Intermediate

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

Exit test
Payscript

Se

Adapted by Kenneth Brodey

Human Interest

Kim, a young Irish boy, lives alone on the streets of the Indian city of Lahore. He meets an old Tibetan lama who is looking for a sacred river. The boy and the old man become great friends and travel across British India. This is Rudyard Kipling's greatest book - a story about the British empire, spies, friendship, spirituality and, most of all, India.

Dossiers:
The Many Lives of Buddhism, Varanasi - The City of Temples, the City of Light, Kim, Kipling and Mookerjee

Series:  Skladem (ihned expedujeme)

Young love, unbelievable wealth, greed, cruelty and adventure are the themes Fitzgerald brilliantly combines to create a highly unusual story with a surprise ending that no reader will be able to put down. In this story the great Fitzgerald reveals a bizarre segment of the rich and careless American society of the 1920s, which he often criticized and yet belonged to.

*Wide variety of activities covering the four skills
*PET-style exercises (grade 4/5)
Internet Project
Dossiers on Diamonds that Made History and Eldorado and the American Dream
*Exit test with answer key
*Full recording of text

Discover how a midnight ritual transforms the life of a young Puritan in ‘Young Goodman Brown’. Witness what happens to three old friends who discover the potion of eternal youth in ‘Dr Heidegger’s Experiment’. Experience the tragedy of the scientist who strives to achieve perfection at all costs in ‘The Birthmark’. *Accessible Adaptation in American English at elementary level *Wide range of activities on the four skills *PET-style exercises *Trinity-style exercises (grade 5) *Dossiers on New England and witchcraft, and the magic of alchemy *Internert Project *Exit Test with answer key *Recording of all three stories

What happens when a cargo ship sinks in the Pacific Ocean, leaving only one lifeboat of survivors? And what happens if those survivors are a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan and a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker? Sixteen-year-old Pi ‘Piscine’ Patel is about to find out …

Adapted from the international best-seller by Yann Martel

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.