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LESSON THEMES AUDIO CD AVAILABLE TESTS AVAILABLE AT WWW.OUP.COM/BOOKWORMS PHOTOCOPIABLE © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2008 2BOOKWORMS Read your way to better English It is the year 2030, and an email message arrives at New York Café: ‘I want to help people and make them happy!’ But not everybody is happy about the email, and soon the police and the president are very interested in the New York Café. In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast: Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas. He still remembers another Christmas in Prague, many long years ago – a Christmas that changed his life for ever … The empty centre of Australia. The sun is hot and there are not many people. And when Bill meets a man, alone, standing on an empty road a long way from anywhere, he is surprised and worried. And Bill is right to be worried. Because there is something strange about the man he meets. Very strange … Sally is always running; and she has her phone with her all the time: at home, on the train, at work, at lunchtime, and at the shops. But then one afternoon suddenly she has a different phone … and it changes her life. A thorough look at England, a country full of interesting places to visit and things to do. There are big noisy cities with shops and theatres and quiet little villages. You can have an English afternoon tea, walk along white beaches, or visit a country house. England has something for everybody – what has it got for you? ‘There’s a new girl in town,’ says Joe, and soon Steve is out looking for her. Marietta is easy to find in a small town, but every time he sees her something goes wrong … and his day goes from bad to worse. Units 5 – 6 Routines Everyday activities ‘I’m not a thief. I’m an innocent man,’ shouts Brown. He is angry because he is in prison and the prison guards hate him. Then one day Brown has an idea. It is dangerous, very dangerous. Escape Starter Level – Comic strip Phillip Burrows and Mark Foster ISBN 978 0 19 478902 8 CD 978 0 19 4788373 CD Pack 978 0 19 478870 0 ISBN 978 0 19 423417 7 ISBN 978 0 19 423423 8 CD 978 0 19 423405 4 CD Pack 978 0 19 423445 0 CD: American English ISBN 978 0 19 423427 6 CD 978 0 19 423409 2 CD Pack 978 0 19 423655 3 ISBN 978 0 19 423380 4 CD 978 0 19 423372 9 CD Pack 978 0 19 423578 5 ISBN 978 0 19 423426 9 CD 978 0 19 423408 5 CD Pack 978 0 19 423653 9 ISBN 978 0 19 423412 2 Units 1 – 2 Personal information Everyday objects Units 7 – 8 Places Description of places Units 11 – 12 Activities on the Internet Unit 13 – 14 Journeys Travelling and describing people THRILLER AND ADVENTURE Star Reporter Starter Level – Comic strip John Escott HUMAN INTEREST Sally’s Phone Starter Level – Narrative Christine Lindop HUMAN INTEREST England Stage 1 John Escott FACTFILES Starman Starter Level – Narrative Phillip Burrows and Mark Foster FANTASY AND HORROR New York Café Starter Level – Narrative Michael Dean FANTASY AND HORROR Christmas in Prague Stage 1 Joyce Hannam HUMAN INTEREST Units 9 – 10 Holidays Weekend activities Units 3 – 4 More personal information Jobs and family Starter syllabus A1 Average word count 1,375 250 Headwords Grammar: present simple, present continuous, imperatives, can/cannot, must, going to (future), simple gerunds … Stage 1 syllabus A1–A2 Average word count 5,200 400 Headwords Grammar: past simple, coordination with and/but/or, subordination with before, after, when, because, so New Headway Beginner recommended reading BOOKWORMS-HeadwayEnglishFile.ind5 5 13/2/08 12:49:49

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It is the year 2030, and an email message arrives at new York Café: ‘I want to help people and make them happy!’ But not everybody is happy about the email, and soon the police and the president are very interested in the new York Café.

In a house in oxford three people are having breakfast: Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas. he still remembers another Christmas in Prague, many long years ago – a Christmas that changed his life for ever …

The empty centre of Australia. The sun is hot and there are not many people. And when Bill meets a man, alone, standing on an empty road a long way from anywhere, he is surprised and worried. And Bill is right to be worried. Because there is something strange about the man he meets. Very strange …

sally is always running; and she has her phone with her all the time: at home, on the train, at work, at lunchtime, and at the shops. But then one afternoon suddenly she has a different phone … and it changes her life.

A thorough look at england, a country full of interesting places to visit and things to do. There are big noisy cities with shops and theatres and quiet little villages. You can have an english afternoon tea, walk along white beaches, or visit a country house. england has something for everybody – what has it got for you?

