Interactive Writing

Practical Writing Skills for the Digital Age

● The setting is that a university student goes abroad and faces a different writing challenge each week based on her day-to-day life. ● Provides students with units to learn how to write messages from both sender and receiver (to reply) points of view. Interactive Writing is a beginner to low-intermediate writing text that prepares learners for writing tasks of the digital age. Twelve units of practical writing tasks, such as emails, want ads, summaries, evaluations, cover letters, etc. prepare students for writing in a global world. Writing tasks between students emphasize writing as communication. A systematic, step-by-step process leads students toward greater self-expression and communicative competence. Rewriting exercises focus on common writing problems. An engaging story-line, running throughout the book, follows the adventures of Mari from college to company.

Research & Write

Ideal for: Learners who need to acquire basic research and writing skills. ●Blends introductory research skills with writing skills. ●Provides model data collection tools and data for students to analyze. ●Offers opportunity for students to engage in their own research projects. Research & Write aims to provide learners of English basic research and writing skills at the paragraph and short-essay level. The textbook aims to guide students through means of collecting primary data such as questionnaires, interviews, and observations, as well as encouraging students to use secondary data to support their writing. Each unit has a 3-step approach in which students first collect the data, then analyze it, and finally write it up.

Writing Paragraphs

From Sentence to Paragraph

The Macmillan Writing Series is a four-level course that systematically develops learners' writing from basics of sentence construction through to writing academic research papers. This series takes a process approach that helps students: - generate and organize their ideas - draft, review and revise their written work - become confident and accomplished writers Writing Paragraphs develops learners' academic writing skills offering: - review and extension of brainstorming, writing topics and supporting sentences - grammar, punctuation, and connectives support to help develop sentences - a clear introduction to recognizing good academic paragraphs and developing their own - structured writing assignments in every unit Price from January 1st 2015: Student Book 2,500 yen(excluding tax)

Essential Reading 1

エッセンシャルリーディング 1

■ Essential Reading is a four-level course that draws on the latest research into what good readers do. Explicit vocabulary work and fluency development are complemented by a complete short story taken from the Macmillan Readers series. ◆ both intensive and extensive approaches to reading ◆ 12 topic-based units covering a wide range of engaging topics such as Money, Sports, and Relationships ◆ a full range of skill-building activities ■ Essential Reading Teacher's File contains additional photocopiable activities, cultural background notes, full answer keys, and a CD-ROM test generator. The Essential Reading Resource Site (www.macmillanenglish.com/essentialreading/) contains downloadable audio files and extra support for teachers.Price from January 1st 2015: Student Book 2,500yen, Teacher's File 4,000 yen(excluding tax) Essential Reading 1 Current ISBN

Research & Write

Ideal for: Learners who need to acquire basic research and writing skills. ●Blends introductory research skills with writing skills. ●Provides model data collection tools and data for students to analyze. ●Offers opportunity for students to engage in their own research projects. Research & Write aims to provide learners of English basic research and writing skills at the paragraph and short-essay level. The textbook aims to guide students through means of collecting primary data such as questionnaires, interviews, and observations, as well as encouraging students to use secondary data to support their writing. Each unit has a 3-step approach in which students first collect the data, then analyze it, and finally write it up.

Speaking of Speech Level 2

Ideal for: Learners who want to take their presentations to the next level. ●Provides follow-up skills learners need to take their presentations to the next level. ●The DVD features a wide variety of presentations including academic, proposal, team, technical, and sales presentations. ●The audio handles a question and answer session and persuasion techniques. Speaking of Speech Level 2 picks up where Level 1 (New Edition) leaves off. Level 1 provides the first step (the basic skills of presentation). Level 2 is the second step (the basic skills for academic and professional presentations). Each episode has 14 pages and is divided into two units: a skill unit and a performance unit. Notice You can download a sample of teacher's manual for two units. Full page will be available from January 2015. Sample DVD

Open Mind 2nd Edition: Starter

Open Mind is a groundbreaking course that provides learners with the professional, academic and personal skills they need. Not only are language skills developed in the course, but also 21st-century skills that students need in order to have a better awareness of self and society, to handle the demands of their study and learning and to deal with challenges in their work and career. ●Integrated and flexible online material from our new Big tree platform gives users access to everything they need in one place ●Life Skills syllabus recycles language while giving students an opportunity to learn skills which are vital in today’s world ●Highly visual double-page spread opens every unit with clear CEF-orientated unit objectives ●Grammar sections offer a step-by-step analysis of form and function ●Support for speaking tasks with functional language ●Speaking and Writing

