Black Cat (B1.2)

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

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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

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?