R INTERMEDIATE A I N B O W B2 (Vantage) R Approx. number of headwords: 1500 beginner A1 (Breakthrough) Levels of accredited examination boards: elementary A2 (Waystage) Cambridge English: Trinity: City & Guilds (Pitman): ESB: Edexcel: intermediate B2 (Vantage) post-intermediate C1 (Effectiveness) Teacher s Resources available on line: Answer Key, Audioscripts, Summing-up Activities. First (FCE) Grade 7, 8 / ISE II Intermediate Intermediate 2, 3 Intermediate A I N B O W S The Oval Portrait and Other Stories Edgar Allan Poe The Oval Portrait and Other Stories Five short-stories by Edgar Allan Poe: The Oval Portrait (the story of an artist who wants to make a painting of his young wife, but becomes so obsessed with it that he doesn t realize his wife is dying meanwhile), Berenice (a horror story in which the protagonist is unable to stop thinking about his cousinwife s beautiful teeth), The Premature Burial (a sequence of different episodes where people are buried alive by mistake), The Cask of Amontillado (a tale of terror in which a man takes his cruel revenge during a Carnival in Italy), The Fall of the House of Usher (Usher s sister Madeline dies from a mysterious illness; she comes back from the grave and the visitor flees the house before it collapses.) Edgar Allan Poe The Oval Portrait and Other Stories pre-intermediate B1 (Threshold) B2 (Vantage) Intermediate S