Carti in categoria Fairy tales and classic stories

STAGE 1 Elementary | 600 headwords | A1 | Classic When Sherlock Holmes gets a letter from the police, he and his new friend, Doctor Watson, have a difficult problem. Who’s the rich man in the empty house? Why did he die? And, most important of all, will Holmes and Watson find the man who did it? Or will they be too late? A Study in Scarlet is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s first story with Holmes and Watson. Come and walk the dark streets of London with the great Mr Sherlock Holmes! In ...

CEFR Level: A1Theme: AdventureEdgar Allan Poe’s only novel is an exciting and unmissable story and a classic of American literature.His name is Arthur Gordon Pym. He comes from Nantucket. Nantucket is a town in America, near the sea. People from Nantucket are often sailors. His grandfather is a lawyer. He’s famous and he’s very rich. Gordon Pym is very lucky.He is only eighteen years old, but he as a small boat. Its name is the Ariel. He often goes sailing on the Ariel, near Na...

CEFR Level: A1Theme: Social IssuesBotchan is a novel written in 1906. It is considered to be one of the most popular novels in Japan.A Tokyoite known only as Botchan thinks teaching a bunch of high-school yokels in the sticks will be simple-after all, they’re essentially living in yesteryear.But our narrator soon learns that he is surrounded by schemers and tricksters and that the teaching job that should have been a walk in the park is more like a walk off a plank. Can he survive and make...

CEFR Level: B2Theme: LoveIn Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë shows us the destructive power of hatred and revenge, but she also explores love in its many forms and, in the end, her story is about hope. Cathy’s life is changed forever when her father brings home an abandoned child he names Heathcliff. As Cathy and Heathcliff grow up, their love for each other is as wild as the moors. But, can love overcome jealousy? Can forgiveness enter hearts filled with pain and suffering?...

CEFR Level: C1Theme: Love“Our story begins just outside Miss Pinkerton’s Academy for Young Ladies at Chiswick Mall in London. A large family carriage is waiting for two young ladies, Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp.”In this Reader you will find:Focus on sections: W. M. Thackeray, The Book’s Title, The Serial Novel, Waterloo | Glossary of difficult words | Comprehension and extension activitiesTagsLove | Jealousy | FamilyVanity Fair was written 200 years ago, but it is a tho...

CEFR Level: A2Theme: FriendshipThree Men in a Boat is a humorous book that will make you laugh while it gives you a view of Victorian England and the Thames.In this Reader you will find:Information about Jerome k. Jerome’s life | Focus on sections: Jerome’s Life, The Thames, Magna Carta Three friends, George, Harris and J. decide they need a holiday and plan to go on a trip on the river. J. tells the story of that two-week trip. He includes funny stories from past trips and stories h...

CEFR Level: A2Theme: FriendshipAn adventure novel featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations.Richard Hannay is bored. He is all alone in a big city, and he wants something to happen, anything. One evening, when he gets back home, someone is waiting for him. This someone will leave him with a question, and Hannay must find an answer. His future, and indeed the future of the whole of Europe depends on it. ...

CEFR Level: B1Theme: LoveThe Woman in White is the first English ‘sensation novel’ full of mystery and dark secrets.After meeting a strange woman one night in London, Walter Hartright begins to realise that this mysterious woman isconnected, in some way, to his new life at Limmeridge House and the woman he loves, Laura Fairlie. The story is toldthrough different characters, and soon we find Walter, Marian and Laura caught up in a frightening world of crime,madness and mistaken identi...

CEFR Level: B2Theme: Friendship‘After I had accepted the position and agreed to his condition, I had two or three very bad days. I was full of doubts, sure I had made a terrible mistake. I was in this state of mind as I sat in the uncomfortable coach which was taking me to my new home.’A young woman starts her first job as a governess in charge of two young orphans, Miles and Flora, at a country house called Bly. The children are beautiful and well-behaved, but are they too good to b...

CEFR Level: A2Theme: FriendshipThe novella’s impact is such that it has become a part of the language.In this Reader you will find:Information about Robert Louis Stevenson’s life | FocusOn Jack the Ripper, Victorian London | Appreciationand Extension Activities | Key (KET) ActivitiesTagsClassic Literature | ThrillerJekyll is a famous London doctor, but something unusual is happening in his house. Who is his strange young friend? Why does Jekyll like him? And why does no-one else like...

