Bar 1: From Slavery Celebrity (A1)

Description: These are the stories of four legendary African-American women who succeeded and achieved greatness despite the racial prejudice and discrimination they suffered. Harriet Tubman was a slave who managed to escape and make it to Canada on a perilous journey to freedom, but returned to free other slaves. Brilliant mathematician Katherine Johnson worked at NASA, where she helped launch the first American astronaut into orbit. Poet, writer, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou has won numerous awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Oprah Winfrey is one of the richest and most influential people in the United States today.


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