Oxford Bookworms Library - Stage 2 Cries From The Heart (700 headwords) CD Inside
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Retold by Jennifer Bassett Thể loại: Literature & Fiction ISBN: 9780194790840 Xuất bản: 12/2008 Trọng lượng: 100 gr NXB: Oxford University Press Số trang: 56 trang - 13x19,5 cm Giá bán: 58,000 đ |
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Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world, and the eight stories in this book were selected from the winning entries in the Commonwealth Short Story Competition.
From Botswana to New Zealand, from Jamaica to Nigeria, from Unganda to Malaysia, from India to South Africa, these moving stories show us that the human heart is the same in every place. Children, wives, mothers, husbands, friends all have the same feelings of fear and pain, happiness and sadness.
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The Crown Of Violet (Oxford Bookworms Library, Stage 3 - 1000 headwords) Geoffrey Trease (Tác giả), John Escott (Kể lại) 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 ... |
The Children Of The New Forest (Oxford Bookworms Library, Stage 2 - 700 headwords) Captain Marryat (Tác giả), Rowena Akinyemi (Kể lại) England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody.The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn the house - with the children in it. The four of them escape into the New Forest - but how ... |
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