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Great Expectations

Charles Dickens
Adapted by Derek Sellen; Additional activities by Joanna Burgess

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, the strange lady who lives in an old house with the beautiful Estella? Life is full of surprises...

Dossiers:
Ladies and Gentlemen, Transportation to Australia
Playscript

Features:

  • introduction about the author and his/her times
  • wide variety of interesting activities to help understanding of the text, and to work on all four language skills and lexis
  • activities in the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams
  • cross-curricular dossiers
  • a recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activities
  • extensive vocabulary footnotes, often illustrated
  • guided Internet projects
  • free downloadable exit test on our website (Teacher's Area). Some titles contain extra features, which are indicated on the back cover of the titles in question
  • playscript is available
  • audio CD/CD-ROM containing extra language and cross-cultural activities, which are Interactive whiteboard compatible


The list below shows the main grammatical structures used at this level:

  • Past Simple & Continuous
  • Future reference with will
  • Passive forms in Present & Past Simple
  • Subordination with if (zero & 1st conditionals)
  • Defining relative clauses with who & where
  • Comparison of regular & irregular adjectives
  • Formation of regular & irregular adverbs


Answer Key & playscript is Available (please contact us for password)


  • Great Expectations (GA) Reader + audio CD

    ISBN: 978-88-530-0807-7
    Size: 17 x 24
    Weight: 225gr Pages: 96
    Price: 10.76€   8.61€
      
 
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