‘There’s a new girl in town,’ says Joe, and soon steve is out looking for her. marietta is easy to find in a small town, but every time he sees her something goes wrong … and his day goes from bad to worse.

units 5 – 6Routineseveryday activities

‘I’m not a thief. I’m an innocent man,’ shouts Brown. he is angry because he is in prison and the prison guards hate him. Then one day Brown has an idea. It is dangerous, very dangerous.

Escape

starter Level – comic strip

Phillip Burrows and mark Foster

isbN 978 0 19 478902 8

Cd 978 0 19 4788373

Cd Pack 978 0 19 478870 0

isbN 978 0 19 423417 7 isbN 978 0 19 423423 8

Cd 978 0 19 423405 4

Cd Pack 978 0 19 423445 0

Cd: american english

isbN 978 0 19 423427 6

Cd 978 0 19 423409 2

Cd Pack 978 0 19 423655 3

isbN 978 0 19 423380 4

Cd 978 0 19 423372 9

Cd Pack 978 0 19 423578 5

isbN 978 0 19 423426 9

Cd 978 0 19 423408 5

Cd Pack 978 0 19 423653 9

isbN 978 0 19 423412 2

units 1 – 2 Personal informationeveryday objects

units 7 – 8PlacesDescription of places

units 11 – 12Activities on the Internet

unit 13 – 14JourneysTravelling and describing people

ThriLLEr and advEnTurE

star reporter

starter Level – comic strip

John escott

human inTErEsT

sally’s phone

starter Level – narrative

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human inTErEsT

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stage 1

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starter Level – narrative

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FanTasy and horror

new york café

starter Level – narrative

michael Dean

FanTasy and horror

christmas in prague

stage 1

Joyce hannam

human inTErEsT

units 9 – 10holidaysWeekend activities

units 3 – 4more personal informationJobs and family

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Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, and it is a long, hard journey over the ice to the south Pole. some travellers never returned to their homes again. This is the story of scott and Amundsen, and of one of the most famous and dangerous races in history.

‘Then a letter came for Aloo from a famous college in America. They offered him a place … a place with a scholarship. Aloo could not believe it at first. he read the letter again and again’. Aloo is very happy, but soon he finds that it is not so easy. he will need money to live on, money for his plane ticket … and then there is mother … The stories in this volume come from malawi, south Africa and Tanzania.

What can you do in new York? everything! You can go to some of the world’s most famous shops, watch a baseball game, go to the top of a skyscraper, see a concert in central park, eat a sandwich in a new York Deli, see a show in a Broadway theatre … new York is big, noisy, and exciting, and it’s waiting for you. open the book and come with us to this wonderful city.

Cathy Wilson is driving to norfolk, to begin her new job with the harvey family. she is going to look after the two young children, Tim and susan. Cathy meets the children’s father, and their grandmother, and their aunt. But she doesn’t meet miranda, the children’s mother, because miranda is dead. she died two years ago, and Cathy cannot learn anything about her. everybody remembers miranda, but nobody wants to talk about her …

When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and hungry. he learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. some say ned Kelly was a bad man. some say he was a good man but the law was bad. This is the true story of Australia’s most famous outlaw.

You are in a small plane, going across the Rocky mountains. suddenly, the engine starts to make strange noises … soon you are alone, in the snow, at the top of a mountain, and it is very, very cold. Can you find your way out of the mountain?

units 5 – 6homesCountries

‘Who is the man with the roses in this hand?’ thinks Anna. ‘I want to meet him.’ ‘Who is the girl with the guitar?’ thinks Will. ‘I like her. I want to meet her.’ But they do not meet. There are lots of men!’ says Anna’s friend Vicki, but Anna cannot forget Will. And then one rainy day …

red roses

starter Level – narrative

Christine Lindop

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Cd 978 0 19 479007 9

Cd Pack 978 0 19 479276 9

isbN 978 0 19 423430 6 isbN 978 0 19 478903 5

Cd 978 0 19 478838 0

Cd Pack 978 0 19 478871 7

isbN 978 0 19 423373 6

Cd 978 0 19 423369 9

Cd Pack 978 0 19 423582 2

Cd: american english

isbN 978 0 19 478912 7

Cd 978 0 19 478847 2

Cd Pack 978 0 19 478880 9

isbN 978 0 19 478918 9

Cd 978 0 19 478853 3

Cd Pack 978 0 19 478886 1

isbN 978 0 19 423434 4

Cd 978 0 19 423432 0

Cd Pack 978 0 19 423651 5

Cd: american english

units 1 – 2 Personal informationmeeting people

units 7 – 8 special occasionsFamous people

units 11 – 12AdventuresInterviews

unit 13 – 14stories

human inTErEsT

survive!

