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Adapted by Nancy TimminsActivities 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...
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
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...
A group of pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury decide that each traveller should tell a story. Read about tales by the Knight, the Nun’s Priest, the Pardoner, the Wife of Bath and the Franklin. *Wide range of activities covering the four skills *FCE-style exercises *Trinity-style exercises *Dossiers on Chaucer and his...
When Jonathan Harker goes to Transylvania to visit Count Dracula on business, he discovers that his client’s motives for coming to England are rather more sinister than they first appeared. Bram Stoker’s spine-tingling masterpiece has terrified readers since it was published in 1897 and is undoubtedly the most famous vampire story of all time....
Since the autumn of 1888, when he terrorised London, Jack the Ripper has become famous all over the world. How did he escape justice? And who was he? There have been hundreds of suspects and theories but nobody has yet discovered his identity. Jack the Ripper takes you back to the dark streets of Victorian London, to investigate the crimes, examine the...
In Venice, Bassanio needs money to court a rich heiress. His merchant friend Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. Shylock demands that the money is repaid in three months or he will take a pound of Antonio’s flesh. The merchant confidently agrees, but ultimately it will take the intelligence of two women to save him…...
Moby Dick is an epic tale of the voyage of the whaling ship the Pequod and its captain, Ahab, who relentlessly pursues the great white whale during a journey around the world. The story is seen through the eyes of Ishmael, a sailor on the Pequod. Ishmael arrives in New Bedford where he meets Queequeg, a harpooner from the South Pacific, who becomes his...
Adapted by Nancy TimminsActivities by Eleanor Donaldson Crime Sherlock Holmes is bored. But a fascinating new case is just around the corner. The attractive Mary Morstan arrives at 221B Baker Street with a strange story to tell. Her father vanished ten years ago: four years later she receives six beautiful pearls, one each year. She has been invited to...
Adapted by Nancy TimminsActivities by Eleanor Donaldson Crime The great detective Sherlock Holmes is needed to solve a murder in Sussex, England. A card with the initials VV 341 has been left by the body, and discovering the facts of the case gets ever more difficult. The answers to this mystery lie far away from the scene of the crime...
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the first masters of modern short stories and modernist poetry. But he is best remembered for his strange style of horror, with characters who cannot be forgotten. In this title he will terrify you with these five strange tales of mystery - starting with a man who fights to escape the tortures of the Inquisition, and ending with...
A power-hungry Richard III, a remorseful Macbeth, a revengeful Prince Hamlet, a powerful Julius Caesar, and a ruthless and ambitious King Henry V: various aspects of power and ambition feature in these five stories based on plays by William Shakespeare.Dossier: William Shakespeare 1564-1616 Ghosts, Witches and Revenge The Influence on Shakespeare’s Plays
Beowulf is the largest surviving example of Old English poetry. The poem refers back to the killing of monsters in Scandinavia, but it views the battles with monsters as conflicts between good and evil. Thus, the first monster, Grendel, is described as ‘God’s enemy’. The poem contrasts human society, which is ordered and based on trust,...
Mean, old Ebenezer Scrooge doesn’t like Christmas. He doesn’t like people. He only likes money. But when the ghost of his friend, Old Marley, visits him on Christmas Eve, it’s the beginning of a very strange night. Next morning he wishes everybody a Merry Christmas! So what has changed bad, old Scrooge? *FCE-style activities...
Macbeth is loyal and courageous, and is a friend of King Duncan’s. However, after a battle he encounters three witches who tell him that one day he will be King of Scotland. Soon his obsession to become king is reinforced by his wife’s cold-blooded ambition... Wide range of activities on the four skills *FCE-style activities *Trinity-style...