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

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.

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

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

 

Daisy Miller is a beautiful, rich American girl. She comes to Europe with her mother and brother to travel and see the sights. In Switzerland she meets Frederick Winterbourne, a young American who has lived in Europe most of his life. He is fascinated and perplexed by Daisy’s flirtatious and unconventional manners… *Wide range of activities practising the four skills *FCE-style exercises *Trinity-style exercises (grade 7) *Dossier on Young Women in the Nineteenth Century *Internet project *Story recorded in full *Exit test with answer key

In an empty house lies a dead man. There are no wounds on his body. On the wall, the word RACHE - German for 'revenge' - is written in blood. With the help of his friend Doctor Watson, can Sherlock Holmes use his deductive powers to find the murderer? Set in London in the 1880s, A Study in Scarlet is the first Holmes and watson mystery, the beginning of a long and famous partnership. *Wide variety of activities practising the four skills *FCE-style activities *Trinity-style activities (grade 7) *Internet projects *Text recorded in full *Dossiers on The Mormons and London in the 1880s *Exit with answer key

Doctor Faustus, a brilliant scholar, enters into an agreement with the Devil. He agrees to sell his soul in return for twenty-four years of knowledge, power and riches. But he realises the full implications of his rash action.