanhomeusa.com/products.php? mid=189&pid=grammar_to_goProduct Description:

The Grammar to Go series offers focused, streamlined practice in thefundamentals of the English language. Features: Clear explanations and examples of the key structures of English grammar. Simple, clear exercises suitable for both oral and written practice. Consistent two-column exercise format makes grading accurate, fast, and easy!

Grammar Summary section for quick grammar reference.Components:Student Book, Price: $19.50

Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written EnglishLevel: High-Intermediate – AdvancedWeb-site: http://www.longmanhomeusa.com/products.php?mid=189&pid=grammar The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a revolutionary, corpus-based reference grammar of English, based on the ways English grammar is really used. The book looks at four text types — conversation, fiction,news reportage, and academic

prose — and reports statistical findings as well as the reasons for a particular grammatical choice.Features: Illustrates how grammatical choices are made in speech and writing genres. Shows differences between British and American grammar.Components:Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written EnglishHardcover: $99Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written EnglishHardcover, Price: $34.95Paper, Price: $29.95Workbook, Price: $9.95 Real Grammar Third EditionLevel: High-Intermediate – AdvancedWeb-site: http://www.longmanhomeusa.com/products.php?mid=189&pid=real_grammarProduct Description:

An innovative corpus-based grammar text, Real Grammar uses the latest corpus research to show how 50 grammatical structures and expressions are used in speech and writing. Features: Rich activities, varying from contextualized exercises to discovery and analysis, help learners understand and use the target grammar. Speech and writing icons clearly identify each chapter’s skill focus.Components:Student book: $19.75

IdiomsEssential Idioms in English Phrasal Verbs and CollocationsLevel: Beginning – AdvancedProduct Description:This indispensable resource helps students understand the language patterns used by native speakers and remains the book of choice for mastering more than 600 common English idioms, phrasal verbs, and collocations.Features: Three sections on collocations to illustrate the frequency of certain usages. Eight-page section on dictionary skills helps students build their vocabulary and prove their knowledge of usage.Components:Student Book, Price: $22.50

Leveled ReadersPenguin Active ReadersLevel: Low-Beginning – IntermediateProduct Description:Penguin Active Reading is an exciting collection of adapted readers that provides

reading-skill instruction and language learning through a variety of classic, contemporary, and original titles. Each book contains a wide range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills and is packaged with an interactive CD-ROM.Features: Pre-and post-reading activities test reading skills. Vocabulary, conversation, and writing exercises provide additional language practice.

Penguin ReadersLevel: Low-Beginning – AdvancedProduct Description:These leveled readers help students build reading confidence through accessible language and a variety of appealing genres and topics, while vocabulary, grammar, and narrative content are carefully controlled over seven language-competency levels, ensuring a perfect match of reader to text.Features: An Introduction summarizes the story and provides background information on the characters or author. Activities for Before, While, and After Reading test reading skills. The Word List defines key vocabulary found in the text. Writing exercises offer a broad range of activities including book reports, letters, and short essays for a range of writing practice.Also available: Penguin Young Readers (Level: Kindergarten – Grade 5)

Listening/SpeakingContemporary TopicsLevel: High-Beginning – AdvancedProduct Description:This interactive listening-speaking series prepares students for the challenges of college lectures with a wide range of listening, speaking, and note-taking strategies and skills. The 12 college lectures at each level are drawn from a range of academic disciplines and reflect authentic lecture settings, featuring engaging instructors and live student audiences.Features: Vocabulary from the Academic Word List. Listening strategies include predicting, inferring, listening for the main idea, and listening for details. Projects include in-class discussions, presentations, contact assignments, research projects, and role plays.Components:Student Book, Price: $30.25Teacher’s Pack, Price: $14.25Classroom Audio CD, Price: $46.75Classroom DVD, Price: $77.25

DictionariesLongman Elementary Dictionary

Level: Grades 3-8Product description:

