Story 013 | Learn English Through Story | BRISTOL MURDER .
This is an audio-cassette version of one of the Intermediate Level stories in a series of ELT readers comprising a wide range of titles - some original and some simplified - from modern and classic novels, and designed to appeal to all age-groups, tastes and cultures. The books are divided into five levels: Starter Level, with about 300 basic words; Beginner Level (600 basic words); Elementary Level (1100); Intermediate Level (1600); and Upper Level (2200).
Story 012 | Learn English Through Story | APOLLO’S GOLD.
Liz is too tired as she lives a very busy life. She is studying and teaching; she is writing a book and learning Greek. But she has only 4-5 hours to sleep. In addition her husband left her for his young student. Liz had to leave London and her job. She still hasn’t got over this, she is depressed and angry with her husband’s betrayal. The doctor prescribed her to have a nice rest. So Liz moves to Greece and starts working for the archaeological university. Her new boss Stavros is really a nice man. Stavros is a specialist in the field of the ancient pots. He understands her and sends Liz to the island Sifnos, where he has his own house. The house is in a small fishing village. There Liz can rest in a company of Stavros’ friends. Sifnos has a very exciting legend about Apollo’s gold. But is it really a legend?
Story 012 | Learn English Through Story | APOLLO’S GOLD.
Liz is too tired as she lives a very busy life. She is studying and teaching; she is writing a book and learning Greek. But she has only 4-5 hours to sleep. In addition her husband left her for his young student. Liz had to leave London and her job. She still hasn’t got over this, she is depressed and angry with her husband’s betrayal. The doctor prescribed her to have a nice rest. So Liz moves to Greece and starts working for the archaeological university. Her new boss Stavros is really a nice man. Stavros is a specialist in the field of the ancient pots. He understands her and sends Liz to the island Sifnos, where he has his own house. The house is in a small fishing village. There Liz can rest in a company of Stavros’ friends. Sifnos has a very exciting legend about Apollo’s gold. But is it really a legend?
Story 011| Learn English Through Story | ANNE OF GREEN GABLES.
Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town.
Since its publication, Anne of Green Gables has sold more than 50 million copies and has been translated into 20 languages. Montgomery wrote numerous sequels, and since her death, another sequel has been published, as well as an authorized prequel. The original book is taught to students around the world.[4]
The book has been adapted as films, made-for-television movies, and animated and live-action television series. Musicals and plays have also been created, with productions annually in Canada since 1964 of the first musical production, which has toured in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Story 009 | Learn English Through Story | All I Want By Margaret Johnson.
Alex is a very amusing girl. She always gets into funny situations. For instance, she can put on different shoes and she often makes a fool of herself. Alex has a peculiar family that gave her an unforgettable childhood. She also has nice friends Susan, Diana and Kerry. They have very clear ideas about what they want from life. Alex wants not too much. She has made a wish list consisting from seven items. They are: travelling around the world, writing a bestseller, giving up smoking and so on. Now she is thirty and nothing has been done from her wish list. She doesn’t have a permanent work. She only gets temporary jobs from the labor registry office. But one job helped Alex to meet her new boss Brad. He turned her life upside down. Her wish list has changed since that meeting. Now every item is connected with Brad. He became her greatest desire.
Story 009 | Learn English Through Story | All I Want By Margaret Johnson.
Alex is a very amusing girl. She always gets into funny situations. For instance, she can put on different shoes and she often makes a fool of herself. Alex has a peculiar family that gave her an unforgettable childhood. She also has nice friends Susan, Diana and Kerry. They have very clear ideas about what they want from life. Alex wants not too much. She has made a wish list consisting from seven items. They are: travelling around the world, writing a bestseller, giving up smoking and so on. Now she is thirty and nothing has been done from her wish list. She doesn’t have a permanent work. She only gets temporary jobs from the labor registry office. But one job helped Alex to meet her new boss Brad. He turned her life upside down. Her wish list has changed since that meeting. Now every item is connected with Brad. He became her greatest desire.
Story 008 | Learn English Through Story | ALADDIN Ruth Hobart.
It is one of the most popular Arabian fairytales, which is a part of the collection ‘The tales of the Arabian nights’. An evil magician desired to own a magic lamp. The lamp was in the cave in China. Unfortunately the magician couldn’t get it on his own. And only one special boy could help him. One day the magician met this boy at the market in China. The boy’s name was Aladdin. Aladdin was very poor and sold bread. The wizard suggested him an agreement. According to it, he would buy all Aladdin’s bread and the boy himself would go with him to some magic place, where the magic cave was… Aladdin’s mission was to go downstairs into the cave and find this magic lamp in the magic garden. But when Aladdin went down and found the lamp, he couldn’t come back. A big stone closed the passage.
Story 007 | Learn English Through Story | A TASTE OF MURDER.
Private Nursing Agency sent a nurse Anne Harrison to a house of a famous writer Kitty Blakemore. Nobody seriously considered that she is ill, the woman had a reputation like hypochondriac. The nurse Anne notices after arriving at the house, that people surrounded Mrs Blackmore don’t like her at all, because woman has a terrible temper. Mrs Blackmore doesn’t have strong feelings for them either. Only person, who she loves from all her heart is her nephew, he is a local vicar. The Reverend John Palmer visits his aunt very often and always brings her a chocolate. Mrs Blakemore is sure, that somebody is poisoning her and tells about it to her new nurse. But nobody believes her and in vain. One morning they finds her dead.
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003 | Learn English Through Story | A Princess of Mars.
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Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice
Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series. It was first serialized in the pulp
magazine All-Story Magazine from February–July, 1912. Full of swordplay and
daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp
fiction. It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance, a subgenre of
science fantasy that became highly popular in the decades following its
publication. Its early chapters also contain elements of the Western. The story
is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment.
This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell,
whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The
Barsoom series inspired a number of well-known 20th-century science fiction
writers, including Jack Vance, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A.
Heinlein, and John Norman. The series was also inspirational for many
scientists in the fields of space exploration and the search for
extraterrestrial life, including Carl Sagan, who read A Princess of Mars when
he was a child.