Open Mind 2nd Edition 1

Open Mind is a groundbreaking course that provides learners with the professional, academic and personal skills they need. Not only are language skills developed in the course, but also 21st-century skills that students need in order to have a better awareness of self and society, to handle the demands of their study and learning and to deal with challenges in their work and career. ●Integrated and flexible online material from our new Big tree platform gives users access to everything they need in one place ●Life Skills syllabus recycles language while giving students an opportunity to learn skills which are vital in today’s world ●Highly visual double-page spread opens every unit with clear CEF-orientated unit objectives ●Grammar sections offer a step-by-step analysis of form and function ●Support for speaking tasks with functional language ●Speaking and Writing

Homestay in the UK

英国ホームステイ日記

This is a story about a Japanese university student who comes to England on a homestay to study English. The story focuses on the main characters adventures from landing at Heathrow airport, to using the tube, to meeting the homestay family and studying. The story will feature the many cultural mistakes the student makes on the trip, how these are resolved, what is learned by studying abroad, and the friendships that are made. Read Smart Readers, Level 2, 8390 words Read Smart Readers, a new reader series based on Eiken level This new graded reading series has been specifically written for learners here in Japan. Attention has been paid to vocabulary, grammar and story length to ensure students’ progress with confidence. Read Smart Readers’ 5 levels are based on the criterion of Eiken(実用英語技能検定). More about RSR

The World of “Anne of Green Gables”

『赤毛のアン』の世界

This book introduces you to the wonderful world of Anne of Green Gables. It includes sketches of the important people and places in the stories, some interesting information about fashion, school and life as it was lived by people at the time, and tells some of the scenes and incidents in the books. There are also biographies of Anne’s creator, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and the first Japanese translator of the stories, Hanako Muraoka. Read Smart Readers, Level 4, 9,840 words Read Smart Readers, a new reader series based on Eiken level This new graded reading series has been specifically written for learners here in Japan. Attention has been paid to vocabulary, grammar and story length to ensure students’ progress with confidence. Read Smart Readers’ 5 levels are based on the criterion of Eiken(実用英語技能検定). More about RSR

Ice Station at the End of the World

南極観測所 最後の日

A university student from Hokkaido joins her professor on a research project at Showa polar base in Antarctica. The story combines real elements of Antarctic geography and the research being done by Japan and other countries in Antarctica with an adventure story. Read Smart Readers, Level 2, 7630 words Read Smart Readers, a new reader series based on Eiken level This new graded reading series has been specifically written for learners here in Japan. Attention has been paid to vocabulary, grammar and story length to ensure students’ progress with confidence. Read Smart Readers’ 5 levels are based on the criterion of Eiken(実用英語技能検定). More about RSR

IELTS Testbuilder

IELTSテストビルダー

■ A concept unique to IELTS, designed to improve students' exam performance and increase their language competence in the IELTS test. ●The free accompanying audio CDs contain all four listening tests ● The Reading Tests have been chosen to give students examples of the wide range of topics that arise in the IELTS exam ● The writing tasks are followed by further practice which gives students sample answers with guided writing help ● The key to IELTS Testbuilder also contains samples of authentic student writing with comments to help learners measure their own writing against Price from January 1st 2015: 2,400yen(excluding tax)

"I don't have a merry Christmas," said Scrooge. "Christmas is nonsense. It's humbug! I don't believe in Christmas. I'm not giving money to anyone else so they can have a merry Christmas." This Reader is a retelling of Dickens' famous story of the transformation of the cold- hearted miser, Ebenezer Scrooge. ● 64 pages ● 11369 words in length

The first novel in the Alphabet series. Kinsey Millhone, a twice-divorced, independent 32-year-old private detective, lives and works in southern California. Recently released from an eight-year jail sentence for the murder of her husband, Nikki Fife asks the detective to prove her innocence and find the real murderer. On her investigation she learns of another similar murder which she also decides to solve. ● 112 pages ● 24813 words in length

Upon learning that his girlfriend is pregnant, a young man cold-bloodedly adjusts his plans for marrying into a wealthy industrialist family. Throughout his life he has used his intelligence, striking good looks, and as a last resort, his ruthless and violent strength to achieve his goals. He refuses to be stopped now―especially by something as trivial as a pregnant girlfriend ● 96 pages ● 20154 words in length ※Available with CD　￥1,300(without tax) (ISBN978-1-4050-7674-6)

Level 1: Starter

Alissa is a smart, quiet 12 year old girl who likes school and reading very much, lives in a small village. One day a fat man comes to the village, and gives some money to her father. Alissa’s father tells her that she has to go with the fat man. The fan takes Alissa to the city. What will happen to Alissa in her new home in the city? ● 16 pages ● 763 words in length ※Available with CD　￥900(without tax) (ISBN978-1-4050-7788-0)