Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life. This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. Strange, wonderful, and frightening things can happen on trains - and all of them happen here.
In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast - Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas. Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But he is afraid. He still remembers another Christmas in Prague, many long years ago - a Christmas that changed his life for ever . . .
Read and discover more about the world ¿ in English! This level is aimed at confident, Primary-level learners of English and contains 600 headwords.Read and discover all about farms. What are crops? What do we get from sheep?
Ideal for elementary learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.'This telegram is from my brother Mycroft,' said Holmes. 'He wants to speak to me at once about Mr Arthur Cadogan. Do you know this man, Watson?''I saw something about him in today's newspaper,' I answered.When a young man dies on a London Underground line, top-secret plans for a new British submarine go missing. But who is Cadogan's killer, why did he die, and where are the missing papers? Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must quickly help Mycroft to answer these important questions.
Ideal for new learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.It's London, 1666. It's a hot, dry summer. A small fire starts in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane. Soon the city of London is burning and the fire-fighters can't stop the fire. People are running from their houses down to the River Thames.But how does the fire begin and who can stop it? What is the King of England doing to help?
Ideal for new learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.Hercules is the strongest man in the world, but one day he does something very bad.The priestess at Delphi tells him: 'The gods are angry with you. For twelve years you must work for King Eurystheus, and do twelve tasks for him. When you finish, the gods can forgive your crime.'Some tasks are easier, and some tasks are more difficult.Can Hercules finish all twelve of them? And what happens when he does?
What?s up? Essentials Your student will? Be inspired and motivated by the fresh original topics and dynamic and varied activities. Learn more than just English with a wealth of cross-curricular content that ranges from Maths to Music and from Science to Citizenship. Know exactly what to do at all times with clearly-presented objectives and attractive intuitive design and structure. You will? Feel confident that your are covering all the requirements of the curriculum with a balanced and carefully-designed syllabus that gives equal weight to grammar, vocabulary and the four skills. Meet the needs of all your students with a wide range of supplementary and assessment materials that cater specifically for mixed-ability groups. Specific books to help ALL your students follow your classes. Your student will? Follow the class more easily with simpler exercises and instructions and explanations in Spanish. Feel more integrated. Use full-colour, attractive books. You will? Help students reach achievable goals with reduced contents. Work in parallel with Essentials and the normal Student?s book in the same class, as they both feature the same structure and methodology. Have all the answers available in separate booklet. www.pearsonELT.es
Ideal for intermediate and more confident learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death.A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.
Aprende cantando conceptos básicos en inglés. ¡La forma más fácil de aprender inglés! De la mano de Ben, Daisy y el mono Keekee, los más pequeños de la casa aprenderán inglés a través de: 36 escenarios cotidianos y perfectamente reconocibles. Aprenderán las 300 palabras más importantes del inglés. Jugarán a encontrar objetos escondidos. Tendrán que contestar todas las preguntas si quieren pasar a la siguiente página. Podrán escuchar el CD que incluye 36 canciones que ayudan a ampliar y asimilar el vocabulario aprendido. Un audio les repetirá cada una de las palabras para que su pronunciación sea perfecta. ¡Aprender inglés nunca ha sido tan divertido!
Biff, Chip, Kipper and friends are older now and their true destiny is about to be revealed...Can they stop the evil Virans from destroying history as we know it? The Time Chronicles are exciting chapter books following your favourite characters on a series of adventures through time. These captivating stories feature familiar characters in fast-paced adventures to engage children. The missions feature real historical events and characters, fascinating facts and thrilling plots. Children will love reading these language-rich adventures. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book. This pack contains 6 books, one of each of: The Strange Box, Beyond the Door, The Jewel in the Hub, The Matrix Mission, The Power of the Cell, The TimeWeb.
Ideal for new learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.When the emperor calls every man to join the army and fight the enemy, Mulan's father is old and ill, and cannot go. Wearing men's clothes and riding a horse, Mulan leaves her family and fights bravely for the Emperor in her father's place.She is soon a hero for all the soldiers in the Chinese army. One of them, Ye Ming, is her best friend. But does he know that she is a woman? And can Mulan fall in love with a friend?
It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die . . . In a colony under the moon, people wait for news - news from home, news from the planet Earth. And in a spaceship high above Earth, a young man watches numbers on a computer screen. The numbers tell a story, and the young man is afraid. The planet Earth is burning, burning, burning . . .
Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life. This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. Strange, wonderful, and frightening things can happen on trains - and all of them happen here.
