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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Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. He roams the country seeking assignments, but gradually comes to realise that while some of his quarry are

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