Powerbase Coursebook Level 1: Coursebook Without audio CD (Powerhouse) - Softcover

Evans, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582479932 ISBN 13: 9780582479937

Publisher: Longman, 2002

Synopsis

This highly-communicative course for low-level adult strudents delivers practical English for immediate use in the working world.  Powerbase focusses on the everyday key vocabulary and phrases needed for work, travel and social situations.

About this title

About the Author

David Evans is a writer, broadcaster and trainer who specialises in English language teaching. He is the author of seventeen ELT books, including Longman’s successful Powerhouse and Powerbase courses, and he has given lectures and workshops in over thirty countries around the world from Argentina to Uzbekistan.

David took a degree in English at Cambridge University, and then worked as an English language teacher in London and Paris.  In 1991 he joined the BBC World Service as a radio producer,  where he was trained in radio journalism, drama production and editing. Over the next ten years, he made hundreds of educational programmes on subjects from business to pop music to poetry. During the mid to late 1990s he spent a lot of time in the countries of the former Soviet Union, where he set up and ran joint broadcasting ventures in several countries.

David still broadcasts regularly for the BBC, but he now concentrates mainly on writing educational and business books, as well as doing some teacher training.

He is married with a young daughter and lives in north London.

From the Back Cover

David Evans is a writer, broadcaster and trainer who specialises in English language teaching. He is the author of seventeen ELT books, including Longman’s successful Powerhouse and Powerbase courses, and he has given lectures and workshops in over thirty countries around the world from Argentina to Uzbekistan.

David took a degree in English at Cambridge University, and then worked as an English language teacher in London and Paris.  In 1991 he joined the BBC World Service as a radio producer,  where he was trained in radio journalism, drama production and editing. Over the next ten years, he made hundreds of educational programmes on subjects from business to pop music to poetry. During the mid to late 1990s he spent a lot of time in the countries of the former Soviet Union, where he set up and ran joint broadcasting ventures in several countries.

David still broadcasts regularly for the BBC, but he now concentrates mainly on writing educational and business books, as well as doing some teacher training.

He is married with a young daughter and lives in north London.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0582479932
• ISBN 13: 9780582479937
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104