Black Cat AMERICAN HORROR + CD ( Reading & Training Level 4) (New edition)

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zjednodušená anglická četba pro mládež a dospělé s poslechovým CD ( úroveň 4)

Mystery & horror Edgar Allan Poe is one of the first masters of modern short stories and modernist poetry. But he is best remembered for his strange style of horror, with characters who cannot be forgotten. A man who drains away his wife’s life to make his painting seem alive; an animal lover who becomes obsessed by a cat; a young man obsessed by an old man’s blue eye; and a man hypnotized just before he dies who then… Description: Mystery & horror 'The Black Cat' seeks revenge on its cruel master; a young wife has the life drained out of her by her insensitive artist husband in 'The Oval Portrait'; and the beating heart of a dead man exposes the killer to the police in The 'Tell-Tale Heart' The READING & TRAINING series is composed of illustrated graded readers, aimed at teenagers and adults. The readers are graded into six levels - from elementary/pre-lower intermediate to post-intermediate - according to internationally recognised criteria for structural grading. Features: • introduction about the author and his/her times • wide variety of interesting activities to promote understanding of the text, as well as all four language skills, lexis and sociocultural awareness and knowledge • activities in the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams • informative and fascinating cross-curricular dossiers, which explore the historical and cultural background of the text • a recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activities • extensive vocabulary footnotes, with phonetic transcription of more unusual words • exit tests • guided internet projects An answer key and an additional exit test for each reader are available online as a PDF file at the Black Cat website. Further info on grading can be found in the 'The Black Cat Guide to Graded Readers'.

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