BIBLIOGRAPHY
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BIBLIOGRAPHY: Peter Viney & Karen Viney
Survival English, with John Curtin, Mary Glasgow Publications, 1978
The “Workbook” was what other publishers call “The Student Book”
Project GB: Food by Karen Viney, Mary Glasgow Publications 1978
Streamline English Departures, with Bernard Hartley, (Oxford University Press 1978)
Streamline English Connections, with Bernard Hartley, (Oxford University Press 1979)
Streamline English Destinations, with Bernard Hartley, (Oxford University Press 1980)
Streamline English Directions, (Oxford University Press 1982)
Streamline English Workbooks had an unprecedented high ratio of sales to Student Books, possibly because some schools used only the Workbooks. Departures and Connections Workbooks came after the Student Books, For other titles from then on, Workbooks were simultaneous publications.
Streamline English Departures Workbooks A & B, with Bernard Hartley, (Oxford University Press 1980)
Streamline English Connections Workbooks A & B,, with Bernard Hartley, (Oxford University Press 1980)
Streamline English Destinations Workbooks A & B,, with Bernard Hartley, (Oxford University Press 1980)
Streamline English Directions Workbooks A & B,, (Oxford University Press 1982)
Streamline Departures Speechwork, with Bernard Hartley, (Oxford University Press 1980)
Streamline Connections Speechwork, with Bernard Hartley, (Oxford University Press 1980)
Streamline Destinations Speechwork, with Bernard Hartley, (Oxford University Press 1981)
American Streamline Departures, with Bernard Hartley, (Oxford University Press 1983)
American Streamline Connections, with Bernard Hartley, (Oxford University Press 1983)
American Streamline Destinations, with Bernard Hartley, (Oxford University Press 1985)
Learn English Handwriting, with Bernard Hartley, (Thomas Nelson, 1982)
aka Basic Handwriting in English (Arabic edition)
Basic English Reading Programme, with Bernard Hartley, (Oxford University Press 1984)
Arabic edition and International edition
Under Five Guide: Bournemouth by Karen Viney (Bournemouth Dept of Tourism, 1986) non-ELT
Departures in Reading, Parts A & B (Oxford University Press, 1984)
Connections in Reading, Parts A & B (Oxford University Press, 1985)
More Departures in Reading,Parts A & B (Oxford University Press, 1986)
A Weekend Away, video, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1986)
A Week By The Sea, video, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1987)
Mystery Tour video, with Bob Baker & Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1988)
Streamline Graded Readers (Oxford University Press), series editor, titles by Peter Viney:
The Locked Room, (Oxford University Press, 1988)
Strawberry & The Sensations,(Oxford University Press, 1988)
Space Affair, (Oxford University Press, 1988)
A Tidy Ghost, (Oxford University Press, 1988)
Life Lines, (Oxford University Press, 1988)
Sunnyvista City, (Oxford University Press, 1988)
Casualty, (Oxford University Press, 1989)
Both Grapevine and Main Street have Workbooks carrying further sub-syllabuses on reading skills, pronunciation and vocabulary acquisition. They are much more than collections of supplementary exerciss.
Grapevine One, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1989)
Grapevine Two, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1990)
Grapevine Three, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1991)
Grapevine One Video, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1989)
Grapevine Two Video, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1990)
Grapevine Three Video, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1991)
Main Street One, with Karen Viney & David P. Rein (Oxford University Press,1993)
Main Street Two, with Karen Viney & David P. Rein (Oxford University Press,1993)
Main Street Three, with Karen Viney & David P. Rein (Oxford University Press,1994)
Main Street Four, with Karen Viney & David P. Rein (Oxford University Press,1994)
Main Street Five, with Karen Viney & David P. Rein (Oxford University Press,1995)
Main Street Six, with Karen Viney & David P. Rein (Oxford University Press,1995)
Quest Access (American Streamline Departures + Connections) (OUP / Nova,Japan 1993)
Quest Build (American Streamline Connections + Destinations) (OUP / Nova,Japan 1993)
Quest Complete (American Streamline Destinations + Directions) (OUP / Nova,Japan 1993)
These special editions will be the best-known versions for many teachers.
