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. Данная серия представляет профессионально подобранную библиотеку для подростков и...
ISBN: 978-0-194-79121-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Hurricane Mabel is far out in the Atlantic Ocean and moving slowly northwards. Perhaps it will never come near land at all. But if it hits the island of San Fernandez, many thousands of people will die. There could be winds of more than 250 kilometres an hour. There could be a huge tidal wave from the sea, which will drown the capital city of St Pierre. Mabel will destroy houses, farms, roads, Only one man, David Wyatt, believes that Mabel will hit San Fernandez, but nobody will listen to him ...
ISBN: 978-0-194-79138-0
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. High up on a stone seat in the great open-air theatre of Athens, Alexis, son of Leon, watches the Festival of Plays - and dreams of seeing his own play on that famous stage. So, as the summer passes, Alexis writes his play for the next year`s Festival. But then, with his friend Corinna, he learns that Athens has enemies - enemies who do not like Athenian democracy, and who are planning a revolution to end it
ISBN: 978-0-194-79114-4
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure. If you wake up in the night and hear a tap running somewhere in the house, what do you do? You get up, of course, and go and turn the tap off. A little later you hear the tap running again. You are alone in the house, and you know you turned the tap off. What do you do then? The ghosts in these stories all have unfinished business with the living world. They come back from the grave to continue their work, to keep a promise, to look for something they have lost. Sometimes they...
ISBN: 978-0-194-79125-0
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
`Moondial!` As Minty spoke the word, a cold wind went past her, and her ears were filled with a thousand frightened voices. She shut her eyes and put her hands over her ears - and the voices and the wind went away. Minty opened her eyes ...and knew that she was in a different morning, not the one she had woken up to. And so Minty`s strange adventure begins - a journey through time into the past, where she finds Tom, and Sarah ...and the evil Miss Vole.
ISBN: 978-0-19-479123-6
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
This is a love story you won`t forget. Oliver Barrett meets Jenny Cavilleri. He plays sports, she plays music. He`s rich, and she`s poor. They argue, and they fight, and they fall in love. So they get married, and make a home together. They work hard, they enjoy life, they make plans for the future. Then they learn that they don`t have much time left. Their story has made people laugh, and cry, all over the world. Данная серия представляет профессионально подобранную библиотеку для подростков и старшеклассников, куда включены адаптированные версии классической и современной литературы,...
ISBN: 978-0-19-479305-6
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2011
"I like work. I find it interesting ...I can sit and look at it for hours". With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a cold, wet morning. This famous book has made people laugh all over the world for a hundred years ...and they are still laughing. Данная серия представляет профессионально подобранную библиотеку для подростков и старшеклассников, куда включены адаптированные...
ISBN: 978-0-194-79329-2
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: август 2013
