Timesaver Secondary Extracts

Description

This 88 page resource book features fourteen extracts taken from modern and classical literature, including 'Bridget Jones's Diary' 'Pride and Prejudice' 'About a Boy' 'The Time Machine' and 'Captain Correlli's Mandolin'. Useful background information on the authors and the novels accompanies each extract. The fourteen units, each exploring a different theme, provide a wide variety of language practice as well as developing reading skills, summary techniques and stylistic appreciation, for the Cambridge CAE, CPE and IELTS examinations. Each extract is followed by two pages of photocopiable exercises which include vocabulary and gap-fill exercises, discussion activities and role-play situations, and composition topics based on the theme of the unit. All the extracts are read aloud on the accompanying audio component. For Upper-Intermediate - Advanced level.