'Pacy, witty and affectionate' GuardianRob Beckett never seems to fit in. At work, in the middle-class world of television and comedy, he's the laddie, cockney geezer, but to his mates down the pub in south-east London, he's the theatrical one, a media luvvie. Even at home, his wife and kids are posher than him.
The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the United States. ‘Rob Pope has made his name revelling in challenges that range from the unconventional to the extraordinary.’ BBC News Becoming Forrest is the incredible story of Englishman Rob Pope, a veterinarian who left his job in pursuit of a dream – to become the first person ever to complete the epic run undertaken by one of Hollywood’s most beloved characters, Forrest Gump. After his momma urged him “to do one thing in life that made a difference”, he flew to Alabama, put on his running shoes, and sped off into the wilderness. His remarkable journey covered 15,600 miles, the distance from the North to the South Pole and a third of the way back. Over a grueling 18 months, braving injuries, blizzards, forest fires and deadly wildlife, he crossed the United States five times. During one of the most turbulent periods in recent American history, Rob immersed himself in American life. His time on the open road saw him forever changed, trying to make that difference, in the process of Becoming Forrest. This is a tale of one man who just wanted to make a difference.
The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the United States.'Rob Pope has made his name revelling in challenges that range from the unconventional to the extraordinary.' BBC News
The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the United States. ‘Rob Pope has made his name revelling in challenges that range from the unconventional to the extraordinary.’ BBC News Becoming Forrest is the incredible story of Englishman Rob Pope, a veterinarian who left his job in pursuit of a dream – to become the first person ever to complete the epic run undertaken by one of Hollywood’s most beloved characters, Forrest Gump. After his momma urged him “to do one thing in life that made a difference”, he flew to Alabama, put on his running shoes, and sped off into the wilderness. His remarkable journey covered 15,600 miles, the distance from the North to the South Pole and a third of the way back. Over a grueling 18 months, braving injuries, blizzards, forest fires and deadly wildlife, he crossed the United States five times. During one of the most turbulent periods in recent American history, Rob immersed himself in American life. His time on the open road saw him forever changed, trying to make that difference, in the process of Becoming Forrest. This is a tale of one man who just wanted to make a difference.
Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available. All you need to know about capturing a castle, with lessons from 700 years of castle-capturing history. Lime Plus/Band 11+ books provide challenging plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to practise inference, prediction and reading stamina. Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities. Rob is a dad and he writes books. He works hidden away in an upstairs room so he can get some peace and quiet, but if he looks out of the window, and stretches his neck just a little, he can actually see a real-live castle. In fact, the house Rob live in started out as a hovel, built in one of the castle's outer moats. There's even bits of smashed up castle in its walls. So what better person to write about castles? Rob has pieces of one all around him, and even a bit of moat to wade about in if he needs to practise my castle capturing skills. He doesn’t have an elephant though, or a whale – and these can come in useful, as you'll see.
Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available. On a tiny island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, stand hundreds of giant stone statues. Made long ago, they hold the secrets of a lost people. Why and how were these massive statues made? What did they mean? This is the mystery of Easter Island, and a story of the past that we are still trying to unravel. Lime Plus/Band 11+ books provide challenging plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to practise inference, prediction and reading stamina. Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities. Rob has always wondered at the mystery and power of the giant stone statues on far-away Easter Island. They look like they know things that we don't – though we are slowly discovering more about their secrets, and about the people who made them. It's a fascinating story, and it's still unfolding. There are still secrets to discover, and much that is yet to be told.
Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics. Find out how Japan changes through the seasons in this beautiful photographic information book. Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics. Are you a cute, cuddly animal? Do you want to know how you can avoid being eaten? Filled with fascinating photos, this quirky, humorous non-fiction book highlights all the ways the animal kingdom protects itself from predators! Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics. Discover all the different and ingenious ways the natural world finds to make homes that suit their needs in this photographic non-fiction report. Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics. Explore our beautiful planet Earth with all its natural wonders and distinct habitats. From high up or down low, you can find lots of amazing things in this non-fiction book. Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics. Beyond where humans can go, robot space explorers are doing our discovering for us! Find out how scientists have been able to send robots deep into space, to explore planets and comets. Learn how they send back information to Earth about places we can't get to. These amazing robots are able to get to places we could only dream of, and there's still so much left to see!
Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics. Grab your pencils and get ready to follow the instructions to learn how to draw dinosaurs and bring them to life! As you learn how to draw your favourite dinosaurs, you also learn fun facts about them as you go through the book. You'll be a dinosaur expert and artist by the end!
Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to teaching phonics. One boy just wants to listen to the sounds of the sea in his shell. But all around him there's just too much noise and clatter! Will he ever manage to find some peace and quiet so he can hear his shell?
A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider’s account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television ‘What Rob Burley doesn't know about political interviewing isn't worth knowing’ – Andrew Neil ‘A delicious read’ – Emily Maitlis 'He writes beautifully' – Jeremy Paxman 'Very funny’ – Steve Coogan 'An excellent book' – James O'Brien 'He writes brilliantly' – Adam Buxton Why Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me? is a deliciously irreverent insider’s account of a career spent trying to get straight answers from politicians, offering a unique insight into the British political class during a time when no one appears to be telling the truth. This book is Rob Burley’s love letter to the political interview and, with the help of exclusive conversations with TV giants from Jeremy Paxman and Andrew Neil to Andrew Marr and Emily Maitlis, it will take you inside the process like never before.
