Readings

Try this placement test. It will tell you your (Reading comprehension) level  of English quite accurately: PRTGPlacement_Tests

22nd November 2012

As you already know, apart from your text books and exercises, you should improve your reading skills and, to do so, the Department of English has considered the possibility to check your improvement by telling you to read graded readings (ESO and 1st Bachillerato) and updated articles (2nd Bachillerato) on the one hand, and to complete several comprehension exercises on the other.

Readings 2012-1013

1st  ESO and 1st ESO 2nd language: «Tom Sawyer» by Mark Twain (Ed. Vicens Vives)

1st ESO Bilingual: «Tom Sawyer» by Mark Twain (Ed. Vicens Vives)

2nd ESO and 2nd ESO 2nd language: «Huckleberry Finn» by Mark Twain (Ed. Vicens Vives)

2ndESO Bilingual: «Huckleberry Finn» by Mark Twain (Ed. Vicens Vives)

3rd ESO and 3rd ESO 2nd language: «The Picture of Dorian Gray» (Ed. Burlington). If you want to listen to the MP3 audios click on the following link:

www.burlingtonbooks.com/Spain/Page.aspx?PageID=1321

3rd ESO Bilingual: «Oliver Twist» by Charles Dickens (Ed. Burlington). If you want to listen to the MP3 audios click on the following link:

www.burlingtonbooks.com/Spain/Page.aspx?PageID=1351

Second and Third Terms Reading : The Copy by Paul Jennings. You can get the 7-page story here: copy_text

Once you have read «The Copy» please do the exercises related. You can have access to them by clicking on the following link copy_after .

They’ll be checked in class!!!

4th ESO and 4th ESO 2nd language: «My Family and Other Animals» (Ed. Burlington). If you want to listen to the MP3 audios click on the following link:

www.burlingtonbooks.com/Spain/Page.aspx?PageID=1339

4th ESO Bilingual: «Pride and Prejudice» by Jane Austin

1st Bach. and 1st Bach 2nd language: «A foreigner in Britain» (Ed. Burlington). If you want to listen to the MP3 audios click on the following link:

www.burlingtonbooks.com/Spain/Page.aspx?PageID=1382

2nd Bach: 1st Term: Reading comprehension from ‘Animal Farm’

– If you’re interested in reading the original novel by George Orwell click on the following link http://msxnet.org/orwell/print/animal_farm.pdf

2nd Term: Reading comprehension from ‘Craddle and All’

2nd Bach 2nd language: «A foreigner in New York» (Ed. Burlington). If you want to listen to the MP3 audios click on the following link:

www.burlingtonbooks.com/Spain/Page.aspx?PageID=1409

For 3rd term, 3rd ESO Bilingual section must read a five-chapter novel (Jack and the Pirate School) on-line whose link you can find inmediately below.

http://storynory.com/2007/06/10/jack-and-the-pirate-school-1/

You’d better start reading and ask your English teacher for further information or in case you have any doubts.

For further reading you can try a classic. It’s a short story by Edgar Allan Poe: «The Pit and the Pendulum», which I recommend not to be read at night before sleeping ‘cause it is a horror story. You can read and listen to the story by clicking on the link below.  Enjoy your reading.

http://www.loudlit.org/works/pitandpendulum.htm

THE «PINK BOW TIE» PACK

Here you can find the text by Paul Jennings and the exercises on the text

pinkbowtie_text

Pink Bow Tie_Pre-reading

That’s all by now