In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast - Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas. Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But he is afraid. He still remembers another Christmas in Prague, many long years ago - a Christmas that changed his life for ever . . .
Read and discover more about the world ¿ in English! This level is aimed at confident, Primary-level learners of English and contains 600 headwords.Read and discover all about farms. What are crops? What do we get from sheep?
Ideal for elementary learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.'This telegram is from my brother Mycroft,' said Holmes. 'He wants to speak to me at once about Mr Arthur Cadogan. Do you know this man, Watson?''I saw something about him in today's newspaper,' I answered.When a young man dies on a London Underground line, top-secret plans for a new British submarine go missing. But who is Cadogan's killer, why did he die, and where are the missing papers? Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must quickly help Mycroft to answer these important questions.
Ideal for new learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.It's London, 1666. It's a hot, dry summer. A small fire starts in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane. Soon the city of London is burning and the fire-fighters can't stop the fire. People are running from their houses down to the River Thames.But how does the fire begin and who can stop it? What is the King of England doing to help?
Ideal for new learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.Hercules is the strongest man in the world, but one day he does something very bad.The priestess at Delphi tells him: 'The gods are angry with you. For twelve years you must work for King Eurystheus, and do twelve tasks for him. When you finish, the gods can forgive your crime.'Some tasks are easier, and some tasks are more difficult.Can Hercules finish all twelve of them? And what happens when he does?
What?s up? Essentials Your student will? Be inspired and motivated by the fresh original topics and dynamic and varied activities. Learn more than just English with a wealth of cross-curricular content that ranges from Maths to Music and from Science to Citizenship. Know exactly what to do at all times with clearly-presented objectives and attractive intuitive design and structure. You will? Feel confident that your are covering all the requirements of the curriculum with a balanced and carefully-designed syllabus that gives equal weight to grammar, vocabulary and the four skills. Meet the needs of all your students with a wide range of supplementary and assessment materials that cater specifically for mixed-ability groups. Specific books to help ALL your students follow your classes. Your student will? Follow the class more easily with simpler exercises and instructions and explanations in Spanish. Feel more integrated. Use full-colour, attractive books. You will? Help students reach achievable goals with reduced contents. Work in parallel with Essentials and the normal Student?s book in the same class, as they both feature the same structure and methodology. Have all the answers available in separate booklet. www.pearsonELT.es
Ideal for intermediate and more confident learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death.A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.
Aprende cantando conceptos básicos en inglés. ¡La forma más fácil de aprender inglés! De la mano de Ben, Daisy y el mono Keekee, los más pequeños de la casa aprenderán inglés a través de: 36 escenarios cotidianos y perfectamente reconocibles. Aprenderán las 300 palabras más importantes del inglés. Jugarán a encontrar objetos escondidos. Tendrán que contestar todas las preguntas si quieren pasar a la siguiente página. Podrán escuchar el CD que incluye 36 canciones que ayudan a ampliar y asimilar el vocabulario aprendido. Un audio les repetirá cada una de las palabras para que su pronunciación sea perfecta. ¡Aprender inglés nunca ha sido tan divertido!
Biff, Chip, Kipper and friends are older now and their true destiny is about to be revealed...Can they stop the evil Virans from destroying history as we know it? The Time Chronicles are exciting chapter books following your favourite characters on a series of adventures through time. These captivating stories feature familiar characters in fast-paced adventures to engage children. The missions feature real historical events and characters, fascinating facts and thrilling plots. Children will love reading these language-rich adventures. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book. This pack contains 6 books, one of each of: The Strange Box, Beyond the Door, The Jewel in the Hub, The Matrix Mission, The Power of the Cell, The TimeWeb.
Ideal for new learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.When the emperor calls every man to join the army and fight the enemy, Mulan's father is old and ill, and cannot go. Wearing men's clothes and riding a horse, Mulan leaves her family and fights bravely for the Emperor in her father's place.She is soon a hero for all the soldiers in the Chinese army. One of them, Ye Ming, is her best friend. But does he know that she is a woman? And can Mulan fall in love with a friend?
It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die . . . In a colony under the moon, people wait for news - news from home, news from the planet Earth. And in a spaceship high above Earth, a young man watches numbers on a computer screen. The numbers tell a story, and the young man is afraid. The planet Earth is burning, burning, burning . . .
For more information about the Cambridge English: Key (KET) exam, download theKET Handbook directly from the Cambridge ESOL website.
These collections of graded short stories have been specially selected for Reading Circles ¿ small groups of students who meet to talk about stories.