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Stage 6 A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker; but she is uneducated and does not know the cruel ways of the world. So, when a rich young man says he loves her, she is careful - but [...]texte imprimé
Anne Tyler, Auteur ; Jennifer Bassett, Adaptateur | Oxford University Press | Oxford Bookworms | 2007Stage 5 Everyday life in Baltimore, USA, is full of problems - getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbours... After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon's attempts to run his own life be[...]texte imprimé
Stage 4 The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat. No one would expect a missionary's sister and a rough, uneducated mechanic to take a boat like that down a dangerous river through the forests of Central Africa. But Rose S[...]texte imprimé
Stage 5 Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes Countess Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her failed marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can never be accepted in polite society.[...]texte imprimé
Stage 2 Some call it football, some call it soccer, and to others it's 'the beautiful game'. By any name, it's a sport with some fascinating stories. There is murder in Colombia, and a game that lasts for two days where many players never see t[...]texte imprimé
Raymond Chandler, Auteur ; Rosalie Kerr, Adaptateur | Oxford University Press | Oxford Bookworms | 2007Stage 4 General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He's an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesn't like being blackmailed. So he asks private detective Philip Marlowe to get the blackma[...]texte imprimé
Buchi Emecheta, Auteur ; Rosemary Border, Adaptateur | Oxford University Press | Oxford Bookworms | 2008Stage 5 When her father dies, Aku-nna and her young brother have no one to look after them. They are welcomed by their uncle because of Aku-nna's 'bride price'- the money that her future husband will pay for her. In her new, strange home one [...]texte imprimé
Captain Marryat, Auteur ; Rowena Akinyemi, Adaptateur | Oxford University Press | Oxford Bookworms | 2008Stage 2 England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody. The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting [...]texte imprimé
Geoffrey Trease, Auteur ; John Escott, Adaptateur | Oxford University Press | Oxford Bookworms | 2008Stage 3 High up on a stone seat in the great open-air theatre of Athens, Alexis, son of Leon, watches the Festival of Plays - and dreams of seeing his own play on that famous stage. So, as the summer passes, Alexis writes his play for the next[...]texte imprimé
The tragic story of a man who, born with monstrous deformations, must battle throughout his whole life to confirm his status as a man. This story has been based on a real event that took place during ninetheenth century England.texte imprimé
Arthur Conan Doyle, Auteur ; Patrick Nobes, Adaptateur | Oxford University Press | Oxford Bookworms | 2008Stage 4 Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes a[...]texte imprimé
Michael Dibdin, Auteur ; Rosalie Kerr, Adaptateur | Oxford University Press | Oxford Bookworms | 2003Stage 3 (1000 headwords) For fifty years after Dr Watson's death, a packet of papers, written by the doctor himself, lay hidden in a locked box. The papers contained an extraordinary report of the case of Jack the Ripper and the horrible murder[...]texte imprimé
Stage 4 When Nicola arrives in Crete a day early, she gets more than just an extra day of holiday. She comes to a village where no one can be trusted, and she becomes involved in a murder mystery that puts her own life in danger. This story is [...]texte imprimé
Stage 2 Every four years, the world's best athletes come together for one of the most exciting competitions in sport: the Olympic Games. After years of training, competitors in more than forty different sports win and lose their events, and set[...]texte imprimé
Stage 3 (1000 headwords) 'We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!' cried Sapt. 'If we're caught, we'll all be killed!' So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the King is now a prison[...]