2nd Year Advanced Books & Resources, 2016 – 2017.

Textbook: English File Advanced Third Edition Student's Book, OUP

English File Advanced Third Edition Workbook with key, OUP

The practice website for Advanced third edition.

https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/advanced3/?cc=global&selLanguage=en

Reading Books:

 The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins

 The Cuckoo's Calling Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
 Maus Art Spiegelman
 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi

Apart from one of these books for the February exam option, please read at least one other, or one of
the following suggestions, or choose your own book and tell me which one you have decided to read.
Some of them are available in the library. You'll write about this second book in May.

Recommended reading books. Other books you might enjoy:

One Day David Nicholls

Refugee Boy Benjamin Zephaniah
Holes Louis Sachar
Notes from a Big Country Bill Bryson - plus anything else by this author
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
How to be an Alien George Mikes
Junk Melvin Burgess
Bookends Jane Green
The Harry Potter series J.K. Rowling
The Adrian Mole Series Sue Townsend
The Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Alexander McCall Smith
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding
Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
High Fidelity Nick Hornby - plus anything else by this author.
I Don’t Know How She Does It Allison Pearson
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you like Comic Books there are lots of Asterix & Tintin books in the library.

Other Recommended Bibliography:

Grammar and Exercises:

Practical English Usage. Michael Swan. Oxford.

How English Works Michael Swan, Catherine Walter, Oxford
English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, Cambridge
Destination B2 Grammar & Vocabulary, Malcolm Mann, Steve Taylore-Knowles, Macmillan
Advanced Language Practice, Michael Vince, Heinemann.

Dictionaries:
Macmillan Essential Dictionary For Learners of English
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Harrap's Advanced Dictionary English- Spanish/ Español- Inglés

The Collins Spanish Dictionary Spanish-English, English-Spanish

Online:

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
Macmillan Dictionary
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
Visual Dictionary
http://visual.merriam-webster.com/
Urban Dictionary. For slang and colloquial language
http://www.urbandictionary.com

Fraze it – examples of words in context

http://fraze.it/
Playphraseme – examples of words in context on video
http://playphrase.me/

Extra Practice
BBC Learning English Site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
Onward and Upward
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/upper-intermediate

Towards Advanced
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/towards-advanced

The British Council also has a learn English site. there are things to listen to, games and grammar:

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/

TED Videos
There are lots of different talks on different subjects along with subtitles and transcripts.

http://www.ted.com/

News
BBC
http://www.bbc.com/
One-minute World News
http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520
BBC News App for mobiles & tablets
information here: http://www.bbc.com/news/10628994

The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/uk

Radio
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/
e.g. BBC radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4