BLACK CAT READERS for ELT Secondary and Adults 2014 Visit our new website at www.blackcat.vicensvives.net … and keep up to date with our Training Area! 8 Video tutorials … and the Teacher’s Corner! FREE monthly lesson 6 Video tutorials Videos of talks EXTRA Activities free FOR YOU Black Cat Guide to Graded Readers Free downloadable material ➤➤➤ FREE Web Activities for many new readers After entering the Web Activities page with the access code provided within the reader, you will be able to choose from a range of online activities from level A1 to C1. Within each level you can then select activities and games based on grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation or listening skills or those giving specific practice in Cambridge ESOL exams. You can do the activities online and check your answers at the click of a mouse. 2 Contents Secondary and adults Secondary 3 Black Cat’s Digital Reading Programme FOR TEACHERS: INNOVATIVE DIGITAL READER RESOURCE PACK 20 titles 4 Black Cat’s Digital Reading Programme 20 DIGITAL READERS Interactive White Board ➤➤➤ ➤➤➤ ➤➤➤ Teacher’s Guide for teaching notes and extra activities ➤➤➤ Video tutorials ➤➤➤ ➤➤➤ Offline interactive activities Access to the CD-ROM Listen to the text and read the words as they light up Online web Activities 5 Expand your Horizons with Black Cat Readers EXPANSIVE READING Dear Teacher, Intensive and extensive reading have been the two major approaches to reading for a long time. But Black Cat readers use an exciting new approach which we call EXPANSIVE READING. RS TRINITY F KEY PRELIMINARY FIRST ADVANCED @ audio CD-ROM SBA @ @ CD** W EB A CTIVITIES 6 Expansive reading goes beyond the text to expand learning in many directions. Apart from activities which check comprehension, and provide practice in the four skills, structures and vocabulary building, Black Cat readers offer: • B e a u t i f u l i l l u s t rat i o n s a n d d ra m at i s e d recordings, which aid understanding of the text and create stimulus to read. • Detailed explanations of the cultural background of the text. • Cultural comparisons and analysis of film versions. • Cross-curricular links, reflecting the value now given to Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). • Projects on the web exploiting the Internet’s resources to the full. • Exam-style activities to help prepare students for international language qualifications. • Audio CD-ROMs for selected titles which ensure entertaining learning. The Complete Selection 7 Easyread Easyread ‘ 8 ’ The Story of Chocolate The Story of Coffee The Story of Football Wolves Castles and knights are part of the Middle Ages. What do you know about them? What happens in the Great Hall of a castle? What do knights do? Who can be a knight? Chocolate is probably the world’s favourite food. We eat it and we drink it too. It gives us energy and makes us happy. Learn about the history of this delicious food and discover some interesting facts that not everybody knows! Many people all over the world start their day with a cup of coffee. Black or white, espresso or filter – there are so many ways of preparing it. In this book you can learn more about the coffee plant and the history of this popular drink. And you can find a recipe for a frappuccino, too! ‘Football’ can refer to different sports, but this book is about the the most popular type of football – association football, or soccer. Wolves are beautiful and intelligent animals. What do you know about them? Where do they live? What do they eat? Do they like to play? Why are they in danger? KEY @ Level 1 @ KEY @ Level 1 @ KEY @ Level 1 @ Find out about the origins, the rules, the teams, and some of the greatest players in the history of ‘the beautiful game’. KEY @ Level 1 @ KEY @ @ Level 1 9 Easyread Castles and Knights The Life and Times of Captain Cook The Life and Times of Shakespeare The Story of Big Cities The Story of Moving Pictures Who was Captain Cook? Where did he go, and what did he discover? Find out about how, in less than 10 years, one man's discoveries were able to change our ideas about the world, and set sail on this exciting journey into the life and times of James Cook. Activities by Eleanor Donaldson New York City, Tokyo, São Paolo, Mexico City and Mumbai are some of the biggest cities in the world today, but how did they become so big? What makes a city? When, how and why did people start building and living in cities? Find out the answers to these questions and many others in this informative and interesting book. How did people make and watch films in the past? Do you know what magic lanterns or kinetoscopes were? Or nickelodeons or drive-ins? Find out in this book! KEY @ Easyread Level 2 10 @ Plays such as Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth are world-famous, and most people know some lines from Shakespeare like Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’. Now you can find out more about the life and times of the most popular playwright ever. KEY @ Level 2 @ KEY @ Level 2 @ KEY @ Level 2 @ Learn about the most important musical styles in Europe and North America from the middle ages to today. Read about the history of the minstrels and troubadours, ragtime music, jazz, blues, rock, pop, rap, grunge and many more. It’s all here. KEY @ Level 2 @ The Story of Tea What is Camellia sinensis? How did tea help to start the American Revolution? And how are monkeys connected to tea? Find out the answer to these questions and more in the story of one of the world's most popular drinks. KEY @ Level 2 @ The Story of the Olimpic Games Today the Olympic Games are the greatest sports event in the world. But when and where did the first Games start? Who are the all-time champions of the Summer and Winter Games? How many medals did they win? Where are the next Games going to take place? Open this exciting book and feel the thrill of the Olympic Games! KEY @ Level 2 @ Vikings Who were the Vikings? Where and how did they live? Where did they travel to? What were the Viking warriors like? Find out the answers to all of these questinos by reading this interesting and informative book. KEY @ @ Level 2 11 Easyread The Story of Popular Music Green Apple Green Apple ‘ ’ Green Apple are beautiful, full of activities and have fascinating dossiers: perfect for my lessons! CEFR: CESOL: Trinity: CEFR: CESOL: Trinity: CEFR: CESOL: Trinity: 12 F Green Apple n 13 A1 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Anne of Green Gables Bathsheba the Witch Beauty and the Beast Black Beauty Fairy tale & fantasy Human interest Fairy tale & fantasy Alice follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and finds herself in the magical world of Wonderland. She grows bigger and smaller and meets a lot of very strange characters! These include the Caterpillar on his mushroom, the smiling Cheshire Cat, the Hatter and the March Hare at their mad tea party, the Queen of Hearts at her crazy game of croquet, and many more! Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert want a boy from the orphanage to help them on their farm, but the orphanage sends them Anne, a funny little girl with long red hair who gets up to all kinds of adventures. What can Matthew and Marilla do? Find out how Anne makes their lives happier, and wins their hearts… Integrated dossiers: – Canada and its Wildlife – Nova Scotia B a t h s h e b a , a be a u t i f u l We a t h e r Witch, lives with her cat, Cobweb, on top of a high mountain near the village of Sunnyville. The people in t h e v i l l a g e d o n ’t k n o w a b o u t Bathsheba or about the important job she does for them. Her life is peaceful until one day she goes down to the village and meets some of the people there, including a very special soldier… Integrated dossiers: – Witches – The Weather in Great Britain – Potions A rich man suddenly becomes poor and he goes to live in the country with his children. One day he goes to the city on business. His daughter, Beauty, asks him to bring her a rose. On his way back the man takes a rose from the garden of a castle. But the owner of the castle, a beast, becomes angr y and demands something in exchange… KEY KEY @ KEY Integrated dossiers: – A Drink Called Tea – A Real Queen KEY @ Green Apple Starter 14 TRINITY audio CD-ROM Starter TRINITY W EB A CTIVITIES Starter F TRINITY audio CD-ROM Fairy tale & fantasy Integrated dossiers: – Castles – Flowers – Beauty and the Beast in Films and at the Theatre @ Starter TRINITY Human interest Black Beauty, a handsome, intell i g e n t h o r s e , l i v e s i n Vi c t o r i a n England on a peaceful farm with a w o n d e r f u l m a s t e r. B u t h i s l i f e changes when he is sold to different masters. Published in 1877, Black Beauty is an unforgettable classic for readers of all ages. Integrated dossiers: – Horses – The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals KEY @ Starter TRINITY A1 The Ghost Ship of Bodega Bay Halloween Horror Adventure Mystery & horror Five children go on holiday and discover a sand fair y near their home! The sand fairy is an unusual creature that grants wishes, and this is just the beginning of an incredible adventure for them. Their wishes are strange, silly…and s o m e t i m e s dangerous. T h e y g o from one exciting adventure to another until finally they realise the power of a wish and whether or not they really want one! When Kate and Mike Sullivan invite their friend Carlos to sail to the Farallon Islands on their father’s new boat, The Pelican, they expect to see the fascinating birds and animals which live there. But this exciting boat trip on the Pacific Ocean turns into a night of horror when ghastly ghosts from the past appear… Integrated dossier: – Making Wishes – Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary The Happy Prince and The Selfish Giant The Jungle Book Mystery & horror KEY @ Starter TRINITY Integrated dossier: KEY @ Starter TRINITY audio CD-ROM It’s fun to get ready for Halloween and it’s even more fun to have a spooky Halloween party! But what happens to a group of young teenagers when their Halloween party becomes a living nightmare? Find out what horror is all about in this spine-tingling story! Integrated dossiers: – The Origins of Halloween – Salem – Halloween Cookies – Make a Bat KEY @ Starter TRINITY audio Adventure Fairy tale & fantasy The Happy Prince is the unforgettable story of the touching friendship between the golden statue of the Happy Prince and a little swallow. The enchanted garden of The Selfish Giant is the perfect place for children to play, until the Giant decides to keep it all for himself! Integrated dossiers: – Birds – Migratory Birds – Gardens CD-ROM KEY @ Starter TRINITY Mowgli, a baby boy, is raised by a family of loving wolves in India. He is educated by Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the brown bear. All the animals like him except for Shere Khan, a tiger who wants to kill him. A timeless classic that enchants younger and older readers alike. Integrated dossiers: – Let’s meet some of the animals in the Story – India CD-ROM audio KEY @ TRINITY audio CD-ROM Starter 15 Green Apple Five Children and It A1 Just So Stories The Nutcracker Peter Pan Sandokan Fairy tale & fantasy Fairy tale & fantasy Adventure One Christmas Eve in 19th-century Nuremberg Uncle Drosselmeyer arrives with presents for everyone and Clara gets a nutcracker. That night Clara discovers that her nutcracker is much more than a toy. Together they go to the magic Land of Sweets! But on Christmas morning there is another surprise for her… The Darling children’s amazing adventure begins when Peter Pan flies into their nursery and whisks them off to his enchanted island, Neverland. There they meet Peter’s friends, the Lost Boys. But James Hook, the cruel captain of the pirates, soon captures them. Can Peter Pan save them? Sandokan and his pirates rule the Malaysian Sea in the 1840s, and the British want to capture him. One day he meets Marianna, Lord James’s young niece, and they are immediately attracted to each other. Their love is impossible, but Sandokan and his friend Yanez make a daring plan to take Marianna away from her uncle. Fairy Tale and Fantasy Rudyard Kipling surprises us again with these five tales from the animal kingdom. Have you ever wondered why elephants have such long noses and why leopards have spots? Do you know why kangaroos hop around Australia? Find out how a clever young sailor tricked a whale and meet many other unforgettable characters. Integrated dossiers: – Animals in Australia – Whales audio CD-ROM KEY F Green Apple Starter 16 Integrated dossier: – The ballet of ‘The Nutcracker’ audio @ TRINITY SBA Integrated dossiers: – Pirates – Fairies – Peter Pan in Films and at the Theatre CD-ROM KEY @ Starter TRINITY SBA KEY @ Starter audio CD-ROM The Secret Garden Human Interest Integrated dossiers: – Pirates – Kuala Lumpur – East Malaysia KEY @ Starter TRINITY Life with her uncle is uneventful for bad-tempered Mary Lennox until one day she finds a secret garden. She wants to make the garden beautiful and meets Dickon, a friendly boy who helps her. Then Mary meets her cousin Colin, an invalid, who is confined to bed. With Mary and Dickon's help Colin goes out into the secret garden and discovers the meaning of true friendship and happiness. Integrated dossier: – English Gardens audio CD-ROM KEY @ Starter TRINITY A1 The Tempest The Wind in the Willows Mystery & horror Picture Reader Adventure Max and Laura's summer holiday in the village of Stonecross is full of excitement and danger: a symbol, an old book of secrets, a mysterious housekeeper and thieves who don't steal anything. What does it all mean? Under the shadow of Stonehenge the two children and their Uncle Stephen discover a dark plot to reveal its ancient secrets. Will the plot succeed or will the secrets of the stones remain a mystery forever? Prospero, Duke of Milan, lives on a lonely island with his daughter Miranda, Caliban (a monster) and Ariel (a magic spirit). He learns to do magic and he wants to punish his bad brother, Antonio. He creates a magic storm – a tempest. All the people on