READING PLAN 2012-2013 GRADED READERS for ESO and BACHILLERATO Expansive Reading B lack Cat readers embrace an exciting new approach, which we call ‘expansive reading’. Expansive reading aims to use the text that the students read as a springboard to explore all kinds of areas – linguistic, cultural, cross-curricular and other. In doing so it aims to expand students’ cultural horizons. O O ver the next few pages, we present a reading plan of recommended graded readers for ESO and Bachillerato. This consists of eight carefully selected titles for each year group. Reading Plan T T he linguistic level of each title is indicated using the grading system of the Common European Framework of Reference. In addition, the exact grammatical and lexical areas presented in the integrated language activities are also detailed. T T he theme of each book is described both in terms of the literary genre, and more specifically by indicating the topic areas presented in the integrated background dossiers and Internet projects. In doing so, we hope to make it easier for you to choose a reader that is well suited to the linguistic level of your class, and which also appeals to their interests. S hould you require any further guidance in choosing a reader, both our local Vicens Vives representative and our specialist ELT advisor would be delighted to assist you. ESO 1 TITLE LEVEL A1 COLLECTION AND GENRE Green Apple – Mystery & horror VOCABULARY / GRAMMAR / PRONUNCIATION · Boats · Sea animals · Conjunctions: because; or; so; but; and… · Possessive adjectives · Everywhere, everyone, everything · Vowel sounds DISCUSSION TOPIC / INTERNET PROJECT · Telling the time · Clothes · Family and friends · The Farallon Islands THE GHOST SHIP OF BODEGA BAY Gina D. B. Clemen g Readin Digital mme ra g ro P A1 Green Apple – Mystery & horror THE SECRET OF THE STONES Victoria Heward · Going on holiday · Families · Jobs · The home · Shopping · Sleeping · Possessive adjectives · 'S' sounds · Word sounds · Holidays · Rooms in the house · Personal information · Famous detectives · Tourists g Readin Digital mme ra g Pro A1 Green Apple – Fairy tale & fantasy · Opposites · The Weather · Musical Instruments · Countries and Nationalities · Prepositions, Conjunctions, · · Possessive pronouns Everywhere, everyone, everything Question words · Family and friends · Daily routine · Rooms in the home · Items of clothing · A trip to Nuremberg · The Nutcracker ballet THE NUTCRACKER E. T. A. Hoffmann A1 FIVE CHILDREN AND IT E. Nesbit 4 Green Apple – Adventure · Animals & parts of the body · Sports · Countable and Uncountable nouns · Jobs · Possessions · Wishes · The stories: Aladdin & Cinderella Recommended titles ESO 1 TITLE LEVEL COLLECTION AND GENRE A1 Green Apple – Fairy tale & fantasy A1 Green Apple – Human interest VOCABULARY / GRAMMAR / PRONUNCIATION DISCUSSION TOPIC / INTERNET PROJECT · Animals · Opposites · Common ailments · Everywhere, everyone, everything · Rhyming sounds · Words ending in /s/ /z/ and /iz/ · Family and friends · Wild animals · Find out about the animals in the stories! · Australia · A visit to the vet · The Blue Whale JUST SO STORIES Rudyard Kipling · Personal information · Jobs · Friends · Hampton Court Gardens THE SECRET GARDEN Frances Hodgson Burnett A1 Green Apple – Human interest · Weather · Dangerous animals · Jobs · Food · Clothes · The Present Continuous tense · The saxon genitive · must + verb · Leisure · Family and friends · Animals · Shipwrecks - The Titanic THE TEMPEST William Shakespeare A1 Green Apple – Human interest · Opposites · Descriptive adjectives · Adverbs · Countable and Uncountable · nouns Prepositions of place · Animals and pets · Free time · Animals & our · environment Riding school in Austria BLACK BEAUTY Anna Sewell For more readers visit our website: www.blackcat.vicensvives.net 5 ESO 2 TITLE LEVEL A2 COLLECTION AND GENRE DISCUSSION TOPIC / INTERNET PROJECT VOCABULARY / GRAMMAR / PRONUNCIATION Green Apple – Festivals · Halloween · Adjectives & Nouns · Prepositions · The Past Simple form · Question words · Seasonal activities · Halloween · Food · Hobbies · Stonehenge Green Apple – Adventure · The weather · Mystery words · Past Simple tense · Prepositions · Nouns and Adjectives · Comparative forms · Plural 's' forms: 's', 'iz', 'z' · Free time · Ghosts · The weather · Jobs · Mark Twain's house · The Mississippi River · Missouri · The senses · Everyone, everything and · Jobs · Describing people · Talking about future HALLOWEEN... MAGIC WITCHES AND VAMPIRES Kelly Reinhart g Readin Digital mme Progra A2 NEW N EDITIO THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER Mark Twain A2 Green Apple – Mystery & horror everywhere · · Love and Marriage · Jobs · Food · Verbs and Prepositions · Question words · Consonants - [∫] [t∫] [d] · Vowel sounds · 'ed' endings of regular verbs · Arguing · Getting lost · Jobs · Free time · Food · Flower Fairies · Athens · The Globe Theatre AKRON HOUSE MYSTERY Gina D. B. Clemen A2 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM William Shakespeare 6 Green Apple – Human interest plans and intentions Places in the local area Daily routines Pilgrims The state of Illinois One-room schools in America · Past Simple tense · Prepositions · The Future tense · Nouns and Adjectives · ed suffix · 'p' 't' or 'b' 'd' · · · · Recommended titles ESO 2 TITLE LEVEL A2 COLLECTION AND GENRE Green Apple – Fairy tale & fantasy THE LAST UNICORN Jane Elizabeth Cammack A2 Green Apple – Legend VOCABULARY / GRAMMAR / PRONUNCIATION DISCUSSION TOPIC / INTERNET PROJECT · City / Countryside · Household objects · Vegetables · Pets · Weather · Past Simple - regular verbs · Countable & Uncountable nouns · Adverbs of place & Prepositions · ed suffix · Plural 's' forms · Home life · Free time & holidays · What is a unicorn? · The highland cow · Jobs · Places · Food items · Animal parts · Family members · Sports · Superlative form · Jobs · Legendary creatures · · · · · & Scottish animals Friends Weather Barbecues Mottoes and Royal Coats of Arms Bonnie Prince Charlie & the Jacobite Rising or gods · Interview · Family · Holidays · A castle in Scotland · Your favourite dog breed LEGENDS FROM THE BRITISH ISLES Retold by Deborah Meyers A2 Green Apple – Mystery & horror · Jobs · Adjectives & adverbs · 'Make' or 'Do' · Prepositions · Question words · Countable / Uncountable nouns · Jobs · School · Holidays · Hobbies · Food · London museums · A British child's typical day · Food in Britain PROJECT VAMPIRE VIctoria Heward A2 Green Apple – Human interest · Sports · School subjects · Emotions · Clothes · Dates · Nationalities · Weather · Comparative & Superlative adjectives I WANT TO BE YOU Andrea M. Hutchinson · Adverbs of frequency · Present Simple third person ‘s’ For more readers visit our website: www.blackcat.vicensvives.net · A clothes shop · Dates and times · The weather · Activity: The ‘hot · · seat’ The Hoppings The film Freaky Friday 7 ESO 3 TITLE LEVEL A2 COLLECTION AND GENRE Reading & Training Discovery – Factual VOCABULARY / GRAMMAR / PRONUNCIATION · Theatre · Different types of people · Opposites · Political ideas · Prepositions DISCUSSION TOPIC / INTERNET PROJECT · Hobbies · Places in the local area · Work · The Poetry of the Romantics · Stratford-upon-Avon & Shakespeare GREAT BRITISH WRITERS Derek Sellen g Readin Digital mme ra Prog B1.1 Reading & Training – Human interest · Vegetables · Flowers & trees · Descriptive adjectives · Present Simple & Present Continuous · The saxon genitive · Going to or will · Preposition of place · Words that begin with 'Th' · Houses · Transport · Kew Gardens · The North York Moors National Park THE SECRET GARDEN Frances Hodgson Burnett B1.1 Reading & Training – Adventure JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH Jules Verne B1.1 ROB ROY Sir Walter Scott 8 Reading & Training – Adventure · Comparative idioms · Shapes · Two-part verbs: look · Bones · Weather words · as + adjective + as · Modal verbs must and can’t · Too and so…that · Reported speech · Will / won’t / going to + verb · Crossword puzzle · Word and picture matching · Unscrambling words · Clauses with until, after, before, as soon as, when · Question words · Direct speech & Reported speech · Holidays · Recent personal activities · Volcanoes · Dinosaurs and non-dinosaurs · Stories about fantastic journeys · Reading pictures · Sports · Diana and Rebecca · · · · fight prejudice Music The ‘hot seat’ WebQuest: English and Scottish monarchs Glasgow