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:
Brazil
Germany
Greece
Italy
United Kingdom
Vera Regina de A Couto and staff
Rosa Lenzuén
Louise Towersey
Michael Watkins
Werner Kieweg
Norman Lewis
Robert Nowacek
Sandra Klapsis
Joanna Malliou
George Rigas
Paola Giovamma Ottolino
Sue Boardman
Pat Lodge
Alan Fortune
Mary Stephens
M. Milmo
Steve Moore
Jennifer Swift
Ann Timson
Josephine von Waskowski
Cultura Inglesa, Rio
Cultura Inglesa, Curitiba
University of Munich
Gymnasium Wildeshausen
Volkshochschule, Kaufbeuren
Homer Association, Athens
The Morai'tis School, Athens
Liceo Linguistico, A. Manzoni, Milano
Bell School, Saffron Waiden
Ëaling College of Higher Education
Eurocentre, Bournemouth
Eurocentre, Lee Green
I 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.