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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary.
England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens – Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to be a queen.
Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At sixteen, she was also...
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary.
Ellen Shore’s family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first.
And when they are adults, Al still comes first. He begins a rock band and makes...
This book develops a rational approach to the teaching of language as communication, based on a careful consideration of the nature of language and of the language user's activities. It will stimulate all language teachers to investigate the ideas that inform their own practice.
Task-based teaching has created enormous interest among teachers in recent years. But how does the idea of designing tasks (e.g. discussions, problems, games) that encourage learners to use real language work in practice?
This book explains the basic principles behind task-based learning and teaching and gives practical examples of how to make it work in different teaching situations.
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. 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…...
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Rowena Akinyemi.
It is Molly Clarkson’s fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party – only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are...
A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. 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...
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...
A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Helen Brooke.
Six women are dead because of the Whitechapel Killer. Now another woman lies in a London street and there is blood everywhere. She is very ill.
You are the famous detective Mycroft Pound; can you catch the killer before he escapes?
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett.
Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy, and everybody likes him. His father was English, but he is now dead, and Cedric and his mother are...
The book provides seventy language practice activities which use the wealth of knowledge, experience, and expertise that learners bring with them to the classroom.
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Anne Collins.
Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.' More than fifty years ago, the new US President, John F. Kennedy, spoke these words. Millions of Americans listened, and they were filled with hope. With Kennedy as president, surely there was a great future...
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West.
Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says – just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money.
But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the...
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by John Escott.
Nick Lortz is sitting outside a caf? in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She’s young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her.
But why does she call Nick ‘Mr Hollywood’? Why does she give him a...
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Joyce Hannam.
In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast – Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas.
Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now,...
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett.
A woman and a man… words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her… It's an old story.
Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time – today, tomorrow, a...
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett.
Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he’s not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know...
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by John Escott.
Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter ‘A’ stands for ‘Adultery’. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin.
Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of...
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. 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...
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West.
Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house.
There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens – and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret...
Helps teachers understand research evidence in language assessment for students aged 5-18, and to develop an ability to design, implement and critically evaluate language assessment, with reference to language frameworks and standards for assessment in school education.
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Ralph Mowat.
In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf – he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan,...
A fresh and enjoyable collection of games for children aged between 4 and 11, including card games, board games, physical games, and co-operative and competitive games.
Gives helpful guidance for teachers on integrating games into the English syllabus, classroom management, adapting traditional games, and creating new games with children.
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Christine Lindop.
Everybody took photos of Prince William when he first arrived at the University of St Andrews. Crowds of photographers came to the little Scottish town next to the sea and took pictures of this new student – the nineteen-year-old grandson of the Queen of England. But nobody photographed...
A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Christine Lindop.
Sally is always running – and she has her phone with her all the time: at home, on the train, at work, at lunchtime, and at the shops. But then one afternoon suddenly she has a different phone… and it changes her life.
When Tonya and her friends decide to sail around the world...
Shows how any piece of music – from folk and classical to jazz, rock, and pop – can be exploited in an immense variety of ways in the language classroom.
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott.
'We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.'
And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children – they know all the trains, Perks the station porter is...
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Alex Raynham.
What does the world look like from the moon?' 'How do our bodies work?' 'Is it possible for people to fly?' 'Can I make a horse of bronze that is 8 metres tall?' 'How can we have cleaner cities?' All his life, Leonardo da Vinci asked questions. We know him as a great artist, but he was one of...
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Alex Raynham.
You are fast asleep, and nothing is happening. Or is it? In fact, your body is hard at work. Your lungs are taking oxygen from the air, and your heart is pumping blood round your body. Millions of pieces of information are travelling backwards and forwards to your brain all the time. Muscles...
A selection of thirty units covering a wide variety of cross-curricular topics. Areas covered include maths, geography, biology, history, music, art, and drama. All the activities give learners opportunities to communicate in English and at the same time explore core areas of the curriculum.
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Jonathan Swift.
Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only fifteen centimetres tall… I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.'
But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels....
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. 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...
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary.
He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'.
Then someone speaks to him – and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life.
This is a true and tragic...
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Tim Vicary.
On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man’s wife, the children’s mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too.
Close to the wild beauty of...
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott.
There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost – because of course Americans don't believe in ghosts....
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Rowena Akinyemi.
Cathy Wilson is driving to Norfolk, to begin her new job with the Harvey family. She is going to look after the two young children, Tim and Susan. Cathy meets the children’s father, and their grandmother, and their aunt. She meets Nick, the farmer who lives across the fields. But she...
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott.
When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of course, who is away at the Civil War, but they...
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett.
France, 1815. Jean Valjean leaves prison after nineteen years. These are dangerous and troubled times, and life is hard. Valjean must begin a new life, but how can he escape his past, and his enemy, Inspector Javert? This story for Bookworms is loosely based on the famous novel Les...
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett.
William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays.
But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time . . ....
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard.
Every town should have a ‘card’ – someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh.
Bursley in the Five Towns has a ‘card’: Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is...