Reading For English software: The Locked Room (Oxford English Software 1994)
Reading For English software: Life Lines (Oxford English Software 1994)
Reading For English software: Space Affair (Oxford English Software 1994)
Survival English (completely new edition), (Heinemann, 1994)
Basic Survival, (Heinemann, 1996)
Teachers Books and Workbooks with Anne Watson
New American Streamline Departures (Oxford University Press,1994) Revised by Peter Viney
New American Streamline Connections (Oxford University Press,1995) Revised by Peter Viney
New American Streamline Destinations (Oxford University Press,1996) Revised by Irene Frankel
Only In America, video, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1995)
Handshake, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1996)
Storylines Graded Readers (some revised editions of Streamline Graded Readers):
Linked, but now out of print.
The Locked Room, (Oxford University Press, 1997)
Strawberry & The Sensations,(Oxford University Press, 1997)
Space Affair, (Oxford University Press, 1997)
A Tidy Ghost, (Oxford University Press, 1997)
Life Lines, (Oxford University Press, 1997)
Sunnyvista City, (Oxford University Press, 1997)
Casualty, (Oxford University Press, 1997)
The Collector, (Oxford University Press, 1997)
Underground, (Oxford University Press, 1997)
English Channel One, video series, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1998)
English Channel Two, video series, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1999)
English Channel Three, Double Identity, video series, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1999)
IVCA Silver Award for Educational Video, 2000
English Channel 1-3: “English File” Self-Study Edition
Available only in Spain (still in print).
Wallace & Gromit, The Wrong Trousers, ELT Adaptation with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1998)
Students Book / Teacher’s Book
Wallace & Gromit, A Close Shave, ELT Adaptation with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 2000)Students Book / Teacher’s Book
Wallace & Gromit, A Grand Day Out, ELT Adaptation with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 2003)
Students Book / Teacher’s Book (with Lorena Roberts )
Wallace & Gromit, A Grand Day Out, New English Zone edition, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, Italy, 2005)
Striker, with Karen Viney (Penguin English Readers, 2003)
Striker, with Karen Viney (Beijing World Publishing edition, China)
New Survival English, (Macmillan, 2004) aka Survival English- New Edition in some countries
New Basic Survival (Macmillan, 2004) aka Basic Survival- New Edition in some countries
Teachers Books and Workbooks with Anne Watson
Business Elements A2 (Hueber, 2005), German adaptation of Basic Survival
Business Elements B1 (Hueber 2005), German adaptation of Survival English
The Students Book at each level is complemented by “Grammar Practice” (a traditional Workbook + audio exercises on CD) and a “Vocabulary Practice Book” which has games, picture dictionaries and an “Everyday conversations” section
IN English Starter, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 2003)
IN English Elementary, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 2004)
IN English Pre-intermediate, with Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 2005)
MY OXFORD ENGLISH is a self-study comedy video course at ten levels, designed for Spain.
My Oxford English, self-study programme, (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Peter and Karen Viney wrote the syllabus for ten levels and all eighty video scripts.
Fast Track to Reading, (Garnet Education, 2009)
Fast Track Teachers’ Book by Roger Scott & Anna Phillips
A Weekend Away / A Week By The Sea reissued in licensed version by Three Vee 2011 with new Study Guides.
Two-on-one edition DVD (Three Vee 2011)
A Weekend Away Study Guide (Three Vee 2011)
A Week By The Sea Study Guide (Three Vee 2011)
Garnet Oracle Readers (2011 to 2012)
Peter Viney: series editor, and author of some titles
Storylines / Streamline Graded Readers in new editions. The grading system has been revised and updated, along with the headword count. New titles (The Case of The Dead Batsmen and Zoo Diary) have been added. The older readers have been revised to the new scheme and in many cases extended. Teachers will find a more satisfactory division between level two (past tense, but no present perfect) and level three (present perfect added).
