Brigit Viney

Part of the "Penguin Active Reading" series, this book provides a range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills and consolidate vocabulary, and offers personalised project work.

New and improved edition of the challenging secondary course that prepares students for school-leaving exams.

About a quarter of the people in the world today speak or use English. In homes and schools, offices and meeting rooms, ships and airports, people are speaking English.How has this happened? How did English begin, and what will become of it in the future? The history of the English language is a journey through space and time, from thousands of years ago to today and beyond, and to all parts of th...