The new Longman Elementary Dictionary and Thesaurus is a welcome alternative to reference materials that are often too dense and intimidating for children. It combines the strengths of both traditional and picture dictionaries with the flexibility of a child-friendly thesaurus to empower young language learners to expand their English vocabularies.Features: Features 1,000+ illustrations, simple definitions, example sentences, synonyms and

antonyms, and affixes. Combined dictionary and thesaurus is appropriate for both young learners and mixed-

ability classes.Components:Hardcover, Price: $19.95Pedagogical Teacher’s Guide, Price: $9.95

Longman Photo Dictionary of American English New EditionLevel: Low-Beginning – Low-IntermediateProduct Description:The Longman Photo Dictionary of American English uses clear, contemporary color photos to make new words easy to remember!Components:Monolingual edition with Audio CDs, Price: $16.95Multilingual edition with Audio CDs, Price: $18.95Workbook with Audio CD, Price: $9.95

Longman Young Children’s Picture DictionaryLevel: Pre-Kindergarten – KindergartenProduct Description:The Longman Young Children’s Picture Dictionary uses a variety of drawings, songs, and chants to illustrate 280 words appropriate for young learners to help them describe the world as they see it. Organized into 26 themes with toys, animals, and fairy-tale characters, this dictionary makes learning fun!Components:Picture Dictionary with Audio CD, Price: $16Activity Resource Book, $32.25

Word by Word Basic Second EditionWeb-site: http://www.longmanhomeusa.com/products.php?mid=189&pid=wbwbasicProduct Description:The Word by Word Basic Picture Dictionary presents vocabulary in context, designed through vibrant illustrations and simple, accessible lesson pages, for learners at low-beginning and literacy levels. Each lesson is self-contained and can be used either sequentially or in any desired order.Components:

Student Book with WordSongs Music CD, Price: $17Literacy Workbook with Audio CD, Price: $14.75Vocabulary Workbook with Audio CDs, Price: $14.75Lifeskills Workbook, Price: $13Teacher's Guide with Multilevel Activities and Lesson Planner with CD-ROM: $41Student Book Audio CDs: $108.25

Word by Word Picture Dictionary Second EditionLevel: Beginning – IntermediateProduct Description:The Word by Word Picture Dictionary is the centerpiece of the complete Word by Word Vocabulary Development Program. The program’s unique interactive methodology makes vocabulary learning come alive as a dynamic communicative experience.Components:Student Book with WordSongs Music CD, Price: $18Teacher’s Guide with Multilevel Activities and Lesson Planner with CDROM, Price: $41Literacy Workbook with Audio CD, Price: $14.75Beginning Vocabulary Workbook with Audio CD, Price: $14.75Beginning Lifeskills Workbook, Price: $13.50Intermediate Vocabulary Workbook with Audio CD, Price: $14.75Student Book Audio CDs, Price: $108.25

PronunciationEnglish Pronunciation Made Simple Second EditionLevel: Intermediate – AdvancedProduct Description:With a friendly writing style and abundant illustrations, this pronunciation text helps students understand and practice English pronunciation and sounds, and includes separate sections on vowels, consonants, and stress, rhythm and intonation. Components:Student Book with 2 Audio CDs, Price: $31.25Audiocassettes, Price: $72CDs, Price: $72

Focus on Pronunciation Series Books 1, 2, and 3Level: Beginning – AdvancedWeb-site: http://www.longmanhomeusa.com/products.php? mid=189&pid=focus_on_pronunciationProduct Description:This user-friendly three-book series gives students all the tools, tips, and techniques they need to speak English clearly and accurately. All aspects of pronunciation are addressed — sounds, stress, rhythm, and intonation.Components:Student Book (with 2 Student Audio CDs), Price: $27Audio CDs, Price: $59.75Audiocassettes, Price: $59.75