Each title comes in two editions, one with audio for teachers and self-study; the other without audio.
Level one:
Zoo Diary – Peter Viney
The Collector – Peter Viney
The Locked Room – Peter Viney
The Watchers – Jennifer Bassett
Level two:
The Visit – Tim Vicary
Underground – Peter Viney
Casualty! – Peter Viney
Strawberry & The Sensations – Peter Viney
Level three:
African Adventure – Margaret Iggulden & Julia Allen
Life Lines – Peter Viney
Sunnyvista City – Peter Viney
Milo – Jennifer Bassett
Level four:
The Case of The Dead Batsmen – Peter Viney
The Hitch-Hiker – Tim Vicary
A Tidy Ghost – Peter Viney
Space Romance – Peter Viney
Oracle Readers are also available in a 16 volume set (with or without audio)
The Case of The Dead Batsmen was a 2013 Finalist in the ERF Awards.
Garnet Oracle Classics
December 2014. Three titles, using the Oracle Grading scheme:
Level 3 Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Retold by Peter Viney
JUST PUBLISHED:
Level 3 Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Retold by Peter Viney
Level 4 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Retold by Peter Viney
Level 5 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronté Retold by Peter Viney
Level 5 A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Retold by Peter Viney, 201
Extensive Reading Award Finalist 2017
Three Vee Readers
Three Vee Readers are online only, very cheap at 99 cents and designed to encourage graded reading. The first title in August 2017.
Second Fiddle by Peter Viney
intermediate, 1500 headword level, CEF B1. LINK TO KINDLE STORE.
Usborne English Readers
Series editor: Peter Viney
Completed but unpublished projects include:
Handshake Video, scripts, 1997
Jetstream, levels 1 & 2, aborted American English course for OUP, 2005-2007
FICTION(NON-ELT)
Three Vee now has a fiction list, and my fiction titles are under the pseudonym Dart Travis, not from a desire for secrecy, but to keep them clearly separate from the ELT writing and non-fiction work.
Dart Travis titles include theELT trilogy, set in 1972, then 1982 then 1985:
The Sixties Quarter consists of:
No Secrets to Conceal: Early 1966
Music to Watch Girls By: Summer of 1967
The Women Came and Went: Spring of 1968
Pulling Into Nazareth: Autumn of 1969
there is a related series of short stories:
I’ll Tell Everything I Know (1964-65)
Rolling Down The Road (1966-69)
Just before lockdown in 2020, I completed The Play At The Arts Centre under my own name. Given that no theatres are currently reading plays, I decided to publish it if only as a neater way of sending it around later … it is available on amazon.
NEW FOR 2021
LAMENT OF THE FRONTIER GUARD by Peter Viney
Twenty years after The Great Pandemic of the mid-2020s, the Isle of Wight appears to be the last bastion of civilization in the world, protecting its shores against crazed invaders from the mainland by force. Society on the mainland and everywhere else totally collapsed, and most people died. The island has developed a self-supporting society without any of the internet connectivity (so money ceased) or any imports since the pandemic. Cornflakes and tea are legends.
Nat is a young frontier guard, who is abducted from his post by two women and a man who have sailed from the mainland. They’re based in a community in the old sea fort at Hurst Castle, run by a research scientist who had once been at Porton Down, studying weaponized viruses.
Edwin Barratt is the guard controller, keen to rescue Nat. He can’t because anyone who has been on the mainland will be killed to prevent infecting the islanders. Is it possible to rescue Nat?
NEW FOR 2022
NO SECRETS TO CONCEAL by DART TRAVIS
Prequel to The Sixties novels. Available on Amazon, Kindle, iBooks
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Does oup want to publish Handshake video and jetsream in near future?
