Black Cat Interact With Literature B2-c1: Mind the Characters + Audio Cd + online Teacher's Book

Mind the Characters is a journey into the world of English language fiction through the analysis of short stories and modern fables . The authors of the texts include Oscar Wilde, Isaac Asimov, James Thurber and Fredric Brown.
Each of the ten units looks at the relationships between the characters and their worlds – both real and imaginary. The characters include Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf, a little girl and a talking snail, a little boy and a star, a man and a computer and a pair of vampires and an alien.
In the texts the student will see English language in use, and they will learn and analyse the characteristics of short stories and re-use the language in the ‘creative labs’ through the writing of letters, newspapers, articles, stories etc.
The activities which accompany each story combine the study of language and literature. They aim to improve all four language skills – listening, reading, speaking and writing – and to develop numerous secondary skills – predicting, problem solving, scanning, note taking, summarising and interpreting.


Key Features:

* biographical deatils about each author
* carefully selected texts from a theme-base collection
* linguistic accessibility with footnotes to guide understanding
* stimulating, graded activities ranging from familiarisation and comprehension to stylistic analysis and language development
* dramatised recording of selected extracts by native speakres in American of British English
* Teacher´s Book, which can be downloaded from our website