MGM: Readers: Twelve Years a Slave (+ CD) - B1
During the eighteenth century, millions of people were taken from Africa and sold as slaves. Great Britain was the most powerful country in the world with an empire built through slavery. William Wilberforce, a young idealistic government minister, campaigned tirelessly throughout his political career to abolish the slave trade. With the help of fellow humanitarians he steered the cause through parliament, enduring countless setbacks before eventual triumph.
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A series of contemporary film and TV adaptations, original teenage fiction, classic literature and biographies. Specifically targeted at teenagers learning English, they are published at five levels following a carefully graded syllabus.
Level B1 features 1,500 headwords (story: up to 10,000 words).
Sample language for Level 3 Readers includes: present perfect continuous, past perfect, first and second conditional, present simple and past simple passive, simple indirect speech ...