ReadingAll About the USA Series A Cultural Reader Books 1, 2, 3, and 4Level: Beginning – IntermediateWeb-site: http://www.longmanhomeusa.com/products.php?mid=189&pid=all_about_usaProduct Description:Newly revised, the All About the USA reading series features informative and entertaining readings about American people, places, and events, and promotes discussion and cross-cultural exchange. Vocabulary is carefully controlledat each level. Components:Student Book with Audio CD, Price: $24.50

American WaysLevel: High-Beginning – AdvancedProduct Description:This cultural reader offers a unique snapshot of the U.S. — its people, institutions, and traditions — from a values-based perspective. A host of challenging exercises encourage students to reflect on their own values and experiences in relation to the ideas  in the text.activities and searches for further research and study. Components:Student Book, Price: $24.50Teacher’s Manual, Price: $14

Contact USA SeriesLevel: Beginning – IntermediateProduct DescriptionThe cross-cultural perspectives of the Contact USA series engage and educate students who can read and comprehend more English than they can produce. Components:Student Book Level 1-3, Price: $22Teacher’s Manual and Tests, Price: $7.50

For Your Information SeriesLevel: Beginning - High-BeginningProduct Description:The For Your Information series helps students move beyond passive reading to become active, thoughtful, and confident readers of English. With updated reading selections and enhanced skill focus, the second edition of this popularseries builds reading proficiency and vocabulary while encouraging students to think critically, express themselves, and interact.Features: Expanded reading and vocabulary skill sections clearly and concisely explain both how

to perform each skill and why it is important. Reading and vocabulary skills are carefully recycled across each book. Students interact with new vocabulary multiple times within each chapter.

Components:Student Book, Price: $25.75Teacher’s Manual and Tests, Price: $18.25DVD, Price: $54.75Audio CDs, Price: $45 

Modern DramasLevel: Beginning - High-IntermediateWeb-site: http://www.longmanhomeusa.com/products.php? mid=189&pid=modern_dramasProduct Description:Modern Dramas is a fast-paced contemporary story series that will keep your students turning the page for more. With Modern Dramas, English language learners will improve their reading skills while reading for pleasure. Each book tells the lively story of a memorable hero and other remarkable characters.Features: Varied reading comprehension activities assess understanding. Meaningful and practical vocabulary exercises reinforce new language.Sample titles: Solomon the Superintendant, Lucy and the Piano Player, Victor’s Street, Ramona’s Adventure, Price point: $13

New PasswordLevel: Low-Beginning - High-IntermediateProduct Description:New Password moves students from 300-word vocabularies to the most common 2,000 words in English. Along the way, they also develop reading and vocabulary skills to prepare them for mainstream classes.Features: The equal treatment of reading and vocabulary skills in each unit make this reading series uniquely balanced. Discussion and writing activities, vocabulary self tests, and unit wrap-ups. Pre-reading tasks get students thinking about the subject. Post-reading exercises help strengthen skills such as scanning, summarizing, discussion, and writing.Components:Student Book, Price: $24Student Book with MP3, Price: $30Teacher’s Manual, Price: $8.75

Reading Power SeriesLevel: Beginning – AdvancedProduct Description:Now in a new edition, the four-level Reading Power series continues to focus on a unique process methodology — encouraging students to develop a strategic approach and begin to view reading in English as a problem-solving activity rather than a translation

exercise.Features:At each level, students focus on four skill areas: Extensive Reading (Reading for Pleasure) lets students select their own reading materials to practice new strategies, build fluency, increase comprehension, and broaden their vocabulary. Vocabulary Building trains students in a variety of strategies for learning new words, from personalized vocabulary lists to noticing collocations. Reading Comprehension/Critical Thinking Skills - skimming, scanning, recognizing topics and main ideas, understanding sentences, and making inferences. Reading Faster - speed and flexibility  in reading with high-interest, short fiction and nonfiction selections.Components:Student Book, Price: $30.25Teacher’s Guide with Answer Key, FreeTest Booklet, Price: $28.95 True StoriesLevel: Low-Beginning - High-IntermediateProduct Description:These engaging “believe-it-or-not” real-life, human-interest stories build students’ reading, writing, and speaking skills. Features: Vocabulary, comprehension, discussion, and writing exercises personalize the themes of the stories and encourage students to share their own experiences. A variety of essential reading skills builds fluency.Components:Student Book, Price: $21Student Book with Audio CD, Price: $27.50

