Black Cat (C1)

Wuthering Heights is home to the Earnshaw family who adopt an orphan called Heathcliff. Catherine Earnshaw becomes great friends with Heathcliff and they fall in love. But Catherine decides to marry Edgar Linton since she feels it would degrade her to marry Heathcliff. Desperate without his Catherine, Heathcliff runs away. But when he returns a few years later a series of events starts to destroy the relationship between the Lintons and the Earnshaws. *Wide range of activities practising the four skills *CAE-style activities (grade 9) *Dossier on The Imaginative World of the Brontë Children *Internet project *Extension activities *Recording of parts of the text

Silas, a weaver, is betrayed by his best friend and the woman he loves. He loses all faith in humanity and moves to the village of Raveloe. There he lives a solitary life, working and hoarding his gold coins, until one day his gold is stolen… *Activities including speaking, writing and listening skills *Background information on George Eliot, evolutionary theory, and weaving and the Industrial Revolution *Recording of parts of the text *Extension exercises

The fascinating character of Maggie Tulliver and her relationship with her brother Tom is at the centre of this moving story of rural Victorian England. As she grows up, the intelligent and imaginative Maggie is oppressed by the limited role offered to women and is eventually ostracised by her family and local society. George Eliot gives a deep psychological insight of the different characters, exploring their feelings, their moral worth and motivations. * Wide range of activities practising the four skills *Dossiers on George Eliot and ´The Mill on the Floss´and The ´Woman Question´in Victorian Britain *Recording of parts of the story *Extension activities