A Close Shave. Libro + Cd 2010

Butler, Dominic

Dirigido a estudiantes de nivel A1 del MCER.20 lecturas sobre la vida cotidiana para leer en 5 minutos y 20 mapas mentales para aprender vocabulario. Estructura del libro. Cada libro consta de 20 lecturas cortas de 4 páginas. Las palabras difíciles o interesantes (marcadas en negro o rojo) se traducen sobre el texto para facilitar la lectura sin necesidad de diccionario. Ofrec...

Hannam, Joyce

In the Indian jungle, a boy lives like a young wolf.Mowgli grows up with his wolf brothers, but there are many other animals here, friends like Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. But Shere Kahn the tiger is a man-killer, so there are big dangers too...Enjoy the classic Rudyard Kipling stories as an exciting comic.Word count: 2717 ...

Conan Doyle , Sir Arthur

Text adaptation by Jeremy PageVisitors come to ask Sherlock Holmes for his help. He sends Dr Watson to Dartmoor to begin the investigation. It is a dark and lonely place where Sir Charles Baskerville died - was it murder? The clues are worrying. An enormous wild dog killed Sir Charles's ancestor there many years earlier. Suddenly people hear terrible howls again!Word count 8714...

Bagley, Desmond

On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her? and throws acid into her face. Then her father, the scientist George Ashton, disappears. And her sister, Penny, discovers that her husband-to-be, Malcolm, is a government agent. Why has As...

Rollason, Jane

The Doctor and Clara have to save a Viking village from space warriors from the future, the Mire. But without the fighters or technology of the Mire, how can they win? ...

Bowler, Bill

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 to the story at the same time as reading.It's Gromit the dog's birthday, and his friend Wallace gives him an unusual present - a pair of Techno-torusers...

Bowler, Bill

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 to the story at the same time as reading.It's Gromit the dog's birthday, and his friend Wallace gives him an unusual present - a pair of Techno-torusers...

Bowler, Bill

How green is our planet?This new and updated book includes everything from Greta Thunberg's climate change protests to Greenpeace protests to stop nuclear tests; disappearing rainforests and dangers in the oceans, to plastic waste and becoming carbon neutral. Can we all help our planet before it's too late?Word count 7734 ...

Bowler, Bill

Ideal for new 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 to the story at the same time as reading.'It's my garden,' says the Giant, 'People must understand. Nobody can play here - only me!'So the children leave, and ...

Bowler, Bill

'I see Troy in flames years from now - because Paris brings disaster to us,' Queen Hecuba says about her son. Paris's father, King Priam, wants to kills him. But Paris lives, and later loves Helen - King Menelaus's queen - from Greece. When Paris brings Helen to Troy, war begins between the Trojans and Greeks. What happens when Paris's brother Hector and the Greek fighter Achil...

Bowler, Bill

'What's your job?' Yukio asks. 'I'm a sorcerer,' the old man smiles, 'and I need a young apprentice.' One day, Yukio - a young boy from old Japan - leaves his sister in the country and looks for a job in the town. He finds interesting work there, as a sorcerer's apprentice. But why must Yukio wait to learn magic? And what happens after he puts a spell on a broom when the sorcer...

Bowler, Bill

King Shahriyar cannot trust women. Every afternoon he marries a wife, but the next morning he always kills her. One day, the Vizier cannot find any more wives for the King. What can he do? 'Ican be Shahriyar's new wife!' says Sheherazade, his older daughter. 'God willing I can stay alive, and help the women of our country.' But how can Sheherezade stay alive for a thousand and ...