A fully illustrated, practical guide full of essential skills and knowledge that school didn't prepare us for 'We all learned how to take tests at school, but then we went out into the world and found ourselves underprepared! And the worst thing anyone can feel is helpless. So I've filled this book with over 100 of the most vital life skills and tools that will not only save you money and give you confidence, but may even save a life.' - Myleene x This book will empower you, and your family, with essential knowledge to tackle everyday challenges. Packed full of advice, They Don't Teach This At School is full of information and tips on: - Escaping from a burning building - Dealing with medical emergencies - Getting a good night's sleep - How to be a good listener - Talking about racism - How to write a CV and apply for a job - Saying hello (and more) in different languages - Coping with a plumbing crisis - How to change a plug and a fuse - Checking the pressure on car tyres - Stopping your mouth burning when you've eaten something spicy - What to do if you're lost - How to feel confident about speaking in public

A beautifully illustrated book that covers the essential life skills that children need to know. Discover how you can become the awesome person you want to be with this guide to essential life skills for children. This book helps kids tackle the difficulties they face and helps them to prepare for whatever the future may hold. Inside the pages of this essential life skills book, you'll discover: - Clear and practical life skills divided into 5 chapters covering: Finding Solutions, Ways of Thinking, Communicating, Understanding Feelings, and Coping in Life - Bright, fun illustrations that help readers to digest complex topics like understanding body language and decision making - Topics that drill down into all the different aspects of life skills education for 7-9-year-olds, such as communication, solving problems, understanding yourself and others, and critical thinking skills - Practical advice and activities on how to think up solutions for difficult problems, how to work with other people as a team, and how to write a feelings diary This illustrated guide for children includes practical advice and real-life examples that teach problem-solving, how to make good decisions, and excellent communication skills. Children will learn how to better assess and react to challenges they may face, as well as create coping strategies for difficult situations. Kids can work through engaging activities like making mind maps, thinking about body language, and putting themselves in someone else's shoes. Developing life skills not only leads to better prospects at school and in a future career, but it also gives young people more confidence to aim for a bright, secure and happy future.

This compact, user-friendly book draws on Mark Hancock's wealth of experience and knowledge of the topic. It gives a broad overview of the practical issues and challenges involved in teaching pronunciation, provides practical tips for teachers and addresses the questions of what to teach and how to teach it.

The home of trusted English dictionaries and thesauruses for everyday language use. The perfect word reference for daily use with 300,000 synonyms and antonyms. Contains practical usage notes, and a fantastic crossword-solving supplement, this is the ideal thesaurus to take your language use and knowledge further. Specially tailored to meet the needs of the user at home, school, or in the office, with all the words and alternatives you might need, as well as a huge choice of opposites. The clear, accessible layout makes the thesaurus easy to use and ensures users can find the language they need when they need it.

Packed full of puzzles and challenges, this book will help you develop the vital mind-training skills needed for any team player or budding recruit – get ready to tackle logic puzzles, explore mazes and wrestle with problem-solving tests. You’ll learn to: • Crack codes essential to survival situations • Complete complex navigation challenges • Put leadership and teamwork skills to the test with essential lateral thinking techniques • Strengthen crucial cognitive skills through quizzes and word games • Problem-solve under pressure • Analyse ‘real-life’ scenarios, and ask yourself: ‘What would I do in this situation?’ Teamwork is at the heart of the British Army, and this is the perfect challenge book to enjoy with family and friends – work together or invite some friendly competition!

The Ladybird Learning at Home range has been specially devised to help children develop and practise at home the skills they will need at school. "Begin to Write Book 2" introduces children to the basics of handwriting. Featuring entertaining exercises and colourful illustrations, this book will help your child practise hand-eye movement, sequencing, counting, matching and looking for detail, all of which are essential pre-school and pre-reading skills.

The Ladybird Learning at Home range has been specially devised to help children develop and practice at home the skills they will need at school. Begin to Write Book 2 introduces children to the basics of handwriting. Featuring entertaining exercises and colorful illustrations, this book will help your child practice hand-eye movement, sequencing, counting, matching and looking for detail - all of which are essential pre-school and pre-reading skills.

The Ladybird Learning at Home range has been specially devised to help children develop and practise at home the skills they will need at school. ABC introduces children to learning the alphabet. Featuring entertaining exercises and colourful illustrations, this book will help your child practise hand-eye movement, sequencing, counting, matching and looking for detail - all of which are essential pre-school and pre-reading skills.

The Ladybird Learning at Home range has been specially devised to help children develop and practise at home the skills they will need at school. First Counting introduces children to basic counting skills. Featuring entertaining exercises and colourful illustrations, this book will help your child practise hand-eye movement, sequencing, counting, matching and looking for detail -- all of which are essential pre-school and pre-reading skills.

The home of trusted English dictionaries and thesauruses for everyday language use. All the words you need, every day: the perfect word reference for daily use with 300,000 synonyms and antonyms in a durable format. With practical usage notes, and a fantastic supplement, this is the ideal thesaurus to take your language use and knowledge further. Specially tailored to meet the needs of the user at home, school, or in the office, this thesaurus has all the words and alternatives the user might need, as well as a huge choice of opposites. The clear, accessible layout makes it easy to use and ensures users can find the language they need when they need it. This edition also includes a 16-page crossword-solving supplement.

