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The Moonstone
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The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins Adapted by Christopher Hall Activities by Janet Cameron
Mystery & horror
On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives a very special present, the Moonstone – a large yellow diamond from India. But that night the Moonstone is stolen… In what T. S. Eliot called ‘the first, the longest, and the best of modern detective novels’, Wilkie Collins tells a story full of mystery, suspense and psychological insight.
Dossier within the reader: Imperialism on the Indian Subcontinent
Features: - 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 B2.1: Present Perfect Simple with the first/second/etc. time that … – Present Perfect Continuous with for & since – Passive forms with the Present Perfect Simple – Reported speech with precise reporting verbs (e.g. suggest, promise, apologise, etc.) – 3rd Conditional: if + past perfect, … would(n’t) have – All conditionals with may & might – Non-defining relative clauses with which & whose – Clauses of concession with even though, in spite of & despite Answer key is available online (please contact us for password)
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