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What s the hook? Relocates the drama of Shakespeare s Macbeth to the school football field. Strikingly original in its approach, MacB grips boys and girls alike. Includes engaging make characters and situations with which disenchanted readers can easily identify. What are the themes? Friendship, school life, mystery and imagination and individual vs society. Teaching points? Excellent way into Shakespeare s Macbeth - opportunities to compare scenes on the football field with the battle scenes in Macbeth and compare the genres of drama and prose. Gripping story line and thrilling writing style provide plenty of opportunities for shared and guided reading.

What''s the story? On the island of Anacrea, three very different young people, Seeker, Morning Star and Wildman, all yearn to join the Nomana, the Noble Warriors who protect their living god, the All and Only. But these are dangerous times for the Nomana, so when Seeker uncoversa deadly plan to destroy the warriors, the three see their chance to prove themselves. As they become ever more caught up in the race to save the Nomana, the teenagers find themselves in increasing danger. Can they save the Nomana and at what risk to themselves? Story is king here and the various plot threads spun throughout the novel are skilfully drawn together?

Lectura divertida para practicar las estructuras y vocabulario encontrados en el programa de estudios de Primaria en inglés. Material adicional al final del libro para reforzar los contenidos.

On a Trip tells us from the innocence and excitement of a child his first plane ride. The protagonist of this story and his parents are going to visit the grandparents who live far away so it is necessary to prepare the case and flying.On a Trip nos relata desde la inocencia y la emocion de un niño su primer viaje en avion. El protagonista de este cuento y sus padres van a visitar a los abuelos que viven lejos por eso es necesario preparar la maleta y volar en avion.

Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.

Mrs Dalloway is a novel that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I. It is one of Woolfs best-known novels. London 1923. The First World War has been over for five years, but the effects are still being felt all round the metropolis. A ocialite and politicians wife prepares for one of her famous parties while somewhere else in the city an old friend contemplates the pain of past and present love, a war veteran struggles with his inner demons, and other characters live out the uncertainties and dramas of post-war English society. All touch each other in some way with their actions, directly or obliquely.

OBRES WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE FONDO GENERAL CATALUNYA

The World Wide Web is a virtual world. We can't feel it or touch it, but it connects millions of people around the world - sharing information and communicating. Today, we can shop for just about anything, study, look at photos, watch films, send emails, play games or talk with friends online. We love being online, but it can be dangerous too! Do you know who started some of the biggest websites on the Internet? What other ways there are to store information? How to be safe online? This book will tell you.

One morning Bill wakes up to find he has somehow, in the night, turned into a girl. His mother sends him to school in a pink, frilly frock.

What's the hook? A compulsive expose of the attraction of gang culture, the need for acceptance and the importance of relationships with a compelling protagonist. What are the themes? Identity, friendship, individual vs society and peer pressure. Teaching points? Fast-paced narrative makes it ideal for studying structure.

Daily brutality is a way of life for Taylor Mase who lives on a country estate with his father, Tom, the gamekeeper. Reg Harris, the land owner, requires Tom to kill animals of prey to keep the pheasant population large enough for the hunting season. While hunting one day, nature-loving Taylor finds a rare Red Kite egg and decides to rear it in secret. However, when the cruel landowner discovers the rare-bird's existence, its fate, and Harris's, are suddenly in question...

A good portrait is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. I am afraid I show my soul in this painting.Tag FantasyIn this Reader you will find: - Information about Oscar Wildes life - Sections focusing on background and context - Glossary of difficult words - Comprehension activities - PET-style activities - Exit testLate nineteenth-century London: a city of contrasts. Great wealth and terrible poverty, beauty and ugliness, purity and immorality. Oscar Wilde takes the reader into this strange and fascinating world through the strange story of the picture of Dorian Gray. Young, handsome and innocent, the aristocratic Dorian is visiting his friend, the kind and gentle painter Basil Hallward, when he meets Lord Henry Wotton. Entertaining and cynical, Lord Henry introduces Dorian to the idea of a world where the only value is beauty, and everything must serve this ideal. But how can Dorian survive ageing and ugliness? In front of his beautiful portrait, painted by Hallward, Dorian makes a terrible wish. This wish will come true, dragging Dorian into a world of the senses, of beauty and joy, but also of terror, of fear and ultimately of murder

