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Headwords: 1,000Word count: 9,614- Read at a comfortable level with word count and CEFR level on every cover- Illustrations, photos, and diagrams support comprehension- Activities build language skills and check understanding- Glossaries teach difficult vocabularyIt is hard to imagine the modern world without information technology. At home, at work, and at play, mobile phones, emails, and computers have become part of daily life. The story of information technology is a story of machines - from the ancientabacus to the small powerful computer chips of today.

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 Bennet. And so Elizabeth rejectsthe proud Mr Darcy. Can nothing overcome her prejudice against him? And what of the other Bennet girls - their fortunes, and misfortunes, in the business of getting husbands? This famous novel by Jane Austen is full of wise and humorous observation ofthe people and manners of her times.

The United States in the 1950s and 60s was a troubled place. Black people were angry, because they did not have the same rights as whites. It was a time of angry words, of marches, of protests, a time of bombs and killings.But above the angry noise came the voice of one man - a man of peace. 'I have a dream,' said Martin Luther King, and it was a dream of blacks and whites living together in peace and freedom. This is the story of anextraordinary man, who changed American history in his short life.

In Edinburgh a detective listens to a confession

V. I. Warshawski, private investigator, Chicago, USA. People imagine private detectives to be tiredlooking men in raincoats, but Vic is female. She's tough, beautiful, carries a gun - and goes on asking questions until she gets answers. When her cousinBoom Boom dies in an accident, Vic is naturally upset. She wants to know how and why the accident happened, and she isn't satisfied by the answers she gets. So she goes on asking questions ... and more people start to die.

Imagine an animal with teeth as big as bananas - and a brain as big as an orange. Or a flying animal with wings as wide ad a small plane. Think about a tail that could knock a man's head off, or a mouth with hundreds of teeth. It is any surprise thatpeople are intrested in dinosaurs?

A non-fiction book, ideal for elementary learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen at thesame time as reading.Come with us to London - a city as old as the Romans, and as new as the twenty-first century. There are places to go - from Oxford Street to Westminster Abbey, from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to Wimbledon Tennis Club. And things todo - ride on the London Eye, visit the markets, go to the theatre, run in the London Marathon.Big, beautiful, noisy, exciting - that's London.

On a quiet sea, the biggest ship in the world is waiting. There is no noise from the engines. Up in the night sky there are hundereds of stars. Behind the ship, and iceburg, a great mountain of ice - goes slowly away into the black night.

It's an exciting life - full of fast cars, money, and travel. The names of Formula One champions are known all over the world. And everywhere young drivers dream of success one day in Monaco, Melbourne, Monza ...But it is a difficult life too. Drivers need strong bodies - and minds. They

Oxford Bookworms sorozat - könnyített olvasmányWhen 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 geath, his samuraibecame 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 remeber them ti this day. The story of the forty-seven ronin has been told and retold for 300 years - in plays, novels, and films. A major Hollywoodfilm was made about the forty-seven ronn in 2013.

Mindenki fényképeket készített Vilmos hercegről. mikor belépett a St Andrews egyetem kapuján. Tömegek érkeztek a skót kisvárosba, hogy láthassák a nevezetes új diákot, a Királynő 19 éves unokáját. Kate Middleton első napját azonban senki nem akartamegörökíteni az egyetemen. Csendesen beköltözött, és készen állt tanulmányai megkezdésére. Csak egy átlagos diák volt, átlagos jövővel. Vagy mégsem?Vilmos herceg egyike a világ leghíresebb fiatalembereinek. Régi patinás családból származik, édesanyja a gyönyörű Diana hercegnő, édesapja pedig Károly herceg, a trónörökös, Anglia eljövendő uralkodója.Vilmos is király lesz egyszer. Ha valaki pedig egyszer király lesz, a világ szeme állandóan rajta van.Az élete minden területére kíváncsiak az emberek, a barátaira, az iskoláira, és persze mindenek előtt a barátnőjére. Ki a barátnője Vilmosnak? -kérdezgetik az újságokjra és újra. Mi a neve? Királyi csalódból való, vagy netalán külföldi?És végül megkapta a világ a választ: 2011. április 29-én a herceg és Cambridge hercegnője egybekeltek: William és Kate700 kulcsszavas, A1-A2 nyelvtudás szintnek megfeleltetett könnyített olvasmány

CEFR B1Word count 10,098Headwords 1,000What will we do when there is nowhere to put our rubbish? Every day, all over the world, people drop cans, boxes, paper, and bottles into bins and never think about them again. And the rubbishmountains get bigger and bigger. But there is another way - away that makes old paper into houses, broken bottles into jewellery, and old cans into bridges. Anyone can recycle - it's easy, it saves money, and it's a way to say, 'I care about the Earth.' Saving the world starts with you - here - now.

Sherlock Holes was trying to solve a murder.But now he has a terrible illness, and he is not his normal self. Can his friend Watson help him?Can the strange Mr. Culverton Smith help him?Or will Sherlock Holmes die?

There are broken hearts and kisses and then weddings, so this is a story about love. There are actors who are funny because they cannot act, so it is also a story that makes people laugh. And there are fairies, spirits of the night, so it is a storyabout mischief and magic too. What happens when love and laughter come together with magic in an Athenian forest?A Midsummer Night's Dream was writtten in about 1596 and is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It has been retold for Bookworms. not as a play, but as a story.