The Thirty-Nine Steps

Theme: Friendship An adventure novel featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations.   Richard Hannay is bored. He is all alone in a big city, and he wants something to happen, anything. One evening, when he gets back home, someone is waiting for him. This someone will leave him with a question, and Hannay must find an answer. His future, and indeed the future of the whole of Europe depends on it. The question is, what are the thirty-nine steps?   Syllabus Verb tenses, Present Simple and Present Continuous - Past Simple and Past Continuous - Present Perfect - Future forms – Will, Going to, Ing form - Modals – can (ability, permission), could (ability in the past), shall (suggestions), should (advice), may (possibility), must (obligation), need (necessity)   In this Reader you will find: Information about John Buchan | A section focusing on background and context | A glossary of diffic