R Scho 2 Great Expectations

Scholastic ELT readers reflect a world that teenagers will instantly recognise. It includes popular films and TV series and coming-of-age classics like Billy Elliot and Angela's Ashes.

Inspiring full-colour graphics attract your students to reading. Images tie in with the media versions, and creative formats such as blogs, manga stories and comic strips generate instant appeal.

The People & Places spread at the start of each story sets the scene by introducing the key characters in a visually stimulating and accessible way.

The magazine-style Fact Files at the back of each reader include interviews, behind-the-scenes features, UK/US culture and themes developed in the reader.

The self-study section let students check comprehension as they progress through each story.

Free online teacher's resource sheets provide more activities and follow-up project work.

Pip lives with his sister and her husband, Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith, with little prospect of advancement. But when he discovers that he has a secret benefactor, his life changes forever. Pip moves to London and learns how to live like a gentleman. Can he win the love of the cold but beautiful Estella? And who is the person behind Pip's great expectations?