• 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 B1.1:

Present Perfect Simple with yet, already, still & just – Past Perfect Simple in reported speech – Passive forms with going to & will – Verb + object + infinitive (e.g. I want you to go) – Reported statements with say & tell – Time clauses introduced by when, while, until, before, after & as soon as – Clauses of purpose: so that; (in order) to