Reading pictures - Colin

Look at the picture and talk about the following questions. Where is Mary? Who is sitting behind the desk? What objects can you see in the picture? Describe their position in the room.

Before You Read - The Tin Woodman and the Lion

The Tin Woodman and the Lion

My holidays

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…

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…

The Aesthetic Movement - The Aesthetic Movement

The long reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) was a period of great change. Victorian artists experienced a new world shaped by the Industrial Revolution, which brought about profound social, moral and…

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…

Internet project

Let’s find some more information about some of the places described in the dossier London in Dickens’ Time.

Let's find out more about Australia

Connect to the Internet and go to www.blackcat.vicensvives.net . Insert the title or part of the title of the book into our search engine. Open the page for Missing in Sydney. Click on the internet…

Build your grammar – past continuous tense

Choose a verb and put it into the correct form to complete the sentences below. listen look look make point start talk wave Claire asked Amy a question but she wasn’t . She was at photos. Claire…