The Merchant of Venice + CD audio - Reading & Training

Step 4: B2.1
Human Interest

Zawartość:
Adaptacja sztuki Williama Shakespeare'a "Kupiec Wenecki".

Dossiers:
The Origins of the Pound of Flesh Story
The Treatment of Jews in Shakepeare’s Time
Exit test

W serii Reading & Training można znaleźć przepięknie ilustrowane lektury językowe, podzielone według stopnia trudności, przeznaczone dla nastolatków i dorosłych. Większość tytułów to specjalnie dostosowane językowo pozycje z repertuaru klasyki literatury, jednak w serii znajdują się także oryginalne teksty - szczególnie na niższych poziomach - oraz z rzadka także i literatura faktu. Lektury są podzielone na sześć poziomów, zgodnie z międzynarodowymi kryteriami oceny strukturalnej trudności językowej.

- wprowadzenie prezentujące autora i jego czasy
- szeroki wybór ćwiczeń
- zadania praktyczne w formule egzaminów ESOL i Trinity
- interesujące multidyscyplinarne dossier, przybliżające historyczne i kulturowe tło danego tekstu
- płyta CD z nagraniem lektury oraz dodatkowymi ćwiczeniami na rozumienie ze słuchu
- test końcowy
- dodatkowe materiały do pobrania na stronach wydawnictwa

Step Four
CEFR: B2 Vantage
CESOL: Exam
preparation: FCE
Trinity: Grade 7

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

Autor: William Shakespeare
Adaptacja: Victoria Spence
Ćwiczenia: Tessa Vaughan
112 kolorowych stron
21 x 15 cm, miękka oprawa
ISBN 9788853003157

The Merchant of Venice + CD audio - Reading & Training

Step 4: B2.1
Human Interest

Content:
In Venice, Bassanio needs money to court a rich heiress. His merchant friend Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. Shylock demands that the money is repaid in three months or he will take a pound of Antonio’s flesh. The merchant confidently agrees, but ultimately it will take the intelligence of two women to save him…

Dossiers:
The Origins of the Pound of Flesh Story
The Treatment of Jews in Shakepeare’s Time
Exit test

The Reading & Training series consists of beautifully illustrated graded readers, aimed at teenagers and adults. The majority of the books are adapted classics, but there are also some original stories – especially at lower levels – and the occasional non-fiction reader. The readers are graded into six levels according to internationally recognised criteria for structural grading.

Features:
• introduction about the author and his/her times
• wide variety of 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, with extra listening activities
• exit tests
• guided Internet projects
• answer key and exit test
downloadable free from our website www.blackcat-cideb.com
• downloadable summary-based activities

Step Four
CEFR: B2 Vantage
CESOL: Exam
preparation: FCE
Trinity: Grade 7

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

Author: William Shakespeare
Retold by Victoria Spence
Activities by Tessa Vaughan
112 colour pages
21 x 15 cm, paperback
ISBN 9788853003157