Recommended titles ESO 3 TITLE LEVEL B1.1 COLLECTION AND GENRE Reading & Training Discovery – Factual VOCABULARY / GRAMMAR / PRONUNCIATION DISCUSSION TOPIC / INTERNET PROJECT · Politics · Precious stones · Words with a Scottish connection · Opposites · Present Perfect Simple · Past Perfect · Irregular verbs · Prepositions · Passive verbs · Hobbies and sports · Festivals and music · Charles Darwin · Richard the Third THE BRITISH ISLES Derek Sellen B1.1 Reading & Training – Mystery & horror · Adjectives · Adjectives ending in -ed and -ing · Verb + object + to + infinitive · Verb + verb + -ing · Time clauses · Entertainment · Reading pictures · Food · Weekend activities · The Ghost Database · India · Poisonous snakes · Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter STORIES OF GHOSTS AND MYSTERY Le Fanu, Kipling, Hawthorne B1.1 Reading & Training – Humour & comedy · Family members · Descriptive adjectives · Prepositions of place · Adverbs · Some, any, a or an · Comparatives and Superlatives · Much, many or a lot of? · Going to + infinitive · Shops · Hobbies · Work · The Creek Indians THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF O. Henry B1.1 Reading & Training – Crime · Detective work · Matching words to pictures · Matching words to definitions · Crime and detection · Comparatives & Superlatives · Direct and Indirect speech · Synonyms · Question words THE WILLING GHOST Robert Wellington For more readers visit our website: www.blackcat.vicensvives.net · Hobbies · Food · Reading pictures · The ‘hot seat’ · Special occasions · The film Murder on the Orient Express · Bangkok, Thailand · Tigers in danger! · Let's visit Apsley House! · Honoré de Balzac 9 ESO 4 TITLE LEVEL COLLECTION AND GENRE g Readin Digital mme Progra B1.2 Reading & Training – Mystery & horror THE CANTERVILLE GHOST Oscar Wilde · Ghostly words · Rooms & Household objects · Parts of the body · Adjectives ending in -y · Present/Past Perfect vs Past Simple · Will or going to? · While + past continuous · Irregular past verbs · Strong and weak forms [ə] · 'S' 'Z' & ' θ' 'ð' g Readin Digital mme ra g Pro B1.2 Reading & Training – Crime DISCUSSION TOPIC / INTERNET PROJECT VOCABULARY / GRAMMAR / PRONUNCIATION · Words and their synonyms · Word square activity · The Past Perfect Simple tense · Home life · Holidays · Entertainment · Ghost films · Presidents of the US · Hampton Court Palace · Travel · Entertainment · Reading pictures · The Museum Mile · Vlad Tepes's birth- place and his castles · Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty · Central Park · The film Bram Stoker's Dracula THE VAMPIRE'S TEAR Gina D. B. Clemen B1.2 Reading & Training – Tragedy · Verbs and their definitions · Expressions with 'enough' · Phrasal verbs with 'put' · Present Perfect Simple vs Present Perfect Continuous · Passive vs Active THE TRAGEDY OF RICHARD III William Shakespeare B1.2 THE PICKWICK PAPERS Charles Dickens 10 Reading & Training – Human interest · Describing characters · Recent personal events · Special occasions / State events · Famous churches · · · and places of worship in London Heraldry The royal wedding Richard III on film · Vocabulary describing people · Food and drinks / Menu · Jobs / The legal profession · Word formation · Politics · Expressions with ‘like’ · Action verbs · So / Neither / Nor + auxiliary + · Entertainment · Travel · Rules and regulations · Making suggestions · · · · pronoun Prepositions Reported statements and questions · · and responding Making remarks with ‘What’ Sports in Britain today The county of Suffolk London at Dickens’ Time and Today Recommended titles ESO 4 TITLE LEVEL B1.2 COLLECTION AND GENRE Reading & Training – Adventure THE THREE MUSKETEERS Alexandre Dumas g Readin Digital mme ra g Pro VOCABULARY / GRAMMAR / PRONUNCIATION · Vocabulary-based activities · as + adjective + as · The Present Perfect & Past · · · · Perfect tenses Present Perfect vs Present Simple & Continuous Verb + infinitive or ing form Phrasal verbs Prepositions · Adjectives ending with ing and ed · Accident and Emergency B1.2 NEW N EDITIO Reading & Training – Mystery & horror · · THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE Robert Louis Stevenson B1.2 Reading & Training – Human interest THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE Robert Louis Stevenson · Dangers at sea · Different kinds of money · Synonyms · Collocations · The First and Second Conditional · Verb forms · Past Continuous and Past Simple · Past Perfect Simple · Holidays · Entertainment · The Three Musketeers - films & adaptations · Crime in fiction · · · · · and film Rules and regulations Health Edinburgh - the festival city Jack the Ripper Film versions of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde · Free time · Describing people · Money · Interview at the crime scene · Talking about fear · The Jacobites · The Battle of Culloden · The Hudson River and Albany B1.2 LOVE IN SHAKESPEARE: FIVE STORIES William Shakespeare · · · · · department Crime and detection Adverbs / Synonyms and opposites Past Continuous and Past Simple Sentences with when and while Present Perfect Simple & Past Perfect Will - decisions and requests Must and can't - making deductions DISCUSSION TOPIC / INTERNET PROJECT Reading & Training – Love · Antonyms · Fruits · Similes / Proverbs · Adjectives / Adverb forms · Time clauses · Conjunctions of time · The Past Continuous · Prepositions · as + adjective / adverb + as · The infinitive · ‘if’ clauses For more readers visit our website: www.blackcat.vicensvives.net · Weddings · Entertainment · Verona, the city of · Romeo and Juliet Films based on Shakespeare’s plays 11 BACHILLERATO 1 TITLE LEVEL COLLECTION AND GENRE VOCABULARY / GRAMMAR / PRONUNCIATION DISCUSSION TOPIC / INTERNET PROJECT · National customs · A mad, logical and supernatural story B2.1 Reading & Training – Mystery & horror · Word formation · Similes · The Third Conditional · Clauses with even though and but AMERICAN HORROR FIVE TERRIFYING TALES Edgar Allan Poe · Paintings · Impressions · Education · Edgar Allan Poe’s life · Terrifying puppets · Wells and Welles · Gothic: from Mrs · B2.1 Reading & Training – Mystery & horror · Opposites · Animals · Vocabulary activities · Defining relative clauses · Non-defining relative clauses NEW N EDITIO Radcliffe’s castles to Ms Rice’s vampires Poe’s tales and poems · National customs · Health · Women's roles · Early memories · Wolves · Whitby · Vampire films · H. G. Wells - The War of the Worlds DRACULA Bram Stoker B2.1 Reading & Training – Mystery & horror · Words and their synonyms · Actions · Wh- questions · The Third Conditional · Non-defining relative clauses · Reported speech B2.1 12 · · NORTHANGER ABBEY Jane Austen WICKED AND HUMOROUS TALES Saki · Village and city life · Dancing today · Rules · Reading pictures · Jane Austen's novels · 'Hot seat' activity · Visiting Bath · Mrs Radcliffe's The Reading & Training – Humour & comedy · Animal groups · Should or ought to · Don't have to or mustn't · The prefix -un · -ing or -ed endings · Suffixes · Reported speech · Reflexive pronouns · The Second Conditional Mysteries of Udolpho The film Northanger Abbey The Gothic · Village and city life · Giving advice · Expressing possibility and uncertainty · Looking after your pet Recommended titles BACHILLERATO 1 TITLE LEVEL B2.1 COLLECTION AND GENRE Reading & Training – Crime VOCABULARY / GRAMMAR / PRONUNCIATION · Detective work · Words connected to the army / the police · Means of transport · Comparatives & Superlatives · Reported speech DISCUSSION TOPIC / INTERNET PROJECT · Communication · Town and village life · National customs · Early memories · Crime doesn't pay · Museum of London: Paintings in focus · Andaman Islands THE SIGN OF FOUR Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · Deciding where to go on holiday B2.1 Reading & Training – Humour & comedy · Vocabulary activities · Non-defining relative clauses · 'To be used to' vs 'to get used to' hamburgers · Let's visit the Pergamon Museum! · Plan a holiday in Prague! THREE MEN ON THE BUMMEL Jerome K. Jerome · Freiburg, the city of students B2.1 Reading & Training – Humour & comedy MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING William Shakespeare · Negative prefixes · Reciprocral pronoun each other · Reflexive pronouns · Although and However · Defining / Non-defining · · · · · relative clauses Should Question tags So and Such / Make and Let Phrasal verbs – Go on; Be up to Present