Use these fully illustrated classic and contemporary plays for reading practice or performance.Each script offers performance notes, character lists, exercises, and glossaries.

    They can kill you with a look, or a word. They can send their friend the Devil after you in the shape of a dog or a cat. They can make a clay picture of you, then break it . . . and a few weeks later you are dead. Today, of course, most people don't believe in witches. But in 1612 everybody was afraid of them. Young Jennet Device in Lancashire knew a lot about them because she lived with the Witches of Pendle. They were her family . . .

    This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension.Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension.Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

    An intriguing story - with Sherlock Holmes, the most famous and most eccentric detective in English literature, using his detective powers to solve the mystery.

    The books are graded at six vocabulary levels, ranging from 400 words (Beginning) to 2,500 words (Advanced.)

    Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

    It was on its first voyage across the Atlantic and many people died. But what really happened? Why did the ship hit an iceberg? Why didn't another ship save the passengers? Although the disaster happened over 80 years ago, there are still people who can remember it and it still has the power to capture the imagination.

    Features topics such as environmental issues, historical facts, and culture.Full-color photographs, introductions, glossaries, and exercises enhance student reading and learning.Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

    Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders.

    'When we are happy, we are always good,' says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy.' Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party.

    One of them was the King's wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life.After the King's death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters - one from each of the first five wives. They are sad, angry, frightened letters. They tell the story of what it was like to be the wife of Henry VIII of England.

    The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200). Some of the titles are also available on cassette.

    Find out how designer Paloma Picasso, cosmetics producer Anita Roddick, Madonna, Oprah Winfrey and Hanae Mori achieved their success.

    She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her... and throws acid into her face.Then her father, the scientist George Ashton, disappears. And her sister, Penny, discovers that her husband-to-be, Malcom, is a government agent. Why has Ashton disappeared, and why is Malcom told to hunt for him? Who is George Ashton, anyway?And who is the enemy?

    Clare's grandfather has been found frozen in a glacier, 74 years after a climbing accident. Clare knows this could make an interesting story for her newspaper, but as she investigates her grandfather's last climb, she learns that the accident wasn't as simple as she had first thought.Cambridge English Readers: Level 5