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Könnyített olvasmány könyv + MP3 letölthető hanganyagOxford Bookworms Library: Level 1: Hachiko - Japan's Most Faithful Dog

Oxford Bookworms Library Level 2: Hamlet Playscript audio packNewWilliam Shakespeare Retold by Alistair McCallumFormat: Mixed media formatListen along with downloadable MP3 audio.CEFR A2/B1Word count 5,945This famous play by William Shakespeare is one of the finest in the English language. Why does Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, look so sad? Why does he often say strange things? His family and friends are worried about him. Perhaps he is mad! ButHamlet thinks that he has discovered a terrible secret about a recent crime in his family. Now he has no time for Ophelia, the sweet girl who loves him, or his friends, who were at school with him. He sits alone, and thinks, and plans. What will hedecide to do? Will he ever be happy again?

Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life thansimply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she hopes she has found both at once. But the sound of strange laughter, late at night, behind a locked door, warns her that her troubles are only beginning.

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

Kiss: Love Stories from North America book+MP3 packLove stories with a difference... There's a kiss by a fireside that was a mistake, there's a man-hating auntby the seaside, and a gunman in Texas wanting a fight. There's a white heron flying over a forest, and a messenger running between two benches in a park. And of course, there's a girl who meets a boy... These love stories are by US writers Kate Chopin,Stephen Crane, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, and Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery (author of the famous Anne of Green Gables).CEFR B1Word count 12,732

Oxford Bookworms Library Level 4: Land of my Childhood: Stories from South Asia book+mp3 packRetold by Clare WestCEFR B1/B2Word count 16,937My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or makethe bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories.' But those childhood days are long gone, and sister and brother, mother and children are now far apart. The stories in this volume of World Stories come from India, Pakistan, and SriLanka. The writers are Romesh Gunesekera, M. Athar Tahir, Chitra Divakaruni, Anu Kumar, Anne Ranasinghe, Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Vijita Fernando, and Amara Bavani Dev.

Oxford Bookworms Library Level 1: Les Misérables book+MP3 packCEFR A1/A2Word count 7,302France, 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 looselybased on the famous novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, one of France's greatest writers. The novel was written in 1862, and the story has been retold many times - in a musical, in plays for radio and theatre, and in more than fifty films for televisionand cinema.

Angol könnyített olvasmányOxford Bookworms Library Level 5: Little Dorrit könyv + MP3CEFR B2Word count 25,189Arthur Clennam is back in England after many years abroad. He finds his mother as cold and hard as ever, but his father's recent death has thrown up a mystery, and he is determined to get to the bottom of it. Could it have anything to do with LittleDorrit, the quiet, kind girl who sews for his mother and goes back at night to her home in the Marshalsea Prison? As Arthur gets to know the Dorrit family, he is too busy looking for the truth about his mother's secret to notice that he has perhaps foundthe answer to his own happiness...

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.Listen along with downloadable MP3 audio.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, andAmy. They miss their father, of course, who is away at the Civil War, but they try hard to be good so that he will be proud of his 'little women' when he comes home. This heart-warming story of family life has been popular for more than a hundred years.

Listen along with downloadable MP3 audio.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 arewaiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die. But one person can't wait. And so, on her fiftieth birthday, Molly Clarkson is going to die.CEFR A1/A2Word count 6,010