Antonio’s ship land on Prospero’s island and many strange things happen to them. Integrated dossier: – Stonehenge KEY @ Starter audio CD-ROM Human interest Integrated dossiers: – Famous Shipwrecks – Magic and Magicians KEY @ Starter TRINITY Integrated dossier: – Animals in Winter @ Starter Zorro! Adventure This classic story, set in the English countryside, features the lovable characters Rat, Mole, Toad and Badger. When Mole decides to leave his underground home and meets Rat, he discovers a completely new world on the river bank and the Wild Wood. And Toad’s passion for fast cars leads them on a series of adventures... KEY The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Fairy tale & fantasy The incredible adventures of Dorothy, her dog Toto, the Tin Woodman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion have continued to enthuse readers of all ages ever since it was first published in 1900. Join Dorothy and her friends as they travel down the yellow brick road to the Emerald City to meet the wonderful Wizard of Oz. The daring adventures of Zorro, the legendary masked hero of Spanish California. He is a champion of justice and an expert with the sword. He is invincible as he defies corrupt politicians and defends the oppressed. Integrated dossiers: – Spanish California – California Today and others Integrated dossiers: – Cyclones – Kansas audio CD-ROM KEY Starter audio CD-ROM KEY @ TRINITY Starter 17 Green Apple The Secret of the Stones A2 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Adventure Join Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and their friends as they go on a series of exciting adventures on the Mississippi River. Read about how they witness a murder while looking for ghosts in a graveyard, and how they run away to an island, frightening everyone back home. Integrated dossier: – The One-room School, Missouri audio CD-ROM KEY @ Green Apple Step 1 18 W EB A CTIVITIES TRINITY SBA Akron House Mystery American Folk Tales The American West Mystery & horror Legend History Carol and Steve Taylor move into an old, mysterious house which hides many secrets. Carol hears footsteps at night, Steve finds an old love letter from the American Civil War and the people in town hear a woman crying in the night. Who is trying to give them a message and why? Carol, Steve and their friend Halim solve an incredibly difficult and touching mystery. Enjoy three of America’s most loved folk tales of the 1800s! Meet Johnny Appleseed who planted apple seeds across America. Find out how Pecos Bill became King of the Cowboys of Texas. Visit a Southern plantation and laugh with cunning Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox. One of the most exciting and memorable periods of American history is brought to life. Original 19th-century photographs and prints will allow you to relive the adventures of the American West with its cowboys, sheriffs, outlaws and Indians. Integrated dossiers: Integrated dossiers: – A Nation is Born – Outlaws of the West – Cowboys! Integrated dossiers: – The American Civil War – The Lewis and Clark Expedition – Thanksgiving audio CD-ROM KEY @ Step 1 W EB A CTIVITIES TRINITY – – – – – American Food made with Apples Young America and its Settlers Life on a Ranch Fox Hunting Brer Tales and the South and others KEY Step 1 TRINITY KEY Step 1 @ TRINITY A2 Adventure Set in England during the Wars of the Roses, this is the exciting story of Richard Shelton and the band of the Black Arrow. Sir Daniel Brackley is like a father to Richard, but one day Richard discovers a terrible truth from the past. Now he must fight against Sir Daniel and his men. A tale filled with adventure, treachery, mystery and romance. Integrated dossiers: The Bottle Imp British and American Festivities Mystery & horror Festivals Keawe, a young Hawaiian sailor, is offered the opportunity to buy a bottle containing an imp which will grant all his wishes. However, the bottle must, from then on, be resold for a price smaller than what he paid for it, or he will be condemned to live out the rest of his days in excruciating torment. Why do we celebrate Halloween? What do people do to celebrate the New Year? Why is the egg a symbol of Easter? Who invented the Christmas card? This unique book explores the origins of our festivities, their historical significance, and how we celebrate them today. Integrated dossiers: – Captain Cook – Hawaii Davy Crockett Ghastly Ghosts! History Mystery & horror This is the true story of a brave, adventurous man, a real American hero, who has become a legend. Davy loved danger, justice and freedom. He was the true American free spirit of the 1800s who helped to build America. What is the t r u t h a b o u t gh o s t s and the supernatural? Do dead people really come back to haunt the world? Can an entire village be haunted? Can ghosts be photographed? Find out in this spine-chilling book that introduces you to some of the world’s most ghastly ghosts and their macabre doings! Integrated dossiers: – Hunters and Trappers – The American Frontier – Jim Bowie and the Bowie Knife – Davy Crockett State Park – The Wars of the Roses – Knights and Knighthood Today KEY @ Step 1 TRINITY KEY Step 1 @ TRINITY audio CD-ROM KEY Step 1 @ TRINITY KEY @ Step 1 TRINITY Integrated dossier: – Halloween Apple Cake KEY @ Step 1 19 Green Apple The Black Arrow ESO 2 A2 FORTHCOMING The Great Adventure at Yellowstone Gina D. B. Clement Halloween… Magic, Witches and Vampires Adventure Kelly Reinhart Three teenagers take a camping trip at Yellowstone National Park. Two of the park’s wolves are missing and they decide to look for them. Their trip becomes an exciting, yet dangerous adventure when they meet a hungry grizzly bear, an angry mountain lion and a herd of bison. Will they ever find the missing wolves? Integrated dossiers: – Yellowstone National Park – Wolves – Wyoming: the Cowboy State – The animals at Yellowstone Great Expectations Charles Dickens Picture Reader Human Interest Pip, a poor young boy, receives amazing news. Someone has given him a vast amount of money and wants to make him a gentleman. Who is his mysterious benefactor? Is it Miss Havisham, who lives in an old house with the beautiful Estella? Life is full of surprises... Integrated dossiers: – Ladies and Gentelmen – Transportation to Australia Playscript Festivals An exciting and informative book on the history and culture of Halloween, which gives details about an authentic American Halloween party! The beginnings of witchcraft, magic and astrology are explained. And, there is a chilling chapter on vampires and werewolves! Integrated dossiers: – Stonehenge – How to make a Jack-O’Lantern and others I Want To Be You Andrea M. Hutchinson Human interest Holly and Rosie are cousins but they are very different. When the school basket-ball team fails to win the championship because Holly misses a penalty, Holly discovers just how cruel her cousin can be. Holly always thought that Rosie had everything; lots of friends and lots of money to buy lots of designer clothes. But then she meets an old lady at a fair and soon finds out that things aren’t always what they seem… Integrated dossier: – Travelling Funfairs audio CD-ROM W EB A CTIVITIES KEY Step 1 TRINITY @ KEY KEY Step 1 Step 1 TRINITY KEY @ W EB A CTIVITIES TRINITY Step 1 Green Apple audio CD/CD-ROM 20 SBA A2 The Last Unicorn Legend Fairy tale & fantasy When he was very young, Jason’s uncle took the kingdom of Lolkos from his father, but now Jason wants it back. First he must find and bring back the Golden Fleece. It is a dangerous mission but Jason and a crew of heroes set sail on the Argo to the Black Sea. The Argonauts must battle against giants, huge birds and sea monsters before their journey ends. It is the summer holidays and Megan’s mother is very ill. She has to stay with her uncle on the Isle of Skye in Scotland, but she doesn’t want to go. It is quiet, too quiet, until Megan meets Ben, her uncle’s neighbour, and sees a silvery unicorn. The unicorn has woken from its long sleep and it is Megan who has woken him… Integrated dossiers: – The Isle of Skye – Clans, Kits and Tartan – Scottish Music Integrated dossiers: – Greek Pottery – Greek Mythology audio CD-ROM KEY @ Step 1 audio TRINITY SBA CD-ROM KEY Step 1 @ Legends from the British Isles Legend Enjoy four popular legends from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales that tell us about a girl who makes friends with a unicorn, a wizard who casts terrible spells, a king who hides a strange secret and a prince’s loyal dog… all unforgettable! The four legends are recorded with regional accents. Integrated dossiers: – Haunted Castles in Scotland – Man’s Best Friend Little Women The Lost Treasure of Bodega Bay Human interest Mystery & horror Growing up in New England during the American Civil War isn’t easy for the March sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. With their father away, they must learn to make sacrifices and accept disappointments. Discover how the four sisters’ dreams finally come true in this timeless classic about love, kindness, and generosity. Kate, Mike and Carlos go on another trip to Bodega Bay near San Francisco, where more than a year ago they found a pirate’s old treasure map. An incredibly exciting and dangerous adventure awaits them as they follow a mysterious clue and go on a treasure hunt to find a lost treasure from centuries ago. Integrated dossier: – The American Civil War and others audio W EB A CTIVITIES TRINITY SBA Integrated dossiers: – Sharks – Pirates KEY Step 1 @ TRINITY CD-ROM audio KEY @ Step 1 TRINITY CD-ROM KEY @ TRINITY SBA Step 1 21 Green Apple Jason and the Argonauts A2 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mystery in San Francisco The Prince and the Pauper Project Vampire The Railway Children Mystery & horror Mystery & horror Human interest Hermia and Lysander are in love, but Hermia’s father wants Demetrius to marry his daughter, so Hermia and Lysander decide to run away to get married. But in the wood some fairies per form some magic and some strange things start to happen... Integrated dossiers: – Fairies – Acting and Theatres in Shakespeare’s Time audio Step 1 Green Apple Integrated dossiers: – A Guide to San Francisco – Natural Resources and Pollution Adventure Edward and Tom are identical. They both live in London, but there is one difference: Edward is a prince and Tom is a pauper. One day they meet and decide to play a game. Edward becomes a pauper and Tom becomes a prince. But something goes wrong. Will Edward ever return to his palace and become King of England? Integrated dossiers: – King Henry VIII CD-ROM KEY F 22 An abandoned mansion, a ghostly face at the window and mysterious happenings at one of the city's favorite landmarks all mark the start of a thrilling adventure for Jim Reilly and his teenage friends. Set in cosmopolitan San Francisco, California, this is a mystery story full of suspense with an unexpected twist, brilliantly solved by three young detectives. Max and Laura are involved in another mysterious case. This time a phantom thief seems to be able to get in and out of important museums in London stealing valuable paintings. Max and Laura decide to explore the area around one of the museums. Something very spooky is going to happen… Integrated dossiers: – London museums – Travelling around London – Top five things to do in London audio @ TRINITY SBA KEY @ Step 1 TRINITY KEY Step 1 @ TRINITY CD-ROM KEY Step 1 @ W EB A CTIVITIES TRINITY Adventure After their father is mysteriously forced to leave home, the three children and their mother go to live in a cottage in the country near a railway track. The children make friends with the Station Master, the Porter and a friendly old gentleman. Peter, Bobbie and Phyllis enjoy several exciting adventures and become the heroes of the village. But the myster y of their father remains unsolved, until one day… Integrated dossier: – Early Railways KEY Step 1 @ TRINITY A2 Robinson Crusoe Legend Adventure Rip Van Winkle goes walking in the Catskill mountains. He has a strong drink, falls asleep and doesn’t wake up until much later. Ichabod Crane lives in Sleepy Hollow. He likes Katrina van Tassel but so does Brom Bones. After speaking to Katrina, Ichabod runs away, leaving behind him the legend of the Headless Horseman. When Robinson Crusoe tells his parents he wants to go to sea they don’t want him to, but he ignores their wishes and joins a ship. This is just the beginning of his many adventures at sea, which end with him being shipwrecked on a desert island. Mystery & horror Integrated dossiers: – The Atlantic Slave Trade – The Real Robinson Crusoe – Alexander Selkirk Integrated dossiers: – Victorian Writers – Police and Detectives of the19th Century Integrated dossiers: – America in the 1700s – The American Revolution – New York: Yesterday and Today KEY Step 1 @ TRINITY Sherlock Holmes and the Red Circle A mysterious lodger has rented rooms at Mrs Warren’s lodging house. She is frightened by this strange individual, so asks Sherlock Holmes to help. He and Dr Watson discover cryptic messages, a sinister secret society and a terrible murder. audio KEY Step 1 @ TRINITY audio CD-ROM CD-ROM KEY Step 1 @ The Treasure of Franchard The True Story of Pocahontas Human interest History Jean-Marie is an orphan who is happily adopted by Doctor Desprez and his wife Anastasie. When the doctor finds the precious Treasure of Franchard he plans to take his family away from their lovely, old country home go to Paris and live a rich life. Jean-Marie does not want to go to Paris and during the night the treasure mysteriously disappears… Pocahontas is the touching story of an Indian princess, whose courage saved a white man’s life. No one could have imagined that Pocahontas would be the first Indian to marry a white man! Integrated dossier: – Paris in the Ninrteenth Century Integrated dossiers: – The Origins of Virginia – Indian Life – Virginia Today CD-ROM audio TRINITY SBA KEY Step 1 @ TRINITY SBA KEY @ TRINITY Step 1 23 Green Apple Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow A2-B1 