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About The Author: and Nelson Mandela (Factfiles), and Love or Money: (Crime and
About The Author: and Nelson Mandela (Factfiles), and Love or Money: (Crime and
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GRADING AND SAMPLE E X T R A C T S
STARTER • 2 5 0 HEADWORDS
present simple - present continuous - imperative -
can!cannot, must - going to (future) — simple gerunds ...
Her phone is ringing - but where is it?
Sally gets out of bed and looks in her bag. No phone.
She looks under the bed. No phone. Then she looks behind
the door. There is her phone. Sally picks up her phone and
answers it. Sally's Phone
STAGE I • 4 0 0 HEADWORDS
... past simple - coordination with and, but, or-
subordination with before, after, when, because, so ...
I knew him in Persia. He was a famous builder and I
worked with him there. For a time I was his friend, but
not for long. When he came to Paris, I came after him -
I wanted to watch him. He was a very clever, very dangerous
man. The Phantom of the Opera
STAGE 2 • 7 0 0 HEADWORDS
... present perfect - will (future) - (don't) have to, must not, could -
comparison of adjectives - simple //clauses - past continuous -
tag questions - ask/tell + infinitive ...
I was glad. Now Hyde could not show his face to the world
again. If he did, every honest man in London would be proud
to report him to the police. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The United States in the 1950s and 60s was a troubled place. Black
people were angry, because they did not have the same rights as
whites. It was a time of angry words, of marches, of protests, a
time of bombs and killings.
But above the angry noise came the voice of one man - a man of
peace. 'I have a dream,' said Martin Luther King, and it was a
dream of blacks and whites living together in peace and freedom.
This is the story of an extraordinary man, who changed American
history in his short life.
Nelson Mandela
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