What A World Series Books 1, 2, and 3 What A Life! Series Books 1, 2, and 3Level: Beginning – IntermediateProduct Description:The two series — What A World and What A Life! — take a fresh approach to reading. High-interest topics ranging from biographies and history to cultures around the world make reading both motivating and pleasurable.Features: Topic-related vocabulary exercises. Comprehension check and reading skills exercises. Discussion and writing activities. Spelling and punctuation rules and practice.Components:Student book, Price: $21.25Student Book with Audio CD, Price: $26.25 

World of Reading A Thematic Approach to Reading Comprehension, Books 1, 2, and 3Level: Low-Intermediate – High-IntermediateProduct Description:World of Reading helps students become better readers with its focus on a wide variety of genres and research-based vocabulary development. Based on the successful Building on Basics and Building Understanding, the series now takes on a third, low-intermediate Level 1.Features: Authentic, unadapted readings from a variety of genres Vocabulary preview Multiple-choice activities call out unfamiliar words or expressions Comprehension checks help students develop the ability to read. Writing activities offer additional opportunities for expression about the topic. Text analyses help students expand reading comprehension skills.Components:Student Book, Price: $27.50Teacher’s Edition, Price: $16.50

VocabularyFocus on VocabularyLevel: High-Intermediate – AdvancedProduct Description:This text introduces students to the Academic Word List, the most frequently used words in academic texts.Features: Collocation exercises — based on the 179 million-word new Longman Corpus — reflect how academic words are used in real contexts. Tips for dictionary usage, information about word parts and affixes, and methods for expanding word knowledge — is provided at the end of each unit. Components:Student Book, Price: $31.25Answer Key and Tests, Free

Vocabulary PowerLevel: Low-Intermediate – AdvancedProduct Description:This three-level program teaches the most frequently used words fromthe General Service List (500) and Academic Word List (400) and presents each word in eight different contexts to help students learn and remember the word easily.Features: Exercises on word families, multiple meanings, collocations, and expressions that expand students’ knowledge of the words. Engaging discussion questions and writing topics that elicit natural use of the words.Components:Student Book, Price: $19.50

Answer Key, Free

WritingReady to WriteLevel: Beginning - High-IntermediateWeb-site: http://www.longmanhomeusa.com/products.php? mid=189&pid=ready_writeProduct Description:Ready to Write provides basic writing instruction, dependable strategies, and many opportunities for students to use the composition skills they need to be successful writers in and out of the classroom.Features: Step-by-step activities in comparing and contrasting, describing, analyzing data, writing testanswers, and summarizing. Varied, contextualized writing tasks help students with real-life tasks. Editing and proofreading exercises encourage students to refine their writing skills.Components:Student Book, Price: $25.50

Writing to CommunicateLevel: Low-Beginning - High-IntermediateProduct Description:With a combined process and product approach, Writing to Communicate guides students through the writing process as they create interesting, well-organized, and grammatically correct paragraphs and essays.Features: Focus on rhetorical patterns gives students a solid basis for academic writing. Abundant and clear models guide and motivate students  to successful writing. A Vocabulary Builder in each chapter.Components:Student Book, Price: $29.75Answer Key, Free

British English CatalogBBC Active Whiteboard Early YearsSeries Products:

Find Out About Homes PackDescription: A cross-curricular approach that covers all six areas of learning and development from the EYFS Framework, where a variety of stimulating videos, animations and stories help explore the many different homes within a community: from living on a traditional barge to animal homes.Price: 50 GBP