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Hello Masoud, Thanks for your question. Unfortunately no, OUP decided not to publish either course and won’t in future either.
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Dear Sir.
We are a group of English teachers who so much want to buy A Weekend Away and a Week By the Sea.
In Denmark none of these books or tapes can be bought.
We hope that you can tell us where to buy the articles.
Maybe a couple of spare copies are left somewhere.
Kind regards
Tina Steffensen
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Thanks, T in a. Both videos are out of print. We have had many requests and hope to make them available again, published by ourselves. If so, we are planning to put both on one DVD at a much, much lower price than they used to be. Keep checking for news.
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Dear friends
In Iran, Tehran you can find copies of A weekend away and a week by the sea we have made the CD of them and they are available on CD but i am glad to hear you want to reissue them on DVD.
Thanks.
If you need you can contact me
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Dear Sir.We are a group of English teachers who so much want to buy A Weekend Away and a Week By the Sea.In Denmark none of these books or tapes can be bought.We hope that you can tell us where to buy the articles.Maybe a couple of spare copies are left somewhere.Kind regardsTina Steffensen
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I didn’t click on the link, but these repeated comments tend to be spam
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Hello Peter
Are you going to prepare and publish a new course book for following years as you see the new course books such as ventures by Cambridge are equipped to tools such as CD test maker/ itools / a DVD that introduce the book and the methodology of teaching…
IN English works perfect but if you can add more tests and supplementary for that it becomes ideal.
why don’t you work on exams such as FCE/ IELTS when i was student in our institute taught Streamline English and the Directions was perfect, teachers and students always look for a new upper or advanced book with you once in one of my teacher training classes i used yellow bulldozers and many young teachers were interested to know the name of that course book and the author. IN English and English Channels are popular in Iran that’s Ideal if you can visit our country and language schools
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Hi dear Peter
I speak with you from Iran our teachers in Isfshsn are teaching the old streamlines (1995) since that has the good result in learning for students. I’m studying the Connections Streamline these days . Our inistitute managr wanted to see and speak with you about some new metods. Please contact us .If you want we can give you the cell phone number to speak with each other. Another thing is if you like we can invite you to Iran because we really love you believe us.
As you know we are teaching the old streamlines yet. I’m waiting for the next contact. Thanks
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I am a Vietnamese fan of your “Streamline English” book series! Can I ask you a question?
What do you think about this series? I find out that the outline of this book is not similar to the other new oxford books like “smart choice” or something like that. In “smart choice”, there are only several units which contains a topic, such as food and drink, travel…But there are a lot of units in “Streamline English”.
Could you give me your ideas?
(If I typed somehing gramatically wrong, please forgive me :-))
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Thanks for you question, Karel. Streamline followed a philosophy that runs right through our books. Grapevine and IN English have the same basis. That is, short units which last one or two lessons. The majority of books have the long topic chapters, on the usual, very predictable themes … Travel, Sport, The Environment, Food and Drink. The next year the same topics come up, and they’re also done in large chunks. I believe students seek variety, and also that you can best demonstrate a point by choosing a specific context, rather than forcing the grammar or functional point into (say) Travel. So our books have lots of short units. They cover the “topics” but in smaller pieces.
As for Streamline, I much prefer IN English, because it’s taken account of thirty years of changes. But the underlying philosophy … short units, maximum interest value, humour, great attention to illustration … remains the same.
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Thanks for your kind answer,sir!!! All that things (such as short units and humour) are the things that make me always love this series!! “The Apppointment” in Streamline “The empty chair”, “The reader” in Streamline Directions are among my favorites. And also these books have helped me a bunch in my local exams. I have more questions to ask you:
– In Streamline English, there are 4 books (Departures, Connections, Destinations, Directions), but in American Streamline, there are just 3 (Departures, Connections, Destinations). Why there’s the change,sir?
– In the final book of Streamline English, it reads that the book is for the First Certificate in English. (I have made a lot of good uses of this book in upper Cetificate, just like CAE). After having learnt 3 books before this, I can do the FCE test easily. So why don’t you write an upper Streamline English for CAE and CPE?
