Seznam produktů značky Black Cat - CIDEB

David is looking forward to a quiet week by the sea with his girlfriend – but things don’t turn out as expected... Who stole the diamond necklace? Inspector Baker has been promised promotion if he can solve the case. Will he succeed?... Trudy is depressed and miserable. She isn’t getting on with her parents. She’s not the only one with problems though... Three young boys start digging in a garden. What exactly are they looking for? A stimulating collection of original stories – all with a twist in the tail! This collection of six original stories comes together with: * activities practising the four skills * exit test * a recording of four of the stories

The fascinating character of Maggie Tulliver and her relationship with her brother Tom is at the centre of this moving story of rural Victorian England. As she grows up, the intelligent and imaginative Maggie is oppressed by the limited role offered to women and is eventually ostracised by her family and local society. George Eliot gives a deep psychological insight of the different characters, exploring their feelings, their moral worth and motivations. * Wide range of activities practising the four skills *Dossiers on George Eliot and ´The Mill on the Floss´and The ´Woman Question´in Victorian Britain *Recording of parts of the story *Extension activities

Baptista’s two beautiful daughters are ready for marriage. Bianca, pursued in love by three different suitors, cannot marry until someone dares to marry her sister, the proud and contemptuous Katharine. Then Petruchio arrives in Padua and proposes to Katharine. Will he be able to turn her into a model of devotion and obedience? *Wide range of activities practising the four skills *FCE-style activities *Dossiers on Shakespeare and English Comedy and Shakespeare and Italian Comedy *Recording of parts of the text *Exit test *Additional playscript

‘Lock me in any cell in any prison anywhere at any time, wearing only normal clothes and I’ll escape in a week.’ For Professor Van Dusen, otherwise known as ‘The Thinking Machine’, nothing is impossible. Logic is his passion. One hour later he finds himself locked up in Chisholm prison and has to use all his mental resources to find the solution to the problem. *Wide range of activities practising the four skills *Dossiers on Other Prison Stories and Futrelle´s Death on the Titanic *Story recorded in full *Exit test

Two cases of detection for Monsieur Auguste C. Dupin, Poe’s great detective. Who could have committed the atrocious murders in the Rue Morgue and so how did the murderer get in, or out? Will Dupin find the purloined letter and save the royal personage? Where is the minister hiding it? *Wide range of activities practising the four skills *Dossiers on The Art of the Detective Story, Apes going Ape and Paris in the 1800s *Internet project *´The Murders in the Rue Morgue´ recorded in full *Exit test answer key

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, has a perfect life. She has decided never to get married but to live as the mistress of Hartfield, her father’s house in the beautiful English countryside. But when she starts matchmaking she finds that her imagination has led her into danger. *FCE-style exercises *Trinity-style exercises *Wide range of activities covering the four skills *Dossiers on Jane Austen and reading, leisure in early nineteenth-century England, the poor and the upper classes *Dramatic recording of parts of the story *Project using the web *Exit test

When the captain tells Robinson, ‘Young man, you should never go to sea again… , Robinson ignores his advice and goes to sea again, with terrible consequences. He is forced into slavery and escapes, but he is then shipwrecked on a desert island where he manages to survive through resourcefulness and luck. *Wide range of activities on the four skills *FCE-style activities *Trinity-style activities (grade 8) *Internet project *Informative background information on the slave trade, mercantilism, solitude and survivors in literature and Juan Fernandez: Robinson Crusoe´s island *Exit test with answer key *Recording of parts of the story