starter Level – interactive

helen Brooke

human inTErEsT

remember miranda

stage 1

Rowena Akinyemi

human inTErEsT

ned kelly: a True story

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Christine Lindop

TruE sToriEs

new york

stage 1

John escott

FacTFiLEs

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Tim Vicary

TruE sToriEs

changing their skies: stories from africa stage 2

Retold by Jennifer Bassett

worLd sToriEs

units 3 – 4JobsLeisure activities

units 9 – 10Food around the worldCities

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Fourteen-year-old molly and her cousins were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good ‘white’ Australians. They were told to forget their mothers, their language, their home. But molly would not forget. she and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, 1600 kilometres away … Rabbit-Proof Fence is the true story of that walk, told by molly’s daughter, Doris.

matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few weeks’ time. he wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But his parents say he’s too young to leave home: he must stay in the town and get a job in ship-building, like his father. And they say he can’t keep his dog, nelson, because nelson barks all day and eats his father’s shoes. But it is because of nelson that matty finds a new life …

What’s in a name? Does it really matter if you are called montague or Capulet? When Romeo, son of Lord and Lady montague, falls in love with the most beautiful girl he’s ever seen, he finds out that it does matter. It makes all the difference in the world, because both families hate each other bitterly. For a time, Romeo and Juliet manage to keep their love secret. Can any of their friends help the young lovers to be together for ever?

everybody knows about the UsA, You can see its films, hear its music, and eat its food just about everywhere. But it’s a country with many stories to tell too. stories of a country that fought against Britain, and then against itself, to make the United states of today. stories of rich and poor, black and white, native American and immigrant. And the story of what it is like to be an American today …

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress – ordinary people living ordinary lives in new York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same: some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love. o. henry’s famous short stories – sensitive, funny, sympathetic – give us vivid pictures of everyday lives in new York.

From Botswana to new Zealand, from Jamaica to nigeria, from Uganda to malaysia, from India to south Africa, these moving stories show us that the human heart is the same in every place. Fear and pain, happiness and sadness belong to us all.

It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things – about young women, and love. Visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening. Then the sun goes down, covering the world with a carpet of darkness. From the hedges around the hay field comes the rich, sweet smell of wild flowers, and the hay will make a fine, soft bed …

Love among the haystacksstage 2

D. h. LawrenceRetold by Jennifer Bassett

isbN 978 0 19 479065 9isbN 978 0 19 479084 0

Cd 978 0 19 4789691

Cd Pack 978 0 19 479 046 8

isbN 978 0 19 479144 1isbN 978 0 19 423521 1

Cd 978 0 19 423527 3

Cd Pack 978 0 19 423533 4

isbN 978 0 19 479067 3

Cd 978 0 19 479288 2

Cd Pack 978 0 19 479290 5

Cd: american english

isbN 978 0 19 423391 0

Cd 978 0 19 423601 0

Cd Pack 978 0 19 423603 4

Cd: american english

isbN 978 0 19 479080 2

Cd 978 0 19 479003 1

Cd Pack 978 0 19 479042 0

(not suitable for young learners)

units 1 – 2 Finding the perfect partner

units 5 – 6hopes and ambitionsCosmopolitan cities

units 9 – 10TravellingInventions

units 11 – 12Dreams for the futureAdventures

cLassics

cries from the heart: stories from around the worldstage 2Retold by Jennifer Bassett

worLd sToriEs

The usa

stage 3

Alison Baxter

FacTFiLEs

f

FACTFILES new yorkers – short stories stage 2

o. henryRetold by Diane mowat

human inTErEsT

romeo and Juliet

stage 2

William shakespeareRetold by Alistair mcCallum

pLayscripTs

rabbit-proof Fence

stage 3

Doris Pilkington GarimaraRetold by Jennifer Bassett

TruE sToriEs

matty doolin

stage 2

Catherine CooksonRetold by Diane mowat

human inTErEsT

units 7 – 8 FameFamily relationships

units 3 – 4Telling storiesPlaces around the world

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When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine sloper, she feels she is very lucky. she is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no-one had ever admired her before. But in new York in the 1840s young ladies are not free to marry when they please. Catherine must have her father’s permission. Dr sloper is a rich man. one day, Catherine will have a fortune of over 30,000 dollars a year …

