English Timesavers: Extracts 2 (with CD)

This book provides 14 authentic extracts from modern and classical literature, each exploring a different theme, from the best of English authors and novels:

Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
The Time Machine by H G Wells
The Beach by Alex Garland
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A Passage to India by E M Forster
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernières

Each extract is accompanied by useful background information on the authors and the context of their novels. The extracts are followed by two photocopiable exercises and include a wide variety of language practice, such as reading comprehension, vocabulary exercises, discussion activities, role-play, and composition topics, gap fill exercises, and develops reading skills, summary techniques and stylistic appreciation for the Cambridge CAE and CPE examinations.

All the extracts are read aloud on the accompanying audio component.

Advanced (C1)

The series of photocopiable resource books for English Language Teaching includes cross-cultural lessons, grammar, vocabulary or skill development, games, raps and communicative activities and everyday, practical English. Tried and tested by teachers around the world, these are full of imaginative, lively activities and perfect for introducing, consolidating or practising recently taught structures and lexical sets.