Special thanks from the authors to Chris Hartley, Stephen Nicholl and Catriona Watson-Brown for their contributions to the course, above and beyond editorial guidance. The authors would like to thank the following for their invaluable help during the project: Melanie Bryant, Paul Cousins, Ian Lebeau, Peter Falvey, Sarah Falvey, Gisele Cotton, Lynne Rustecki, Jeremy Keeley, Liz Moore, Gareth Rees, Richard Falvey,Andy Levy and all the staff and students of the English Language Centre, London Metropolitan University. Also Peter Strutt for his invaluable help with the Grammar reference section and Irene Barrall for the Teacher's Resource Book. The authors would like to thank Kate Goldrick, Venita I