• aimed at teenagers and adults
• introduction about the author and his/her times
• wide variety of motivating activities
• activities in the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams
• fascinating cross-curricular dossiers, which explore the historical and cultural background of the text
• a recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activities
• extensive vocabulary footnotes
• exit tests
• guided Internet projects

The list below shows the main grammatical structures used at level A2:

Present Simple & Continuous – Past Simple & Continuous – Future reference with Present Continuous & Simple, going to & will – Present Perfect Simple with ever & never – Imperative with 2nd person & let’s – Infinitives & gerunds after common verbs – Co-ordination with but, and, or & and then – Subordination with because, when, if & zero conditionals – Defining relative clauses with who, which, that, zero pronoun & where – Quantifiers – Comparison of regular & irregular adjectives & adverbs