Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at school. Back then 'The Origins of the Industrial Revolution' somehow seemed less compelling than the chance to test the bold claim on Timothy Johnson's 'Shatterproof' ruler.Bu...

The setting is a farmhouse in the American West, inhabited by a family who has enough to eat but not enough to satisfy the other hungers that bedevil them. The father is a drunk; the mother a frowzy slattern; the daughter precocious beyond her years;...

With her satire on Anglo-Irish landlords in Castle Rackrent (1800), Maria Edgeworth pioneered the regional novel and inspired Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (1814). Politically risky, stylistically innovative, and wonderfully entertaining, the novel cha...

Czy Anglicy są najbardziej snobistycznym narodem na świecie? To George Orwell nazwał ich najbardziej klasowym społeczeństwem pod słońcem. Do dzisiaj zachowali monarchię, arystokrację i ziemiaństwo, które nadal imponują i wzbudzają szacunek, a nawet o...

It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to the dead. People like J...

Kurs ma teraz aż siedem poziomów, pełnych ćwiczeń zachęcających do myślenia oraz lekcji międzyprzedmiotowych. Stwarza to jeszcze więcej okazji do ćwiczenia mówienia oraz do przygotowania uczniów do egzaminu Cambridge: Young Learners. Ćwiczenia dobran...