Animals

A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms

I was very happy to reach home safely and I decided to stay in England for a long time. Then someone offered me a ship of my own, the Adventure and I left England once again. Many of the crew of the…

Discussion Questions

Jonathan Swift wants the readers of Gulliver’s Travels to think about some very important subjects regarding politics and social life. Lilliput The people of Lilliput are very small, but they have…

Montego High School

Montego Bay is a beautiful tourist town on the east coast of Florida, near Miami Beach. The town was founded in the seventeenth century by the pirates of the Caribbean Sea, who were called…

Ayers Rock

Ayers Rock is naturally grey, but the rock contains iron which rusts.1 This is why it is red. iron which rusts: iron is a metal that, when it gets wet, becomes red in colour (rust).

Reading

The Otis family began to live a normal life. Mr Otis wrote a history of the American Democratic Party. Mrs Otis gave a big party in the gardens of Canterville Chase. There was American food and American…

Comprehension check

Answer the questions. Who looked after the garden before it was locked? Who, according to Martha, was crying? What did Mrs Medlock do when she found Mary exploring the house? What was Martha’s mother…

Reading

Time passed and the police continued their search for Mr Hyde. They offered a lot of money for information about him. They found out about his past. He had done many bad things and no one liked him. But…

Film versions of the story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (III)

Watch and listen to make-up artist Rick Baker talk about the transformation scenes in the 1931 and the 1941 film versions. Does he think that black and white was more or less suitable that colour for…

Sherlock Holmes Quiz

Sherlock Holmes Quiz