The Omega Files Short Stories - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
The Omega Files Short Stories - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Jennifer Bassett

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194631893

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files – the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. They go all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but they don’t always find the answers . . .

The Omega Files
The Omega Files

Author: Jennifer Bassett

Publisher: Oxford

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780194229609

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there aresome very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, andsometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them.You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about theOmega Files, because they work for EDI.They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. Theygo all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but theydon't always find the answers

Under the Moon - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Under the Moon - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Rowena Akinyemi

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194632210

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Rowena Akinyemi. It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die . . . In a colony under the moon, people wait for news – news from home, news from the planet Earth. And in a spaceship high above Earth, a young man watches numbers on a computer screen. The numbers tell a story, and the young man is afraid. The planet Earth is burning, burning, burning . . .

Mary Queen of Scots - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Mary Queen of Scots - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Tim Vicary

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194631834

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens – Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to be a queen. Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At sixteen, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful, with red-gold hair. Many men loved her and died for her. But she also had many enemies – men who said: ‘The death of Mary is the life of Elizabeth.’

The Elephant Man - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
The Elephant Man - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Tim Vicary

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-22

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194631583

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'. Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film.

Les Miserables - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Les Miserables - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Jennifer Bassett

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 0194630889

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. France, 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 loosely based on the famous novel Les Miserables 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 television and cinema.

A Little Princess - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
A Little Princess - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194631753

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to English when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school. But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world . . .

47 Ronin: A Samurai Story from Japan - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
47 Ronin: A Samurai Story from Japan - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Jennifer Bassett

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 0194630838

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. 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 their long plan for revenge on Lord Kira. Their loyalty to their dead master made them famous, and people in Japan remember them to this day. The story of the forty-seven ronin has been told and retold for 300 years - in plays, novels, and films. A major Hollywood film was made about the forty-seven ronin in 2013.

One-way Ticket
One-way Ticket

Author: Jennifer Bassett

Publisher: Oxford University

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9780194229500

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Reading level: 1 [green].