Rosalie Kerr Livres

Provides practice exam questions for the CAE exam, which replicate the real test papers. Photocopiable answer sheets give students practice in transferring their answers from the test paper. The With Answers edition helps teachers and students learn about the mark scheme through detailed notes and real examples of student composition.

For fifty years after Dr Watson's death, a packet of papers, written by the doctor himself, lay hidden in a locked box. The papers contained an extraordinary report of the case of Jack the Ripper and the horrible murders in the East End of London in 1888. The detective, of course, was the great Sherlock Holmes - but why was the report kept hidden for so long ?

The Oxford Bookworms Library extends the range of activities and teaching support of Oxford Bookworms and includes in each book an Activities section of Before Reading, While Reading and After Reading exercises. The six stages offer stories at different levels of ability.

An English rose garden on a summer's day. A small boy watches with interest as his great-aunt cuts the deadheads off the rosebushes with a sharp knife. What could be more peaceful, more harmless? Young Patrick grows up to be a calm, pleasant man, with a good job, a wife and two children, and the best rose garden for miles around. When somebody tells the police that Patrick Aldermann is killing people, Chief Superintendent Dalziel thinks it's probably all nonsense. But Inspector Pascoe is not so sure...--Quatrième de couverture

Depuis 3 jours, le blizzard immobilise la grande ville américaine et menace de paralyser l'aéroport, immense, ultra-moderne, et pourtant déjà insuffisant pour le trafic. C'est en vain que le directeur, Mel Bakersfeld, redoutant une catastrophe, réclame du secours : pas de crédits, "débrouillez-vous", ce qu'il fait, épaulé par les uns, entravé par les autres. Il peut compter sur un chef d'équipe, pittoresque, véritable force de la nature, et sur une femme, dont l'attachement profond et la vive intelligence lui sont d'un précieux secours. Il doit se méfier d'un pilote de ligne qui ne le porte pas dans son coeur, craindre pour son frère, contrôleur-radar traumatisé pour avoir autrefois provoqué une collision aérienne. Il lui faudra encore affronter l'avocat hargneux des riverains exaspérés par le vacarme des appareils. Devra-t-il craindre aussi ce petit homme bizarre, porteur d'une mallette, qui s'embarque. à bord d'un long-courrier ? Un suspense à la Hitchcock, des situations tragiques, émouvantes, "en l'espace d'une seule nuit... En toile de fond, de ce roman passionnant, l'aéroport, organisme monstrueux animé de sa vie propre, avec ses secrets.

This selection of stories by Katherine Mansfield has been chosen by Claire Tomalin and emphasize the stronger, feminist side of her writing rather than the popular, more sentimental view. The 21 stories are presented in chronological order and include Prelude, The Garden Party and At the Bay.

When James and Matthew spent the weekend with Henry Tillotson in 1954, they took an instant liking to the country house that Henry had inherited from his father. His wife was a bit odd though - she never seemed to get out of bed. Gossip suggested that Henry had inherited her as well.

In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife, Mararet, home to his farmhouse in the English countryside. Margaret is a strange, unpleasant woman, determined, it seems, to make Henry's life miserable. 'Poor Henry!' say his friends, as they visit at weekends and holidays. 'What an awful life he has!' But Henry is not at all the sad and disappointed man we might expect him to be. He manages to enjoy life, and indeed, has quite a lot of fun, one way and another ... Mary Wesley's story takes a sharp but light-hearted look at love, sex, and marriage - and the things people will do to get what they want

Contains five complete practice tests for the Cambridge First Certificate in English. This edition contains details about the mark schemes for Papers 2 and 5, together with sample student answers for Paper 2, full tapescripts and keys.

A set of five practice tests for the new Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English exam. The authors' close involvement in the CAE enables students to practice examination questions which genuinely replicate the real test papers.

BEC practice tests are available at preliminary, vantage and higher levels and reflect the ALTE (Association of Language Testers in Europe) level system. They cover the four language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking, and, with the revisions, now incorporate certain features of the CEIBT exams, and reflect developments in other exams such as PET, FCE and CAE.