• aimed at teenagers and adults
• introduction about the author and his/her times
• a 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 B1.2:

Present Perfect Simple with for & since – Past Perfect Simple for narrative – Causative: have/get + object + past participle – Reported questions and requests/orders with ask & tell – 2nd Conditional: if + past, … would(n’t) – Zero, 1st and 2nd conditionals with unless – Non-defining relative clauses with who & where – Clauses of result with so, so… that & such… that – Clauses of concession with although & though – Clauses of comparison with (not) as/so… as; (not)… enough to; too