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Bookworms Club Stories for Reading Circles: Pearl: Stages 2 and 3
Жанр: Oxford University Press Страниц: 104 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092004-04-19
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Short stories from Oxford Bookworms with a unique set of resources and information for running successful Reading Circles.
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6: Pride and Prejudice Audio CD Pack: 2500 Headwords (+ Audio CD)
Жанр: Oxford University Press Страниц: 120 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20092004-04-27
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'The moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be persuaded to marry,' said Elizabeth Bennet. And so Elizabeth rejects the proud Mr Darcy. Can nothing overcome her prejudice against him? And what of the other Bennet girls — their fortunes, and misfortunes, in the business of getting husbands? This famous novel by Jane Austen is full of wise and humorous observation of the people and manners of her times.
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6: Tess of the D'urbervilles Audio CD Pack: 2500 Headwords (+ Audio CD)
Жанр: Oxford University Press Страниц: 131 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20092003-05-25
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A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker; but she is uneducated and does not know the cruel ways of the world. So, when a rich young man says he loves her, she is careful — but not careful enough. He is persuasive, and she is overwhelmed. It is not her fault, but the world says it is. Her young life is already stained by men's desires, and by death.
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Vanity Fair: Pack
Жанр: Oxford University Press Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092002-12-07
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When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortunes soon rise, while Amelia's fall. Greed, ambition, loyalty, folly, wisdom ...Thackeray's famous novel gives us a witty and satirical picture of English society during the Napoleonic wars.
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Activity Worksheets
Жанр: Oxford University Press Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20092006-08-03
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Reading a complete story in English gives students a great sense of achievement -- and encourages them to read more. The Oxford Bookworms Library offers a variety of titles. The books are graded at six vocabulary levels ranging from 250 words (Starter) to 2,500 (Advanced).
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The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6: The Enemy: 2500 Headwords (+ Audio CD)
Жанр: Oxford University Press Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092002-12-07
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On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her ...and throws acid into her face. Then her father, the scientist George Ashton, disappears. And her sister, Penny, discovers that her husband-to-be, Malcolm, is a government agent. Why has Ashton disappeared, and why is Malcolm told to hunt for him? Who is George Ashton, anyway? And who is the enemy?
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6: Gazing at Stars: Stories from Asia (+ Audio CD)
Жанр: Oxford University Press Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20092004-09-30
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How fair is fair trade? When the American models leave the Malaysian island after their fashion shoot, they take away more than just photographs, and leave behind a family that will never be the same again. Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories from China, India, Malaysia, and Singapore, are by writers Lui Hong, Attia Hosain, Preeta Samarasan, Hwee Hwee Tan, Ridjal Noor, Shashi Deshpande, Ovidia Yu, Nora Adam, Nirupama Subramanian, and Catherine Lim.
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6: Jane Eyre Audio CD Pack: 2500 Headwords (+ Audio CD)
Жанр: Oxford University Press Страниц: 114 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092003-10-07
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Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she hopes she has found both at once. But the sound of strange laughter, late at night, behind a locked door, warns her that her troubles are only beginning.
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6: Oliver Twist Audio CD Pack: 2500 Headwords (+ Audio CD)
Жанр: Oxford University Press Страниц: 114 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20092003-10-07
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London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends — Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and what kind of 'games' they play ...
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: Wuthering Heights: 1800 Headwords (+ Audio CD)
Жанр: Oxford University Press Страниц: 98 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20092002-12-30
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The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering Heights, it seems he has opened his doors to trouble. He has invited in something that, like the wind, is safer kept out of the house.
