Young Adult ELI Readers - English: The Thirty-Nine Steps: The Thirty-Nine Steps + downloadable audio - Softcover

Cadwallader, Jane; Freeman, Michael Lacey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8853623136 ISBN 13: 9788853623133

Publisher: ELI s.r.l., 2017

Synopsis

An adventure novel featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations. Richard Hannay is bored. He is all alone in a big city, and he wants something to happen, anything. One evening, when he gets back home, someone is waiting for him. This someone will leave him with a question, and Hannay must find an answer. His future, and indeed the future of the whole of Europe depends on it. The question is, what are the thirty-nine steps? Syllabus Verb tenses, Present Simple and Present Continuous - Past Simple and Past Continuous - Present Perfect - Future forms - Will, Going to, Ing form - Modals - can (ability, permission), could (ability in the past), shall (suggestions), should (advice), may (possibility), must (obligation), need (necessity) In this Reader you will find: Information about John Buchan | A section focusing on background and context | A glossary of difficult words | Comprehension activities | An exit test

About this title

Review:

This latest edition of the novel has been redesigned, resulting in an authentic looking cloth-bound book... Exciting and thrilling, this should be read by all (The Sun)

A spiffing, well-loved Boy's Own sort of read (The Daily Mail)

A handsome new edition (Tribune)

Book Description:

Vintage Heroes & Villains: A lineup of literature's most dastardly, devilish and daring characters

About this edition

• Publisher: ELI s.r.l.
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 8853623136
• ISBN 13: 9788853623133
• Binding: Paperback