When it came to football, Billy was different. Black hands grab the ball. Black feet kick the ball. Black hopes rise up with the ball to the sickly white sky. no-one can stop him now. he forgets about the river, and the people of his blood. But who can forget their own past? Billy finds that the ties which hold him to the people of his blood are strong indeed. The stories in this volume are all from Australian writers.

one winter’s day in 1673, young John Ridd is riding home from school, across the wild lonely hills of exmoor. he has to pass Doone valley, a dangerous place, as the Doones are famous robbers and murderers. At home there is sad news waiting for young John, and he learns that he has good reason to hate the Doones. But in the years to come he meets Lorna Doone, with her lovely smile and big dark eyes. And soon he is deeply, hopelessly, in love …

‘I like work. I find it interesting … I can sit and look at it for hours.’ With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what three friends and montmorency the dog decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a cold, wet morning. This famous book has made people laugh for a century.

In a hole under the floorboards, silas marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. every day he works hard at his weaving and every night he takes the gold coins out and holds them lovingly. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family and no friends. only the gold is his friend. But what if a thief should come and take his gold away?

Life in the small english town of Cranford seems very quiet and peaceful. The ladies of Cranford lead tidy, regular lives. They make their visits between the hours of twelve and three and give little evening parties. But there are also little arguments and jealousies, sudden deaths and unexpected marriages. mrs Gaskell’s timeless picture of small-town life in the nineteenth century has delighted readers for nearly 150 years.

units 5 – 6holidays

The story of information technology is a story of machines – from the ancient abacus to the small powerful computer chips of today. But it is also a story of people. meet a woman who wrote computer programs two hundred years ago, a teenage millionaire, a man who began with a paperclip and ended with a house. And meet the criminals who want your name and your money …

information Technologystage 3

Paul A. Davies

isbN 978 0 19 479195 3

Cd 978 0 19 479162 5

Cd Pack 978 0 19 479280 6

isbN 978 0 19 479167 0 isbN 978 0 19 479192 2

Cd 978 0 19 479159 5

Cd Pack 978 0 19 479332 2

Cd: american english

isbN 978 0 19 479177 9isbN 978 0 19 479184 7

Cd 978 0 19 479154 0

Cd Pack 978 0 19 479324 7

isbN 978 0 19 479189 2

Cd 978 0 19 479157 1

Cd Pack 978 0 19 479329 2

isbN 978 0 19 423392 7

Cd 978 0 19 423592 1

Cd Pack 978 0 19 423594 5

units 1 – 2 TechnologyFree time activities

units 7 – 8Jobsmoney

units 11 – 12Life events Customs, births, weddings and funerals

FacTFiLEs

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FACTFILES cranford

stage 4

elizabeth GaskellRetold by Kate mattock

cLassics

Three men in a boat

stage 4

Jerome K. JeromeRetold by Diane mowat

human inTErEsT

silas marner

stage 4

George eliotRetold by Clare West

cLassics

Lorna doone

stage 4

R. C. BlackmoreRetold by David Penn

human inTErEsT

washington square

stage 4

henry JamesRetold by Kieran mcGovern

cLassics

doors to a wider place: stories from australiastage 4Retold by Christine Lindop

worLd sToriEs

units 9 – 10RelationshipsFame

units 3 – 4Famous writers and paintershabits and manners

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In a gloomy, neglected house, miss havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white. her face is like a death’s head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. miss havisham murmurs to the girl at her side: ‘Break his heart, estella. Break his heart!’

‘At home we started with an innocent life. Walking home from village dances across pale wet fields, looking at birds on the moonlit lake, playing a tune across the water in the early morning with no other sound in the clear cold air.’ Innocence and experience, loss and longing, humour and sadness run hand in hand through these stories.

‘You look exactly like him! You can take the dead boy’s place and no-one will ever know the difference. You’ll be rich for life!’ And so the plan was born, and a few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune. The Ashby family seemed happy to welcome Patrick home, but Brat soon realized that somewhere there was a time-bomb ticking away, waiting to explode.

Bathsheba everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. she can marry any man she chooses, if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man’s world. But it is difficult to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When she falls in love with one of them, she learns that love brings misery, pain, and violent passions that can destroy lives.

