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Solutions Elementary 3rd edition –  Oxford University Press, 2018. With 100% new content, the third edition of Oxford’s best-selling secondary course offers the tried and trusted Solutions methodology alongside fresh and diverse material that will spark your students’ interest and drive them to succeed. Oxford University Press’s best-selling course for teenagers is now available in a third edition, providing new and exciting content that is delivered using the successful methodology of the previous Solutions editions.

Solutions Elementary is intended to introduce students to the task types and format of the basic level of the school-leaving exam. The emphasis is on preparation and familiarization, helping students to build good study habits and exam strategies. Typical exam requirements are reflected throughout the course in the choice of topics, task types, texts, and grammar structures.

A five-level general English course for 14-19 year-olds, who are also preparing for the school-leaving exam.The clear structure and step-by-step approach to a communication provide supported language and skills training to get students to speak confidently.

 The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us – New York: Riverhead Books, 2009. Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people – at work, at school, at home. It’s wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm-shattering book Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today’s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does – and how that affects every aspect of our lives.

British English A to Zed is the most comprehensive guide to everyday English as it is spoken on both sides of the Atlantic. No longer will you be left confused when someone asks to borrow your biro (ballpoint pen) or your housewife (sewing kit). This updated and revised edition includes more than 5,000 words from sources as diverse as London businesses and Bridget Jones’s Diary, as well as lively, up-to-date discussions of British pronunciation, punctuation, and style; units of measure; automotive terms; cricket terms; and much more. Arranged alphabetically by Briticism, entries feature their corresponding Americanisms as well as details about usage. For readers, travelers, and Anglophiles everywhere, this entertaining and authoritative resource is a cultural delight.