Seznam produktů značky Black Cat - CIDEB

Macbeth is loyal and courageous, and is a friend of King Duncan’s. However, after a battle he encounters three witches who tell him that one day he will be King of Scotland. Soon his obsession to become king is reinforced by his wife’s cold-blooded ambition... Wide range of activities on the four skills
*FCE-style activities
*Trinity-style activities (grade 8) Internet project
*Informative background information on films of Macbeth, Scotland and its history, and witchcraft in Shakespeare´s time
*Exit test with answer key
*Full recording of the text
*Playscript to enable dramatisation of the story

How did people make and watch films in the past? Do you know what magic lanterns or kinetoscopes were? Or nickelodeons or drive-ins? Find out in this book!

Exit test

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Series: Easyread | Level: Level 2 | Exam: ket

In the 1840s, a young woman is employed as governess to two children in an English country house. The children are beautiful and charming, and – for a while – the young woman thinks her position is both easy and pleasant. Then she begins to see the ghosts of the former governess Miss Jessel and the manservant Peter Quint... *FCE-style activities *Wide range of activities practising the four skills *Trinity-style activities (grade 7) Dossiers: Governesses and Upper-class children and Puritanism *Internet project *Story recorded in full *Exit test

Are you looking for a great adventure? Then travel with the American pioneers to the Wild West and meet the worst outlaws and the best sheriffs. Ride a stagecoach to California and look for gold. Live the life of a cowboy and get ready for an Indian attack. Meet Indian Chief Geronimo .... and much more!

- wide range of fun activities in the four skills

- KET-style exercises

- Trinity-style exercises (Grade 3)

- Project work using web

- Full recording of the text

- Informative background information on Wild West outlaws and cowboys

- exit test

Adapted by Deborah Meyers

Human interest

Jean-Marie is an orphan who is happily adopted by Doctor Desprez and his wife Anastasie. When the doctor finds the precious Treasure of Franchard he plans to take his family away from their lovely, old country home go to Paris and live a rich life. Jean-Marie does not want to go to Paris and during the night the treasure mysteriously disappears…

Dossier:
Paris in the Nineteenth Century

Series: Green Apple | Level:  Skladem (ihned expedujeme)

Young John Trenchard lives in Moonfleet, an English village with dark secrets. One day he discovers a hidden crypt below the cemetery where smugglers meet and hide their goods. Here he accidentally finds the skeleton of evil Colonel Mohune, better known as Blackbeard, and a precious clue that could help him find Blackbeard’s treasure… Thrilling adventures with smugglers, the king’s soldiers, a corrupt magistrate, a greedy diamond dealer and others await John in this exciting story set in the eighteenth century.

Le Morte d’Arthur tells the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The tale begins with Arthur’s birth, his education, and his rise to the throne. It also recounts the tragic love story of Sir Lancelot and Guinevere, the destruction of the Round Table and Arthur’s mysterious disappearance or death. *Wide range of activities practising the four skills *FCE-style activities *Dossiers: Medieval Romance Literature, Places in the Arthurian Story and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight *Story recorded in full Exit test

Two young lovers, Hermia and Lysander, meet in the wood with the intention of running away and getting married secretly. They are followed by Demetrius, who loves Hermia, and Helena, who is in love with Demetrius. What they don’t know is that the wood is enchanted… *Wide range of activities on the four skills *FCE-style activities *Trinity-style activities (grade 7) *Internet project *Informative background information on Shakespeare´s sources, the Elizabethan performance and the popularity of the play *Exit test with answer key *Full recording of the text *Playscript to enable dramatisation of the story

Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen
Activities by Kenneth Brodey

Adventure

Jim is a young British officer on the passenger ship Patna. During an accident at sea in the Indian Ocean, Jim follows the captain and abandons the sinking ship and its passengers. Jim must face a court trial for this act of cowardice, which will torment him all his life. At the trial Jim meets Marlow, an older sea captain, who helps him find work. But Jim is always restless. He moves to Malaysia where he tries to start a new life...

Dossier:
Colonial Malaysia
Series: Reading & Training | Level: Step 5 | Exam: fce trinity

 

Love

The arrival of Countess Ellen Olenska in the Verdana of the 1870s creates a stir in high society, challenging rigid conventions and hypocritical respectability. Glamorous and strong-willed, she causes scandal and embarrassment when she decides to free herself of an unhappy marriage by divorcing her husband. Greatly disapproved of by her family, she can only count on the support of her cousin's fiancé, Newland Archer, who falls in love with her and tries to persuade her to start a new life together with him.

 

Dossiers:
Verdana in the 1870s
The Verdana Films of Martin Scorsese

 

After reading
Series: Reading & Training | Level: Step 5 | Exam: fce trinity

 

Love

In 1806, Captain Frederick Wentworth and Miss Anne Elliot fell in love, but since neither of them had any money, Anne's friend Lady Russell persuaded Anne not to marry the Captain. Eight years later, Anne and Frederick meet again. By this time Frederick has made a fortune in the Navy, but he is still angry with Anne for rejecting him. This - the last of Jane Austen's novels - is also the most delicate and moving love story she ever wrote.

Dossiers:
The Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars
Lyme Regis and Bath
The Woman Question in Jane Austen's Time

After Reading

Series: Reading & Training | Level: Step 5 | Exam: fce trinity

Retold by Nancy Timmins

Humour & comedy

After surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Illyria, Viola disguises herself as a boy to get a position at the court of Duke Orsino, who is in love with beautiful Olivia. Unknown to Viola, her twin brother Sebastian has also survived the shipwreck. When he too arrives in Illyria, confusion and misunderstandings follow.
After many cases of mistaken identity, who will be lucky in love? The lovesick Duke, mournful Olivia or practical Viola?

Dossiers:
The Meaning of Twelfth Night
Shakespeare and Elizabethan Theatre

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