Intermediate

Sea levels are rising and deserts are expanding. The consequences of climate change are all around us but how much of what we are experiencing is just part of the planet’s natural rhythms? Are there lessons from the past to be learned and what can we do to protect our host planet from the effects of global warming?

With DVD material from the BBC Motion gallery.

Content Area: Environmental Studies 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, suppo

A mysterious event from Earth's past nearly starts a war so big that the Transformers alone will not be able to save the planet. Sam Witwicky and the Autobots must fight against the darkness to defend the world from Deceptions' evil power.

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 intr

Leaving his home in a Welsh mining village for the last time, Huw Morgan remembers his childhood. The valley was green then, unspoilt by waste from the mine. The happiness of his family and friends had not yet been destroyed by cruel gossip and terrible pain. Since then, so much has changed.

In 1673 young John Ridd meets a little girl called Lorna Doone. Seven years later they meet again, and fall in love. But the Doones are a family of robbers and murderers. One of them, Carver, killed John’s father and now wants to marry Lorna. Can John save Lorna from her worst fears?

'When we are happy, we are always good,' says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy.' Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party. Fantasy Horror

In California five teenagers create a successful club that organises jobs from babysitting to dog walking. One day the carnival comes to town and mysterious things start to happen to some members of the club... eerie! Who will solve the mystery?

Guy Haines is travelling through Texas on a train when a stranger invites him to share a meal. But the stranger has a terrible plan. ‘You murder my father, and I’ll murder your wife,’ he suggests. So begins Guy’s journey into a world of madness, lies and death.

Jim Braddock is a successful boxer in New York. But in October 1929 the American economy fails, and at the same time Jim starts to lose in the boxing ring. Does the true story of Jim Braddock — the Cinderella Man — have a happy ending?

A tree full of enormous spiders, a living thing with no face, a picture that comes alive, and a boy with no heart. These are some of the frightening things in these stories by M. R. James, one of the greatest horror writers of all time.