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Adventure Meet Huckleberry Finn and embark on an exciting series of adventures down the Mississippi River. Enjoy the ride as Huck ingeniously escapes from the clutches of his cruel father, cleverly stops a couple of villains from stealing a family’s fortune and, enlists the help of his friend Tom Sawyer to save a runaway slave from a terrible fate. An American classic that appeals to young and old alike. The Call of the Wild David Copperfield Great English Monarchs and their Times Adventure Human interest History Buck, a big, happy dog, is kidnapped from his comfortable home in California and is sold as a sled dog in the cold Yukon Territory during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896. His new life in the Northland is difficult, challenging, adventurous… and full of surprises! David Copperfield is a boy who experiences the best and the worst of life in 19th-century England. When David’s beloved mother dies, his cruel stepfather mistreats him. David has to suffer fear and loneliness at boarding school and while working in a London factory. He is deceived by Steerforth and Uriah Heep. But he also finds love and protection from the friends he can trust. Do you know that Henry VIII was happily married for almost 20 years to the same queen before meeting his other wives? Do you know Queen Elizabeth refused to marry in spite of all the men who loved her? And do you know what events during Queen Victoria’s reign contributed to making the British Empire the biggest ever? English monarchs have fascinated the world for centuries. Find out about their lives, their loves, their ambitions and their secrets. Integrated dossiers: – The Klondike Gold Rush – Wolves Integrated dossier: – Slavery PRELIMINARY @ PRELIMINARY TRINITY Green Apple Step 2 24 Step 2 @ Integrated dossiers: – Child Labour – Dickens and Education PRELIMINARY TRINITY Step 2 @ @ Integrated dossier: – Reading a Painting and others PRELIMINARY Step 2 @ TRINITY A2-B1 Oliver Twist Legend Human interest Learn how Arthur became King, where he found his great sword Excalibur, about his love for Guinevere, and all about the courageous Knights of the Round Table. Set in 19th-century London, this timeless classic narrates the incredible adventures and poignant hardships of Oliver, a young, penniless orphan who, in spite of his encounters with criminals of London and adverse circumstances, finds happiness in the end. Integrated dossiers: – Knights – Castles – The Round Table – Old Castles of Great Interest and others PRELIMINARY audio CD-ROM Step 2 @ TRINITY Oscar Wilde’s Short Stories Integrated dossiers: – London in Dickens’ Time – Children and Education in the 1800s and others PRELIMINARY audio CD-ROM Step 2 @ Fairy tale & fantasy ‘The Young King’ tells how a shepherd boy becomes a king and realises that money is not worth human suffering. In ‘The Star Child’ a baby is found in the forest and discovers his true identity after many adventures. ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’ is a tale of a nightingale who sacrifices her life to create the perfect red rose for a student in love. Pirates! Robin Hood Adventure Legend Pirates and their incredible adventures have fascinated readers for centuries. Pirates!, with its stunning illustrations and maps, traces piracy from its distant origins in the year 2000 BC, all the way to modern times... because pirates are still at work today! The legendary hero of Sherwood Forest comes to life in this exciting book about his daring adventures. Robin Hood explains about why Robin became an outlaw, how his band of outlaws grew, Marian’s love for Robin, how the cruel sheriff was punished and much more. Integrated dossiers: – Did Robin Hood really exist? – The Crusades – King Richard, the Lionheart – King John and the Magna Carta and others Integrated dossier: – Life in Victorian Times and others TRINITY PRELIMINARY Step 2 @ TRINITY PRELIMINARY Step 2 @ TRINITY Step 2 25 Green Apple King Arthur and his Knights A2-B1 Tom and Co’s Adventures in Cyberspace Treasure Island White Fang Computing, English and Virtual Worlds Adventure Adventure Read about the thrilling adventures of young Jim Hawkins and his friends who set sail for Treasure Island in search of treasure. But will Long John Silver get there first…? Set in the cold Yukon Territory during the Klondike Gold Rush, this is the adventurous story of a young wolf that is captured and must learn to live in captivity. His first years are filled with hardship because his masters are cruel and uncaring, and he has no friends, only enemies. Then one day, during a terrible dog fight, White Fang meets a stranger who changes his life… Adventure A group of teenagers find a mysterious e-mail message which introduces them to the world of cyberspace. A pragmatic approach for students to learn English and improve their web skills at the same time. Students can reinforce and practise what they have learnt by doing the Portfolio sections, while being introduced to a variety of topics and countries. PRELIMINARY Green Apple Step 2 26 @ Integrated dossiers: – A Pirate Ship – Famous Pirates Integrated dossiers: – Dogs at Work – The Yukon Territory – California PRELIMINARY Step 2 @ TRINITY PRELIMINARY TRINITY Step 2 @ A2-B1 Macbeth Romeo and Juliet Tragedy Love ‘Hail, Macbeth who will be king one day.’ On a cold Scottish heath, three witches make a prophecy. Inspired by their words and encouraged by his evil wife, Macbeth begins his trail of destruction to gain and keep the Scottish throne. Nobody can remember why the Capulet family and the Montague family hate each other but the feud is longstanding and brutal. When Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague meet and fall in love the result is tragic, and peace between the two families is only possible after the death of many people. Integrated dossiers: – Scotland – Some Scottish History – Shakespeare Integrated dossiers: – The Renaissance Man – ‘Romeo and Juliet’ on Film – Saint Francis and the Franciscan Friars – Shakespeare’s Theatre Playscript @ Step 2 SBA @ Step 2 27 Green Apple Green Apple Drama ‘ Reading & Training ’ Spectacular productions with excellent background materials. CEFR: CESOL: Trinity: CEFR: CESOL: Trinity: F CEFR: CESOL: Trinity: CEFR: CESOL: Trinity: CEFR: CESOL: Trinity: CEFR: CESOL: Trinity: 28 N N F RS N RS RS RS NE RS RS RS RS RS F RS RS F RS A2 Alien Alert in Seattle Home for Christmas Mystery & horror Integrated dossiers: – Introduction to Seattle – The solar system – UFOs – American teenagers and High School @ Reading & Training Step One 30 Miami Police File: The O’Nell Case Missing in Sydney Crime Adventure Peter O’Nell, Montego High School’s favourite teacher, goes missing in the Bermuda Triangle, and the police can’t solve the case. His students decide to investigate, with the help of O’Nell’s dog, Rover. But the truth behind O’Nell’s disappearance is very macabre… Three best friends are travelling around Australia in search of adventure before they start university back home in the UK. But after celebrating Christmas Day one of them goes missing. Lisa is just an ordinary 18year-old, so why would anyone want to kidnap her? Amy and Claire are determined to find her… Mystery & horror There has been a UFO sighting in the Cascade mountains near Seattle, Washington, and everyone is excited. But no one believes there could possibly be an alien in town, until Karen, Barbara and Walter notice that one of the teachers at their high school is behaving very strangely. Karen and her friends start investigating on their own and are very surprised by what they discover… KEY A Message from a Ghost TRINITY SBA Adventure Three young women need to get to London from Ireland in time for Christmas. When all flights are cancelled, they are forced to share a car and make the journey by road. They each have their own personal problems, but they have to decide together what to do when they find a briefcase full of money. Then they realise that a car is following them… Integrated dossiers: – The Emerald Isle – Indians in Britain KEY @ Step One TRINITY Bella and her friends, Elise and Gracie, are going on a school trip. But then they get lost. They set out to find their school friends and the youth hostel where they should be staying but before they can find them, strange and spooky things start to happen. First Bella sees a mysterious girl in the woods, then Elise witnesses a discussion between two men which will reveal some dangerous secrets. Their friends are unaware that they are in danger and it is up to Elise, Bella and Gracie to save them. But how? Integrated dossiers: – School trips – Ghosts in films W EB A CTIVITIES KEY @ Step One TRINITY SBA Integrated dossiers: – Halloween – American High School Sports – The Bermuda Triangle audio Integrated dossiers: – Sydney – Around Australia CD-ROM KEY @ Step One TRINITY KEY @ Step One TRINITY ESO 2 A2 Tristan and Isolde Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Tales from The Thousand and One Nights Digital Reading Programme Digital Reading Programme Legend Crime Fairy tale & fantasy The world’s most famous detective surprises us again with the brilliant solutions to two seemingly impossible cases.The master detective solves the case of the horrible murder of a young woman in The Speckled Band. Smile with him and Watson as they listen to the puzzling story of one of their odd clients, who is not so odd after all, in The Red-Headed League. A selection from the famous collection of Oriental stories known as the One Thousand and One Nights, including the classic favourites Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves and Sindbad the Sailor. Travel through the streets of old Baghdad, around luxurious palaces and fragrant gardens in India, to desert islands in the China seas… One of the great romances of the Middle Ages, Tristan and Isolde has inspired writers, poets, artists and musicians for centuries. After slaying a dragon and winning a tournament, the young prince Tristan wins the hand of beautiful Isolde for his uncle, King Mark. But on their journey back to Mark’s court, they drink a love potion that was intended for the king and his young bride. They instantly fall in love – a love that is impossible. NEW The Truth about Professor Smith Andrea M. Hutchinson Integrated dossier: – London at the Time of Sherlock Holmes KEY @ TRINITY Step One A2 audio/CD-ROM audio CD-ROM Integrated dossiers: – The Origins of The Arabian Nights – Baghdad, the city of The Arabian Nights KEY @ TRINITY Step One A2 audio CD-ROM Mystery Integrated dossiers: – The Celts – King Arthur: fact or fiction KEY @ TRINITY Step One A2 Professor Smith has always been every student’s favourite teacher. But when Sam and Izzie return to school after the summer holidays, their fun, energetic science teacher is gone. Professor Smith is anxious and when he is kidnapped in front of them, they realise that he was right to be so scared. But what dark secret could their science teacher be hiding? And can Sam and Izzie uncover the truth before their own lives will be put in danger? Integrated dossiers: – Detectives in Fiction – Forensic Science KEY TRINITY W EB A CTIVITIES Step One A2 audio/CD-ROM 31 Reading & Training Sherlock Holmes Stories B1.1 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Animal Tales Around the World in Eighty Days A Dream Come True The Fisherman and his Soul Human interest Fairy tale & fantasy Join Alice as she follows the white rabbit into the amazing world of Wonderland, where anything can happen! Watch Alice change size, meet the Mad Hatter and his friend, the March Hare, talk to the smiling Cheshire cat, play a game of croquet with the Queen of Hearts, etc., and enjoy never-ending adventures in the land of dreams! Integrated dossiers: – Oxford – A Great Invention: Photography – Victorian Sports Adventure Humour & comedy Read these amusing stories and you will discover why elephants have trunks, how it's best to work out the correct price for pigs straight away and what happened to an English lady when she went hunting for a tiger! You will also find a stolen elephant, go boating with three friends and see how much trouble a small dog can make! In 1872 a rich English gentleman, Phileas Fogg, makes a bet that he can go around the world in 80 days. Accompanied by his French manservant, Passepartout, he sets off on an incredible race against the clock, over land and sea. The tenacious Inspector Fix, convinced that Phileas Fogg is a robber, pursues him relentlessly across the continents. Integrated dossier: – India and others Integrated dossiers: – Elephants – Tigers Reading & Training Step Two 32 TRINITY Integrated dossiers: – Education in England – Yorkshire – Festivals in Britain and Ireland Fairy tale & fantasy A story of love and friendship about a fisherman who catches a mermaid. He lets her go because she promises to help him fish. Each day the mermaid appears and sings her song, so he falls in love with her! However, she cannot marry him until he has lost his human soul. Integrated dossiers: – Children’s Literature – Aestheticism audio W EB A CTIVITIES PRELIMINARY Ellie is mad about music: she dreams of becoming a singer and she desperately wants to go to the Glastonbury Festival, where her favourite singer, Murphy, will be playing. But with an overprotective Dad and important exams to take, it seems that Ellie’s dreams will have to remain just that, dreams. But one day she sees a competition in a music magazine… PRELIMINARY Step Two @ TRINITY PRELIMINARY Step Two @ TRINITY PRELIMINARY Step Two @ TRINITY CD-ROM PRELIMINARY Step Two @ TRINITY B1.1 Journey to the Centre of the Earth The Jumping Frog Humour & comedy Adventure Tragedy When the ghost of Hamlet’s father reveals the terrible secret of Elsinore, the result is chaos and tragedy for the young Prince of Denmark. Will he avenge his father’s murder? Integrated dossiers: – Films of Hamlet – Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Theatre – Who was Hamlet? audio CD-ROM PRELIMINARY Step Two @ TRINITY The famous mineralogist, Professor Lidenbrock, finds a piece of parchment in