From one of Shakespeare`s best-loved plays. Romeo`s family and Juliet`s are enemies. The young people meet without realizing each other`s identities, and fall in love. At first, it seems that their secret marriage may bring the families together, but a series of misunderstandings leads to tragedy. With fun activities after the story, and online audio in both British English and American English.The Usborne English Readers series is a new range of graded readers in simplified English for younger learners. They include activities, glossaries and a full audio recording of the text in both British English and American English.
From the classic fairy tale. When the Queen`s longed-for baby is born, the King invites seven fairies to the party in celebration. However, he fails to invite one malevolent fairy, and when the princess is sixteen years old, she hurts her hand on a spindle and falls asleep for a hundred years. With fun activities after the story, and online audio in both British English and American English.
The nightingale`s song is beautiful. Every day, she sings for the Emperor - but she`s just an ordinary brown bird. Can the Emperor have a better, prettier nightingale?Includes a word list, 5 pages of activities and free online audio (British English and American English).500 headwords1,168 words
Original / British English Maisie King lives in the Bahamas. Her mother and father work at an Animal Hospital. Maisie has a new friend. His name is Ben and he`s a dolphin. Ben is very ill. Maisie helps him. Then Maisie has a big problem. Can Ben help her?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-6954-6
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Maiwa`s Revenge, or The War of the Little Hand is a short novel by English writer H. Rider Haggard about the hunter Allan Quartermain. The story involves Quartermain going on a hunting expedition, then taking part in an attack on a native kraal to rescue a captured English hunter, and avenge Maiwa, an African princess whose baby has been killed.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06433-5
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Major Ernest Pettigrew (Ret`d) is not interested in the frivolity of the modern world. Since his wife Nancy`s death, he has tried to avoid the constant bother of nosy village women, his grasping, ambitious son, and the ever spreading suburbanization of the English countryside, preferring to lead a quiet life upholding the values that people have lived by for generations - respectability, duty, and a properly brewed cup of tea (very much not served in a polystyrene cup with teabag left in). But when his brother`s death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Ali, the widowed village shopkeeper of Pakistani descent, the Major is drawn out of his regimented world and forced to confront the realities of life in the twenty-first century....
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0955-6
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
"One of the merriest picture-books . . . told in very few words with a gravity that underscores the delightful comedy of the pictures--fine large pictures, strongly drawn, with a wealth of detail."--"The New York Times." A Caldecott Award winner.
A reading/writing/thinking test on global community. In the Student`s Book, the authors use peace education issues as a way of helping students to improve reading and writing skills while sharing thoughts and concerns about cross-cultural issues. This book promotes peaceful relations, respect, and understanding among nations, cultures, and groups, as well as across gender, race, class, ethnicity, and generations. Using the topic of peace in the global community, this innovative reader provides content-based language instruction for students. It offers selections on a variety of subjects ranging from conflict resolution and the creation of a more peaceful world, to environmentalism and education. The text develops analytical and critical...
ISBN: 978-0-521-65780-8
Издательство:
Cambridge University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
`Whoever said you can`t fool an honest man wasn`t one.`The Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork is facing a crisis and needs a shake-up in management. Cue Moist von Lipwig, Postmaster General and former con artist. If anyone can rescue the city`s ailing financial institution, it`s him. He doesn`t really want the job, but the thing is, he doesn`t have a choice.Moist has many problems to solve as part of his new role: the chief cashier is almost certainly a vampire, the chairman needs his daily walkies, there`s something strange happening in the cellar, and the Royal Mint is running at a loss.Moist begins making some ambitious changes . . . and some dangerous enemies. Because money is power and certain stakeholders will do anything to keep a firm...
