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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

The first edition was called Streamline English. There was no subtitle, because OUP hadn’t risked commissioning the second (already written at the time. units 1-4 were added as a bridge). Departures was added when they did. There were no Workbooks yet, just Students Book, Teacher’s Edition and cassette. The spiral bound interleaved Teacher’s Edition was vital. It was written at the same time, unit by unit. For years it was OUP’s best-selling Teacher’s Edition. We realised where the SB was being pirated, because we still sold Teacher’s Editions as interleaving and spiral binding was so expensive. In a six month period in South Korea, we sold 3000 Teacher’s Editions and no Student Books. So how many pirate SBs were sold? They had large classes then. On piracy, we were told pirate copies in both Russia and China exceeded worldwide sales of the legitimate edition.

This is the main edition. Oxford English replaces time-honoured Oxford University Press.

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.

When we wrote the original, our students had two Language Laboratory sessions per twenty classroom, and the Language Lab course already existed, and became Speechwork. Tony Robinson was among the actors on the recordings.

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)

There were special editions for France, Netherlands, Uruguay and Hungary, usually with a translation wordlist.

‘Glossaries’ and ‘Translation lists’ started appearing without permission, there were several competing ones in Greece. In some countries the local OUP office published their own versions. We were never paid, though we were paid a fee for Tests.

The Workbooks is where we became full time authors in March 1980. OUP wanted them asap and we had to decide. We became free lance three weeks after the birth of my second child. It was terrifying. Thank you to NatWest Bank for financing us for that first year before royalties came in. Bernie said that Workbook A, written at his flat in our first freelance three weeks, was the most lucrative work per word we ever did.

From my article: WRITING IN COLLABORATION (lioked)
It all collapsed over Streamline Destinations Workbooks. We were both booked for solid tours. Bernie was off to Latin America for nearly three weeks, then I was off to Japan for two weeks soon after he returned. We also both took holiday / recovery / preparation time, so it was a case of a month apart for each trip. While Bernie was in Latin America, I switched to working at home, doing much more productive work in the mornings and late evenings and devoting afternoons and early evening to family life. I finished Destinations Workbook A single-handed in the month. It was around 90% of the finished book. We had time to go over it together (we added a text or two) then I was off to Japan. The idea was that Bernie could do Workbook B – as we hadn’t split tasks on the first two levels, we were confident in each other’s ability to do it all … context, exercises, picture brief. When I got back, Bernie had about four pages of scribbled notes, and an extract from Truman Capote, a very nice one which we used. He had spent most of the time reading, looking for extracts. He had read The Best of Saki three times, convinced he would find an authentic extract. We had discussed it before, I’d read it all and gave my opinion that while it had germs of ideas for rewritten modern stories, there was absolutely nothing usable there. Not a single unit done. We sat down to write Workbook B together page by page. I was feeling resentful.

Streamline English Directions, (Oxford University Press  1982)

Streamline English Destinations Workbooks A & B,, with Bernard Hartley, (Oxford University Press  1980)
Streamline English Directions Workbooks A & B,, (Oxford University Press  1982)

We received this from Japan:

In 1993, Streamline won the Students Award in Hungary:

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)

A Week By The Sea must be the only ELT course which came with a promotional stick of Blackpool rock.

Mystery Tour video, with Bob Baker & Karen Viney (Oxford University Press, 1988)

Streamline Readers

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)

Grapevine

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)

Main Street

Main Street was an American English adaptation of Grapevine

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)

The CDs.

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):

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

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 )

DVDs

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
A Tidy Ghost – Peter Viney

The Hitch-Hiker – Tim Vicary
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

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, 2017

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. As it has had little uptake, it’s the last!

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 : The EFL Quintet

Foreign Affairs SET IN 1972
Italian Affairs SET IN 1978 (chronologically the second, but the fifth published)

Home Affairs  SET IIN 1982
Greek Affairs SET IN 1984

Japanese Affairs

Italian Affairs is the most recent addition, and written as an infill between Foreign Affairs and Home Affairs to expand the characters.

THE SIXTIES SERIES

NOVELS:

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

SHORT STORIES

I’ll Tell Everything I Know (1964-65)
Rolling Down The Road (1966-69)

Chronologically … if you want to read the entire series chronologically, this is the order:

title	period
I’ll Tell Everything I Know	1964-65
No Secrets To Conceal	1966
Music To Watch Girls By	1967
The Women Came and Went	1968
Rolling Down The Road	1966-1969
Pulling Into Nazareth	1969

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?

CURRENT WORK IN PROGRESS:

Mexican Affairs
Quest of The Frontier Guard

SEE:

darttravis.wordpress.com

threeveeeltd.wordpress.com

This page has the following sub pages.

• Fast Track introduction
• Streamline and IN English
• Garnet Oracle Readers
• Reviews of IN English
• Fast Track Question & Answer
• In English Starter syllabus
• Oracle Readers Illustration
• Oracle Classics
• The EFL Novels by Dart Travis
• Streamline English – A History
• Handshake reviews
• In English interview 2003
• Grapevine reviews