Practical ideas are provided for a wide variety of language practice activities. By Sarah Phillips. Part of the Primary Resource Books for Teachers series.
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A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Christine Lindop.
Who is the man with the roses in his hand?' thinks Anna. 'I want to meet him.' 'Who is the girl with the guitar?' thinks Will. 'I like her. I want to meet her.' But they do not meet. 'There are lots of men!' says Anna's friend Vicki, but Anna cannot forget Will. And then one rainy day…
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A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Kieran McGovern.
When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to the front parlour of her home in Washington Square to whisper soft words of love to her.
But in New York in the 1840s young ladies are not free ...
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat.
A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress – ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love.
O. Henry' ...
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Janet Hardy-Gould.
It's a good place for gold,' said people in the 1840s, and they came from all over the world. 'It's a good place for a prison,' said the US government in the 1920s, and they put Al Capone there on the island of Alcatraz. 'It's a good place for love,' said the hippies in the 1960s, and they put flowers in their hair and came to Haight Ashbury ...
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West.
In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, hi ...
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Michael Duckworth.
Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops – and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti.
There is only one old man who still visits the graveyard; and Mr Conway is not afraid of one old man.
But the old man has friends – friends in the graveyard, friends who lie dead, under th ...
A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Richard Rogers.
London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread.
But Oliver Twist finds some friends – Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is ...