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The Slave Boy of Pompei
Pearson English Active Readers Easystarts (200 Headwords)Young Mico is a slave in a big house in Pompeii. His only friend is the house dog, Fortunatus. One quiet summer day, Fortunatus suddenly runs away. He takes Mico with him. What does the dog know? What is he afraid of? Is it, perhaps, the mountain behind the town?
Area 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 - 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 - NarrativaOthello
Penguin Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateOthello is a popular soldier who is in love with his beautiful new wife. He also has good friends – like Iago, another soldier. So when Iago tells him terrible stories about his wife, Desdemona, who should Othello believe? Will jealousy destroy all their lives? This is one of William Shakespeare's greatest plays.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaFive One-Act Plays
Penguin Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateHas Mrs Brown killed Granny on the beach? Why does Mrs Hill want to leave her husband? Who wants to steal the Professor's invention? And what is little Johnny trying to say? Discover the answers when you read the plays in this book. They are plays about ordinary people and the unusual, often funny, things that happen to them.
Area Secondaria di secondo grado / Private Language SchoolsCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaMr Bean
Penguin Active Reading Level 2 (600 Headwords) - ElementaryA famous painting is going to the Grierson Gallery in LA and they want a top man to come to the United States. He can talk about the artist. The National Gallery in London send Mr Bean. But something is very wrong with Mr Bean! He's very, very strange. And dangerous! After he arrives, accidents start to happen.
Area Private Language Schools / Secondaria di primo gradoCategoria Lingue moderneMateria INGLESE - NarrativaSense and sensibility
Pearson Password Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateElinor and Marianne Dashwood are two very different sisters. Marianne loves excitement and always shows her feelings; Elinor is quiet and has more good sense. They both fall in love and both suffer broken hearts. Will they ever find the right man to love and marry?
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 - 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 - 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 - NarrativaNew York
Penguin Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateEvery year, millions of tourists visit New York—the most exciting city in the world. Read about its history, its sights and its people. What makes New York “the city that never sleeps?”
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - NarrativaHow to be an Alien
Penguin Readers Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateThis is the funniest book that you will read about English people! Why are the English different from Europeans? George Mikes' book describes the strange things the English do and say. And the English don't get angry when they read the book. They love it! You will too!
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 - 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 - NarrativaThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Penguin Active Reading Level 3 (1200 Headwords) - Pre-IntermediateHuck and Jim travel down the Mississippi from St. Petersburg to Cairo. Jim is a runaway slave so they have to be careful. They have a lot of adventures on the river. They even meet a king! But is he real? Huck soon finds out the truth.
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 - NarrativaPelé
Pearson English Readers Level 1 (300 Headwords) - BeginnerPelé is the number one player in the story of soccer. He won the World Cup three times with Brazil and the fans loved him. Today, Pelé is famous in every country of the world. In 1950, he was a young boy with no shoes. This is his story.
Area Private Language SchoolsCategoria 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 - Narrativa