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Daniel and AJ love takeaway pizza but what do they know about real Italian food? TV show Take Away My Takeaway sends the boys to Naples in Italy to find out more. With the help of pizza chef Enzo, the boys learn all about real Neapolitan pizza. They discover how to milk a buffalo and how to shop for ingredients without speaking any Italian! After three days, are the boys ready to make pizza for expert Antonio Pace?

Content Area: US Cultural Studies

The Scholastic DVD readers are a series of non-fiction graded readers for teenagers, with supporting DVD material adapted from popular TV documentaries and films. Each title presents students with engaging content and is linked to a curriculum content area. The DVD exposes students to authentic English, supported by

Emergency, dial 999. This DVD Reader presents four gripping real life emergency situations: a couple adrift on a rubber dinghy for three months on the Pacific Ocean; a school football team struck by lightning; a competitor in the Vendée Round the World Yacht Race lost at sea. Each life-threatening situation requires quick thinking and incredible bravery from those involved.

With DVD material from the BBC Motion gallery.

This compilation features 21 astonishing life-threatening emergency situations, which often call for hazardous and dangerous rescue operations. Most of the stories are reconstructions, but they chillingly convey the horror and reality of each incident. We are pleased

Britain is famous for its creative, colourful and eccentric citizens! Find out all about the ancient Scottish tradition of the ‘Burryman’, meet the eccentric members of the Monster Raving Loony Party, and join Captain Beany for a bath of baked beans!

With DVD material from the BBC motion gallery.

Content Area: UK Cultural Studies

The Scholastic DVD readers are a series of non-fiction graded readers for teenagers, with supporting DVD material adapted from popular TV documentaries and films. Each title presents students with engaging content and is linked to a curriculum content area. The DVD exposes students to authentic English, supported by a simplified voiceover and subtitle option.

Jennifer Wilson is the latest victim in a growing number of suicides and only one person can help – the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes. As Sherlock launches an investigation, he becomes caught up in one of the most dangerous cases of his career. A contemporary re-telling of Conan-Doyle’s classic story adapted from the award-winning BBC series, ‘Sherlock’.

Inspiring full-colour graphics attract your students to reading. Images tie in with the media versions, and creative formats such as blogs, manga stories and comic strips generate instant appeal.

The People & Places spread at the start of each story sets the scene by introducing the key characters in a visually stimulating and accessible way.<

This true story, told by Christian's former owners, Ace and John, follows Christian's journey from his time as a lion cub living in the King's Road in London to his subsequent return to his natural home in Kenya.

This range of Scholastic ELT readers reflects a world that teenagers will instantly recognise. It includes popular films and TV series and coming-of-age classics.

Inspiring full-colour graphics attract your students to reading. Images tie in with the media versions, and creative formats such as blogs, manga stories and comic strips generate instant appeal.

The People & Places spread at the start of each story sets the scene by introducing the key characters

In 1985, top mountaineers Joe Simpson and his friend Simon Yates went climbing in the Peruvian Andes. After a series of accidents, Simon was forced to cut the rope which held him and Joe together. At the time, Simon believed that he was sending his friend to his death…

With Fact Files on the making of Touching the Void – the film, climbing Everest, and I want to be a climber!

This range of Scholastic ELT readers reflects a world that teenagers will instantly recognise. It includes popular films and TV series and coming-of-age classics.

Inspiring full-colour graphics attract your students to reading. Images tie in with the media versions, and creative formats such as blogs, manga s

“A miserable childhood is bad enough. A miserable Irish childhood is worse. But a miserable Irish Catholic childhood is the worst of all”.

A simplified adaptation of Frank McCourt’s moving and humorous memoirs about growing up in 1930’s Ireland.

With Fact Files on ‘Angela’s Ashes’: the Film and the Irish Question.

This range of Scholastic ELT readers reflects a world that teenagers will instantly recognise. It includes popular films and TV series and coming-of-age classics.

Inspiring full-colour graphics attract your students to reading. Images tie in with the media versions, and creative formats such as blogs, manga stories and comic strips generate instant appeal.

127 Hours is the extraordinary true story of Aron Ralston who, after a canyoneering accident in Utah, was forced to amputate his own arm to survive.

This range of Scholastic ELT readers reflects a world that teenagers will instantly recognise. It includes popular films and TV series and coming-of-age classics.

Inspiring full-colour graphics attract your students to reading. Images tie in with the media versions, and creative formats such as blogs, manga stories and comic strips generate instant appeal.

The People & Places spread at the start of each story sets the scene by introducing the key characters in a visually stimulating and accessible way.

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My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just probationary constable in that mighty army for justice known to all right-thinking people as the Metropolitan Police Service (and as the Filth to everybody else). My only concerns in life were how to avoid a transfer to the Case Progression Unit - we do paperwork so real coppers don't have to - and finding a way to climb into the panties of the outrageously perky WPC Leslie May. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness statement from someone who was dead but disturbingly voluable, and that brought me to the attention of Inspector Nightingale, the last wizard in England. Now I'm a Detective Constable and a trainee wizard, the first apprentice in fifty years, and my world has become somewhat more compl

THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac - as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark, from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is ocean. The oldest can remember the Big

Follow the life and times of Betty Suarez, the editor’s assistant on MODE fashion magazine. Go behind the scenes at the MODE offices, and find out how the hit TV series Ugly Betty was made. Read interviews with the stars – and find out how to get on in the fashion world!

Scholastic Readers are a series of contemporary film and TV adaptations, original teenage fiction, and a classic literature, simplified for students of English. Each title is especially chosen to motivate and engage teenage classes, and the magazine-style Fact Files explore the themes raised in each story, as well as providing contextual background.

When Arthur kills a unicorn on a hunting expedition, he unwittingly brings a curse upon the kingdom of Camelot. Soon the fields are yellow and the crops are dying. Can Merlin, the teenager with magical powers, help Arthur overcome his pride and save his people as he faces the ultimate test?

A magical adventure from the popular BBC TV series.

Scholastic Readers are a series of contemporary film and TV adaptations, original teenage fiction, and a classic literature, simplified for students of English. Each title is especially chosen to motivate and engage teenage classes, and the magazine-style Fact Files explore the themes raised in each story, as well as providing contextual background.