V. I. Warshawski, private investigator, Chicago, UsA. People imagine private detectives to be tired-looking men in raincoats, but Vic is female. she’s tough, beautiful, and carries a gun. When her cousin Boom Boom dies in an accident, Vic is naturally upset. she wants to know how and why the accident happened, and she isn’t satisfied by the answers she gets. so she goes on asking questions … and more people start to die.

units 5 – 6Future plansFamous business

everyday life in Baltimore, UsA, is full of little problems – getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbours … After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, macon’s attempts to run his own life become increasingly odd – and more and more comical. meanwhile, he has to get on with his work, writing tourist guides. macon’s life gets more and more complicated.

The accidental Tourist

stage 5

Anne TylerRetold by Jennifer Bassett

isbN 978 0 19 479221 9 isbN 978 0 19 479226 4

Cd 978 0 19 479207 3

Cd Pack 978 0 19 479339 1

isbN 978 0 19 479196 0

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units 1 – 2 Travelling experiencesTourism

units 7 – 8 Getting marriedextreme experiences

units 11 – 12DreamsDifferent ages of life

human inTErEsT

deadlock

stage 5

sara ParetskyRetold by Rowena Akinyemi

crimE and mysTEry

brat Farrar

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Josephine TeyRetold by Ralph mowat

ThriLLEr and advEnTurE

Far from the madding crowdstage 5

Thomas hardyRetold by Clare West

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Treading on dreams: stories from irelandstage 5Retold by Clare West

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Great Expectations

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Charles DickensRetold by Clare West

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units 9 – 10Personal lasting impressionsstories

units 3 – 4Books, films, storiesConspiracy theories

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There are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter: how to lose your innocence but not your hope; how to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy; how to laugh for ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters – Chinese-American women, the mothers born in China, and the daughters in America. Through their eyes we witness the struggle to find a cultural identity that can include a past and a future half a world apart.

on the Polar ice-cap the deadly, icy winds can freeze a man to death in minutes. But the survivors of the crashed airliner are lucky they are rescued by scientists from a nearby weather station. But why did the airliner crash in the first place? And why does the dead pilot have a bullet hole in his back? The rescue quickly turns into a nightmare: a race through the endless Arctic night, a race against time, cold, hunger and a killer with a gun.

London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But oliver Twist finds some friends: Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that oliver finds out what kind of friends they are …

‘The moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be persuaded to marry,’ said elizabeth Bennet. And so elizabeth rejects the proud mr Darcy. Can nothing overcome her prejudice against him? This famous novel by Jane Austen is full of wise and humorous observation of the people and manners of her times.

What sad, appalling, and surprising things people do in the name of love and for the sake of love. These short stories give us love won and love lost, love revenged, love thrown away, love in triumph, love in despair. It might be love between men and women, children and parents, even humans and cats: but whichever it is, love is a force to be reckoned with.

A young country girl comes to live and work in Dublin. Jo is determined to be modern and independent, and to have a wonderful time. But life in a big city is full of strange surprises for a shy country girl … These stories by the Irish writer maeve Binchy are full of affectionate humour and wit, and sometimes a little sadness.

units 5 – 6Romantic meetingsFate

They said steve Biko was a man of violence; then why did he talk of peace? They said he wanted revolution; so why did he talk of friendship? They said he died of hunger; why was his body broken and bruised? This is the story of a man’s fight with the government of south Africa. It is the story of all people who prefer truth to lies. It is the story of all people who cry ‘Freedom’, and who are not afraid to die.

cry Freedom

stage 6

John BrileyRetold by Rowena Akinyemi

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units 1 – 2 emigrationImmigrants and national stereotypes

Couplesunits 9 – 10Accounts and historical eventshealth, body and sports

units 11 – 12Remote places in the worldTime

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dublin people – short storiesstage 6

maeve BinchyRetold by Jennifer Bassett

human inTErEsT

pride and prejudice

stage 6

Jane AustenRetold by Clare West

cLassics

and all for Love bookworms collection – unadapted short stories

edited by Diane mowat and Jennifer Bassett

oliver Twist

stage 6

Charles DickensRetold by Richard Rogers

cLassics

The Joy Luck club

stage 6

Amy TanRetold by Clare West

human inTErEsT

night without End

stage 6

Alistair macleanRetold by margaret naudi

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units 7 – 8 Giving adviceWisdom

units 3 – 4CelebritiesGlobal issues

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