The perfect tenses – bothpresent and past – areexplained and usedprominently in most of thesereaders. Many introduce thepassive voice, and most featurethe future tense. Nearly all ofthem also include exercises todevelop understanding of thefirst conditional, and someinclude instruction in all threeconditional forms. More modalverbs and more complex verbalconstructions – using gerundsand infinitives – are presented.There is a generally higher levelof vocabulary, sometimes quitesophisticated.
These readers focus on topicsand vocabulary specific tocontemporary professions:television production, fashiondesign and computerisedbanking. Businessprocedures and moderntelecommunicationsare central to these stories.Also, these readers use anUpper Intermediate complexityof verb tenses and othergrammatical constructions.
Walter Scott (Edimburgo, 1771- Abbotsford, 1832), maestro del diálogo y la descripción, influyó en los novelistas románticos de su tiempo y también en los músicos y pintores que recrearon su obra. Sus principales obras son, además de El pirata, Waverley, El anticuario, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe y El talismán.
