Phileas Fogg makes a bet with his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days. This is the wonderful story of Phileas'' adventures as he travels from country to country with his servant Pa
Contemporary / British English (Available February 2008) Kay and Jay are Men in Black. They have an important job they watch all the aliens in the world. There are usually fifteen hundred aliens on Earth at any one time. Things are usually quiet. But then a new alien arrives and this one wants to fight.
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Why is the frightening Mr Hyde a friend of the nice Dr Jekyll? Who is the evil little man? And why does he seem to have power over the doctor? After a terrible murder, everyone is looking for Mr Hyde. But he has disappeared. Or has he?
Original / British English (Available May 2008) A mysterious stranger has come to the island where Costas lives. Why is the man there, and why is he looking at Eagles Rock? Costas wants to be the first person to climb the dangerous rock. But will the stranger climb it first?
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Count Dracula is a vampire. He drinks peoples blood. He lives in a lonely castle in the mountains of Transylvania. But then he comes to England and strange things start happening. People change. People become ill. Professor Van Helsing knows about vampires, but can he stop Count Dracula?
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Scrooge is a cold, hard man. He loves money, and he doesnt like people. He really doesnt like Christmas. But when some ghosts visit him, they show him his past life, his life now, and a possible future. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he change?
Uma noite Sarah e Ben tem o mesmo sonho: Senhor das Lágrimas vai dominar o mundo e deixar todo mundo triste. Mas Sarah e Ben sabem como detê-lo. Juntos partem numa viagem para encontrar o Senhor das
Classic / British English (Available May 2008) Gone with the Wind is a story of love and war and one of the best-selling books of all time. Part 1 follows the popular but selfish Scarlett OHara, the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes, and dangerous but charming Rhett Butler as their world is destroyed in the terrible American Civil War.
La littérature en dialogues s'adresse aux grands adolescents et adultes de niveau intermédiaire. L'objectif de ce livre est de faire découvrir des auteurs et leur ?uvre grâce à une approche vivante et originale des textes. La Littérature en dialogues contient 30 chapitres. Chaque chapitre est constitué de quatre pages : Sur la première page, un dialogue extrait d'une ?uvre littéraire (L'Enfant multiple de Andrée Chédid, Djinn de Alain Robbe-Grillet, Une enfance créole de Patrick Chamoiseau, Le Côté de Guermantes de Marcel Proust, Phèdre de Jean Racine, etc. ) et une biographie de l'auteur. Sur la deuxième page, une explication de l'extrait avec repérage des éléments du discours. Sur les deux dernières pages, des activités de compréhension et d'expression orale et écrite. Chaque double page se termine par une rubrique " Culture " qui propose des réflexions sur les contenus culturels des textes. En fin de volume, les corrigés des activités constituent un complément efficace, permettant aux élèves de travailler en auto-apprentissage.
Contemporary / British English (Available February 2008) Mr Ross wants to teach his history class about Hitler and the Nazis. He starts a class team. He calls it The Wave. His students love it. Other students want to be in it. But some people dont like it. And then it starts to feel dangerous. Can anybody stop it?
Contemporary / British English (Available March 2008) Miranda Hilliard does not live with her husband, Daniel. He wants to see the children more often, but they live with Miranda. One day Madame Doubtfire comes to work for Miranda and help with the children. But Madame Doubtfire seems strange, more like a man than a woman ...
William Thackeray Retold by James Butler Activities by Kenneth Brodey Human interest 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. Dossiers: Thackeray and Waterloo A Critic''s Assessment of Vanity Fair Exit test
Janet recebe uma carta de seu antigo namorado Donald McKinnon. Ele a convida para visitá-lo na Escócia, mas quando ela chega lá, coisas estranhas começam a acontecer. Por que as pessoas "rush off" quando escutam o nome de Donald? Por que Donald está tão triste? E o que é que a máscara africana do Donald tem a ver com tudo isso?
Mary ShelleyWho is it for? Young adults and Adults Oxford Progressive English Readers - Key features: * Adaptation of popular classics and modern fiction by well-known writers. * Wide range of titles within each grade allows students to read widely, enabling them to progress to the next level confidently. * Illustrated throughout. * Questions, activities, and background information such as cultural context, character profiles, and author biographies included.
Contemporary / British English (Available May 2008) Johnny English is a Secret Service agent. He often makes very bad mistakes. But now hes got an important job: security for the Queen and her crown. There are problems a lot of problems. But is Johnny English Englands only hope?
Original / American English (Available May 2008) Martin Luther King had a dream. He wanted blacks and whites to live together happily. But in America in the 1950s and 1960s, all men were not equal. King led peaceful protests against the government and won changes for the blacks of America. But has King''s dream really come true today?
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) These are the stories of some of Shakespeares most famous plays. We travel to Venice, Greece, Denmark and Rome, and meet many different people. There is a greedy money-lender, a fairy king and queen, some Roman politicians and a young prince who meets the ghost of his murdered father.
