Green Apple 1: British And American Festivities+cd

Description:
Why do we celebrate Halloween?
Do you want to surprise your sweetheart with a special Valentine card from Loveland, USA? Who invented the Christmas card?
This unique book explores the origins of our festivities, their historical significance, and how we celebrate them today.

Green Apple: collection divided into three levels, dedicated to teenagers and offering original stories and adapted classics.

The GREEN APPLE series is composed of illustrated graded readers. The readers are graded into three levels - Starter, Step 1 and Step 2 - according to structural and lexical criteria, as well as by choice of subject matter.

Features:
• introduction about the author and his/her times
• wide variety of interesting activities to promote understanding of the text, as well as all four language skills, lexis and sociocultural awareness and knowledge
• activities in
the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams
• informative and fascinating cross-curricular dossiers, which explore the historical and cultural background of the text
• a recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activities
• extensive vocabulary footnotes, often illustrated
• exit tests (usually in Cambridge ESOL exam format)
• guided internet projects

An answer key and an additional exit test for each reader are available online as a PDF file at the Black Cat website. Further info on grading can be found in the 'The Black Cat Guide to Graded Readers'