Upper-intermediate

Four Weddings and a Funeral – one of the most successful films from Britain. It’s a Saturday morning, and Charles is still asleep. He should be on his way to Angus and Laura’s wedding! Charles is always late, and he is worried that he will never find the right woman to marry. Then he meets Carrie…

Wuthering Heights is a house on the lonely moors of Yorkshire in the north of England. Here a tragic love story unfolds as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliffe fall in love. But Cathy marries another man, Edgar Linton, and breaks Heathcliffe's heart. Returning years later, he takes his revenge on the Linton family. Will the ghosts of Wuthering Heights ever be still?

Three friends, George, Harris and J need a change in their lives and they decide to go on a bicycle trip through the beautiful Black Forest in Germany, where they meet with all kinds of hilarious adventures as they get into and out of trouble…

Dossiers:
The Golden Age of Bicycles The Black Forest

Adaptation by Gina D. B. Clemen
Activities by Monica Marszewska

Human interest

The seventeenth-century house of the seven gables shelters an old curse and a terrible secret. The lives of the Pyncheon family are ruined by greed, hatred and cowardice. Hepzibah and Clifford Pyncheon are tormented by the memories and ghosts of the past, until the love of two young people changes the course of destiny...

Dossiers:
Whitchcraft, The British Colonies in America
The History of Photography
Series: Reading & Training | Level: Step 4 | Exam: fce trinity

Retold by Nancy Timmins
Activities by Tessa Vaughan

Human interest

Pamela is a maid in a big country house. But when her mistress dies, Pamela is left at the mercy of Mr B, her mistress's son, who sets out to seduce her. Although she likes Mr B, Pamela is determined to keep her virtue. Will Mr B succeed, or will Pamela's virtuous behaviour find its own reward?
A highly influential novel, Pamela is a fascinating study of the struggle for power between men and women.

Dossiers:
English Country Houses and their Owners
Letters and the Postal Service

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

Adapted by Nancy Timmins
Activities by Kenneth Brodey

Mystery & horror

Catherine Morland is going on her first visit to the city of Bath. She is seventeen and comes from a small, quiet town in the English countryside. She likes Gothic novels. When she makes friends with the handsome young Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, she will find herself in the middle of a family tragedy. Henry's home, Northanger Abbey, is the scene of a crime. Or is it all just a product of Catherine's imagination?

Dossiers:
King George III and Regency England, British female novelists
Series: Reading & Training | Level: Step 4 | Exam: fce trinity

Retold by Blanche Malvern
Activities by Kenneth Brodey

Human interest

Isabel Archer - a young American woman - visits her uncle and his family in England. Her uncle dies and leaves her a large fortune. Isabel was always beautiful and charming: now, in addition, she is rich. The question is, whom will she marry? The English nobleman Lord Warburton? Her American suitor Casper Goodwood? Or the refined and sophisticated Gilbert Osmond, an American art collector living in Italy?

Dossier:
Americans in Italy in the Nineteenth Century

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

The Footprint Reading Library is the first non-fiction reading series for English language learners to present captivating real-world stories in print, audio, and video. Every level of the Footprint Reading Library includes a comprehensive Teacher's Book that makes lesson planning easy. Each unit in the Teacher's Book features: *a step-by-step Lesson Planner that includes a short summary of the reading, and teachong notes for each of the Read, Listen, and Watch options *a photocopiable Reader Worksheet, Video Worksheet, Reader Quiz, and Video Transcript *detailed instructuins for Teaching with the Reader Worksheet and Teaching with the Video Worksheet *answer keys

Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man's world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When she falls in love with one of them, she soon wishes she had kept her independence. She learns that love brings misery, pain, and violent passions that can destroy lives ... Classics