Grammar Time puts the sparkle into teaching grammar through cute cartoons and characters in the book and in the grammar-packed CD. Grammar Time prepares students for the Cambridge Young Learner's Test, KET and PET.

The Teacher's book expands into a resource file and includes photocopiable activities that help the teacher to deliver lively and varied lessons. * Easy-to-teach units presented in a consistent format * Regular reviews and tests to monitor students' progress * New CD-ROM allows parents to see their children practising at home * Lots of extra written practice including fun games * Introduces CYLETS, KET and PET tasks to help students familiarise themselves with the exams

This book proposes a novel approach for time-series prediction using machine learning techniques with automatic feature generation. Application of machine learning techniques to predict time-series continues to attract considerable attention due to the difficulty of the prediction problems compounded by the non-linear and non-stationary nature of the real world time-series. The performance of machine learning techniques, among other things, depends on suitable engineering of features. This book proposes a systematic way for generating suitable features using context-free grammar. A number of feature selection criteria are investigated and a hybrid feature generation and selection algorithm using grammatical evolution is proposed. The book contains graphical illustrations to explain the feature generation process. The proposed approaches are demonstrated by predicting the closing price of major stock market indices, peak electricity load and net hourly foreign exchange client trade volume. The proposed method can be applied to a wide range of machine learning architectures and applications to represent complex feature dependencies explicitly when machine learning cannot achieve this by itself. Industrial applications can use the proposed technique to improve their predictions.

The Grammar Time series provides reference and practice books for 8-15 year olds that use humorous cartoons, drawings and photographs to introduce and practice the English language.

Grammar time reflects the likes and interests of young learners and puts grammar in imaginative and humorous contexts that make learning fun. Grammar Time gives learners all the support they need with detailed reference tables and grammar notes Special 'Tip' boxes appear next to the tasks to give useful advice on common difficulties. Easy-to-follow grammar practice in carefully graded learning steps. Controlled practice followed by the unique 'Teenlink' magazine, with freer contextualised tasks. Additional writing and oral practice at the end of each unit. Regular revision units and a comprehensive wordlist at the back. Handy Teacher's Book with extra resources and photocopiable quizzes.

The Grammar Time series provides reference and practice books for 8-15 year olds that use humorous cartoons, drawings and photographs to introduce and practice the English language.