Theres daggers in mens smiles (Act II, Sc. III) Tag Ambition PowerIn this Reader you will find: - Focus on - PET-style activities - Glossary of difficult words - Exit Test - Comprehension activities - A section focussing on CLIL Physical Geography Scotland in the eleventh century.Macbeth is a brave general, loyal to King Duncan and to Scotland. Until, that is, he meets three evil witches after a battle against King Duncans enemies. They tell him that one day he, Macbeth, will be King of Scotland. This is the beginning of a story of ambition and evil, involving him and his calculating wife, Lady Macbeth. What follows leads them to terrible violence, murder, madness and ultimately to their own destruction.

Hooray! Let''s play! is the brand new 3-level course for 3 to 5-year-olds by world-renowned author team Herbert Puchta and Gunter Gerngross. This exciting and innovative course helps you maximise your English lessons with very young learners and offers your pupils lots of fun and highly-stimulating activities.Hooray! Let''s play! has a unique multisensory approach that develops young children''s core thinking skills and offers motivating value-based stories to promote essential social skills. FOR THE STUDENT:Hooray! Let''s play! promotes multi-sensory learning through a variety of motivating games, stories, action stories and songs; is fun and easy to teach allowing children to learn in a natural and memorable way; offers a unique combination of materials - books, DVDs, Audio CDs, DVD-ROMS, story cards, flashcards and a hand puppet to suit every classroom need; introduces 4 delightful characters - Peter the Panda, Rosie the Rabbit, Connie the Crocodile and Tom the Turtle - who quickly befriend the children and create a positive, warm learning environment.

Hooray! Let''s play! is the brand new 3-level course for 3 to 5-year-olds by world-renowned author team Herbert Puchta and Gunter Gerngross. This exciting and innovative course helps you maximise your English lessons with very young learners and offers your pupils lots of fun and highly-stimulating activities.Hooray! Let''s play! has a unique multisensory approach that develops young children''s core thinking skills and offers motivating value-based stories to promote essential social skills.FOR THE STUDENT:Hooray! Let''s play! promotes multi-sensory learning through a variety of motivating games, stories, action stories and songs; is fun and easy to teach allowing children to learn in a natural and memorable way; offers a unique combination of materials - books, DVDs, Audio CDs, DVD-ROMS, story cards, flashcards and a hand puppet to suit every classroom need; introduces 4 delightful characters - Peter the Panda, Rosie the Rabbit, Connie the Crocodile and Tom the Turtle - who quickly befriend the children and create a positive, warm learning environment.

Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to see a local nobleman, Count Dracula. Jonathan realises that things are not what they seem at Castle Dracula and, before he knows it, his nightmare begins.Soon Jonathan and his friends and family are battling for their lives against the terrible Count in a race of good against evil that will bring them from Transylvania to London and across Europe once more to the Black Sea.Can Jonathan and his friends destroy Dracula?

When Mary Lennoxs parents die in India, she moves to England to live in her uncles enormous manor.Mary is sad and lonely but one day she finds an old key to a secret garden that no one goes into and a whole new world of magic and enchantment opens up to her. Before long Mary learns to make friends for the first time.Can the garden bring back the love that is missing from their lives?

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Mrs Peterson gives her class a big new project - they have to find something they can sell at Tunbridge Town Fete. At first, Justin's group don't know what to sell, but then Justin has a bright idea - they'll sell 'worm juice'. Worm juice is a wonderful fertiliser for plants! But Justin and his friends soon discover that setting up a worm farm isn't easy, and as the date of the fete gets closer, they wonder if they're going to have anything to sell!

Every night, a mother tells stories. Her children remember the stories. When they grow up, they tell them to their children. And their children tell the stories to their children. This goes on for hundreds of years. In different places, people tell different stories. Nobody knowswho made up these old stories. They are part of family life. They are folk tales.In Germany, a village is full of rats. A strange man arrives to help. In America, a man wakes after a long sleep. He finds the world has changed. In Japan, a boy draws dragons.They save his life. In England, a poor man becomes rich because of a cat. In Africa, a mother looks for stories. Find out where she finds them.Read on to enjoy these tales from around the world.