an old book. A message written in code describes a secret entrance to another world. The Professor’s nephew, Axel, breaks the code and he and his uncle set out on a journey that takes them back in time to the days of the dinosaurs and prehistoric man. But how will they manage to get back to the present safely? The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County depicts one of American history’s most exciting periods: the California Gold Rush of the 1850s. Come to Angel’s Mining Camp in California and meet Smiley whose frog is a living gold mine until one day… Integrated dossiers: – The California Gold Rush – Life in the Mining Camps and others Integrated dossiers: – Volcanoes W EB A CTIVITIES – Geological Time PRELIMINARY Step Two @ TRINITY SBA PRELIMINARY Step Two @ TRINITY Kidnapped The Lost World Adventure Adventure When his father dies, David Balfour discovers he has inherited the family home near Edinburgh. But his Uncle Ebenezer also wants the house and puts David on a ship to America. The story follows David’s adventures across land and sea. With the help of his new friend, Alan Breck, can David return to Edinburgh and claim what is rightfully his? Integrated dossiers: – Scotland – The Jacobites – The City of Edinburgh from Past to Present PRELIMINARY Step Two TRINITY audio CD-ROM At the beginning of the 1900s the whole world has been explored: there is nothing left to discover. But maybe this is not totally true. The eccentric Professor Challenger says there is a place where dinosaurs still live. So he decides to lead an expedition to this prehistoric world in the middle of the great Amazon forest. Integrated dossiers: – Amazonia: a Land of Wonders – Dinosaurs audio CD-ROM PRELIMINARY @ TRINITY Step Two 33 Reading & Training Hamlet Prince of Denmark B1.1 Magical Tales from the South Seas Murder at Coyote Canyon The Mutiny on the Bounty Mystery in New Orleans The Rajah’s Diamond Mystery and horror Crime Fairy tale & fantasy Set in the South Seas, Stevenson creates tales of magic and adventure. The Isle of Voices Kalamake, a wizard who transforms seashells into dollars! The Beach of Falesá is a thrilling tale of treachery, devils, island magic and two people who find love. Integrated dossiers: – The History of Money – The Hawaiian Islands The Chumash are American Indians who live in California. When a property developer starts building homes on the site of their ancient cemetery, the Chumash become angry. During the night of the Fourth of July celebrations a mysterious American Indian warrior appears and a murder is committed. Suspicion falls on the Chumash, but four young friends investigate further… Integrated dossiers: – Independence Day – American Indians audio PRELIMINARY Reading & Training Step Two @ TRINITY CD-ROM PRELIMINARY Step Two @ @ TRINITY Adventure What really happened on board the famous ship, the Bounty? Why did the sailors mutiny against their captain, and where did they take the ship? How did the captain and his loyal crew survive a 5,000 mile journey? Join Captain Bligh, Fletcher Chris-tian and Tom on their incredible adventures at sea, and discover what the Bounty mutiny was really about. Integrated dossiers: – Life at Sea in the 18th Century – Island Destinations in The Mutiny on the Bounty – Pitcairn PRELIMINARY @ TRINITY Integrated dossiers: – What can you eat in New Orleans? – New Orleans, one of America’s most unusual cities – New Orleans and Dixieland Jazz C D se d o Adventure The Rajah’s Diamond, the most precious diamond in the world, seems to bring bad luck on everyone who comes into contact with it. Owned by Sir Thomas Vandeleur, his wife tries to sell it to pay off her debts. But the diamond is stolen and falls into the wrong hands. Follow the diamond on its adventures and find out what happend to it. Integrated dossiers: – The Hope Diamond – The Thousand and One Nights – Gentlemen’s Clubs and The Empire Strikes Back W EB A CTIVITIES PRELIMINARY Step Two Step Two e n cl 34 Two greedy businessmen want to destroy a wildlife reserve in New Orleans, where Andy and Brian have summer jobs, and plan to build a huge shopping center. Mysterious and terrible deaths, and an ecological disaster shock the people of New Orleans. Andy, Brian and Megan decide to solve this bizarre mystery. TRINITY PRELIMINARY Step Two @ TRINITY B1.1 Recipe for Success Rob Roy The Secret Garden and Other Stories Stories of Ghosts and Mystery Adventure Humour & comedy The Ransom of Red Chief is a wonderfully funny and ironic story about two inexperienced kidnappers and their unusual "victim", with a great surprise ending. O. Henry's unique talent enabled him to create a world full of ordinary people who did extraordinary things. Integrated dossier: – The Origins of the American Police Seren wants to go on a school trip to Paris more than anything. But when her Dad won’t even let her walk home from school by herself, how is she going to convince him? Determined not to give up on her dream, Seren comes up with a plan. But she quickly learns that even the best plans can go wrong, and even the biggest dreams can end up broken. She needs another plan fast. But will it be good enough to convince her Dad? Integrated dossiers: – A food journey across the United Kingdom – Claude Monet – Wales W EB A CTIVITIES PRELIMINARY Step Two @ TRINITY PRELIMINARY Step Two TRINITY Adventure 1715: Frank Osbaldistone likes poetry and he does not want to enter the family business. The young man is then sent by his father to the north of England. Frank meets a charismatic Scotsman and an official of the English government. This will be the beginning of his involvement in a rebellion against the British monarchy. In this great historical novel, Frank comes to love and understand the wild world of the Scottish Highlands. Integrated dossiers: – Rob Roy: history comes alive – The historical novel: Sir Walter Scott’s Great Creation PRELIMINARY Step Two @ Human interest Mary Lennox is a spoilt, unpleasant little girl who goes to live with her uncle on his enormous estate in Yorkshire after the death of her parents in India. Left very much to herself she explores the grounds of the house and finds the secret garden which has been locked up for ten years… Integrated dossiers: – The World of The Secret Garden – India – The Rich and the Poor in Victorian Times, British Gardens SBA TRINITY audio Mystery and horror Three authors reveal the obscure corners of the occult. Sinister ghosts of the past have never left Barwyke Hall; a man disappears mysteriously; the Puritan Reverend Hooper is plagued by a terrible secret sin that forces him to wear a black veil. Integrated dossiers: – England and Its Ghosts – New England and the Puritans SBA CD-ROM PRELIMINARY Step Two @ TRINITY PRELIMINARY @ TRINITY Step Two 35 Reading & Training The Ransom of Red Chief B1.1 Time Games The Willing Ghost The £1,000,000 Bank Note Alien at School Mystery & horror Mystery Like many 15 year olds, Adam prefers computer games to school work, but he can’t understand why one of his favourite games seems to have a life of its own. And why is he suddenly hearing voices? Why can’t anyone else see the strange boy outside the school gates? And why does the boy look so like Adam? He finds the answers he’s looking for and a lot more besides hundreds of years in the past. Integrated dossiers: – Time Travel – Schools in Britain – Medieval Castles W EB A CTIVITIES PRELIMINARY Reading & Training Step Two 36 The Canterville Ghost @ TRINITY Crime Selena Willing, a young, beautiful heiress, contacts Richard Boot, a private detective, because she thinks there is a noisy ghost in her stately home. Richard investigates, looking into Selena’s life and discovers that the noise she hears is not a ghost, but something much more real and dangerous… Integrated dossiers: – Private Detectives – Stately Homes – Soho Humour & comedy Have you ever made a bet – a big bet? In the 1850s, a young American finds himself in London by chance. He is penniless, and yet he leads the luxurious life of a millionaire. How can he do this? It’s all thanks to a bizarre bet made by two eccentric gentlemen. Integrated dossiers: – San Francisco in the 1850s – The English and Betting – Money and its Origins and others SBA PRELIMINARY Step Two Whoever thought that starting high school would be so exciting? A comet and a constellation have crossed paths, and space experts know this means the possibility of alien encounters! In a town near Boston, Jennifer Dale and her friends have some weird new teachers! Mr Stone, the English teacher, is particularly strange… Integrated dossiers: – UFOs – American Teenagers and High School – American Food and others Mystery & horror When Mr Hiram B. Otis decides to buy Canterville Chase, everyone tells him that the house is haunted by a ghost. Strange things begin to happen: a bloodstain that changes colour, mysterious noises in the night, a journey to the Garden of Death… Integrated dossiers: – The Times of Oscar Wilde – Oscar Wilde in America and others Playscript audio @ TRINITY PRELIMINARY Step Three @ TRINITY PRELIMINARY Step Three Step Three CD-ROM @ TRINITY B1.2 The Diamond as Big as The Ritz The Final Problem and Other Stories Great Mysteries of Our World Gulliver’s Travels Crime Fairy tale & fantasy Sherlock Holmes battles against a criminal organisation in Conan Doyle’s The Five Orange Pips; in Charles Dickens Hunted Down a ruthless murderer is brought to justice; in The Stir Outside the Café Royal by Clarence Rook an American woman tracks down her fiancé’s killer; and in G. K. Chesterton’s The Oracle of the Dog Father Brown solves a difficult murder case. Integrated dossier: – English Detective Fiction @ PRELIMINARY Step Three @ TRINITY Human interest Young love, unbelievable wealth, greed, cruelty and adventure are the themes Fitzgerald brilliantly combines to create a highly unusual and satirical story with a surprise ending. Integrated dossiers: – Diamonds that Made History – Eldorado and the American Dream PRELIMINARY Step Three @ Crime Human interest Sherlock Holmes is the world’s only consulting detective. He helps Scotland Yard to solve mysteries they can’t solve. Surely no-one can defeat Sherlock Holmes... or can they? Was Nostradamus really a prophet or were his predictions a mere coincidence? What mystery lies behind the curse of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh King Tut? Can an exquisite diamond bring death and tragedy to its owners? Does evil really exist and what forms can it take? In this collection of short stories, Holmes comes face to face with some of his most difficult challenges and his main rival, Professor Moriarty. Integrated dossiers: – The Role of Women in Victorian England – Sherlock Holmes in Popular Entertainment Find out about these strange stories and others, and perhaps you'll be able to solve our world's greatest mysteries! W EB A CTIVITIES TRINITY PRELIMINARY Step Three TRINITY PRELIMINARY Step Three @ TRINITY Lemuel Gulliver tells the story of his fantastic adventures on the island of Lilliput where the people are tiny, and their self-importance laughable; in Brobdingnag where the people are giants and Gulliver is made to feel his own insignificance; in Laputa, the land of futile science; and finally in the land of the Houyhnhnms, where horses are endowed with reason while human beings are not. Integrated dossiers: – Popular Travel Books – Utopia and Dystopia PRELIMINARY @ TRINITY Step Three 37 Reading & Training Classic Detective Stories B1.2 The Hound of the Baskervilles Crime Another case for Sherlock Holmes finds Dr Watson sent to Devonshire to investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, who has been mutilated by a large dog ac-cording to the tradition of the curse of the house of the Baskervilles. The new heir to the estate returning from America calls upon the great detect-ive to solve this puzzling enigma. Integrated dossiers: – Early Crime Detection – The Coming of the Fairies PRELIMINARY Reading & Training Step Three @ TRINITY Jane Eyre Julius Caesar Love Tragedy Jane Eyre, a penniless and unattractive orphan, becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall and falls in love with Edward Rochester, the guardian of her ward. But she soon discovers that he is hiding a terrible secret… There is discontent in Rome. The aristocrats are worried that Julius Caesar will seek to become king. A group of conspirators led by Brutus decides to assassinate Caesar. At first everything seems to go well for them, but soon the conspirators find themselves pursued by the ‘Spirit of Caesar’. Integrated dossiers: – Victorian Family Life – Victorian Schools – Victorian Houses Kim Human Interest Integrated dossiers: – The Historical Julius Caesar – The Theatre in Shakespeare’s Time and others Playscript PRELIMINARY Step Three @ TRINITY PRELIMINARY Step Three Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories @ TRINITY 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. Integrated dossiers: – The Many Lives of Buddhism – Varanasi the City of Temples – The City of Light – Kim – Kipling and Mookerjee PRELIMINARY Step Three @ Human interest At Lady Windermere’s party a famous palm reader predicts that Lord Arthur Savile will commit a murder... Read about Lady Alroy’s mysterious ways in The Sphinx without a Secret and how it pays to be nice to beggars in The Model Millionaire. Integrated dossiers: – London, the World City – Pseudo-Science in Late Victorian England SBA TRINITY PRELIMINARY @ TRINITY Step Three C D se d e n cl 38 o B1.2 The Master of Ballantrae Moonfleet Love Human interest Adventure In The Taming of the Shrew, Katharina learns to love Petruchio. Romeo and Juliet’s love is destined to end in tragedy. In Twelfth Night, love is romantic but also painful, while in Othello love turns into jealousy. Finally, Antony and Cleopatra’s passionate love has tragic consequences. Stevenson investigates into the nature of good and evil in this novel set in 1745. This was the year many in Scotland fought to put a Scottish k i n g o n t h e B r i t i s h t h r o n e . Tw o brothers, James and Henry Durie, become involved in