Adapted by Jane Elizabeth Cammack
Tragedy
A power-hungry Richard III, a remorseful Macbeth, a revengeful Prince Hamlet, a powerful Julius Caesar, and a ruthless and ambitious King Henry V: various aspects of power and ambition feature in these five stories based on plays by William Shakespeare.
Dossiers:
William Shakespeare 1564-1616,
Ghosts, Witches and Revenge,
The Influence on Shakespeare’s
Plays
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)