Monkey is an excitable, selfish creature with magic skills. As punishment for bad behaviour, he is sent by the gods on a long, hard journey to the West, to protect a young Buddhist priest. The travellers have many frightening and amusing adventures on the way. Can they reach their destination and return unharmed? An exciting new series which provides reading and language learning at five levels. As well as enjoyable stories and texts, each book provides a range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills, consolidate vocabulary, and offer personalised project work. Each book is supported by a CD-ROM which contains additional activities and the complete audio recording.What's special about Penguin Active Reading?Beautiful illustrations, photographs, maps and diagrams help to bring the stories alive and reinforce meaningIntegrated activities help your students think about the story/text in advance, check comprehension, learn new vocabulary and practise key grammar structures