this historical event. Integrated dossiers: – Double Trouble – Doubles and Alter Egos in Fiction and popular Culture – The War that Made America Integrated dossiers: – The Life of William Shakespeare – Courtship and Marriage in Elizabethan Times @ W EB A CTIVITIES PRELIMINARY Step Three @ SBA TRINITY PRELIMINARY Step Three @ TRINITY Integrated dossier: – The English Civil War PRELIMINARY Step Three The Pickwick Papers Human interest Young John Trenchard lives in Moonfleet, an English village with dark secrets. One day he discovers a hidden crypt below the cemetery where smugglers meet and hide their goods. Here he accidentally finds the skeleton of evil Colonel Mohune, better known as Blackbeard, and a precious clue that could help him find Blackbeard’s treasure… @ SBA The Phantom of the Opera @ TRINITY Mystery & horror A mysterious ghost is haunting the famous Paris Opera House. There are all sorts of rumours about the ‘Phantom of the Opera’, a frightening figure whose face is hidden by a terrible mask... Integrated dossiers: – The Paris Opera House – Film and Stage Versions of the Nove – Lon Chaney (1883-1930) – Opera: the First International Pop Music PRELIMINARY Step Three @ In Dickens’s first novel, Samuel Pickwick and three other members of the Pickwick Club decide to spend six months travelling around England observing the manners and habits of everyone they meet. Follow them on their hilarious adventures as they get involved in a duel, an election campaign and as one of them even ends up in prison… Integrated dossier: – England in the Early Nineteenth Century @ W EB A CTIVITIES PRELIMINARY @ SBA TRINITY Step Three 39 Reading & Training Love in Shakespeare: Five Stories B1.2 The Prisoner of Zenda The Red Badge of Courage The Return of Sherlock Holmes Adventure Crime During America’s civil war Henry Fleming dreams of becoming a hero, but he soon discovers the brutality and chaos of war. Henry and other young soldiers must measure their courage and audacity against the enemy and themselves. In 1891, the great detective Sherlock Holmes disappeared. A month after Holmes’s disappearance, his good friend and colleague Dr Watson published an article in the newspaper, explaining that Holmes died while struggling with his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty. But is that what really happened? Romeo and Juliet The Scarlet Pimpernel The Adventures of the Secret Spy Adventure Rudolf Rassendyll comes from an ancient English family that has had a romantic connection with the royal household of Ruritania. He decides to visit Ruritania and is rapidly caught up in the political events of the country... Integrated dossiers: – Popular Fiction in the Late 19th Century – Film versions of The Prisoner of Zenda and others Integrated dossier: – Highlights of the American Civil War and others Integrated dossier: – The Immortal Sherlock Holmes Love Adventure The Montagues and the Capulets hate each other and so when Romeo and Juliet fall in love they are forced into secrecy and subterfuge. Will true love sur vive? Will the two families make peace? At the height of the French Revolution, the aristocrats’ greatest fear is the guillotine. But some escape their terrible destiny with the help of a mysterious man, the Scarlet Pimpernel. Who is he? Someone is determined to find out. Integrated dossiers: – In Fair Verona – Settings and Sources and others Playscript audio PRELIMINARY Reading & Training Step Three @ TRINITY PRELIMINARY @ TRINITY Step Three Step Three C D se d e n cl 40 PRELIMINARY o @ TRINITY Integrated dossiers: – The French Revolution – Eighteenth-century Theatre CD-ROM PRELIMINARY Step Three @ TRINITY PRELIMINARY Step Three @ TRINITY B1.2 Crime Sherlock Holmes is at work in three stories: solving the problem of a hat and a goose in ‘The Blue Carbuncle’; finding a missing fiancé in ‘A Case of Identity’; and discovering the identity of a strange creature in ‘The Yellow Face’. Integrated dossiers: – Conan Doyle Defends the Crew of the ‘Titanic’ – Arthur Defends the Underdog Stories of Suspense Step Three @ TRINITY Tales of the Supernatural Mystery & horror 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. Four chilling tales take you into a world where anything can happen. Charles Dickens adds extra horror to his famous tale of a haunted railwayman. In Edgar Allan Poe’s classic story, Ligeia, the ghost of a beautiful woman returns and defeats death. E. Nesbit shows us how there really is a good reason to be scared of the dark. Integrated dossiers: – The Magic of Alchemy – New England and Witchcraft PRELIMINARY Step Three @ TRINITY Mystery & horror Doctor Jekyll is a brilliant scientist, but his research leads him to discover a monster – a monster that is part of himself! He tries to control this violent creature, who is known as Mr Hyde, but gradually Mr Hyde becomes stronger and stronger… Integrated dossiers: – London and Crime – The ‘Double’ in 19th Century Fiction PRELIMINARY Step Three @ TRINITY Integrated dossiers: – The Supernatural in English Literature – The Versailles Ghosts PRELIMINARY Step Three @ Three Men in a Boat Humour & comedy Mystery & horror SBA PRELIMINARY The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde TRINITY What can possibly happen to three friends and their dog when they take a peaceful boat trip on the River Thames? Well, just about anything! Enjoy their funny adventures as they visit historic sites on the beautiful Thames. Integrated dossiers: – Fox-Terriers – Queen Elizabeth I – Live on the River – The Magna Carta – Famous People and Places on the Thames and others PRELIMINARY @ Step Three 41 Reading & Training Sherlock Holmes Investigates B1.2 The Three Musketeers The Tragedy of Richard III Adventure Tragedy D’Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to join the Musketeers, a group of adventurers who serve Louis XIII. A series of misadventures brings him to a duel with none other than three of his heroes - the Musketeers Porthos, Athos, and Aramis. The three men ask D'Artagnan to join them in their struggle to protect Queen Anne against the plots of power-hungry Cardinal Richelieu. After a long civil war between the Houses of Lancaster and York, England is enjoying a period of peace under King Edward IV. But Edward’s younger brother, Richard, resents Edward’s power, Richard begins to aspire secretly to the throne and decides to kill anyone he has to in order to become king. Treasure Island True Adventure Stories Twelfth Night Adventure Integrated dossiers: – France in the 17th century – Costumes in the 17th century – Dumas beyond the page @ W EB A CTIVITIES PRELIMINARY Reading & Training Step Three 42 @ TRINITY Integrated dossiers: – The Renaissance: Art of Manners and the ‘Galateo’ – Niccolò Machiavelli – Richard III on screen and stage SBA Step Three @ Adventure and piracy in the 18th century! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map of an island where Captain Flint has hidden his treasure, Jim, Squire Trelawney and his friend Dr Livesey sail to the island to look for it. But during the voyage Jim discovers more about the ship’s company, which includes Long John Silver, a man with only one leg. And then the battle for the treasure begins! Integrated dossier: – Pirates in History @ W EB A CTIVITIES PRELIMINARY Adventure TRINITY PRELIMINARY Step Three @ Four true stories of adventure and courage. ‘Lost at Sea’ tells the adventures of a family sailing round the world. In ‘The Impossible Journey’ we follow Sir Ernest Shackleton as he and his men go on foot towards the South Pole. The brave woman in ‘Amy Johnson, Woman Pioneer’ attempts a solo flight from England to Australia. In ‘David Livingstone’s Last African Expedition’ we meet the great explorer on his last expedition to find the source of the Nile. Integrated dossiers: – The Big Heat – The Slave Trade PRELIMINARY TRINITY Step Three @ TRINITY 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 Olivia. Unknown to Viola, her twin brother Sebastian has also survived the shipwreck. When he too arrives in Illyria, confusion and follows. After many cases of mistaken identity, who will be lucky in love? Integrated dossiers: – The Meaning of Twelfth Night – Shakespeare and Elizabethan Theatre Playscript PRELIMINARY Step Three @ TRINITY B2.1 American Horror Five Terrifying Tales The Big Mistake Beowulf The Canterbury Tales and Other Stories Legend Crime A diamond is on display at an important show at a New York City museum. Nick has a summer job at the museum and invites his best friends Bill and Michelle to join him for a summer of fun. One night the diamond disappears and a security guard is found dead. Suddenly there is a vampire scare in New York City. The three teenagers start investigating… Integrated dossiers: – Manhattan, the heart of New York City – Vlad Tepes – Prince of Wallachia – Vampires in literature and films PRELIMINARY Step Three @ TRINITY Mystery & horror 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. A man who drains away his wife’s life to make his painting seem alive; an animal lover who becomes obsessed by a cat; a young man obsessed by an old man’s blue eye; and a man hypnotized just before he dies who then… Integrated dossiers: – Poe’s scientific imagination – Poe as pop icon – Poe’s America FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY The mighty warrior Beowulf offers to help the King of the Danes in a quest to kill the vicious monster Grendel and free his people from terror. After killing Grendel, Beowulf must also kill the monster’s mother before he can return to his homeland, where he eventually becomes king. But he is called for a new adventure, as a great dragon comes to destroy his kingdom. Will Beowulf’s efforts cost him his life this time? Integrated dossiers: – Epics – Anglo-Saxon Treasure – Versions of Beowulf FIRST TRINITY Step Four Mystery & horror David is looking forward to a quiet week by the sea with his girlfriend – but things don’t turn out as he 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 with prob-lems though... Three young boys start digging in a garden. What exactly are they looking for? A stimulating collection of original stories – all with a twist in the tail! Human interest 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. Integrated dossiers: – Chaucer’s World – The City of Canterbury and others FIRST W EB A CTIVITIES Step Four @ TRINITY Step Four 43 Reading & Training The Vampire’s Tear B2.1 A Christmas Carol Daisy Miller Famous British Criminals Dracula from The Newgate Calendar Human interest 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? Integrated dossiers: – Some Christmas Ghosts – London in Dickens’ Time – The Christmas Story FIRST @ Reading & Training Step Four 44 TRINITY Human interest Daisy Miller is a beautiful, rich American girl. She comes to Europe with her mother and brother to travel and see the sights. In Switzerland she meets Frederick Winterbourne, a young American who has lived in Europe most of his life. He is fascinated and perplexed by Daisy’s flirtatious and unconventional manners… Integrated dossier: – Young Women in the Nineteenth Century FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY Mystery & horror Crime 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. This classic horror story has fascinated readers ever since it came out in 1897. Enjoy reading about some of the most famous British criminals: Jonathan Wild, prince of robbers; Dick Turpin, horse-stealer and murderer; John Gow, pirate; John Sheppard, highwayman. Discover an unbelievable world of adventure through their daring actions and remarkable timing! Integrated dossiers: – Real Vampires – Vampire Bats – Victorian Villans, Monsters and Fears Integrated dossiers: – Crime and Punishment in the Eighteenth century – Eighteenth-century London @ FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY SBA The House of the Seven Gables Human interest The seventeenth-century house of the seven gables shelters an old curse and a terrible secret. Hepzibah and Clifford Pyncheon are tormented by the memories and ghosts of the past, until the love of two young people changes the course of destiny… Integrated dossiers: – Witchcraft – The British Colonies in America – The History of Photography SBA FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY B2.1 Katherine Mansfield Short Stories The Last of the Mohicans Macbeth The Merchant of Venice Tragedy Human interest 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... In Venice, Bassanio needs money to court a rich heiress. His 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. Antonio agrees, but it will take the intelligence of two women to save him… Crime 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 theories, and meet the people who played their part in the drama. Integrated dossiers: – Life in the East End – Immigrants in the East End FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY Adventure Human interest In The Garden Party, Mansfield explores class consciousness, sensitivity and the co-existence of life and death. In The Singing Lesson, a young music teacher experiences a cascade of emotions in the space of a few hours. Feminism, vanity and materialism are the themes of A Cup of Tea. Integrated dossiers: – Music: An expression of feelings – New Zealand – Edwardian England – The 1920s FIRST TRINITY Step Four W EB A CTIVITIES During the Seven Years’ War between the French and the British, Cora and Alice Munro are on their way to Fort Henr y to join their father, the commander. But their Indian guide, Magua, betrays the group to the Iroquois Indians. This is only the beginning of their many adventures. Integrated dossiers: – The Origins of the Indian People – The Iroquois Confederacy – The indians experience and others Integrated dossiers: – Films of ‘Macbeth’ – Scotland’s History – Witches – The Castles of Scotland Playscript FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY Integrated dossiers: – The Origins of the Pound of Flesh Story – The Treatment of Jews in Shakespeare’s Time Playscript FIRST @ TRINITY Step Four 45 Reading & Training Jack the Ripper