R A2 (Waystage) A I N B O W ELEMENTARY Gulliver s Travels R Approx. number of head-words: 700 beginner A1 (Breakthrough) Levels of accredited examination boards: elementary A2 (Waystage) Cambridge ESOL: Trinity: City & Guilds (Pitman): ESB: Edexcel: pre-intermediate B1 (Threshold) intermediate B2 (Vantage) post-intermediate C1 (Effectiveness) Teacher s Resources available on line: Answer Key, Transcripts, Summing-up Activities. Flyers / KET Grade 3, 4 Elementary Foundation 3 Basic Gulliver s Travels Fantasy and satire are the main ingredients of the novel, parody of travel literature, and vitriolic criticism of Swift s society and of human nature. Lemuel Gulliver recounts his travels to exotic lands: Lilliput, where he meets tiny beings; Brobdingnag, the country of the giants; Laputa, the flying island inhabited by scientists and philosophers; finally, he describes his encounter with rational horses, the Houyhnhnms, wise beings who live together with savages, the Yahoos, similar to men. The book contains in-depth analyses connected to the issues of the novel. Jonathan Swift Gulliver s Travels A2 (Waystage) Elementary S A I N B O W S Jonathan Swift