Factfiles are a sub-series of Bookworms with a non-fiction angle, providing factual information for students on a wide variety of themes. Exercises at the back of each book check student's understanding of the text and provide ideas for activities and project work.
Tall, clever, beautiful Maggie Tulliver loves the son of her father's greatest enemy. What will be the result of this relationship?
This full-color series presents nonfiction topics about interesting places and subjects. Each title features color photographs and a glossary to help with vocabulary comprehension. Exercises and suggestions for project work are also included. The books are graded at 400-to 1,400-word vocabulary levels. Audio "CDs or "Cassettes are available for select titles.
A shy and lonely 17-year-old, Horatio Hornblower, embarks on a memorable career in Nelson's navy as a midshipman on board H.M.S. Justinian. In action, adventure and battle he is forged into one of the most formidable junior officers in the service.
How much rubbish do you throw away in a year? It could be more than atonne or less than a hundred kilograms, but it's still too much. The Earth isdisappearing under a mountain of rubbish - often poisonous - yet, as this bookshows, much of this rubbish could be recycled. Recycling can save energy,materials and money - it may also save the Earth.
Aku-nna, a young Ibo girl schooled in her people's rituals and beliefs, undergoes kidnapping, forced betrothal, and near-shame out of love for Chike, son of a former slave
This dark psychological fantasy is more than a moral tale. It is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution and criminality and the secret lives behind Victorian propriety, to create a unique form of urban Gothic.
The story of Mary's shopping trip.
Recorded at slower reading speed; level 5/90 wpm. Suitable for people with learning disabilities and ESL learners.
A collection of short stories about Conradian, a ten-year-old who hates his aunt, and who keeps a small, wild animal in the garden shed.
Oliver Barrett IV went to Harvard and Jenny Cavilleri to Radcliffe. He was rich, she was poor. He was sporty, she played music. But they fell in love. This is their story.
Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in Australia, but aeroplane tickets are very expensive. Jason Williams buys lottery tickets every week too. But he is not a very nice young man. He steals things. He hits old ladies in the street, snatches their bags and runs away . . .
The Oxford Bookworms Library offers new editions of the original Oxford Bookworms Black and Green series, merging the two series into one. The new editions build on the original series and provide enhanced teaching support. Sixteen additional pages inside each book allow extra pages of activities and increased author and series information.
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.
After dinner we turned the lights out and played 'hide-and-seek'. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with ...with this cold person - not speaking, not knowing who it was. Slowly the others found us, hid with us, until we were all there - all thirteen. Thirteen? But there were only twelve people in the house! We touched each other in the dark, counting. Thirteen. Quickly, nervously, I lit a match to see...
'It's an interesting job,' says Sally about her work at Happy Hills. And today is a very exciting day because Zapp the famous singer is coming. Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something goes wrong - very wrong.
A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.
Emily Bronte's classic is set on the bleak Yorkshire moors, where the drama of Catherine and Heathcliff, Heathcliff's cruel revenge against Edgar and Isabella Linton, and the promise of redemption through the next generation, is enacted.