B2.1 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Humour & comedy Tw o y o u n g l o v e r s , H e r m i a a n d Lysander, meet in the wood with the intention of running away and getting married secretly. They are followed by Demetrius, who loves Hermia, and Helena who is in love with Demetrius. What they don’t know is that the wood is enchanted… Integrated dossiers: – Shakespeare’s Sources – The Elizabethan Performance Moby Dick The Moonstone Le Morte d’Arthur Much Ado About Nothing Adventure Mystery & horror Legend Humour & comedy Moby Dick is an epic tale of the whaling ship the Pequod and its captain, Ahab, who pursues the great white whale around the world. The story is seen through the eyes of Ishmael, a sailor on the Pequod. Captain Ahab has only one purpose in life: to find and kill Moby Dick, the great white whale that ate his leg years ago. Ahab’s voyage is one of revenge. On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives a ver y special present: the Moonstone – a large yellow diamond from India: but that night the Moonstone is stolen… In what T. S. Eliot called ‘the first, the longest, and the best of modern detective novels’, Wilkie Collins tells a story full of mystery, suspense and psychological insight. Le Morte d’Arthur tells the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The tale begins with Arthur’s birth, his education, and his rise to the throne. It also recounts the tragic love story of Sir Lancelot and Guinevere, the destruction of the Round Table and Arthur’s mysterious disappearance or death. Claudio is in love with Hero, but is afraid that she will reject him. His friend, Don Pedro, volunteers to make her fall in love with him at a masked ball. The trick works well, and Hero agrees to marry Claudio. But Don Pedro’s brother, Don John, organises a plot which will make Claudio think that Hero is unfaithful… Integrated dossiers: – Medieval Romance Literature – Places in the Arthurian Story – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Integrated dossiers: – Tragic and Comic Elements in ‘Much ado About Nothing’ – Women in Shakespeare’s Comedies Integrated dossier: – A Short History of Whaling Integrated dossier: – Imperialism on the Indian Subcontinent Playscript Playscript FIRST @ Reading & Training Step Four 46 TRINITY FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY @ FIRST @ Step Four FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY B2.1 Othello Mystery & horror Tragedy Catherine Morland is going on her first visit to the city of Bath. She likes Gothic novels. When she makes friends with the handsome young Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, she will find herself in the middle of a family tragedy. Henry’s home, Northanger Abbey, is the scene of a crime. Or is it all just a product of Catherine’s imagination? Othello is a successful general, but a very simple man who trusts Iago completely. When he elopes with and marries Desdemona, he is overwhelmed by the happiness that seems to be his. Iago, embittered by his failure to win promotion in the army, decides to poison the general’s happiness… Integrated dossiers: – King George III and regency – England – British female novelists FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY Power and Ambition in Shakespeare Tragedy Integrated dossiers: – The First London Theatres – The Portrayal of Othello 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. Integrated dossiers: – William Shakespeare 1564-1616 – Ghosts, Witches and Revenge – The Influence on Shakespeare’s Plays Playscript WEB ACTIVITIES FIRST @ Step Four FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY @ The Secret Agent The Sign of Four Human interest Crime Mr Verloc, the secret agent, has a shop in London. He lives there peacefully with his wife Winnie, her mother and her brother, Stevie. When Mr Verloc becomes involved with an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Royal Observatory, things go disastrously wrong. Mr Verloc’s job as a secret agent brings tragic consequences for all his family. Sherlock Holmes is bored, but not for long. The attractive Mar y 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 meet the sender of these pearls and asks Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson for their help. Integrated dossiers: – Time and the Greenwich Royal Observatory – Espionage in English Fiction FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY @ Integrated dossiers: – The Andaman Island – The British in India FIRST @ TRINITY Step Four 47 Reading & Training Northanger Abbey B2.1 A Study in Scarlet The Tempest In an empty house lies a dead man. There are no wounds on his body. On the wall, the word RACHE – German for ‘revenge’ – is written in blood. With the help of his friend Doctor Watson, can Sherlock Holmes use his deductive powers to find the murderer? Set in London in the 1880s, A Study in Scarlet is the first Holmes and Watson mystery, the beginning of a long and famous partnership. Thirteen years ago Prospero, the Duke of Milan, was robbed of his title by his brother Antonio and sent to die at sea with his baby daughter Miranda. They survived and made their home on a remote island. One day a ship carrying some important passengers passes near the island. Prospero, now a powerful magician, creates a big storm and makes it sink. All the passengers, manage to get to the island safely. The storm is part of Prospero’s plan for revenge. Integrated dossiers: – The Mormons – London in the 1800s Integrated dossiers: – The Mormons – London in the 1800s @ Step Four Reading & Training Tom Jones Humour & comedy Adventure Human interest Crime FIRST Three Men on the Bummel TRINITY FIRST TRINITY Step Four WEB ACTIVITIES 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… Integrated dossiers: – The Golden Age of Bicycles – The Black Forest The Tragedy of Dr Faustus Kindly Mr Allworthy returns home to find that someone has left a baby boy in his house. He adopts him and names him Tom Jones. Mr Allworthy’s sister, Bridget, has a son called Master Blifil. What happens when Tom falls in love with a neighbouring gentleman’s daughter, Sophia, whose family wish her to marry Blifil? Integrated dossiers: – The Early 18th-century Novel – Tom Jones as Hero Doctor Faustus, a brilliant scholar, enters into an agreement with the Devil. He agrees to sell his soul in return for twenty-four years of knowledge, power and riches. But he eventually realises the full implications of his rash action. Integrated dossier: – Christopher Marlowe and Elizabethan Espionage and others Playscript WEB ACTIVITIES FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY SBA FIRST @ FIRST TRINITY Step Four @ Step Four C D se d e n cl 48 Tragedy o B2.1 The Valley of Fear Mystery & horror Crime In the 1840s, a young woman is employed as governess to two children in an English country house. The children are beautiful and charming, and for a while, the young woman thinks her position is both easy and pleasant. Then she begins to see the ghosts of the former governess Miss Jesel and the manservant Peter Quint. 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 and across the Atlantic, in a place known as ‘The Valley of Fear’. Integrated dossiers: – Governesses and Upper-class – Children – Puritanism Integrated dossiers: – Hiding Places in Times of Trouble – Secret Societies FIRST @ Step Four TRINITY FIRST Washington Square Wicked and Humorous Tales The Woman in White Humour & comedy Mystery & horror A dramatic intrusion ends a long family feud, a man is strangely influenced by his pets, a cat brings scandal to British society and a little boy battles to enjoy life with the help of his own personal god. These are just a few of the amazing stories created by Hector Hugh Munro – alias master short-story teller Saki, ex-journalist who turned to writing satirical tales. Late one night, on a lonely road near London, Walter Hartright, a young drawing teacher, meets a solitary woman dressed in white. This is the opening scene of The Woman in White, a great Victorian sensation novel, full of mystery, excitement, and suspense. Love @ Step Four Catherine Sloper, an insignificant, plain girl, will one day inherit a substantial fortune from her father. When her overwhelming passion for a handsome fortune hunter transforms her dull existence, Catherine’s distinguished father, her interfering aunt and her selfish lover all play with her feelings to satisfy their own needs, and succeed in breaking her heart. Integrated dossier: – New York City in the 1850s Integrated dossier: – Writers and the First World War FIRST TRINITY Step Four Integrated dossier: – Victorian Asylums @ Step Four TRINITY FIRST @ TRINITY @ Step Four 49 Reading & Training The Turn of the Screw B2.2 The Age of Innocence Emma Frankenstein Love Love Mystery & horror In 1870s New York Countess Ellen Olenska causes scandal and embarrassment when she decides to free herself of an unhappy marriage by divorcing her husband. Greatly disapproved of by her family, she can only count on the support of her cousin’s fiancé, Newland Archer, who falls in love with her and tries to persuade her to start a new life together with him. E m m a Wo o d h o u s e , h a n d s o m e , clever and rich, has a perfect life. She has decided never to get married but to live as the mistress of Hartfield, her father’s house in the beautiful English countryside. But when she starts matchmaking she finds that her imagination has led her into danger. A fascination with science and the aspiration to understand the mysteries of creation lead Victor Frankenstein to create life from death. But the results are not what he expects and his rejection of his monstrous creation causes dire consequences for himself and all the people he cares about. Integrated dossiers: – Jane Austen and Reading – Leisure in early 19th-Century England – The Poor – The Upper Classes Integrated dossiers: – Science Fiction – Romantic Landscapes – Monsters – Frankenstein on Film and others Integrated dossiers: – A Brief History of Divorce – The Films of Martin Scorsese – New York in the 1870s FIRST @ Reading & Training Step Five 50 TRINITY @ FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY Gothic Short Stories Great Expectations Human interest Mystery & horror Follow Bram Stoker (Dracula) as he takes student Malcolm Malcolmson through a terrifying ordeal inside a judge's house. Travel, if you dare, in a ghostly coach with three dead men as your fellow passengers. Or visit the deadly House of Usher! But don't make a wish with the monkey's paw. Integrated dossier: – The Gothic Craze Pip is destined to become a village blacksmith, but a chance meeting with an escaped prisoner and the acquaintance of an eccentric old woman and a beautiful young girl change the course of his life. He is suddenly dissatisfied with his social status and wants to become a gentleman. But one day he discovers a terrible secret. Integrated dossiers: – Dickens and His Times – Prision Ships – Social Aspects of the Victorian Age WEB ACTIVITIES FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY @ B2.2 Lord Jim Middlemarch Human interest Adventure Human interest Human interest Marlow, a merchant sailor, travels through colonial Africa. He makes a perilous journey by steamboat to rescue Kurtz, an agent, who is seriously ill. He arrives at Kurtz’s station to find that the agent has taken control of the whole area. In his complete isolation from civilised society Kurtz has instituted a brutal system of human sacrifice and magic to enthral the natives. Jim is a young British officer on the passenger ship Patna. During an accident at sea in the Indian Ocean, Jim follows the captain and abandons the sinking ship and its passengers. Jim must face a court trial for this act of cowardice, which will torment him all his life. At the trial Jim meets Marlow, an older sea captain, who helps him find work. But Jim is always restless. He moves to Malaysia where he tries to start a new life… Miss Dorothea Brooke wants to do something great in the world. She knows that women cannot do great things on their own, and so she marries a man twice her age, who she believes, is engaged in a great work of scholarship. Around the same time, young Dr Lydgate comes to Middlemarch. He wishes to do great work for medical science, but he meets and falls in love with Rosamond Vincy. Pamela is a maid in a big country house. But when her mistress dies, Pamela is left at the mercy of Mr B, her mistress’s son, who sets out to seduce her. Although she likes Mr B, Pamela is determined to keep her virtue. Will Mr B succeed, or will Pamela’s virtuous behaviour find its own reward? Integrated dossier: – Conrad and the Colonial Experience and others FIRST @ Step Five Integrated dossier: – Colonial Malaysia FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY @ Integrated dossier: – Reform FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter Crime Two cases of detection for Monsieur Auguste C. Dupin, Poe’s great detective. Who could have committed the atrocious murders in the Rue Morgue and so how did the murderer get in, or out? Will Dupin find the purloined letter and save the royal personage? Where is the minister hiding it? Integrated dossiers: – The Art of the Detective Story – Apes going Ape – Paris in the 1800s @ Step Five Pamela Integrated dossiers: – English Country Houses and their Owners – Letters and the Postal Service FIRST @ TRINITY Step Five 51 Reading & Training Heart of Darkness B2.2 A Passage to India * Persuasion Human interest Love Adela Quested visits India with Mrs Moore to decide whether to marry the latter’s son, Ronny. Obsessed with understanding the ‘real India’, the two women make friends with Dr Aziz who invites them to the mysterious Marabar caves… Integrated dossiers: – Hindus and Muslims in India – The British in India FIRST @ Reading & Training Step Five 52 TRINITY The Picture of Dorian Gray Human interest Mystery & horror In 1806, Captain Frederick Wentworth and Miss Anne Elliot fell in love, but since neither of them had any money, Anne’s friend Lady Russell persuaded her not to marry the Captain. Years later, Anne and Frederick meet again. By this time Frederick has made a fortune in the Navy, but he is still angry with Anne for rejecting him. This is the most delicate and moving love story Jane Austen ever wrote. When the superbly handsome Dorian Gray sees his portrait he makes a terrible wish: that the portrait will grow older and that he will remain young forever. But what happens to the portrait that no one ever sees? A brilliant and disturbing story of a man who is willing to sell his soul for eternal youth, while he pursues pleasure and passion. Integrated dossier: – The Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars and others Integrated dossiers: – The Aesthetic Movement – Oscar Wilde’s London FIRST The Portrait of a Lady @ Step Five TRINITY @ FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY Isabel Archer visits her uncle and his family in England. Her uncle dies and leaves her a large fortune. Isabel was always beautiful and charming: now, in addition, she is rich. The question is, who will she marry? The English nobleman Lord Warburton? Her American suitor Casper Goodwood? Or the refined and sophisticated Gilbert Osmond, an American art collector living in Italy? Integrated dossier: – Americans in Italy in the Nineteenth Century FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY Pride and Prejudice Love When Mr Bingley comes to live at Netherfield bringing his friend Mr Darcy with him, Mrs Bennet is delighted; she has five daughters to be married. However, things don’t go as smoothly as she hoped: Mr Bingley abandons Jane, Mr Darcy clearly has no interest in Elizabeth and she refuses Mr Collins’ proposal of marriage. Integrated dossiers: – The Social Context in Jane Austen’s Time – The Role of Women in the Regency Period and others FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY B2.2 Robinson Crusoe Mystery & horror Adventure ‘Lock me in any cell in any prison anywhere at any time, wearing only normal clothes and I’ll escape in a week.’ For Professor Van Dusen, otherwise known as ‘The Thinking Machine’, nothing is impossible. Logic is his passion. One hour later he finds himself locked up in Chisholm prison and has to use all his mental resources to find the solution to the problem. When the captain tells Robinson, ‘Young man, you should never go to sea again…, Robinson ignores his advice and goes to sea again, with terrible consequences. He is forced into slavery and escapes, but he is then shipwrecked on a desert island where he manages to sur vive through resourcefulness and luck. Integrated dossiers: – Other Prison Stories – Futrelle’s Death on the Titanic @ Step Five The Scarlet Letter Love Integrated dossiers: – The Slave Trade – Shipwrecks – Mercantilism: Trade, Wealth and Colonies and others FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY @ Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne gives birth to an illegitimate child and is condemned to wear the scarlet letter ‘A’ as a sign of her adultery. Hester refuses to reveal the identity of her lover, and is forced to lead a life of humiliation. Meanwhile, Hester’s husband settles in Boston and after making her swear to keep his identity secret, tries to discover who Hester’s secret lover is. Integrated dossiers: – The Puritans – The Origins – Boston – Heart of the American Revolution and others FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY @ Sense and Sensibility Sons and Lovers Love Love Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are sisters. Both are intelligent, sensitive, charming, and beautiful, but there the similarities end. Elinor values propriety and common sense; Marianne, by contrast, has extravagant Romantic ideas. In this brilliant novel, Jane Austen explores two different ways of thinking and acting – the ‘sense’ of Elinor and the ‘sensibility’ of Marianne – as they try to find happiness in a world full of hypocrisy, vulgarity, and self-interest. Mrs Morel is a strong, intelligent, domineering woman. Her marriage to a miner is not a happy one. She is antagonistic to her husband and gives all her love to her sons. The Morel's younger son Paul grows up close to his mother. As an adolescent and a young man, he is torn between a passionate love for his mother an his lovers Miriam and then Clara. Integrated dossier: – Money and Marriage FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY Integrated dossiers: – The Oedipus Complex – The Women’s Social and Political Union Playscript FIRST @ TRINITY Step Five C D se d e n cl o 53 Reading & Training The Problem of Cell 13 B2.2 A Tale of Two Cities The Taming of the Shrew Tess of the D’Urbervilles Vanity Fair Wuthering Heights Adventure Humour & comedy Love Human interest Love Dr Manette is falsely imprisoned for 18 years by the Marquis of Evrémonde. He is eventually released and goes to England to join his daughter Lucie, who marries the Frenchman Charles Darnay of the Evrémonde family. During the Reign of Terror Darnay travels to Paris where he is imprisoned and sentenced to be executed... Baptista’s two beautiful daughters are ready for marriage. Bianca, pursued in love by three different suitors, cannot marry until someone dares to marry her sister, the proud and contemptuous Katharine. Then Petruchio arrives in Padua and proposes to Katharine. Will he be able to turn her into a model of devotion and obedience? Integrated dossiers: – The French Revolution – The French Revolution in ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ Integrated dossiers: – Shakespeare and English Comedy – Shakespeare and Italian Comedy The Durbeyfield family are poor and simple people, but their ancestors were the mighty d’Urbervilles, an ancient and noble family. When the Durbeyfields meet with misfortune, they send their eldest daughter Tess to visit her wealthy cousin and ask for help, but the wealthy cousin has a young son, Alec Stoke-d’Urberville, who finds Tess very attractive… Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp are two friends. Amelia comes from a wealthy family but her father is made bankrupt. She marries George Osborne, a vain and shallow young man who does not really love her. Becky Sharp, on the other hand, comes from a penniless family, and is determined to use her beauty and charm to find a good position in life. Integrated dossiers: – No Sex, Please – We’re Victorians! – Stonehenge Integrated dossiers: – Thackeray and Waterloo – A Critic's Assessment of ‘Vanity Fair’ Wuthering Heights is home to the Earnshaw family, who adopt an orphan called Heathcliff. When they grow up, Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff fall deeply in love. But Catherine decides to marry Edgar Linton from the big house across the moors. Heathcliff runs away in despair. When he returns some years later, a series of terrible events destroys the relationship between the Lintons and the Earnshaws. FCE-style exam FIRST @ Reading & Training Step Five 54 Playscript FIRST @ Step Five FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY Integrated dossier: – A Family of Writers FIRST @ Step Five TRINITY Bachillerato 2+ C1 The Mill on the Floss Silas Marner Wuthering Heights Ellen Steiber George Eliot George Eliot Emily Brontë Human interest Love 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… Wuthering Heights is home to the Earnshaw family, who adopt an orphan called Heathcliff. Catherine Earnshaw becomes great friends with him 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 his return a few years later brings drastic consequences. Mystery & horror FBI agents Mulder and Scully are investigating a series of very unusual murders: all the victims’ livers have been removed without the help of tools and there is no apparent point of entry. Scully and Mulder begin to get nearer the truth when they discover that these murders have been recurring every 30 years since 1903. However they don’t know that the killer has already found its next victim… Integrated dossier: – The X-Files: Basic Data and others Love Maggie and Tom Tulliver are sister and brother of ver y different personalities. When their father is declared bankrupt, Tom works hard to pay his father’s debts and restore the family name, while Maggie forms unsuitable friendships and is eventually ostracised by her family and local society. Integrated dossier: – The ‘Woman Question’ in Victorian Britain @ @ Step Five B2.2 Integrated dossiers: – Evolutionary Theory – Weaving and the Industrial Revolution Step Six C1 Integrated dossier: – The Imaginative World of the Brontë Children ADVANCED Step Six C1 @ Step Six C1 55 Reading & Training The X-Files:Squeeze Reading & Training Discovery Reading & Training Discovery Great British Writers London Who was a spy for Queen Elizabeth I’s secret service? Which writer kept a bear in his room at Cambridge? Who wrote poems about the Easter Revolution in Ireland? How many different languages are spoken in London? What’s the Square Mile all about? How did Piccadilly get its name? Book a seat in a haunted theatre and enjoy the show! Follow the fascinating lives of some of the most important British novelists, poets and playwrights from Shakespeare to Graham Greene, and discover more about different periods of literature in British history. Get to know this sensational city starting from its glorious history all the way to its captivating present. Discover the magic that is London! Integrated dossiers: – Writers and Place – Writers and Films KEY @ Step One SBA @ Integrated dossiers: – London and its Writers – London’s Great Parks and Museums KEY @ Step One SBA Reading & Training Discovery The British Isles The English-speaking World Exploring Places Natural Environments American Cities Gina D. B. Clemen Joanna Burgess Gina D. B. Clemen What does Cymru mean? What did Emperor Hadrian build in England nearly 2000 years ago? What do competitors throw at the Highland games? Why do people ‘kiss the Blarney Stone’? The British Isles tells the story of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. It includes the most important events in their history from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century, as well as key information about their cultures. Janet Cameron Today we know a lot about faraway places. But the first explorers knew nothing about where they were going. Their courage and determination drove them to explore the unknown, facing terrible dangers and hardships. Our planet is full of natural wonders: the forests, which are home to millions of species; the oceans, which cover three quarters of its surface; and the Polar regions and deserts, which have adapted to extreme climatic conditions. They have existed for thousands of years, but these environments and the plants and animals which live in them are changing. How much did the Dutch pay for Manhattan Island in 1614? Where is the world’s blue jeans headquarters? Who can you meet in the ‘Malibu Colony’, near Los Angeles? Integrated dossiers: – Great British Scientists and Inventors – The British Isles and Films Integrated dossiers: – Aboriginal Australians – Real Pirates of the Caribbean Derek Sellen English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. Have you ever wondered why? Here we go on a journey over five continents to look at countries where English is used in daily life: from the top of Mount Everest in the Himalayan Mountains to the beaches of the Caribbean, from the plains of Kenya to the streets of New York, and beyond. WEB ACTIVITIES PRELIMINARY @ Step Two B1.1 TRINITY Who were these remarkable people and why did they risk their lives to explore the unknown? Where is the final frontier and who is ready to explore it? Share the thrill of discovery through the centuries with this exciting book. Integrated dossiers: – Exploration in films – How were maps born? WEB ACTIVITIES PRELIMINARY @ Step Two B1.1 TRINITY PRELIMINARY @ Step Two B1.1 TRINITY SBA Discover why they are changing and what you can do to help. Integrated dossiers: – The Environment in Films – The Environment and Popular Culture PRELIMINARY @ Step Two B1.1 Integrated dossiers: – American cities in films – USA: The Birth of Another Music @ TRINITY New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New Orleans are America’s most distinctive and exciting cities. Similar in some ways and yet completely different in others, they fascinate everyone who visits them. Open this book and find out why. Mp3 SBA PRELIMINARY @ @ Mp3 TRINITY SBA Step Three B1.2 57 Getting on in Business Getting on in Business Is a series of readers aimed at students at pre-intermediate and intermediate levels. Unlike traditional business English materials, this series offers concise and entertaining guides to key business disciplines and specific sectors of industry. Each book contains an outline of the major areas of the discipline. The explanations are in easy-to-follow English, and each chapter contains different kinds of activities. Comprehension activities throughout the book ensure that students have understood the concepts, while language exercises familiarise students with the new terms they have encountered in the text. Listening exercises, case studies, roleplays and discussions help students to apply business theory to realistic business situations. A CD accompanies each book. An answer key to the exercises is available online at www.blackcat.vicensvives.net, or by contacting your local Vicens Vives representative. 