In this text, particular focus is given to functional language, with units on areas such as greetings, excuses, directions and descriptions, agreeing and disagreeing. This gives students a wider view of grammar and vocabulary in context in a variety of immediately useful everyday situations.

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Owning your own swimming pool is a dream that is coming true for more and more people. The first section concentrates on outdoor swimming pools and pool houses, the garden and surrounding landscape, while part two is devoted to indoor pools. The third section deals with spaces that have increasingly become a natural extension of the (indoor) swimming pool in our modern lifestyle culture, such as bathing

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When a mysterious unidentified flying object crash-lands in the Yukon, Old Man Logan is called to investigate! What lies within? What does it want with Logan? The Marvel Universe\'s newest alien menace is on the loose and ready to start a rampage...beware the creature from the blackness of space! Plus, Logan\'s declining health takes a turn for the worse...how much more can the old man\'s healing factor

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When Tonya and her friends decide to sail around the world they want to see exciting things and visit exciting places. But one day, they meet an orca - a killer whale - one of the most dangerous animals in the sea. And life gets a little too exciting.

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