Help your child master French vocabulary - five words at a time! Learn 1000 French words over a year with this French workbook for beginners! It’s an essential vocabulary builder for young children who are starting to learn their first French words. Discover the perfect introduction to French for children aged 6-9. It’s the ultimate French lesson for kids! It includes: - Beautifully illustrated scenes that teach and test five words at a time. New vocabulary is practiced again at the end of each week in two pages of exercises - Clever flaps on the jacket that cover the scene so your child can practice what they have just learned - Uses the effective rote-learning method to teach new vocabulary - Teaches a range of nouns and verbs that are useful in everyday life; audio is available online and via a handy app to help with pronunciation This unique French teaching guide contains everything your child needs to acquire a firm grasp of the French language in a fun and interactive way! Each week, 20 new words are presented over four days, and on the fifth day, your child can practice the words they have just learned. This will help them build up a vocabulary of more than 1000 French words over the course of a year! From animals and sports to colours and plants, French for Everyone Junior teaches a mix of nouns and verbs through stunning illustrations with each new word clearly labelled. This encourages young learners to memorize the words before covering them with the cleverly designed flaps and testing their new knowledge. Accompanying audio means that children can also practice their French pronunciation as many times as they want.

Help your child master Spanish vocabulary - five words at a time! Learn 1000 Spanish words over a year with this Spanish workbook for beginners! It’s an essential vocabulary builder for young children who are starting to learn their first Spanish words. Discover the perfect introduction to Spanish for children aged 6-9. It’s the ultimate Spanish lesson for kids! It includes: - Beautifully illustrated scenes that teach and test five words at a time. New vocabulary is practised again at the end of each week in two pages of exercises - Clever flaps on the jacket that cover the scene so your child can practise what they have just learned - Uses the effective rote-learning method to teach new vocabulary - Teaches a range of nouns and verbs that are useful in everyday life; audio is available online and via a handy app to help with pronunciation This unique Spanish teaching guide contains everything your child needs to acquire a firm grasp of the Spanish language in a fun and interactive way! Each week, 20 new words are presented over four days, and on the fifth day, your child can practise the words they have just learned. This will help them build up a vocabulary of more than 1000 Spanish words over the course of a year! From animals and sports to colours and plants, Spanish for Everyone Junior teaches a mix of nouns and verbs through stunning illustrations with each new word clearly labelled. This encourages young learners to memorise the words before covering them with the cleverly designed flaps and testing their new knowledge. Accompanying audio means that children can also practice their Spanish pronunciation as many times as they want.

Help your child master Spanish vocabulary - five words at a time! Learn 1000 Spanish words over a year with this Spanish workbook for beginners! It’s an essential vocabulary builder for young children who are starting to learn their first Spanish words. Discover the perfect introduction to Spanish for children aged 6-9. It’s the ultimate Spanish lesson for kids! It includes: - Beautifully illustrated scenes that teach and test five words at a time. New vocabulary is practised again at the end of each week in two pages of exercises - Clever flaps on the jacket that cover the scene so your child can practise what they have just learned - Uses the effective rote-learning method to teach new vocabulary - Teaches a range of nouns and verbs that are useful in everyday life; audio is available online and via a handy app to help with pronunciation This unique Spanish teaching guide contains everything your child needs to acquire a firm grasp of the Spanish language in a fun and interactive way! Each week, 20 new words are presented over four days, and on the fifth day, your child can practise the words they have just learned. This will help them build up a vocabulary of more than 1000 Spanish words over the course of a year! From animals and sports to colours and plants, Spanish for Everyone Junior teaches a mix of nouns and verbs through stunning illustrations with each new word clearly labelled. This encourages young learners to memorise the words before covering them with the cleverly designed flaps and testing their new knowledge. Accompanying audio means that children can also practice their Spanish pronunciation as many times as they want.

Help your child master French vocabulary - five words at a time! Learn 1000 French words over a year with this French workbook for beginners! It’s an essential vocabulary builder for young children who are starting to learn their first French words. Discover the perfect introduction to French for children aged 6-9. It’s the ultimate French lesson for kids! It includes: - Beautifully illustrated scenes that teach and test five words at a time. New vocabulary is practiced again at the end of each week in two pages of exercises - Clever flaps on the jacket that cover the scene so your child can practice what they have just learned - Uses the effective rote-learning method to teach new vocabulary - Teaches a range of nouns and verbs that are useful in everyday life; audio is available online and via a handy app to help with pronunciation This unique French teaching guide contains everything your child needs to acquire a firm grasp of the French language in a fun and interactive way! Each week, 20 new words are presented over four days, and on the fifth day, your child can practice the words they have just learned. This will help them build up a vocabulary of more than 1000 French words over the course of a year! From animals and sports to colours and plants, French for Everyone Junior teaches a mix of nouns and verbs through stunning illustrations with each new word clearly labelled. This encourages young learners to memorize the words before covering them with the cleverly designed flaps and testing their new knowledge. Accompanying audio means that children can also practice their French pronunciation as many times as they want.

The home of trusted English learner's dictionaries for everyday language learning. Collins Easy Learning English Verbs is an accessible guide to English verbs. With simple explanations of English verbs and the way they work, this book will prove indispensable for anyone who wants to improve their knowledge of English verbs. Using clear explanations and examples, all the essential grammar of verbs, such as tense and aspect, is covered. This book also provides a detailed look at verbs which are especially important or difficult to learn, such as phrasal verbs, irregular verbs, and primary and modal auxiliary verbs. Each point is described in a user-friendly format, with corpus examples that show how English is really used today.

An essential early learning book to help build children's knowledge of everyday colours and shapes. They can have fun pointing to the pictures and saying the words. Are the things around the house green or blue, circle shaped or square?