58 Advertising and Promotion Management Marketing Jeremy Fitzgerald Topics include: • Market communications • Advertising • Sales promotion • Public relations • Personal selling • Assessing the results of advertising and promotion Jeremy Fitzgerald Topics include: • What is management? • Leadership • Planning • Organisation • Staffing • Decision-making Jeremy Fitzgerald Topics include: • Approaches to marketing • Consumer behaviour • Market research • The marketing mix • The product life-cycle • Market segmentation pre-intermediate intermediate intermediate Reading & Training Professional Reading & Training Professional Business Communication Business Issues Business Environment BUSINESS PRELIMINARY BUSINESS PRELIMINARY BUSINESS VANTAGE Step Two Step Three Step Four BUSINESS PRELIMINARY BUSINESS VANTAGE 59 Interact with Literature INTERACT WITH LITERATURE offers a wide range of original literary texts, (level: intermediate upwards), from English-speaking countries, designed to introduce students to the world of literature. The aim of these volumes is to familiarise readers with the language of literature and encourage them to formulate their own response to what they read. • Biographical details about each author. • Carefully selected texts relevant to the theme of the volume. • Linguistic accessibility with numerous footnotes to guide under-standing. • Stimulating, graded activities ranging from familiarisation and comprehension to stylistic analysis and language development. • Dramatised recording of selected texts in British or American English. • Amazing Characters Ghostly Company Journeys Mind the characters Selected by James Butler and Maria Lucia De Vanna A Collection of Very Short Stories and Modern Fables Selected by Guglielmo Corrado A Collection of Phantoms A collection of nine amazing and chilling complete short stories by R. Simpson Brown, A. Geras, M . L e a c h , S . K i n g , E . Wa u g h , E. A. Poe, F. Boyd, F. Brown and A. Christie, along with a selection of extracts from B. Stoker’s Dracula. This collection of supernatural tales by M. Bowen, R. Timperley, C. Asquith and R. Middleton aims to bridge the gap between reading and analysing short fiction. Bonds of Love An Ideal Husband Selected by Antonella Mignani Web of Themes In this module the student is encouraged to explore a variety of representations of love in extracts by W. Wordsworth, J. Keats, E. Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, W. H. Auden, A. Henri, E. Brontë, H. James, D. H. Lawrence and C. D. Alleyne. This play is set in the dazzling social world of 1890s London. It is the world of the aristocrat, the dandy – and also of political and financial intrigue. Activities by Gina D. B. Clemen Common European Framework B2 Vantage/C1 Effective University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations Exam: FIRST and above 60 Masters and Men Selected by James Butler and Maria Lucia De Vanna The Importance of Being Earnest Level Intermediate and above A collection of extracts from travel diaries, short stories, novels, articles and poems written by C. Dickens, J. Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, G. Orwell and J. Raban. Wilde’s famous play centres on two fashionable young gentlemen, Jack and Algy, and their courtship of Gwendolen and Cecily. Through a combination of lies and misunderstandings, there arises a great importance of having the name Ernest. A selection of extracts from 19thand 20th-century ‘industrial novels’ by B. Disraeli, C. Dickens, A. and C. Brontë, E. Gaskell, G. Eliot, J. Braine, A. Sillitoe and S. Barstow. Mind the Characters is a journey into the world of English language fiction through the analysis of short stories and modern fables. The authors include Oscar Wilde, Isaac Asimov, James Thuber and Fredric Brown. Relationships Selected by Antonella Mignani A selection of extracts from important works by major 20th-century authors – J. Joyce, G. Orwell and V. Woolf. @ Interact with Literature The Splintering Frame The Splintering Frame is a lively collection of twelve paired short stories by modern and contemporary authors. Some of them are stylish, some witty, some entertaining, some puzzling. The collection includes stories by J. Archer, I. Asimov, M. Binchy, M. Bowen, G. Greene, E. Hemingway, B. MacLaverty, N. Mailer, R. Pardoe, L. Rajan, R. Rendell and Saki. Sweet and Sour Tales to Talk About Ten Women Ten Stories A World of Difference A collection of stories for pleasure and learning A collection of topics to analyse and discuss A task-based approach to the analysis of short stories Selected Short Stories by British and American Writers Selected by Antonella Mignani Selected by Antonella Mignani Sweet and Sour is an absorbing and varied collection of gripping and enjoyable short stories by B. Capes, W. W. Jacobs, V. Alcock, A. Lurie, R. Rendell, M. Allingham, Saki, R. Dahl, K. Mansfield, S. Rushdie and I. Asimov. All of them feature the light and dark sides of human nature. A selection of twelve thematicallypaired stories by a wide range of authors including O. Wilde, E. Hemingway, A. C. Clarke, K. Chopin, M. Binchy, P. Lively, R. Hughes and E. McBain, accompanied by fascinating articles from English-language newspapers and magazines. Selected by Antonella Mignani This selection of short stories about women explores themes such as the dilemma of love, loneliness, crime, myths and nostalgia. Authors include R. Dahl, E. O’Brian, K. Mansfield and J. Joyce. Selected by Gabriella Bonavoglia These short stories by R. Dahl, B. MacLaverty, G. Greene, K. Chopin and S. Jackson – all with a surprise ending – explore themes such as appearances and reality, prejudices and beliefs, and isolation – all raising questions which relate to the human condition. Voices from Inside Accessing the Literary Text: A Skills-Based Approach Selected by Guglielmo Corrado A selection of extracts by major authors of the 19th and 20th centuries – M. Shelley, E. Brontë, R. L. Stevenson, O. Wilde, J. Conrad, J. Joyce, V. Woolf and G. Orwell. 61 Reading Classics A Christmas Carol A selection from Dubliners Four Continents The ‘English’ literature of the ex-colonies is proving to be the most interesting and innovative of our times: this volume offers a significant example of its vitality and originality with short stories by H. Lawson, N. Gordimer, S. Rushdie, J. Rhys and many more. Detective Stories et al. Empire Tales Dubliners 62 An anthology of stories by some of the most outstanding British writers of the 19th and 20th centuries: J. Conrad, E. M. Forster, R. Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, G. Orwell, J. Rhys. The Fox @ Reading Classics Frankenstein Mrs Dalloway Seven Short Stories Short Stories The Turn of the Screw The Good Soldier The Picture of Dorian Gray Short Stories The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde The Virgin and the Gipsy @ Heart of Darkness et al. An anthology of texts illustrating the development of the short story from the 19th century to the present day, by C. Dickens, R. L. Stevenson, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, K. Mansfield, W. S. Maugham, V. S. Naipaul, S. Rushdie, H. Simpson and G. Greene. and Other Stories @ To the Lighthouse 63 A guide to Black Cat resources Black Cat ELT Grammar Build up your grammar and get ahead of the rest! 64 Black Cat doesn’t only mean readers… A guide to Black Cat resources Trinity The ONLY complete series from Grades 1-10 for Trinity exam preparation. CLIL English across the curriculum. Cambridge ESOL Make sure you pass with the help of Black Cat. 65 Index by Titles £1,000,000 Bank Note (The) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The) Adventures of Tom Sawyer (The) Advertising and Promotion Age of Innocence (The) Akron House Mystery 36 – Reading & Training 44 Great English Monarchs and their Times 24 – Reading Classics 62 Great Expectations 18 Classic Detective Stories 37 – Green Apple 58 Daisy Miller 44 50 David Copperfield 24 18 Davy Crockett Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Christmas Carol (A) 24 Last of the Mohicans (The) 45 Last Unicorn (The) 21 Legends from the British Isles 21 20 Life and Times of Captain Cook (The) 10 – Reading & Training 50 Life and Times of Shakespeare (The) 10 Great Mysteries of Our World 37 Little Women 21 19 Green Apple 12 London 56 Detective Stories 62 Green Apple Drama 27 Diamond as Big as The Ritz (The) 37 Gulliver’s Travels 37 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories 38 44 Halloween Horror 15 Lord Jim 51 Lost Treasure of Bodega Bay (The) 21 – Green Apple 14 – Reading & Training 32 Alien Alert in Seattle 30 Dream Come True (A) 32 Alien at School 36 Dubliners Halloween... Magic, Witches and Vampires 20 Lost World (The) 33 33 Love in Shakespeare: Five Stories 39 15 Dracula Amazing Characters 60 – A selection from 62 Hamlet Prince of Denmark American Cities 57 – Complete edition 62 Happy Prince and The Selfish Giant (The) American Folk Tales 18 Easyread American Horror 43 Emma 50 American West (The) 18 Empire Tales 62 Animal Tales 32 English Speaking World (The) 57 Anne of Green Gables 14 Around the World in Eighty Days 32 Bathsheba the Witch 14 Beauty and the Best 14 Beowulf 43 8 Macbeth Heart of Darkness – Green Apple Drama 27 – Reading & Training 45 – Reading & Training 51 Magical Tales from the South Seas 34 – Reading Classics 63 Management 58 Home for Christmas 30 Marketing 58 Hound of the Baskervilles (The) 38 Masters and Men 60 House of the Seven Gables (The) 44 Master of Ballantrae (The) 39 37 I Want to Be You 20 Merchant of Venice (The) 45 Fisherman and his Soul (The) 32 Ideal Husband (An) 60 Message from a Ghost (A) 30 Five Children and It 15 Importance of Being Earnest (The) 60 Miami Police File: The O’Nell Case 30 60 Middlemarch 51 Exploring Places Famous British Criminals Final Problem and Other Stories (The) 57 44 Big Mistake and Other Stories (The) 43 Four Continents 62 Interact with Literature Black Arrow (The) 19 Fox (The) 62 Jack the Ripper 45 Midsummer Night’s Dream (A) Black Beauty 14 Frankenstein Jane Eyre 38 – Green Apple Drama 22 Bonds of Love 60 – Reading & Training 50 Jason and the Argonauts 21 – Reading & Training 46 Bottle Imp (The) 19 – Reading Classics 63 Journey to the Centre of the Earth 33 Mill on the Floss (The) 55 British and American Festivities 19 58 Journeys 60 Mind the characters 60 British Isles (The) 57 19 Julius Caesar 38 Missing in Sydney 30 Business Communication 59 15 Jumping Frog (The) 33 Moby Dick 46 Business Environment (The) 59 Ghostly Company 60 Jungle Book (The) 15 Moonfleet 39 Business Issues 59 Good Soldier (The) 63 Just So Stories 16 Moonstone (The) 46 Call of the Wild (The) 24 Gothic Short Stories 50 Katherine Mansfield Short Stories 45 Morte d’Arthur (Le) 46 Canterbury Tales (The) 43 Kidnapped 33 Mrs Dalloway 63 Canterville Ghost (The) 36 Great Adventure at Yellowstone (The) 20 Kim 38 Much Ado About Nothing 46 Great British Writers 56 King Arthur and his Knights 25 Murder at Coyote Canyon 34 Castles and Knights 66 9 Getting on in Business Ghastly Ghosts! Ghost Ship of Bodega Bay (The) Index by Titles Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Purloined Letter (The) Red Badge of Courage (The) 40 Story of Coffee (The) 9 True Adventure Stories 42 51 Relationships 60 Story of Football (The) 9 True Story of Pocahontas (The) 23 Mutiny on the Bounty (The) 34 Return of Sherlock Holmes (The) 40 Story of Moving Pictures (The) 10 Truth about Professor Smith (The) 31 Mystery in New Orleans 34 Story of Popular Music (The) 11 Turn of the Screw (The) Mystery in San Francisco 22 Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 23 Story of Tea (The) 11 – Reading & Training 49 Natural Environments 57 Rob Roy 35 Story of the Olimpic Games (The) 11 – Reading Classics 63 Northanger Abbey 47 Robin Hood 25 Twelfth Night 42 Nutcracker (The) 16 Robinson Crusoe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (The) Valley of Fear (The) 49 Oliver Twist 25 – Green Apple 23 – Reading & Training 41 Vampire’s Tear (The) 43 Oscar Wilde’s Short Stories 25 – Reading & Training 53 – Reading Classics 63 Vanity Fair 54 Othello 47 Romeo and Juliet Study in Scarlet (A) 48 Vikings 11 Pamela 51 – Green Apple Drama 27 Sweet and Sour 61 Virgin and the Gipsy (The) 63 Passage to India (A) 52 – Reading & Training 40 Tale of Two Cities (A) 54 Voices from Inside 61 Peter Pan 16 Sandokan 16 49 52 Scarlet Letter (The) 53 Tales from The Thousand and One Nights Washington Square Persuasion 31 Wicked and Humorous Tales 49 Phantom of the Opera (The) 39 Scarlet Pimpernel (The) 40 Tales of the Supernatural 41 Willing Ghost (The) 36 Pickwick Papers (The) 39 Secret Agent (The) 47 Tales to Talk About 61 White Fang 26 Taming of the Shrew (The) 54 Wind in the Willows (The) 17 Secret Garden (The) Picture of Dorian Gray (The) 52 – Green Apple 16 Tempest (The) – Reading Classics 63 – Reading & Training 35 – Green Apple 17 Woman in White (The) 49 Pirates! 25 Secret of the Stones (The) 17 – Reading & Training 48 Wonderful Wizard of Oz (The) 17 Sense and Sensibility 53 Ten Women Ten Stories 61 World of Difference (A) 61 Seven Short Stories 63 Tess of the D’Urbervilles 54 Wuthering Heights – Reading & Training Portrait of a Lady (The) 52 Wolves 9 Power and Ambition in Shakespeare 47 41 – Reading & Training B2.2 54 52 Sherlock Holmes and the Red Circle Three Men in a Boat Pride and Prejudice 23 Three Men on the Bummel 48 – Reading & Training C1 55 Prince and the Pauper (The) 22 Sherlock Holmes Investigates 41 Three Musketeers (The) 42 X-Files: Squeeze (The) 55 Prisoner of Zenda (The) 40 Sherlock Holmes Stories 31 Time Games 36 Zorro! 17 Problem of Cell 13 (The) 53 Short Stories Project Vampire 22 – Dickens, Stevenson et al. 63 Tom and Co’s Adventures in Cyberspace 26 Railway Children (The) 22 – Oscar Wilde 63 Tom Jones 48 34 Sign of Four (The) 47 To the Lighthouse 63 Silas Marner 55 Tragedy of Dr Faustus (The) 48 Sons and Lovers 53 Tragedy of Richard III (The) 42 Rajah’s Diamond (The) Ransom of Red Chief and Other Stories 35 Reading & Training 28 Splintering Frame (The) 61 Treasure Island Reading & Training Discovery 56 Stories of Ghosts and Mystery 35 – Green Apple Reading & Training Professional 59 Stories of Suspense 41 – Reading & Training 42 Reading Classics 62 Story of Big Cities (The) 10 Treasure of Franchard (The) 23 Recipe for Success 35 Story of Chocolate (The) 9 Tristan and Isolde 31 26 67 bookstoreonline Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland Anne of Green Gables Bathseba the Witch Sherlock Holmes Stories The Jumping Frog Great Mysteries of Our World For purchases online at vicensvivesonline.com, 5% discount + FREE delivery of all books & paper resource material (Canary Islands, 3 € charge for orders less than 20 €). 100812 Vicens Vives’ NEW Online Bookstore.