Dominoes is a full-colour, interactive readers series that offers students a fun reading experience while building their language skills. With integrated activities, and exciting, fully dramatized audio for every story, the new edition of the series makes reading motivating for students while making it easy for you to develop their reading and language skills. Listen along with downloadable MP3 Audio.
Speaking is one the most challenging of the four skills for lower-level learners of English and this brand-new collection of activities is designed to both support and motivate students. Packed with useful functional language, this resource is an ideal accompaniment to any Elementary or Pre-Intermediate coursebook. CEF LEVEL A1 - A2
'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 sorcerer is away
When Wallace the inventor meets Wendolene in her wool shop, he falls in love with her at once. But why does her dog, Preston, hate Wallace's dog, Gromit? Then, after Wallace's new sheep-shaving and pullover-making machine falls into the wrong hands, things start to go very wrong. Can Gromit save Wallace from the danger of a 'close shave'?
What does a poor young woman do when she loses her boyfriend or wants to find one? What little lies do we tell to make ourselves look better in the eyes of those that we love? How can a friend save someone who is sure that they are going to die? What happens when someone's clever plans all go wrong? These sweetly surprising short stories - about both good times and bad - are sometimes sad, and sometimes funny. But all of them are sure to make you think--Cover p. [4]
Die elfjährige Pollyanna ist im Haus ihrer Tante zunächst nicht sehr willkommen. Doch das Waisenkind hat eine Glücksformel: Sie findet in allem etwas, über das man froh sein kann. Das Mädchen erobert die Herzen der Menschen und entdeckt das Geheimnis ihrer vergrämten Tante. Da wird die so überschäumend fröhliche Pollyanna vom Schicksal auf eine harte Probe gestellt. – Amerikanische Kinder lieben seit vielen Generationen dieses Buch, das aus jeder Zeile Lebenslust und Zuversicht verströmt.
Die erste von Oscar Wilde selbst besorgte Märchensammlung (1888) enthält neben der berühmten Titelgeschichte die kaum weniger populären Erzählungen 'Die Nachtigall und die Rose', 'Der eigensüchtige Riese', 'Der treue Freund', 'Die bedeutsame Rakete' sowie Gedichte in Prosa.
One of the worlds most successful primary courses, the Happy Series is a six- level course thats perfectly in step with your students development.
