Download or read book Oxford Bookworms Library written by Jennifer Bassett and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The teacher's handbooks offer an introduction to the Oxford Bookworms Library series with guidance on using graded readers, answers to the exercises in the books, photocopiable tests and an answer key.
Download or read book Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 1 800 Headwords written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!'
Download or read book Far from the Madding Crowd With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Thomas Hardy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses – if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man’s world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When she falls in love with one of them, she soon wishes she had kept her independence. She learns that love brings misery, pain, and violent passions that can destroy lives . . .
Download or read book The Garden Party and Other Stories With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Katherine Mansfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Rosalie Kerr. Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe . . . or if you are a child from the wrong social class . . . or a singer without work and the rent to be paid. Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stories by Katherine Mansfield dig deep beneath the appearances of life to show us the causes of human happiness and despair.
Download or read book David Copperfield With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Charles Dickens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. 'Please, Mr Murdstone! Don't beat me! I've tried to learn my lessons, really I have, sir!' sobs David. Although he is only eight years old, Mr Murdstone does beat him, and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hand. For that, he is kept locked in his room for five days and nights, and nobody is allowed to speak to him. As David grows up, he learns that life is full of trouble and misery and cruelty. But he also finds laughter and kindness, trust and friendship . . . and love.
Download or read book Wuthering Heights With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Emily Brontë and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. 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.
Download or read book Age of Innocence With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Edith Wharton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. 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.
Download or read book Pride and Prejudice Level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Jane Austen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. '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 Bennett. 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.
Download or read book Sherlock Holmes and the Duke s Son Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. Dr Huxtable has a school for boys in the north of England. When the Duke of Holdernesse decides to send his young son there, that is good news for the school. The Duke is a very important person, and Dr Huxtable is happy to have his son in the school. But two weeks later Dr Huxtable is the unhappiest man in England. Why? And why does he take the train down to London and go to Baker Street? Why does he need the help of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes? Because someone has kidnapped the Duke's son . . .
Download or read book One way Ticket Short Stories With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Jennifer Bassett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life. This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. Strange, wonderful, and frightening things can happen on trains – and all of them happen here.
Download or read book Sense and Sensibility With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Jane Austen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. 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?
Download or read book A Ghost in Love and Other Plays With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Michael Dean and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Michael Dean. Do you believe in ghosts? Jerry doesn't. He's a nineteen-year-old American, who just wants a good holiday with his friend, Brad. They are travelling round the north of England by bicycle. But strange things begin to happen in the small hotel where they are staying. First, Brad seems to think that he has been there before. And then a girl called Ellen appears . . . The first of these three original plays is set in the seventeenth century, and the other two take place in modern times. In each play, a ghost comes back from the dead to change the lives of living people.
Download or read book Great Expectations Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Charles Dickens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. 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!’
Download or read book Great Expectations With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Charles Dickens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. 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!’
Download or read book The Great Gatsby With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. 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.
Download or read book The Riddle of the Sands With Audio Level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Erskine Childers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Peter Hawkins. When Carruthers joins his friend Arthur Davies on his yacht Dulcibella, he is expecting a pleasant sailing holiday in the Baltic Sea. But the holiday turns into an adventure of a different kind. He and Davies soon find themselves sailing in the stormy waters of the North Sea, exploring the channels and sandbanks around the German Frisian Islands, and looking for a secret – a secret that could mean great danger for England. Erskine Childers’ novel, published in 1903, was the first great modern spy story, and is still as exciting to read today as it was a hundred years ago.
Download or read book The Murders in the Rue Morgue Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. The room was on the fourth floor, and 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 escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery. Except Anguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people. The answers to the mystery were all there, but only a clever man could see them.
