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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…

Reading

One spring evening Dorian Gray and Lord Henry were dining together. ‘Don’t tell me you’re going to be good. You’re perfect – don’t change,’ cried Lord Henry. ‘No, Harry, I’ve done too…

Reading

Later that day, I received a letter which greatly surprised me. Mrs Reed, my aunt, was dying and she wanted me to go and visit her. I set off at once on a long journey to her home. When I got there, I…

Reading

One evening, St John came to my house to see me when I was just finishing painting a picture. He looked closely at some of my other pictures. Then he tore a piece of paper off the bottom of one of the…

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…

Reading

The house was on a pretty street in Paddington, a residential district south of Sydney Harbour, not far from the youth hostel. It was a Victorian house and was identical to all the other houses on that…