Find Out About Ourselves PackDescription: A cross-curricular resource using children as a guide to explore the topic of ourselves, focusing on emotional development, encouraging children to explore and

discuss feelings in friendly contexts.Price: 50 GBP

Come Outside SeriesDescription:Help develop pupils' sense of enquiry with the much-loved television series Come Outside.Sample titles: Animals Around our Homes A Windy Day Food Plants and other living things Keeping Safe, Keeping Well Natural MaterialsComponents:Come Outside DVD, Price: 19.99 GBP

Sails Foundation SeriesDescription: Sails Foundation offers 96 books specially designed to develop children's early language and literacy skills. The vibrant illustrations will delight your pre-readers whilst the lively stories will build their speaking and listening skills. Features: Lively stories build speaking and listening skills. Helps children learn the basic high frequency words.Sample titles: I Can Swim, I Like Riding, I Like Hats, Monkeys, I am Working, The Family The ShowPrice point: 14 GBP for a pack of 4 titles.Components:Sails Foundation: Complete Titles Pack, Price: 342 GBPSails Foundation Pink Band Set: Reader Set, Price: 15-120 GBPIndividual title, Price: 3.75 GBPReader Sets, Price: 15 GBP

Words and PicturesDescription: Teach literacy with BBC Active's Words and Pictures series, based on the BBC's best-loved educational programs.Features: Covers key aspects of literacy including the alphabet, phonics, handwriting and spelling.Components: Teacher's books, activity worksheets and color posters.Series products:Words and Pictures: Magic Pencil A-Z E Big Book Multi User LicencePrice: 74.99 GBPWords and Pictures Magic Pencil Handwriting Network Multi user LicensePrice: 66 GBPWords and Pictures My Spelling Friend Network Multi User LicensePrice: 66 GBPWords and Pictures Phonics Clip Art Network Multi User LicensePrice: 66 GBP

Words and Pictures: Fun with PhonicsProduct series description:

BBC Active's Fun with Phonics resources use the BBC's popular Words and Pictures programs, and using a combination of the Whiteboard Active CD-ROMs, E Big Books, DVDs and printed readers, you will have the complete set of resources to cover phases 2 to 5 of Letters and Sounds, creating engaging and effective phonic teaching!Features:

Covers the 44 phonemes and alternative graphemes.Components:Words and Pictures Fun with Phonics EBBK1 Multi LicensePrice: 74.99 GBPWords and Pictures: Fun with Phonics Letters and Sounds Phase 5Price: 74.99 GBPWords and Pictures Fun with Phonics 1-5 Whiteboard Active Pack repackagedPrice: 99.99 GBP

World WritingLevel: Age 7-11Product description:Examine collections of writing from around the world with background information on each region to provide context and develop understanding and cross-curricular learning.Components:World Writing (age 7-9 and age 9-11) Whiteboard Active Pack RepackagedPrice: 99.99 GBP

The Big Picture Literacy FileDescription:

The Big Picture Literacy Files bring a diverse and gripping selection of historical contexts to your whiteboard—along with all the support you need to take the texts to the heart of your literacy lessons. The Ancient Greece Literacy File offers texts for the following text ranges: choral speech and poetry, instructional writing, persuasive writing, recount, myths and legends, discussion and playscripts. Components:The Big Picture: Literacy File - Ancient Greece E Big Book EBBk MULPrice: 74.99 GBPThe Big Picture Literacy File Britain Since 1948 EBBk MULPrice: 74.99 GBPThe Big Picture Literacy File - Children in the Second World War EBBk MULPrice: 74.99 GBPThe Big Picture Literacy File - Children in Victorian Britain EBBk MULPrice: 74.99 GBPThe Big Picture: Literacy File - Tudors E Big Book EBBk MULPrice: 74.99 GBP