Könnyített olvasmány

London, 1547. A kis koldus Tomot apja az utcára küldi koldulni, s ha nem visz haza semmit, jól elveri. Edward herceg VIII. Henrik fia. Neki megvan mindene: szép ruhák, finom ennivaló, és szolgák hada körötte. A két fiúban azonban valami nagyon furcsavan? különböző hátterük ellenére tejesen egyformán néznek ki. Egy napon, a szerencsétlen véletlen úgy hozza, hogy Edward a koldustanyára, Tom pedig a palotába kerül. Mi történik velük, mikor egy herceg koldusként, egy koldus pedig királyfiként él?A könnyített olvasmány A2-B1 nyelvi szinten íródott, kapható audio cd-vel együtt is.

They said Steve Biko was a man of violence

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.A mysterious incident at the Marabar Caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and Dr Aziz, an Indian doctor, leads to a drama that divides the British and Indian communities in anger, distrust, and fear. Forster's great novel brings tolife all the dangers and misunderstandings of colonialism but, as Forster himself wrote, the story is 'about something wider than politics, about the search of the human race for a more lasting home, about the universe as embodied in the Indian earth andthe Indian sky, about the horror lurking in the Marabar Caves...CEFR B2/C1Word count 29,773

Elizabeth Gilbert, a successful writer, had everything - a husband, friends, a big house in New York. But one day she realized she did not want any of it. A new relationship brought more heartbreak, deep depression followed, and in desperation, shestarted to pray. She decided to spend a year without any new relationships, and to travel in Italy, India, and Indonesia, searching for meaning in her life. This memoir is the true story of her journey of discovery through pleasure, religion, and back tolove again. It has also been made into a major movie.CEFR B1/B2Word count 18,805

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 robinflying over the high walls of the secret garden... which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key.CEFR B1Word count 10,715

In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee. With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soonrich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budur?CEFR A1/A2Word count 5,240

You can drink it, and you can cook with it. You can even make buildings, dresses, and hats out of it. You can give it to somebody as a present, or you can buy it for yourself. And of course you can eat it. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate,chocolates with gold on the outside - everybody loves chocolate.Follow its story, from the forests of Central America hundreds of years ago, through Africa, Europe, and the United States, to the growing markets of India and China. Perhaps you need a little something to eat while you read ...

When a large plan is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenlybecomes very frightened...

When Lord Asano drew his sword on Lord Kira one spring day in 1701, it began a story that is now a national legend in Japan. Lord Kira lived, but Lord Asano died, and after his death, his samurai became ronin, samurai without a master. And so began theirlong plan for revenge on Kira. Their loyalty to their dead master made him famous, and people in Japan remember them to this day. The story of the fortyseven ronin has been told and retold for 300 years - in plays, novels, and films. A major Hollywoodfilm was made about the forty-seven ronin in 2013.CEFR A1/A2Word count 6,079

On the Polar ice-cap, 640 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, the deadly, icy winds can freeze a man to death in minutes. But the survivors of the crashed airliner are lucky - they are rescued by three scientists from a nearby weather station. But whydid the airliner crash in the first place? Who smashed the radio to pieces? And why does the dead pilot have a bullet hole in his back? The rescue quickly turns into a nightmare: a race through the endless Arctic night, a race against time, cold, hunger- and a killer with a gun.CEFR B2/C1Word count 26,670

Stephen Hawking is one of the greatest scientists and thinkers of our time, and is famous around the world because he writes and talks about cosmology - the science of the universe - in a way that people can understand. He has a terrible disease calledALS, and today he can only move and speak with the help of machines. But this has not stopped him working to try and understand our world better. Will people travel in time one day? Where did the universe come from? Most of us cannot even begin to thinkabout questions like this - but Stephen Hawking is always looking for the answers.

Az író, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry szerint A kis herceg gyerekkönyv nagyok számára. A pilóta repülőgépe meghibásodik a sivatagban. Miközben megpróbálja megjavítani a gépet, egy kisfiú megkéri, hogy rajzoljon neki egy bárányt. Ez a kisfiú, a kis herceg, akielmeséli, hogyan érkezett a Földre.

Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience whilebuilding their language skills. With integrated activities, an interactive MultiROM, and exciting, fullydramatized audio for every story, the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for students while making it easy for you to develop their reading and language skills.

Meg akarok tanulni repülni! 1920-ban a repülés drága és veszélyes volt, és csak férfiaknak volt lehetőségük rá. De Amalia Earhart kitartott az elhatározása mellett, és keményen dolgozva megvalósította. Magassági és távolsági rekordokat döntött, azegész világ megismerte a nevét, népszerű volt, mindent tudni akartak róla. Megmutatta a világnak, a nők számára éppen úgy minden lehetséges, mint a férfiaknak.Kalandos, érdekes életet élt, lassan meg akart állapodni 41 évesen. De egy nagyon fontos repülés még előtte állt..A sorozat új darabja A2-B1 nyelvi szintű olvasóknak készült, kapható audio cd-vel összecsomagolva is.