Perfect Continuous · Synonyms · Words from the text and their B2.1 POWER AND AMBITION IN SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare · Village and city life · National customs · Pollution · Hamburg and Reading & Training – Tragedy · · · · · · · definitions Verb - noun - adjective Word tranformation Character adjectives The passive Defining / Non-defining relative clauses If clauses Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect For more readers visit our website: www.blackcat.vicensvives.net · Family members · Youth culture · The film – Much Ado About Nothing · Personal values and ideals · The 'hot seat' · Early memories · National customs · Public figures past and present · Films based on Shakespeare's plays 13 BACHILLERATO 2 TITLE LEVEL COLLECTION AND GENRE B2.2 Reading & Training – Human interest VOCABULARY / GRAMMAR / PRONUNCIATION · Word formation · The Third Conditional · Be used to / get used to · Phrasal verbs with burst · Although, however, though DISCUSSION TOPIC / INTERNET PROJECT · The world of work · Mayfair today and but · The Past Perfect Continuous VANITY FAIR William Makepeace Thackeray · Words from the text and their B2.2 Reading & Training – Love · · · · · definitions Word transformation activity Parties Feelings Words related to illness The Third Conditional · Marriage · Elinor and Marianne · Personal values and ideals · Sense and Sensibility - the film SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Jane Austen B2.2 Reading & Training – Human interest NEW N EDITIO · Synonyms · Fortune · Verbs of seeing · The Past Perfect Simple · To be used to and to get used to · The Third Conditional · Can't / Couldn't + have + past participle · Deductions in the past · Helping others · Early memories · Crossroads · Personal values and ideals · Matters of the heart and mind GREAT EXPECTATIONS Charles Dickens · Words connected to the idea B2.2 Reading & Training – Mystery & horror of mystery · The Third Conditional · Reported speech · The passive · The Past Perfect Simple & Continuous · Relative clauses THE PROBLEM OF CELL 13 Jacques Futrelle 14 · Discipline · An interview · Weblinks on: - Jacques Futrelle - Titanic Recommended titles BACHILLERATO 2 TITLE LEVEL B2.2 COLLECTION AND GENRE Reading & Training – Mystery & horror THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY Oscar Wilde B2.2 Reading & Training – Humour & comedy VOCABULARY / GRAMMAR / PRONUNCIATION · Senses · Feelings · Phrasal verbs with get · Reported speech · The Third Conditional · The Past Perfect Simple · The passive · To wish + past simple · Homophones · Society and living · Am to, am not to · Reported speech · Order of adjectives · Questions in reported speech · Wish clauses · The Past Perfect / The Past · Giving an opinion · Our perception · · THE TAMING OF THE SHREW William Shakespeare B2.2 Reading & Training – Love DISCUSSION TOPIC / INTERNET PROJECT Perfect Continuous Adjectives and adverbs Defining / Non-defining relative clauses · Synonyms · Antonyms · Word transformation · Phrasal verbs with 'take' · Reported speech · The Past Perfect Continuous · · tense Bored or boring? The Third Conditional standards · Early memories · Beauty and youth · Sibyls of ancient mythology · Literature and the cinema of reality · Acting · Weblinks on: - Vocabulary from The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare’s Birthplace · Society · The world of work · More about Jane Austen PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Jane Austen B2.2 Reading & Training – Adventure · The verb to recall · Poverty, crime and the law · Word square · Verbs of perception · The Past Perfect tense · The Past Perfect Continuous tense · I'd rather and I'd prefer · Living standards · Reading pictures · Dickens on stage and screen · Human rights · The French Revolution A TALE OF TWO CITIES Charles Dickens For more readers visit our website: www.blackcat.vicensvives.net 15 CENTROS VICENS VIVES A CORUÑA · LUGO · OURENSE · PONTEVEDRA ALICANTE · CASTELLÓN · MURCIA · TERUEL · VALENCIA Polígono Els Mollons. c/ Traginers, parcela 17. 46970 Alaquàs (Valencia). Tel. 96 198 62 10 • Fax 96 151 21 30 Ronda de Outeiro, 308. 15011 A Coruña. 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