The Collins Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives series offers a skills-building approach to the Cambridge curriculum framework (1129) from 2022. The resources support students to develop skills in analysis, collaboration, communication, evaluation, reflection and research, exploring global issues through rich international sources. This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education for the Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives curriculum framework (1129) from 2022. This book provides full coverage of the Stage 7 Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives curriculum framework.Focused on improving skills: each chapter centres on two skill strands, building these skills through a carefully structured sequence of active learning towards a collaborative final task.Empower students to engage with a range of contemporary issues and perspectives. In Stage 7 these relate to the syllabus topics, ‘Change in culture and communities’, ‘Education for all’, ‘Health and wellbeing’, ‘Globalisation’, ‘Values and beliefs’, ‘Employment’ and ‘Environment, pollution and conservation’.Help students to assess their progress and understand how to improve: the final chapter asks students to apply the skills they have learned across Stage 7, by carrying out a group project in their local community and reflecting in writing on what they have learned.Encourage reflection through structured Reflection points in each lesson and a self-assessment Check your progress feature at the end of each chapter.The clear lesson-by-lesson approach allows teachers to easily use the resources in the classroom and build them into their own schemes of work.The Collins resources can be used as preparation for the Challenges, if schools wish, as each chapter in the Student’s Book links to the skills and topic focus of a Stage 7 Challenge.
The Collins Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives series offers a skills-building approach to the Cambridge curriculum framework (1129) from 2022. The resources support students to develop skills in analysis, collaboration, communication, evaluation, reflection and research, exploring global issues through rich international sources. This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education for the Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives curriculum framework (1129) from 2022. This book provides full coverage of the Stage 8 Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives curriculum framework.Focused on improving skills: each chapter revisits the objectives from Stage 7, extending and deepening these skills through a structured sequence of active learning towards a collaborative final task.Empower students to engage with a range of contemporary issues and perspectives. In Stage 8 these relate to the syllabus topics, ‘Environment, pollution and conservation’, ‘Climate change, energy and resources’, ‘Development, trade and aid’, ‘Migration’, ‘Change in cultures and communities’, ‘Digital world’ and ‘Law and criminality’.Help students to assess their progress and understand how to improve: the final chapter asks students to apply the skills they have learned across Stage 8, by drafting a model UN resolution, taking part in a model UN debate and reflecting in writing on what they have learned.Encourage reflection through structured Reflection points in each lesson and a self-assessment Check your progress feature at the end of each chapter.The clear lesson-by-lesson approach allows teachers to easily use the resources in the classroom and build them into their own schemes of work.The Collins resources can be used as preparation for the Challenges, if schools wish, as each chapter in the Student’s Book links to the skills and topic focus of a Stage 8 Challenge.
The Collins Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives series offers a skills-building approach to the Cambridge curriculum framework (1129) from 2022. The comprehensive and practical teacher support includes lesson plans, worksheets and answers for every unit of the Student’s Book, and a scheme of work to help you plan your course. This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education for the Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives curriculum framework (1129) from 2022. Plan for progression with a full scheme of work for each stage. Chapter overviews show which skill strands, learning objectives, issues and key terms are covered in each lesson, while the Curriculum Framework coverage map shows where topics, learning objectives and challenges have been supported. Feel confident teaching Global Perspectives with ready-made lesson plans, worksheets and an activity bank full of active learning teaching ideas. Detailed lesson plans share best practice, whether you are teaching Lower Secondary Global Perspectives for the first time or are an experienced teacher of Global Perspectives. Understand how to assess students’ participation and progress with the Assessment for learning guidance and the differentiated Success criteria in each lesson plan. The clear lesson-by-lesson approach allows you to use the resources with ease in the classroom and to build them into your own schemes of work. The Extra support and Extra challenge differentiation points in each lesson plan suggest how all learners can be supported to make progress, and worksheets scaffold and extend the Student’s Book activities. Personalise the course and adapt the resources to the needs of your classes with the editable Word and PDF files that can be downloaded from the Collins website: www.collins.co.uk/cambridge-international-downloads
The Collins Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives series offers a skills-building approach to the Cambridge curriculum framework (1129) from 2022. The comprehensive and practical teacher support includes lesson plans, worksheets and answers for every unit of the Student’s Book, and a scheme of work to help you plan your course. This title has been endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education for the Cambridge Lower Secondary Global Perspectives curriculum framework (1129) from 2022. Plan for progression with a full scheme of work for each stage. Chapter overviews show which skill strands, learning objectives, issues and key terms are covered in each lesson, while the Curriculum Framework coverage map shows where topics, learning objectives and challenges have been supported.Feel confident teaching Global Perspectives with ready-made lesson plans, worksheets and an activity bank full of active learning teaching ideas.Detailed lesson plans share best practice, whether you are teaching Lower Secondary Global Perspectives for the first time or are an experienced teacher of the subject.Understand how to assess students’ participation and progress with the Assessment for learning guidance and the differentiated Success criteria in each lesson plan.The clear lesson-by-lesson approach allows you to use the resources with ease in the classroom and to build them into your own schemes of work.The Extra support and Extra challenge differentiation points in each lesson plan suggest how all learners can be supported to make progress, and worksheets scaffold and extend the Student’s Book activities.Personalise the course and adapt the resources to the needs of your classes with the editable Word and PDF files that can be downloaded from the Collins website: www.collins.co.uk/cambridge-international-downloads
Big Cat for Little Wandle Fluency has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It consists of a range of chapter books with increasing word counts across 10 fluency levels aimed at children in Year 2 and 3. Each book builds reading confidence, stamina and speed and nurtures a love for reading. Fluency 6 books have a word count of 4560 words with an expected reading rate of 95 words per minute. From death masks to Viking swords, you never know what secrets could be hiding beneath your feet. Unearth some of the world’s greatest ancient treasures and see what they tell us about the people who left them behind. How much more is there still to find?
