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