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Listening - The text and beyond

Listen to a travel agent talking about a tour in Iceland and complete the advertisement. Regent Icelandic Tours Two tours in one! Morning: along the coast of Peninsula. Afternoon: and trekking.…

Reading

On the 28th June we started our descent into the crater. It was like a large cone – wide at the top and narrower at the bottom. It seemed about 2,000 feet deep. Hans didn’t take us down the crater…

Speaking (T: Grade 5/6)

Theme – Entertainment In this part Gulliver becomes a ‘spectacle for the people’. Why do you think that he doesn’t enjoy it? Have you ever performed in front of a crowd either at school or…

Internet Project

In the original version of Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift printed maps to show where the imaginary islands of Lilliput and Blefuscu were. He did this to make his book seem more realistic. At the…

Phrasal verbs

‘He could get away with it.’ Look at this sentence from Chapter Nine: ‘He could get away with it.’ To get away with something is a phrasal verb which means ‘to not suffer punishment when you…

Reading

9 October Inspector Fix was one of the detectives investigating the robbery at the Bank of England. In his years as a detective he knew only one thing for certain: all the biggest criminals looked like…

Reading

16. Walter Hartright’s narrative continued I was still thinking about what Pesca had told me when I walked back from his apartment that night. As I came closer to home, an idea started to form in my…

Playscript

ACT II Voice: Act Two: Scene One. Noise of storm Narrator: There was a terrible storm that night. During the next few days, strange things happened in the house... Mrs Otis: Look, the stain is there…

Before You Read - The Story of the Door

The Story of the Door