Matt Purland is a lecturer in English Language. He has a BA Honours degree in Drama from the University of Wales and a Postgraduate Certificate in Further Education from the University of Derby.
He is a qualified English teacher with more than ten years of experience teaching EFL / ESL - in the classroom and online.
For learning English, you'll find the most success in retaining your skills through exercises. “Learn English” reinforces your knowledge and enhances your ability to read, write, and speak in English. With close to 1500 exercises you will get plenty of opportunities to practice all parts of English.
English Picture Dictionary with Exercises brings words and images together, making it fun and easy for young readers to improve their vocabulary and reading skills.
Słownik kieszonkowy polsko-angielski został opracowany z myślą o osobach, które uczą się języka angielskiego na poziomie podstawowym. Stanowi idealne uzupełnienie każdego kursu, samouczka czy podręcznika do języka angielskiego.
Fewer and fewer people these days read short stories. This is unfortunate--so few will ever experience the joy that reading such fine work can give. This book gives a nice collection of short stories that will excite people into rediscovering this excellent source of entertainment.
A beautiful children's story that inspires and stimulates your little ones imagination. It`s a magical and captivating tale about the adventures and of a girl which kept on growing ... and growing .. and growing ...
Children are taken into a magical and wonderful world of fairy tale characters.
Let’s learn to speak English really well – with correct sounds, stress and connected speech. This course can help YOU!
Talk a Lot Foundation Course is a great opportunity to study the theory of pronunciation – how to speak English. We are going to learn how to get from written words on a page to spoken English – using sounds, stress, and connected speech.
This incredible collection of exercises provides a varied and interesting set of resources for practising a range of English language skills, from grammar to reading, and vocabulary building to developing research skills.
A short monologue.
Scene: the present day. It’s nearly ten to midnight on Christmas Eve. A hospital radio studio at a medium-sized community hospital near Wigan. 68 year-old volunteer amateur broadcaster ROLAND GOOLE is finishing his programme before the station frequency switches to BBC Radio 2 at midnight...
An amazing colection of poems that were mostly written between 1994-1996 and were originally songs that Matt Purland composed on his acoustic guitar.
Yes, the author has original tunes for each of them!
Waterfall is a one-act play based on The Pardoner's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.
This play is a rollercoaster, packed with unexpected turns of events and outpourings of emotion, truly a masterpiece!
It’s simple…
…if you can read the sounds of English with the International Phonetic Alphabet, you
will be able to correctly pronounce every single word in an English dictionary. You will
become a more independent learner, because you won’t need to rely on asking your friends
or teacher – or native speakers – “How do you say this word?”
This handbook shows you how to use Talk a Lot materials to learn or teach spoken English,
as well as providing background information and practice worksheets on related topics, such
as connected speech, sentence and word stress.
• General Information about Talk a Lot Courses
• How to Use Talk a Lot Resources
• Focus on Connected Speech
Complete 12-week spoken English course
All materials, instructions and answers are included
Brand new and unique learning method
Learn and recall questions, answers and negatives using 8 common verb forms
Learn 400+ essential vocabulary words
This book is a companion volume to Book1 and features ten exciting new lessons topics!
Complete 12-week spoken English course
All materials, instructions and answers are included
Brand new and unique learning method
Learn and recall questions, answers and negatives
using 8 common verb forms
Learn 400+ essential vocabulary words
Learn how to spot common mistakes in written English – and avoid making them!
We all need to write to communicate with others. This book shows you how to improve your written English by avoiding the mistakes that the professionals make.
ALSO INCLUDES OUR EXCLUSIVE A-Z OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR WORDS!
This book is packed from cover to cover with exercises that will really inspire learners, covering a huge variety of language areas. It’s aimed at learners who are studying at about Level 1 and can be used by teachers with all types of English classes, as well as students for home study, since the answers to all of the activities, plus notes for solving the exercises, are at the back of the book.
including . . .
abstract nouns
advanced spelling challenge
commonly misspelled words
famous quotations games
making short presentations
quick quizzes
reading comprehension tests
rhyming words
slang terms
troubling tenses
using determiners
. . . and much, much more!
The Big Book of English Exercises for Beginners is jam-packed from cover to cover with a great selection of entry level exercises and examples. This book provides teachers with a really useful material of no-nonsense grammar exercises that they can dip into and use in class with students.
It is also ideal for students to work with at home and learn English on their own.