Collins Reading is part of the new English for Life series and uses authentic material from the Collins Corpus, the world’s largest database of the English language. It is suitable for self-study and classroom use, and can help towards Cambridge FCE preparation. Suitable for Intermediate learners of English (CEF level B1+).

21st Century Reading was created through a partnership between TED, a nonprofit dedicated to spreading ideas through short, powerful talks and National Geographic Learning. 21st Century Reading provides the ideal forum for learners of English to make connections with topics ranging from science to business to global issues.

The new edition of National Geographic Learning’s best-selling Reading Explorer series brings the world to the classroom through new and updated topics, video, and visuals from National Geographic.

This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the assessment of reading in a foreign or second language.

This book provides original and stimulating listening practice across a range of levels and topics. The activities are designed around authentic scenarios and help students develop specific listening skills, such as listening for details, identifying emotions or listening for opinions. The book is suitable for A2-B2 level students and is an ideal supplement in mixed ability as well as mixed level classes. 

Students are led step-by-step to a definite written outcome through a range of motivating activities such as role plays, discussions, games and text analysis. Each activity provides a meaningful context for real-world writing tasks such as writing e-mails, reports, letters, CVs and diaries. The book encourages students to look at the process of writing, thus developing their awareness of structure, content and their target audience.

This lively resource book encourages students to expand their speaking skills using role play, problem solving, puzzles, games, interviews, storytelling and discussion. Many of the speaking activities are supported by the accompanying audio CD and the recording script section at the back of the resource book.

This book uses many authentic sources such as factual texts, newspaper articles, features and TV schedules, instruction manuals, everyday signs, stories, quizzes, emails and diary entries. Students are encouraged to read material on different levels and in different ways, such as reading for gist, scanning, skimming, comprehension, analysing structure, summarising and shadow reading.

Active Listening, Second Edition, is grounded in the theory that learners are more successful listeners when they activate their prior knowledge of a topic. Student's Book 3 is intended for intermediate to high-intermediate students. The Student's Book offers 16 task-based units, each built around an engaging topic. Through a careful balance of activities, students learn to listen for main ideas, to listen for details, and to listen and make inferences.

Active Listening: Expanding Understanding through Content, is the highest level of the Active Listening series, a three-level listening course in North American English that draws on recent research in comprehension. This intermediate to high-intermediate text offers 20 engaging, task-based units, each built around a topic, function, or grammatical theme. Active Listening activates students knowledge of a topic before they listen, giving them a frame of reference to make predictions about what they will hear.

While taking students through the writing process, this book also teaches attention to form, format, and accuracy.

Academic Writing is an advanced, process-oriented writing text. The central goals are to teach the process that writers go through to produce texts and to provide instruction on how to meet the demands of the academy through attention to form and accuracy.

This book develops students' listening, note-taking and discussion skills using a variety of recorded authentic interviews and classroom lectures. The Student's Book develops students' listening, note-taking, and discussion skills using a variety of recorded authentic materials. The text prepares high-intermediate students with an introduction to psychology and communications, and covers high-interest topics such as stress, intelligence, and friendship. 

The Academic Encounters series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books for each content area. Academic Encounters: Human Behavior uses authentic readings from college textbooks to teach academic reading skills, and introduces topics such as stress, health, and nonverbal communication.

Q: Skills for Success Third Edition builds on its question-centered approach to help students achieve academic success. 90% of teachers believe that Q: Skills for Success has played a significant part in improving the skills their students need for academic study.

Q: Skills for Success Third Edition builds on its question-centered approach to help students achieve academic success. 90% of teachers believe that Q: Skills for Success has played a significant part in improving the skills their students need for academic study.

Writing in English at advanced levels involves more than just words and grammar – it requires knowledge of the audience, context, environment and more. Being able to communicate in an appropriate way will help you to make a great impression when you write in English. Using real life examples and language Collins English for Life: Writing (B2+) will help you to sound natural, clear and confident when you write.

English in the real world is constantly evolving, and learners need to move with it. But sometimes the English you can learn from your coursebook just isn’t enough for real life. Being able to understand English as it is really spoken will give you the confidence to succeed in any English-speaking environment. Using a wide range of authentic, unscripted recordings of everyday people from around the world, Collins Listening (B2+) will help you to feel confident and prepared for anything.