Reading for pleasure and discussion

Covers giving instructions and messages,talking to clients,taking part in meetings,giving a presentation and using visual aids.Includes activities to support key communication skills.

One night a man kills Dr Richard Kimble's wife. It was a man with one arm, but the police believe it was Kimble who murdered her. He escapes from the police and goes searching for his wife's killer. But Detective Gerard is looking for Kimble too and wants him dead or alive ...

Mark Sway is eleven and he knows where a body is hidden. If the FBI can find it they can prove it is a Mafia murder. Mark wants to tell the truth but he also wants to stay alive. He employs a lawyer who must protect him from both the law and the killers. Not an easy job but luckily she has a very clever client!

What happened to the man who fell from the Empire State Building? What about the family who went to sleep in the wrong house? Can cows fly? These questions and many more are answered in this book of strange, funny and sometimes unbelievable myths. They will make you laugh out loud!

On June 6, 1944 the allied forces land on the beaches of Normandy for one of the most decisive battles of World War II. For Captain John Miller and his squad of soldiers there is a special mission. One paratrooper is missing in action, he has already lost three brothers in the war. The Pentagon decides that the fourth brother must come home safely.

Jane Eyre, a poor orphan, grows up in misery until she becomes the governess in the house of wealthy Mr Rochester and falls in love. But mysterious events take place in the house at night, and Mr Rochester appears to be hiding a terrible secret. Can Jane even hope for happiness?

At 6'6" and 240lbs, Forrest Gump is difficult to ignore. This satire follows him from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to Vietnam, and from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to pow-wows with Chairman Mao. It also takes in Harvard University, a Hollywood set, and a NASA mission.

Anne Frank was thirteen years old when she and her family had to escape from the terrifying danger of the Nazi occupation in Holland. For two years they hid in tiny secret rooms at the back of an Amsterdam warehouse and Anne wrote her diary, which remains an extraordinary and deeply moving account of their lives in hiding.

Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich. She likes to arrange marriages between her friends and neighbours in the village of Highbury. But Emma makes a lot of mistakes and causes more problems than happy marriages.

Scientist Harry Dalton knows about volcanoes. His boss, Paul Dreyfus, sends him to Dante’s Peak, a small town in the Cascade Mountains, because one of the mountains is moving. Can Harry help the town’s people before the volcano explodes? Why is Paul stopping him? How much time have they got?