(If I typed something improperly, please forgive me )
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“The empty Chair” in the Streamline Connections, terribly sorry about my mistake!
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Thanks for your comments. When we wrote American Streamline, the levels in American English were regarded differently. American publishers still thought that ELT / ESL was designed for people immigrating into the USA, so they thought that by the end of Destinations people could “cope in a normal class of native speakers.’ Of course, 99% of their sales were OUTSIDE the USA, but American publishers took a long time to react to that. I know of schools in Florida that used the British version of Directions.
But Streamline English is out of print. We spent two and a half years on a replacement American series for OUP, which they suddenly cancelled. While New American Streamline is still in print, it might not be for long.
In general, we have avoided exams-related books, which is what the higher levels now consist of. We wanted to a fourth level of IN English, but OUP persuaded us to do the replacement Streamline instead, which was then cancelled.
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Thank you for asnwering me!! I can’t believe that I have a chance to “talk” to the author of my most favorite book!
I have to wishes:
please revise the Streamline English again!!
In the book series, there are 2 units about celevrities: John Lennon and Elvis Presley. So If the Streamline English is revised, please add Karen and The Carpenters too! 😛
Perhaps it’s very odd, cause If anyone who like any musician beg you to add them to your books and you accept that, it will become a book all about celebrities! But that just my wish, anyway :p
(If I typed something improperly, please forgive me)
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Peter:
I´d like to know about In English Starter . i´ve read it´s a pocket sized book ! Very interesting for desperately-in-a-hurry adults who wish to know everything in no time . Even though I don´t believe in magic I do understand that a small book may convey confidence and a pro-active attitude towards the learning of a language . I´m from Argentina and I´m afraid this title is not coming out in this country . Will you write a comment about the main topics and functional language you presernt in your book ?
Yours gratefully , María Elena Franco
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Hi Maria Elena, I’m surprised that it’s not easily available in Argentina as OUP’s office was always very good there. Do check with them … they should be able to order it. If they can’t, let me know. Check http://www.viney.uk.com and just click on the spine of IN English Starter to go to the information.
I have scanned in the Contents pages of the Student Book and they’re now here as IN ENGLISH STARTER SYLLABUS under Biblio.
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Dear sir, I am a big fan of the Streamline English series, yet it is a great pity to know that they are out of print. Do you have any intention of re-publishing those in a new form?
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I’ve been teaching EFL since 1979, and for years now I’ve been designing my own lessons. I have a whole room full of them. And only because the old Streamline days have gone. What a wonderful world it was in the earlyeighties in language schools. No boring topics. No trying to get enthusiastic about topics like the environment, which have been done to death, no boring political correctness. Just good old-fashioned murder, dastardly fraud, unrequited love, and other thrilling topics suited to the structures being taught. And plenty of variety in the topics instead of having long, tedious modules with confusing numbers to sections.
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Dear Peter,
I have just finished reading some of your very interesting blogs/reviews of Shakespeare plays.
In your review of the 2017 National Theatre production of Twelfth Night, you quote a passage of Peter Hall’s opinion on the role of Malvolio, which begins “There are three dangerous traditions in the play. Malvolio is by custom played by the leading actor. But the star in this role cannot help playing for sympathy…” – I really like this quote and would love to use it in an essay I’m writing, so I was hoping you might be able to tell me which article/interview its from, so that I am able to cite it directly?
Thank you!
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Thanks, Lucy. This comes from the Folio Society edition, (London, 1966.) Introduction by Peter Hall. If you see them Folio Society hardback editions are very good because they have no footnotes – I get fed up of reading Shakespeare with half of each page as footnotes. They turn up in charity shops at £2 to £5 each, though the bookshop in Stratford charges £12 to £20 for them. I queried their prices and they just said, ‘In Stratford, you can get that price.’!
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