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 the ground. And when Mr Conway starts to build his houses, he makes the terrible mistake of disturbing the sleep of the
ISBN: 978-0-194-79075-8
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Данная серия представляет профессионально подобранную библиотеку для подростков и старшеклассников, куда включены адаптированные версии классической и современной литературы, а также истории из реальной жизни. Серию отличает четкая уровневая система, обеспечивающая понимание содержания учащимися соответствующих уровней владения английским языком. Отличительные характеристики серии: - 10 страниц...
ISBN: 978-0-194-79056-7
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world`s best graded readers - now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed seven-stage system of grading, from Starter to Stage 6, remains the same, helping you to find the right level for all your students. The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer...
ISBN: 978-0-194-79078-9
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
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. In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests. In the far distant future, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She has the name `Hummingbird` in big letters on all her clothes, but she has never seen a real hummingbird. She has never seen any living animal or bird at all. The Book of Remembering says that there were once...
ISBN: 978-0-194-79131-1
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: июль 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
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
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
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
