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Language	Level	Title		Duration (seconds)
English	Elementary Cambridge KET ALTE 1 Pre- Intermediate Cambridge PET Toefl 400 ALTE 2 Intermediate Cambridge FCE Toefl 500 ALTE 3 Upper Intermediate Cambridge CAE Toefl 550 ALTE 4 Advanced Cambridge CPE Toefl 600+ ALTE 5	1 Students 2 Introductions 3 Numbers 4 Whose? 5 Names and Numbers 6 A Timetable 7 A Form 8 A Friend 1 9 A Friend 2 10 A Friend 3 1 My Cat Trotsky 2 Strange Food (Anonymous) 3 Tears and Laughs (Samuel Beckett) 4 More Beckett 5 Numbers 6 That man 7 Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl) 8 East of Eden (John Steinbeck) 9 The Unicorn (James Thurber) 10 A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens) 11 Describing Self 1 12 Describing Self 2 13 Describing Self 3 14 The Cemetery 15 My Two Friends 16 Routine 1 The Wolf (James Thurber) 2 Pooh (A A Milne) 3 1984 (George Orwell) 4 Prufrock (T S Eliot) 5 The Owl (James Thurber) 6 The Emperor's Clothes (H C Andersen) 7 Numbers 8 Earthly Powers (Anthony Burgess) 9 Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro) 10 Sons and Lovers (D H Lawrence) 11 Lord of the Flies (William Golding) 12 Emma (Jane Austen) 13 The Great Gatsby (Scott Fitzgerald) 14 The Hobbit (J R Tolkien) 15 Three Men in a Boat (J K Jerome) 1 Catch A Falling Star (John Donne) 2 The Baskervilles (Conan Doyle) 3 A Rich Man (Edward Jones) 4 On The Moon (Arthur C Clarke) 5 Singapore (Anonymous) 6 Bollywood (Al Jazeera) 7 True Believer (Eric Hoofer) 8 Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) 9 Sons and Lovers (D H Lawrence) 10 A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway) 11 Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens) 12 The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) 1 Twickenham Garden (John Donne) 2 Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) 3 Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) 4 Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare) 5 Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens) 6 The Independent 7 The Windhover (G M Hopkins) 8 Hard Times (Charles Dickens) 9 Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) 10 Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)		18 10 24 9 34 28 10 12 13 11 19 09 13 18 27 9 18 22 28 22 19 14 15 16 18 24 24 23 20 25 30 19 19 21 28 23 22 24 26 24 25 19 25 33 20 28 28 23 28 28 26 29 22 23 31 25 29 19 27 21 28 28 22

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