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helps students prepare for the ILEC exam

The Market Leader grammar books provide your students with all the business grammar practice they need to support them in their studies.

They can be used with any business English course.

helps students prepare for the ICFE exam

The Market Leader grammar books provide your students with all the business grammar practice they need to support them in their studies.

They can be used with any business English course.

Oliver's mother dies when he is born and he is brought up in a workhouse. His first years are cold and lonely – and then he runs away to London. But he falls into the hands of Fagin and the terrifying Bill Sykes. They try to turn Oliver into a criminal. Will he escape to find a better life?

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