Acknowledgements
Different versions of these materials were tried out with students in five countries. The book is In its
present form partly as a result of the useful reports and In many cases the very detailed comments
received while the work was being developed. I would like to thank the following:BrazilGermanyGreeceItalyUnited KingdomVera Regina de A Couto and staff
Rosa Lenzuén
Louise Towersey
Michael Watkins
Werner KiewegNorman LewisRobert NowacekSandra Klapsis
Joanna Malliou
George RigasPaola Giovamma OttolinoSue Boardman
Pat LodgeAlan FortuneMary StephensM. Milmo
Steve Moore
Jennifer Swift
Ann Timson
Josephine von WaskowskiCultura Inglesa, RioCultura Inglesa, CuritibaUniversity of MunichGymnasium WildeshausenVolkshochschule, KaufbeurenHomer Association, AthensThe Morai'tis School, AthensLiceo Linguistico, A. Manzoni, MilanoBell School, Saffron WaidenËaling College of Higher EducationEurocentre, BournemouthEurocentre, Lee GreenI would also like to thank:- Donald Adamson and Neville Grant for their detailed and stimulating commentaries and particularly
Roy Kingsbury for his comprehensive report and notes on exercise-types. - my personal assistant, Penelope Parfitt, and my wife, Julia, for reading and commenting on the
work at every stage of its development.
I am especially grateful to my publishers and their representatives for administering and monitoring the
trialling of the manuscript in various locations round the world and for exercising such care and skill to
see the work through to publication.