The tests will help familiarise students with the format and requirements of the Reading and Writing/Listening and Speaking papers.
30 classic works of British and American literature, to be read for enjoyment and for language development.
Presents ten short scripts for use in the examined performance element of GCSE Drama. These scripts offer material in different theatrical styles. Each script is followed by a double-page spread of script-specific activities, to be undertaken individually or in a group. Cast sizes vary from 3 to 6 actors and durations from 15 to 30 minutes.
Presents ten extracts from set or recommended texts lists to use in the examined performance element of GCSE Drama. The scripts in this title offer material in different theatrical styles. Each script is followed by a double-page spread of script-specific activities, to be undertaken individually or in a group. Cast sizes vary from 3 to 6 actors.
New words and phrases Arabic translations of all headwords, derivatives, phrasal verbs and idioms Interactive CD-ROM with instant look up, pronunciation, reference pages, games and exercises Oxford 3000TM - the most important and useful words to learn are marked with a key symbol 16-page colour topic vocabulary section helps build vocabulary
Factual, yet humorous look at the life snd work of one of the most famous playwrights of the Elizabethan age.
Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle.
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious, and hypochondriac wife, Zeenie. But when Zeenie's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.
A woman's struggle against her passionate and sensual nature leads her to a deeper understanding and eventual tragedy.
Fanny Price, a teenaged girl of low social rank brought up on her wealthy relatives' countryside estate, feels the sharp sting of rejection when her cousin Edmund, the only person who treats her as an equal, is won over by a flirtatious, exciting--and unprincipled--London girl.
A story of passionate love, travail and final triumph. The relationship between the heroine and Mr Rochester is only one episode, albeit the most important, in a detailed fictional autobiography in which the author transmuted her own experience into high art.
An autobiography of the life of British children's author Jacqueline Wilson, from her birth in England in 1945, to her early youth when she decides she wants to become a writer when she grows up.
Features characters that range from the iniquitous Wackford Squeers and his family, to the delightful Mrs Nickleby, taking in the eccentric Crummles and his travelling players, the Mantalinis, the Kenwigs, and many more.
Presents a folk tale of Robin Hood and his band of merry men, who rob from the rich to give to the poor. This work is intended for teenage boys
Ralph has always longed for adventure and he finds it when he, along with the older and wiser Jack and the irrepressible Peterkin, are shipwrecked on a Pacific island. But their exploits don't stop there. Apart from being battered by storms, they are attacked by sharks, kidnapped by pirates, and have to save a beautiful native girl from an unhappy marriage. They even get a chance to see some su…