Beauty and the Beast

A Starter  Green Apple  graded reader, retold by Gina D.B. Clemen. A rich man suddenly becomes poor and he goes to live in the country with his children. One day he goes to the city on business. His daughters, Rosalind and Hortensia, ask him for expensive presents, but his daughter, Beauty, only wants a rose.

On his way back the man takes a rose from the garden of a castle. But the owner of the castle, a beast, becomes angry and demands something in exchange…

• Easy adaptation at Starter level

• Wide range of interactive activities practising the four skills

• KET-style interactive activities

• Trinity-style interactive activities (Grade 2)

• Dossiers: Castles, Flowers and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ in Films and at the Theatre                                                                                    • A full recording of the text