As the title shows, the coursebook series follows a skills-based approach. Each level includes both a Listening & Speaking and Reading & Writing coursebook that complement each other through parallel topics and features.

Browse free content samples from all five levels, both Student’s and Teacher’s books.

Umberto Eco, Hogyan utazzunk lazaccal

Félreértések sorozata egy londoni szállodában, végül csillagászati összeg szerepel a vendég számláján. Az olasz eredetiben ügyvédet akar fogadni a kárvallott utazó (avvocato), a szállodai alkalmazott többszörösen félreérti – hoz egy mangót:

„Ho chiesto un avvocato e mi hanno portato un mango.” (Umberto Eco, Come viaggiare con un salmone)

Avvocato, avocado, mango – hogy lehet a félreértést megértetni, vagyis magyarra fordítani?

„Magyarázkodni próbáltam, de az alkalmazott rám mosolygott a bételrágástól fekete fogaival, és közölte, hogy ez van a számítógépben. Mire én szidni kezdtem a számítógép mamáját, mire ők hoztak egy papayát.” (Hogyan utazzunk lazaccal, Barna Imre fordítása)

Micsoda ötlet!

The new edition of the six-level Reading Explorer series presents topics, video, and visuals from National Geographic, teaching learners to think and read critically.

Reading Skill sections introduce and practice one academic skill or strategy to enhance learners’ reading comprehension. Here you can browse sample units from each volume.

■ Új állásra pályázol? Szeretnél angol nyelvű önéletrajzot és motivációs levelet írni?
■ Utazni készülsz? Szeretnél magabiztosan megszólalni?
■ Nyelvvizsgára van szükséged?
■ Szeretnél változatosabban, árnyaltabban fogalmazni, munkahelyi szituációkban bátrabban használni az angolt?

Have you ever wondered what’s on the other side of the world? Enter your location and the antipodes map shows you what’s on the opposite side of the world. I’ve just ended up swimming in the Pacific.

Detail of Jean-Baptiste Nolin, Le globe terrestre (1714)

I’ve always wondered about Elephant & Castle.

Find out how London tube stations got their names.

I’ve just come across some colourful London food maps. They help you explore new places through the food you eat.

Zoom into this detailed food map of France – can you find similar ones of your region?

Here you can watch a short video of creative food maps: different types of biscuits were used to create Great Britain, corn to shape the United States.

Slightly misleading – why would you call it a bush when it is definitely a tree?

Now that mulberries are black and ripe, the nursery song came to my mind.

Here you can find a webpage with nursery rhymes and songs, BBC audio resources for primary school kids.

Allegedly, it is one of the ten English words hardest to translate. Serendipity means a “fortunate happenstance” or “pleasant surprise”, the fact of finding interesting or valuable things by chance. Horace Walpole coined the term in 1754, making reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip. The princes, he wrote, were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”. Serendip is the Perso-Arabic name for Sri Lanka (Ceylon).

Here you can read about a possible Hungarian translation of “serendipity”.

Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater in the Lukács Archives