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Six people – five women and a man – meet once a month in California’s Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable – under the guiding eye of Jane Austen a couple of them even fall in love…

Four chilling tales take you into a world where anything can happen. Charles Dickens adds extra horror to his famous tale of a haunted railwayman. In Edgar Allan Poe’s classic story, ‘Ligeia’, the ghost of a beautiful woman returns and defeats death. E. Nesbit shows us how there really is a good reason to be scared of the dark. And F. M. Crawford tells of a ship’s passenger who encounters a horrible ‘thing’ in his cabin.

A selection from the famous collection of Oriental stories known as the One Thousand and One Nights, including the classic favourites Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Sindbad the Sailor. Travel through the streets of old Baghdad, around luxurious palaces and fragrant gardens in India, to desert islands in the China seas… all in the company of kings, sultans, princesses, merchants, enchanted horses, sailors and thieves. *Wide range of activities practising the four skills *KET-style exercises *Trinity-style exercises (grade 4) *Dossiers on Versions of ´The Thousand and One Nights´and Baghdad, the city of ´The Thousand and One Nights´ * Internet projects *Story recorded in full *Exit test with answer key

A mistrel arrives in the court of King Arthur and tells the king and his knights the story of Tristan, who kills a dragon and wins the hand of the beautiful Isolde for marriage to his uncle King Mark. But on their journey back to Mark´s court, they drink a love potion that was intended for the king and his young bride. They instantly fall in love - but their love is impossible...

*Wide range of activities practising the four skills

*KET-style activities

*Trinity-style activities (grade 3)

*Dossiers: Cornwall and the Celtic Nations and King Arthur: fact or fiction?

*Internet project

*Story recorded in full

*Exit test with answer key

Wuthering Heights is home to the Earnshaw family, who adopt an orphan called Heathcliff. When they grow up, Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff fall deeply in love. But Catherine decides to marry Edgar Linton from the big house across the moors. Heathcliff runs away in despair. When he returns some years later, a series of terrible events destroys the relationship between the Lintons and the Earnshaws.

*Wide variety of activities covering the four skills
*FCE-style exercises (grade 8)
*Internet project
*Recording of parts of the text
*Dossier on A Family of Writers (the Brontës)
*Exit test with answer key

Mini Magic je dvoudílná učebnice pro výuku dětí v 1. a 2 třídě ZŠ, které se začínají poprvé učit anglicky. Učebnici je také možné použít pro děti v mateřské škole.

Oba díly obsahují šest zajímavých obrázkových příběhů, po kterých následují další aktivity a cvičení pro osvojení si jazyka obsaženého v příběhu. Děti s nimi pracují pomocí obrázků v učebnici, obrázkové knihy Big Book, flashcards a plakátů s opakovatelně použitelnými nálepkami.

Děti pak převyprávějí příběh pomocí svých vlastních malých plakátů a vystřihovánek.

Příběh slouží k tomu, aby si děti správně zafixovaly novou látku, kterou budou pak používat v komunikativních situacích.

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In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to his jailers under the duress of his God. Encompasses the betrayals, cruelties and humiliations that made up slavery - and that still sear the collective psyches of both races.

"Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident" is the second book in the epicly good "Artemis Fowl" series by Eoin Colfer. Criminal Mastermind Artemis Fowl never stops scheming...Artemis' father has been missing for almost two years. His location? The Arctic Circle, where the Russian Mafiya are holding him prisoner. Now Artemis must execute a daring rescue operation to get his father back. But that's not his only problem. Since abducting one of an underground race of armed and dangerous fairies, Artemis has become their prime suspect for any human wrongdoing. Elfin Captain Holly Short has accused him of supplying illegal human power cells (aka AAA batteries) to the goblin gangs. There's going to be a terrifying uprising - but at least it will get Artemis away from his computer and he'll meet some

One after the other, half a dozen monks are found murdered in the most bizarre of ways. A learned Franciscan who is sent to solve the mysteries finds himself involved in the frightening events.