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Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a realneed in the ELT classroom for contemporary graded material thatwill motivate students to read.This Starter Level Popcorn ELT Readerintroduces the characters from the hit film AngryBirds (2016).The Angry Birds are happy on Bird Island.But why are the pigs coming and what do they want?LEVEL 1 - ideal for beginnersbook & CD - also has online resourcesFull colour insidesPerfect also for native English speaking children who are strugglingwith ...

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in theELT classroom for contemporary graded material that will stimulatestudents. An Education is based on the 2009 hit British filmof the same name. Set in 1960s London, An Education is a coming-of-agestory about sixteen-year-old Jenny, who yearns for a lifefar removed from that of her parents and their dull suburban values.

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in theELT classroom for motivating, contemporary graded material thatwill instantly appeal to students.At the age of twenty-one, Tim is told an incredible family secretby his father: all the men in his family have the ability to relivetheir past. He decides to use his new gift to win the heart ofthe beautiful Mary with hilarious and moving results.About Time is based on the 2013 movie by Richard Curtis, writer ofNotting Hill & Love ...

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary graded material that will stimulate students. In 2008, YouTube.com showed an extraordinary clip of the reunion between two young men and their pet lion in Kenya. It was watched by millions of people around the world. A Lion Called Christian is the true story of two Australians who bought a pet lion cub called Christian in the 1970s and his subsequent journey to his rightful home in the wild.

This invaluable resource provides focused, communicativepractice of all four skills for teenage students at CEF levelB1.The Common European Framework outlines a series of targets tobe reached at different stages through the language learning experience.There is a need for mixed-skills materials which provide a directtie-in with the CEF targets, or descriptors, so that teacherscan assess students progress, and students can evaluate their ownlearning.All lessons have vocabulary activities and culm...

Timesavers are a series of supplementary photocopiablematerials for English teachers to use with students aged11 and upwards.This edition is a brand-new collection of low-level listeningactivities for lower-level students of English.Activities include radio show interviews, quizzes and vox pops,covering a range of fun and motivating topics from Pushy Parentsto Collecting Football Shirts.This resource is an ideal accompaniment to any Elementary or Pre-Intermediatecoursebook.CEF LEVEL A1 - A240 re...

Everybody loves a story! This collection of varied picture storieswill capture the interest of students and help them to developtheir receptive and productive language skills. The accompanyingCD further contextualises each activity with a model story and interview.

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in theELT classroom for contemporary graded material that will motivatestudents to read. 127 Hours is the extraordinary true storyof Aron Ralston who, after a canyoneering accident in Utah,was forced to amputate his own arm to survive

Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a realneed in the ELT classroom formotivating graded material that will encourage students to read.Twelve Years a Slave is the extraordinary true storyof Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York State who,in 1841, was kidnapped and sold into slavery.This simplified version condenses Northups memoirs forstudents of English and is interspersed with stillsfrom the 2013 Oscar award winning film.LEVEL 3 (IntermediateB1)Comes with a CDAlso pe...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Wuthering Heights by Emily BronteMay you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, thenLockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: of the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of ...

Bob Slocum is anxious, bored and fearful of his job. So why is it he wants nothing more than the chance to speak at the next company convention? In this darkly satirical book, Joseph Heller takes us for a turn on the maddening hamster wheel of work. Hellers workplace is a cradle of paranoia, bravado and nauseating banter, forever shadowed by that perennial question, whos really running the show here? In Hellers hands, our daily grind has never seemed so absurd.Selected from the book Something Ha...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellEh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways ...Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Mollys life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets. Soon the girls b...

One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our WorldRhys took one of the works of genius of the 19th Century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the 20th Century Michele RobertsJean Rhyss masterpiece tells the story of Jane Eyres madwoman in the attic, Bertha Rochester.Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, how...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Villette by Charlotte BronteThat evening more firmly than ever fastened into my soul the conviction that Fate was of stone, and Hope a false idol - blind, bloodless, and of granite core. I felt, too, that the trial God had appointed me was gaining its climax, and must now be turned by my own hands, hot, feeble, trembling as they wereWith neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls boarding school in the small ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Vanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayVanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way thr...

One of the twentieth centurys great undisputed masterpieces, Malcolm Lowrys Under the Volcano includes an introduction by Michael Schmidt in Penguin Modern Classics.It is the fiesta Day of the Dead in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate, ugly pariah dogs roam the streets and Geoffrey Firmin - ex-consul, ex-husband, an alcoholic and a ruined man - is living out the last day of his life. Drowning himself in ...

A modernist novel of supreme stylistic innovation, James Joyces Ulysses is the towering achievement of twentieth century literature. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Declan Kiberd. For Joyce, literature is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. Capturing a single day in the life of Dubliner Leopold Bloom, his friends Buck Mulligan and Stephen Dedalus, hi...

How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?A selection of Blakes most haunting verse, including The Songs of Innocence and Experience.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Two on a Tower by Thomas HardyThen they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet to star, from single stars to double stars, from double to coloured stars...Hardys atmospheric, moving story of star-crossed lovers shows human beings at the mercy of forces far beyond their control, setting a tragic drama of human passion and conflict against a background of vast stellar space and scientific discovery. Two on a Tower tells the story of Lady Constantine, w...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis StevensonOne more step, Mr Hands, said I, and Ill blow your brains outIn Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkinss parents - and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. For when Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across a map of a mysterious island in his sea chest - where X marks the spot of a stash of buried pirat...