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6: American Crime Stories: 2500 Headwords (+ Audio CD)
Жанр: Oxford University Press Страниц: 105 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20092003-10-20
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'Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning — that's what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn't belong in it, and I can prove it.' But can Curtis's girlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedly been done, and if Curtis doesn't ride the lightning for it, then who will? These seven short stories, by well-known writers such as Dashiel Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, and Nancy Pickard, will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6: Dubliners Pack
Жанр: Oxford University Press Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092002-12-07
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Dublin, Ireland, in the early years of the twentieth century. It is a poor city, and there is hard drinking, dishonesty, and violence just beneath the surface everywhere you look. Glance inside a few people's lives, and you soon find loneliness and disappointment, self-hate, and despair. The people in these stories are paralysed: locked into the circles of their everyday lives, where they are caught waiting between life and death. For some, there is a way out — but will circumstances, or their own fear, stop them from taking it?
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: King's Ransom: 1800 Headwords
Жанр: Oxford University Press Страниц: 99 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20092002-06-11
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'Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here's the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Reynolds, chauffeur to Douglas King.' The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy — the chauffeur's son instead of the son of the rich tycoon, Douglas King. And they want a ransom of $500,000. A lot of money. But it's not too much to pay for a little boy's life ...is it?
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: Little Dorrit
Жанр: Oxford University Press Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092002-12-07
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Arthur Clennam is back in England after many years abroad. He finds his mother as cold and hard as ever, but his father's recent death has thrown up a mystery, and he is determined to get to the bottom of it. Could it have anything to do with Little Dorrit, the quiet, kind girl who sews for his mother and goes back at night to her home in the Marshalsea Prison? As Arthur gets to know the Dorrit family, he is too busy looking for the truth about his mother's secret to notice that he has perhaps found the answer to his own happiness ...
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Sense and Sensibility: 1800 Headwords
Жанр: Oxford University Press Страниц: 99 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20092002-06-11
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Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense — or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by the young, of course. And if your heart is broken at the age of seventeen, how can you ever expect to recover from the passionate misery that fills your life, waking and sleeping?
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Oxford Bookworms Library 6 Barchester Towers Pack
Жанр: Oxford University Press Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092002-12-07
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Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop's Palace to help dominate her husband and rule the local clergy. But Slope is a snake in the grass, determined to find a rich wife, to win advancement for himself, even to fight Mrs Proudie if necessary. Their battle becomes a furious dance, involving rich, pretty Widow Bold, angry Archdeacon Grantly, man-eating Signora Neroni, gentle Mr Harding, confused Parson Quiverful and his fourteen noisy children. This classic comic story is Trollope's most famous novel.
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: Great Expectations: 1800 Headwords (+ Audio CD)
Жанр: Oxford University Press Страниц: 98 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20092002-12-30
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In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly, and murmurs to the girl at her side: 'Break his heart, Estella. Break his heart!'
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The Great Gatsby (+ Audio CD)
Жанр: Oxford University Press Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092002-12-07
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Gatsby's mansion on Long Island blazes with light, and the beautiful, the wealthy, and the famous drive out from New York to drink Gatsby's champagne and to party all night long. But Jay Gatsby, the owner of all this wealth, wants only one thing — to find again the woman of his dreams, the woman he has held in his heart and his memory for five long years. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, is one of the great American novels of the twentieth century. It captures perfectly the Jazz Age of the 1920s, and goes deep into the hollow heart of the American Dream.
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Oxford Bookworms Library: Washington Square: Level 4: 1400-Word Vocabulary (+ Audio CD)
Жанр: Oxford University Press Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20092002-12-07
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When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to the front parlour of her home in Washington Square to whisper soft words of love to her. But in New York in the 1840s young ladies are not free to marry where they please. Catherine must have her father's permission, and Dr Sloper is a rich man. One day Catherine will have a fortune of 30,000 dollars a year ...
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The Age of Innocence
Жанр: Oxford University Press Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 03 августа 20092004-09-30
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Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes Countess Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her failed marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can never be accepted in polite society. Newland Archer is engaged to young May Welland, but the beautiful and mysterious Countess needs his help. He becomes her friend and defender, but friendship with an unhappy, lonely woman is a dangerous path for a young man to follow — especially a young man who is soon to be married.
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