Bar 4: Classic Ghost Stories

Description:
Genre: Classic Fiction
Level: Medium
Words: 900-1,300 Headwords
Why does a signalman see mysterious figures at the entrance to the train tunnel prior to disasters? Medical students widen their knowledge of human anatomy by dissecting dead bodies. But where are the bodies coming from? A newly married couple find their dream house. But their terrified maid wants to leave the house before Halloween. Why? Read these stories by classic writers Charles Dickens, E. Nesbit and Robert Louis Stevenson and find out.


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