When Huckleberry Finn meets Jim, a runaway slave, they decide to travel North on the mighty Mississippi River. They have all sorts of incredible adventures, meet all kinds of people and get into a lot of trouble, until one day… Mark Twain's masterpiece is one of the greatest novels in American literature.
With his brilliant satire and humor Twain immortalises 19th-century life on the Mississippi River. This reader uses the EXPANSIVE READING approach, where the text becomes a springboard to improve language skills and to explore historical background, cultural connections and other topics suggested by the text. As well as the story, this reader contains:
• A biography of Mark Twain
• A wide range of activities practising the four skills
• Dossiers: America's Great River: The Mississippi; The Slave Trade; The American Civil War
• Preliminary-style activities and Trinity-style activities (Grade 4)
• Dossier: Cinema
• A full recording of the text (American English)
• Exit test and keys downloadable at blackcat-cideb.

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