Bar 1: All About The Cinema

Description: Genre: Non-Fiction Level: Difficult Words: 1,300-1,700 Headwords Read All About the Cinema and find out how film-making grew into the billion-dollar industry it is today. See the development of films from silent black-and-white pictures to today's epic 3D films with amazing special effects. Read about the most popular past and present film stars and directors. Discover which films and celebrities have won the most awards and what the future holds for the cinema industry in the 21st century. 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