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Lesson Themes

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What can you do in new York? everything! You can go to some of the world’s most famous shops, watch a baseball game, go to the top of a skyscraper, see a concert in central park, eat a sandwich in a new York Deli, see a show in a Broadway theatre … new York is big, noisy, and exciting, and it’s waiting for you. open the book and come with us to this wonderful city.

Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. he liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. he liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. he liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life. This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. strange, wonderful, and frightening things can happen on trains and all of them happen here.

‘every day someone steals money from people near the shops. We must stop this,’ says Dan, a police officer. The police use TV cameras but it is not easy because there are so many suspects. Who is the robber?

sally is always running; and she has her phone with her all the time: at home, on the train, at work, at lunchtime, and at the shops. But then one afternoon suddenly she has a different phone … and it changes her life.

he is not beautiful. his mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him ‘The elephant man’. Then someone speaks to him and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film.

‘Give me the money,’ says the robber to the Los Angeles security guard. The guard looks at the gun and hands over the money. The robber has long blond hair and rides a motorcycle and a girl with long blond hair arrives at Kenny’s motel on a motorcycle. Is she the robber?

units 5 – 6Daily activitiesPast events

‘Who is the man with the roses in this hand?’ thinks Anna. ‘I want to meet him.’ ‘Who is the girl with the guitar?’ thinks Will. ‘I like her. I want to meet her.’ But they do not meet. There are lots of men!’ says Anna’s friend Vicki, but Anna cannot forget Will. And then one rainy day…

red roses

starter Level – Narrative

Christine Lindop

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Cd: american english

units 1 – 2Personal informationJobs and activities

units 7 – 8 Clothing Appearance and personality

units 11 – 12VacationsCareers and schools

HumaN iNtErEst

Girl on a motorcycle


John escott

crimE aNd mystEry

sally’s phone


Christine Lindop

HumaN iNtErEst

the Elephant man

stage 1

Tim Vicary

truE storiEs

police tV


Tim Vicary

crimE aNd mystEry

New york

stage 1

John escott

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FACTFILES one-way ticket – short stories

stage 1

Jennifer Bassett

HumaN iNtErEst

units 9 – 10Local attractionsshopping and places

isbN 978 0 19 423373 6

Cd 978 0 19 423369 9

Cd Pack 978 0 19 423582 2


units 3 – 4Likes and dislikes Places and events

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Cd 978 0 19 423404 7

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Lesson Themes



People love and need animals. They keep them in their home and on their farms. They enjoy going to zoos, and watching animals on films and on TV. Little children love to play with toy animals. But people are a great danger to animals too. They take their land, and cut down the trees where animals have their homes. They pollute the rivers and seas, and kill big animals for their skins or for medicine. What can we do to protect the animals of the world – from us?

Come with us to London – a city as old as the Romans, and as new as the twenty-first century. There are places to go – from oxford street to Westminster Abbey, from shakespeare’s Globe Theatre to Wimbledon Tennis Club. And things to do: ride on the London eye, visit the markets, go to the theatre, run in the London marathon. Big beautiful, noisy, exciting – that’s London.

From Botswana to new Zealand, from Jamaica to nigeria, from Uganda to malaysia, from India to south Africa, these moving stories show us that the human heart is the same in every place. Fear and pain, happiness and sadness belong to us all.

In english-speaking countries around the world people celebrate easter, Valentine’s Day, Christmas and other special days. What happens on these special days? Why is there a special day for eating pancakes? Who is the “guy” that children take onto the streets in november? And were do many people like to spend the shortest night of the year in england? Come on a journey through a year of celebrations, from new Year’s eve to Christmas.

It is 1880, in the opera house in Paris. everybody is talking about the Phantom of the opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the opera house. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. he is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. he has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. everybody is afraid of the Phantom – the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers. But who has actually seen him?

All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. And they could not hear the cries for help – only the wind. how could they save the people on the rock? This is the true story of Grace Darling – a girl who became a famous heroine on that stormy night.

units 5 – 6special eventsLifestyles

In a house in oxford three people are having breakfast: Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas. he still remembers another Christmas in Prague, many long years ago – a Christmas that changed his life for ever …

christmas in prague

stage 1

Joyce hannam

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Cd 978 0 19 478850 2

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Cd 978 0 19 423384 2

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isbN 978 0 19 478902 8

Cd 978 0 19 4788373

Cd Pack 978 0 19 478870 0

units 1 – 2 holidaysmusic and movies

units 7 – 8 shoppingAppearance and personality

units 11 – 12Past experiencesCities

HumaN iNtErEst

Grace darling

stage 2

Tim Vicary

truE storiEs

seasons and celebrationsstage 2

Jackie maguire

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FACTFILES the phantom of the operastage 1

Jennifer Bassett

faNtasy aNd Horror

cries from the Heart: stories from around the worldstage 2Retold by Jennifer Bassett

worLd storiEs

animals in danger

stage 1

Andy hopkins and Joc Potter

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FACTFILES London

stage 1

John escott

factfiLEs

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FACTFILES

units 9 – 10storiesWildlife

units 3 – 4experiencesPlaces around the world


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Lesson Themes



Christmas is humbug, scrooge says – ‘just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer’. The only thing that matters to scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future and scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.

The UsA in the 1950s and 60s was a troubled place. Black people were angry, because they did not have the same rights as whites. It was a time of angry words, of marches, of protests, a time of bombs and killings. But above the angry noise came the voice of one man, a man of peace. This is the story of an extraordinary man, who changed American history in this short life.

Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. he takes parts from dead people and builds a new ‘man’. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him – even Frankenstein himself!

The job was too good. There had to be a problem – and there was. John Duncan was an honest man but he needed money. he had children to look after. he was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it. They gave him the job because he couldn’t say no. The job was like a poison inside him. It changed him and blinded him so that he couldn’t see the real poison until it was too late.

The story of information technology is a story of machines – from the ancient abacus to the small powerful computer chips of today. But it is also a story of people. meet a woman who wrote computer programs two hundred years ago, a teenage millionaire, a man who began with a paperclip and ended with a house. And meet the criminals who want your name and your money …

What’s in a name? Does it really matter if you are called montague or Capulet? When Romeo, son of Lord and Lady montague, falls in love with the most beautiful girl he’s ever seen, he finds out that it does matter. It makes all the difference in the world, because both families hate each other bitterly. For a time, Romeo and Juliet manage to keep their love secret. Can any of their friends help the young lovers to be together for ever?

units 5 – 6Technologysuspense stories

What does the name ‘Agatha Christie’ mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery. But who was Agatha Christie? What was she like? Was there a mystery in her own life too?

agatha christie, woman of mysterystage 2

John escott

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Cd 978 0 19 423595 2

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Cd american english

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978 0 19 479094 9

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units 1 – 2 Famous starsPopularity

units 9 – 10Party customsmysteries

units 11 – 12Difficult situationsstories about celebrities

truE storiEs

romeo and Juliet

stage 2

William shakespeareRetold by Alistair mcCallum

pLayscripts

chemical secret

stage 3

Tim Vicary

tHriLLEr aNd adVENturE

information technologystage 3

Paul A. Davies

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stage 3

mary shelleyRetold by Parick nobes

faNtasy aNd Horror

a christmas carol

stage 3

Charles DickensRetold by Clare West

cLassics

martin Luther king

stage 3

Alan C. mcLean

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units 7 – 8 Physical appearanceGiving advice

units 3 – 4World citiesPersonality


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