Private Language Schools
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Penguin Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateWhy is the frightening Mr Hyde a friend of the nice Dr Jekyll? Who is the evil little man? And why does he seem to have power over the doctor? After a terrible murder, everyone is looking for Mr Hyde. But he has disappeared. Or has he?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaGladiator
Penguin Readers Level 4 (1700 Headwords) - IntermediateMaximus is a general in the Roman army. After his last battle he wants to return to his family. But the new Emperor Commodus hates Maximus, and kills his family. Soon Maximus is a prisoner, then a slave, and finally a gladiator. When Emperor Commodus joins Maximus in the arena they fight for their lives.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaAlexander the Great
Penguin Readers Level 4 (1700 Headwords) - IntermediateAlexander the Great has fascinated people since his death more than 2300 years ago. By the age of thirty he ruled the biggest Empire the world had ever known. This remarkable leader brought civilization to millions and shaped our world.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaMuhammad Ali
Pearson English Readers Level 1 (300 Headwords) - BeginnerIn 1974 two Black Americans fought in Zaire, in Africa. One was Muhammad Ali. After the fight, he was the boxing champion of the world — again. But why did a young boy from Kentucky start to box? Why did he stop boxing? And what is he doing now?
Area Private Language Schools / Secondaria di primo gradoCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaTitanic!
Penguin Active Reading Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateOn the night of April 14, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank. This is the full story. Why did the Titanic sink so quickly? Why did so many people die? What are the stories of all those people, young and old, rich and poor?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaThe Three Musketeers
Penguin Readers Level 2 (600 Headwords) - ElementaryD'Artagnan wants to be a musketeer. He wants to fight for his king and his country. But the Queen has a problem with the Cardinal, so d'Artagnan and his new friends have to help her. The Cardinal is a very dangerous man. Who will win? Who will lose? And who will die?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaSix Sketches
Pearson English Readers Level 1 (300 Headwords) - BeginnerNorma is always right. But has she got the right train tickets? What happens when Mrs Roberts has coffee with Mrs Price? And is David ready for his wedding? The answers are in these six sketches.
Area Private Language Schools / Secondaria di primo gradoCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaThirty-Nine Steps
Penguin Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateA man is killed in Richard Hannay's home. Before his death he tells Hannay a dangerous secret. Now Hannay's life is in danger. Who are his enemies and what are they trying to do? And how will he solve the mystery of ‘the thirty-nine steps'?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaK's First Case
Penguin Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateKatrina Kirby is a detective. People call her ‘K'. There has been a murder in a big country house. ‘K' knows that one of five people murdered Sir Michael Gray. Who did it? How? Why? This is a detective story with a difference: ‘K' needs your help with her case.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Pearson English Readers Level 1 (300 Headwords) - BeginnerTom Sawyer loves adventures. He has them at home, at school, and with his friends —Huck Finn, Joe Harper, and Becky Thatcher. Tom has one adventure in a graveyard, one in an old house, one in a cave. Who does he see in those places—and why is he afraid?
Area Private Language Schools / Secondaria di primo gradoCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaOliver Twist
Penguin Active Reading Level 4 (1700 Headwords) - IntermediateOliver's mother dies when he is born and he is brought up in a workhouse. His first years are cold and lonely – and then he runs away to London. But he falls into the hands of Fagin and the terrifying Bill Sykes. They try to turn Oliver into a criminal. Will he escape to find a better life?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaRound the World in Eighty Days
Penguin Active Reading Level 2 (600 Headwords) - ElementaryCan Phileas Fogg go round the world in eighty days? He doesn't know that somebody wants to stop him. Then Fogg will lose his bet – twenty thousand pounds!
Area Private Language Schools / Secondaria di primo gradoCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaFrankenstein
Penguin Active Reading Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateFrankenstein is probably the most famous horror story in the world. Victor Frankenstein is a young scientist who creates a monster from parts of dead bodies. At first the monster looks for love and wants to be kind. But soon, he learns to hate people and becomes evil. Frankenstein has learnt how to create life. But will this life destroy him?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaThe Turn of the screw
Penguin Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateA young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. It's her first job and she wants to do it well. But she begins to see strange things – the ghosts of dead people. Do the ghosts want the children?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaBraveheart
Penguin Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-Intermediate‘Sons of Scotland! You have come here to fight as free men. If you fight, perhaps you'll die. If you run, you may live for a time. But at what cost?' Braveheart is the story of William Wallace, who gave hope to Scottish people in their fight to be free.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaHamlet
Penguin Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateHamlet is the Prince of Denmark. His heart is filled with sadness and pain. Why? Only his two best friends, Horatio and Marcellus, know the true reason. The new king, Claudius, murdered Hamlet's father and married the young prince's mother. Will Hamlet be strong and brave enough to take revenge? Is he mad? Or does he have a secret plan?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaShakespeare - His life and Plays
Penguin Readers Level 4 (1700 Headwords) - IntermediateShakespeare's plays are famous all over the world – in the theatre, in film and in the classroom. What do we know about the man? What kind of life did he have? Who were his friends? Why can we still laugh and suffer with his characters 400 years after his death?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaStories from Shakespeare
Penguin Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateThese are the stories of some of Shakespeare's most famous plays. We travel to Venice, Greece, Denmark and Rome, and meet many different people. There is a greedy money-lender, a fairy king and queen, some Roman politicians and a young prince who meets the ghost of his murdered father.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaDracula
Penguin Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateCount Dracula is a vampire. He drinks people's blood. He lives in a lonely castle in the mountains of Transylvania. But then he comes to England and strange things start happening. People change. People become ill. Professor Van Helsing knows about vampires, but can he stop Count Dracula?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaMidsummer Night's Dream
Penguin Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateThis wonderful story of fairies, dreams and lovers is as popular today as it was in Shakespeare's time. In a wood outside Athens, four young people are following their dreams, while fairies play strange games with them. Their world seems unreal – but is it really very different from our own?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaA Scandal in Bohemia
Penguin Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateAll kinds of people, from shopkeepers to kings, want the help of Sherlock Holmes in these six stories about the adventures of the famous detective. Who put a diamond in a chicken? Why is there a club for men with red hair? How did the man at the lake die? Can Sherlock Holmes solve the mysteries?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaRip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Pearson English Readers Level 1 (300 Headwords) - BeginnerRip Van Winkle walks into the mountains one day and meets some strange old men. He comes home twenty years later. One dark night, Ichabod Crane is riding home and sees a man on a black horse behind him. The man has no head. Are there ghosts in these stories? What do you think?
Area Private Language Schools / Secondaria di primo gradoCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaNotting Hill
Pearson English Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords)Anna Scott is an American film star. She is rich, beautiful and very famous. William Thacker is a shy man who has a small, unsuccessful bookshop in London. Their lives are different in every way, but they are both looking for someone special. Can a future together be more than a dream? Notting Hill is a wonderful – and very funny – love story.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaKing Solomon's Mines
Penguin Readers Level 4 (1700 Headwords) - IntermediateSir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good and Allan Quatermain are travelling to the mysterious, unmapped heart of Africa. Sir Henry wants to find his missing brother. Quatermain wants to find King Solomon's secret treasure. Is Sir Henry's brother still alive? Will they find King Solomon's treasure? Does the treasure even exist...?
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - Narrativa