CEFR Level: B2Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet letter "A" because she is an adulteress. She lives a simple life with her daughter, Pearl but the evil, old Roger Chillingworth and the tormented Arthur Dimmesdale soon change things.Set in 17th century Puritan Boston, this is the story of Hester Prynne and her illegitimate daughter Pearl. She is condemned to wear a scarlet letter "A" as punishment for her adultery, but she refuses to reveal the identity of Pearl's father and they live a solitary l...

CEFR Level: B2Theme: Adventure‘It’s a risk, but you look so like him, I’m sure no one will suspect you’re not the real King.’English gentleman, Rudolf Rassendyll, travels to the small European country of Ruritania. When the king disappears, Rudolf must take his place. Will our hero find a way to rescue the king from his evil brother?SyllabusVerbs:Present perfect continuous. Past perfect simple and continuous, Future continuous, Future perfect would for willingness/r...

CEFR Level: B1Theme: Love“She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.”One sleepy summer, an American woman arrives in England, and wakes everybody up. Isabel Archer is an interesting woman. Everybody thinks so. She is an independent woman. Everybody agrees. And she changes the lives of everyone she meets in England. But will England change her?SyllabusVocabulary areas Family, relationships, travelGrammar and structures Present, Present Continuou...

CEFR Level: B1Theme: Social Issues‘A good portrait is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. I am afraid I show my soul in this painting.’Tag: FantasyIn this Reader you will find: - Information about Oscar Wilde’s life - Sections focusing on background and context - Glossary of difficult words - Comprehension activities - PET-style activities - Exit testLate nineteenth-century London: a city of contrasts. Great wealth and terrible poverty, beauty and ugliness, purity and imm...

CEFR Level: B2Theme: Social Issues‘She was looking for a key to understand. Then she could deal with the heavy weight that had fallen on her young heart’.Maggie is a curious girl. She asks many questions. And she wants some answers. What do people mean when they say she is too intelligent? When can she go to school like her brother? Why is a girl’s hair so important? As she gets older her questions change but her curiosity remains just as strong. Walk with Maggie and read her s...

CEFR Level: A1Theme: Animals‘Suddenly, in the darkness, there was a terrible, low howl and it came from the moor. ‘The hound!’ cried Holmes.’Tag MysteryIn this Reader you will find: - information about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s life - a section focusing on background and context - a glossary of difficult words - comprehension activities - an exit test An old family document says that everyone who l ivesat Baskerville Hall is in danger from a terrifying animal which l...

CEFR Level: C1Theme: LoveScott Fitzgerald’s third novel was published in 1925 and has justifiably become a 20th century literary classic. “Gatsby?” asked Daisy urgently. “What Gatsby?” Could it be the same young army lieutenant whom Daisy Fay met five years ago – and who owns a sumptuous house on Long Island, where New York society enjoys the best parties on offer? Is it just coincidence that Gatsby lives across the bay from Daisy – now married to wealth...

CEFR Level: B1Theme: AdventureWhen five young people in Berlin receive a mystery invitation, they begin an adventure that takes them to Greenland, Rwanda, South Africa and South America.It's an adventure that makes them some important friends... and a few enemies. Will the five find a way to help the Earth? Will the world listen to the "Earthkeepers"?SyllabusPronouns:- Reflexive and emphatic: myself, etc- Relative: who, which, that- Reciprocal: each other- Prepositions :Prepositions following no...

CEFR Level: B1Theme: Social Issues“Newland felt more and more embarrassed. The men were all staring into the box where May was sitting between her mother and her aunt, he didn’t recognise the lady in the strange dress, and he didn’t know why everyone was so shocked to see her.”In this Reader you will find:A short biography of the author, Edith Wharton | Culture and society in 1870s New York | Final testTagsLove | Culture and SocietyNewland Archer, heir to one of New York ...

CEFR Level: B2Theme: Social IssuesAn excellent introduction to the world of Shakespeare.This edition includes seven of Shakespeare’s plays: As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They tell stories of love, romance, ambition, jealousy and death, to name but a few of Shakespeare’s favourite themes and introduce us to some of his most famous characters.SyllabusVerbs:Present perfect continuo...