Bar 4: Four Famous Couples

Genre: Biography Level: Difficult Words: 900-1,300 Headwords Here are the stories of four couples from different times, all madly in love. Read about Victoria, the Queen of England, who fell passionately in love with her cousin, Albert. Find out about Marie Curie’s affair with Paul Langevin, which caused a scandal in the world of science. Discover how the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony formed a union powerful enough to challenge the leader of the Roman Empire. Finally, learn about Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, who married 11 women, but only really adored his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Cross-Curricular Focus: Social History The prestigious Burlington Activity Readers Series, now with 102 titles, offers an exciting range of classic adaptations, original stories and non-fiction. This full-colour series offers the following key features: Grammatical structures and vocabulary are carefully controlled, ensuring each reader corresponds perfectly to the levels and syllabus of the Spanish school system. Multilingual introduction and glossary of difficult words translated into Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician in every reader. Vocabulary and comprehension activities integrated after every two chapters in ESO and after every three chapters in Bachillerato, to consolidate students’ understanding and develop their ability to use textual and visual information. Did You Know? boxes with interesting information related to the content of the reader. Cross-curricular pages at the end of each reader, to enrich students’ general knowledge by expanding upon a theme from the story. Student’s website materials with MP3 recordings, comprehension activities, vocabulary games, book report tasks and a progress report (ESO), and web-based activities (Bachillerato), available in the Student’s Zone. Teacher’s materials are available from the Teacher’s Zone. They include all the student’s website resources, plus: Plot summary Background information Before and after reading activities Final tests in editable format Answers to all the reader activities General series information leaflet