Download or read book The Coldest Place on Earth With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Tim Vicary and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 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 Tim Vicary. In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian. But Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, and it is a long, hard journey over the ice to the South Pole. Some of the travellers never returned home. This is the story of Scott and Amundsen, and of their famous and dangerous race.
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Download or read book Pocahontas With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Tim Vicary 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 Tim Vicary. A beautiful young Indian girl, and a brave Englishman. Black eyes, and blue eyes. A friendly smile, a laugh, a look of love . . . But this is North America in 1607, and love is not easy. The girl is the daughter of King Powhatan, and the Englishman is a white man. And the Indians of Virginia do not want the white men in their beautiful country. This is the famous story of Pocahontas, and her love for the Englishman John Smith.
Download or read book The Murder of Mary Jones With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Tim Vicary and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 47 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 Tim Vicary. At the start of this play, the court room is full for today's trial. Two young men, Simon Clark and Dan Smith, stand up. The clerk asks, 'Are you guilty of the murder of Mary Jones?' 'Not guilty!' they reply. But perhaps they are guilty. The police found the murder weapon in their stolen car, and there was blood on Simon's face. If the court finds them guilty, they will go to prison for a very long time. Can the lawyers find out the truth, by asking the right questions? Everyone in court wants to know who murdered Mary Jones, especially her mother, and her boyfriend, Jim. You can help to find the answer, too!
Download or read book Coldest Place on Earth Oxford Bookworms Libaray 1 Book Tape written by TIM VICARY and published by . This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coldest Place on Earth written by Tim Vicary and published by . This book was released on 2007-12-27 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was RoaldAmundsen, a Norwegian. But Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, and it is a long, hard journey over the ice to the South Pole. Some of the travellers never returned to their homes again. This is the story of Scott and Amundsen, and of one of the most famous and dangerous races in history.
Download or read book Grace Darling With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Tim Vicary and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. They could not see the people holding on to the dark wet rock, slowly dying of cold. And they could not hear the cries for help – only the wind. How could they save the people on the rock? Was their wooden boat stronger than the iron ship? Were a man and his daughter stronger than the great waves that broke the ship in two? The Forfarshire was wrecked off the north-east coast of England in 1838. This is the true story of Grace Darling – a girl who became a famous heroine on that stormy night.
Download or read book Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Coldest Place on Earth written by Tim Vicary and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Word count 5,500
Download or read book Under the Moon With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Rowena Akinyemi 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 Rowena Akinyemi. It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die . . . In a colony under the moon, people wait for news – news from home, news from the planet Earth. And in a spaceship high above Earth, a young man watches numbers on a computer screen. The numbers tell a story, and the young man is afraid. The planet Earth is burning, burning, burning . . .
Download or read book San Francisco With Audio Level 1 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library written by Janet Hardy-Gould and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 79 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 Janet Hardy-Gould. 'It's a good place for gold,' said people in the 1840s, and they came from all over the world. 'It's a good place for a prison,' said the US government in the 1920s, and they put Al Capone there on the island of Alcatraz. 'It's a good place for love,' said the hippies in the 1960s, and they put flowers in their hair and came to Haight Ashbury. And San Francisco is still a good place - to take a hundred photographs, or see the Chinatown parade, or just to sit in a coffee shop and be in this interesting, different city . . .
Download or read book Japan With Audio Level 1 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library written by Rachel Bladon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 75 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 Rachel Bladon. What is Japan? It is everything new and modern: the Tokyo Sky Tree, 634 metres high; amazing cameras and phones; karaoke and manga; trains going past at 300 kilometres an hour. And it is everything ancient too: beautiful palaces; high mountains and hot springs; cherry blossom in the spring; quiet gardens with water and trees. Here the past meets the future all the time. From sumo wrestlers to robots, Japan has something amazing for everybody.
Download or read book World Wonders With Audio Level 2 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library written by Barnaby Newbolt 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 2 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Barnaby Newbolt. What are the most beautiful, the most interesting, the most wonderful things in the world? The Great Pyramid, the Great Wall of China, the Panama Canal – everyone has their favourites. And there are natural wonders too – Mount Everest, Niagara Falls, and the Northern Lights, for example. Here is one person’s choice of eleven wonders. Some of them are made by people, and others are natural. Everyone knows the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef – but what about the Iguazú Falls, or the old city of Petra? Come and discover new wonders . . .
Download or read book A Little Princess With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Frances Hodgson Burnett 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. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to English when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school. But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world . . .
Download or read book The Piano Man With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library written by Tim Vicary and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 67 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 Tim Vicary. A woman finds a man on a beach. He is very cold, his clothes are wet, and he cannot speak. The woman phones for help, and an ambulance comes and takes the man to hospital. In hospital they ask the man questions, but he does not answer. He still cannot speak - or does not want to speak. Who is he, this strange man from the sea? What is his name? Where did he come from? And why do they call him the Piano Man?
Download or read book The Withered Arm written by Thomas Hardy and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milkmaid Rhoda Brooks cannot control her jealousy of Gertrude - a beautiful woman who has just married a rich farmer. So when Gertrude appears in her dream she cannot help but reach out and grab the arm of the woman she wishes she was. As Gertrude's arm begins to wither away in real life and no physicians are able to give her a solution, she must turn to a conjurer. Considered one of Hardy's most successful short stories, 'The Withered Arm' is unmissable for those who enjoyed the suspense of Edgar Allen Poe's 'A Tell-Tale Heart Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an architect by trade, but he is best remembered for the major contributions that he made to the literary world. He wrote both novels and poetry and was famed for his pessimistic outlook. The most notable of his works include 'Jude The Obscure', 'Far from the Madding Crowd', and 'Tess of the d'Ubervilles'. His gloomy prose is ideal for fans of Dickens, Defoe, and Keats.
Download or read book Coldest Places on the Planet written by Karen Soll and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read what it's like to live in a very cold place. In this book, you'll visit cities with very cold weather and learn why the temperatures dip so low.
Download or read book Earth s Coldest Places written by Mary Griffin and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people know that Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth, but they might not know why. Readers of this globetrotting volume will learn how the sun's rays affect our planet's surface. They'll also discover other bitter cold places around the globe and how people manage to live there. In one town in Russia, people leave their glasses at home so they don't freeze to their face! Science and social studies topics combine to present some truly absorbing and chilling peeks at some of the world's most fascinating and frigid places.
