Factfiles are a sub-series of Bookworms with a non-fiction angle, providing factual information for students on a wide variety of themes. Exercises at the back of each book check student's understanding of the text and provide ideas for activities and project work.
Tall, clever, beautiful Maggie Tulliver loves the son of her father's greatest enemy. What will be the result of this relationship?
This full-color series presents nonfiction topics about interesting places and subjects. Each title features color photographs and a glossary to help with vocabulary comprehension. Exercises and suggestions for project work are also included. The books are graded at 400-to 1,400-word vocabulary levels. Audio "CDs or "Cassettes are available for select titles.
Nous sommes en 1794. Pale et visiblement mal de mer, un jeune enseigne nommé Horatio Hornblower se présente à bord du vaisseau de guerre anglais Justinian. Rien ne laisse présager qu'il deviendra un futur héros de la mer. Cependant, Hornblower se révèle aussi assidu qu'intelligent, la navigation ne lui pose aucun problème, et s'il le faut, il n'hésite pas à se battre dans un duel à mort. Rapidement, il est transféré sur la frégate Indefatigable, où il a plusieurs occasions de prouver sa valeur. Par exemple, lorsqu'il doit ramener une brigantine française capturée et gravement endommagée dans un port anglais avec seulement quatre hommes sous ses ordres. Ou encore, en menant un commando d'abordage qui attaque une corvette ennemie près de l'embouchure de la Gironde. Pendant ce temps, l'Espagne entre également en guerre aux côtés de Napoléon. Près de Cadix, Hornblower se distingue à nouveau en capturant une galère, mais le destin lui réserve l'horrible sort d'être fait prisonnier de guerre espagnol... Le premier volume de la célèbre série de romans Hornblower.
How much rubbish do you throw away in a year? It could be more than atonne or less than a hundred kilograms, but it's still too much. The Earth isdisappearing under a mountain of rubbish - often poisonous - yet, as this bookshows, much of this rubbish could be recycled. Recycling can save energy,materials and money - it may also save the Earth.
This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. The approximate vocabulary count for stage 5 is 1800 words. A story from an African writer.
Les ouvrages de la collection Les Langues Modernes/Bilingue vous proposent sous une forme très claire : . des textes d'écrivains étrangers de réputation internationale. . une traduction fidèle et précise, sans être étroitement littérale. . une introduction critique permettant d'approfondir le sens des textes. . de nombreuses notes de caractère culturel qui prolongent cette introduction dans le détail et des précisions linguistiques éclairant certains tours de traduction. Jekyll et Hyde ne sont pas frères jumeaux, observa G.K. Chesterton. Ils sont plutôt comme père et fils. Jekyll créa Hyde. Hyde n'aurait jamais pu créer Jekyll, il ne put que le détruire. Reflet inquiétant de la société victorienne crispée sur un moralisme de façade, prémonition romanesque des découvertes de Freud, Dr Jekyll et Mr Hyde est aussi une fable sur le thème éternel de l'apprenti sorcier et des malédictions de la science.
The story of Mary's shopping trip.
Recorded at slower reading speed; level 5/90 wpm. Suitable for people with learning disabilities and ESL learners.
Conradin is ten years old. He lives alone with his aunt. He has two big secrets. The first is that he hates his aunt. The second is that he keeps a small, wild animal in the garden shed. The animal has sharp, white teeth, and it loves fresh blood. Every night, Conradin prays to this animal and asks it to do one thing for him, just one thing. This collection of short stories is clever, funny, and shows us 'Nature, red in tooth and claw'. In other words, it is Saki at his very best.
Dans l'Amérique des années soixante-dix, Oliver, jeune homme riche et sportif, étudiant en droit, rencontre Jennifer, musicienne et issue d'une modeste famille. Alors que tout semblait les séparer, c'est le coup de foudre. Ils s'aiment, se marient et parlent de faire un enfant qu'ils appelleraient Bozo. Mais après leur avoir donné tant de bonheur, le destin exige une bien tragique contrepartie... Adaptée à l'écran avec Ryan O'Neal et Ali MacGraw, cette histoire d'amour universelle, belle et pathétique, a fait rire et pleurer des générations de lecteurs et de spectateurs à travers le monde.
Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in Australia, but aeroplane tickets are very expensive. Jason Williams buys lottery tickets every week too. But he is not a very nice young man. He steals things. He hits old ladies in the street, snatches their bags and runs away . . .
The Oxford Bookworms Library offers new editions of the original Oxford Bookworms Black and Green series, merging the two series into one. The new editions build on the original series and provide enhanced teaching support. Sixteen additional pages inside each book allow extra pages of activities and increased author and series information.
Controlled vocab. suitable for Adult Literacy and ESL Learners.
This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.
'It's an interesting job,' says Sally about her work at Happy Hills. And today is a very exciting day because Zapp the famous singer is coming. Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something goes wrong - very wrong.
This cheerful book, full of gentle humour, is that rare item, a genuine beginner's course which starts at the beginning and appeals to learners of all ages. English for Beginners presents a vocabulary of approximately 1000 headwords, mostly very useful but occasionally proudly, magnificently useless unless the reader associates with gnomes, iguanas and pterodactyls. Meet Professor English and his friends Kit the cat and Max the mouse. Meet Barbara the taxi driver, her boyfriend Tim and her passenger Mr Duncan. Without getting bogged down in boring terminology or dry and dusty academic explanations, English for Beginners teaches all that is needed for a solid grasp of the language. It kicks off with 'Hello!' and ends with the story of 'The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse' using the present continuous and simple, past simple, future continuous and present perfect tenses. In other words, students who have followed Professor English's advice ('Half an hour a day is good. An hour a day is very good.') are beginners no longer.
'It's an interesting job,' says Sally about her work at Happy Hills. And today is a very exciting day because Zapp the famous singer is coming. Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something goes wrong - very wrong.
Polly learns that getting a new tooth is part of growing up. Published 1996-02-29
A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.
Emily Bronte's classic is set on the bleak Yorkshire moors, where the drama of Catherine and Heathcliff, Heathcliff's cruel revenge against Edgar and Isabella Linton, and the promise of redemption through the next generation, is enacted.
