The UK has a lot of festivals every year. There are religious festivals like Christmas and Easter, and festivals of the UKs many ethnic communities. Read about fun festivals like Pancake Day, April Fools Day and the trick or treat custom at Halloween. There are music festivals, Saints days and Guy Fawkes Night, commemorating an important event in English history. Then, New Year celebrations before starting all over again!
August Pullman has been home-schooled all his life. Now he is starting fifth grade at a New York City middle school. He doesn't want to draw attention to himself, but that isn't easy when he looks li
Who are the young boy and girl that appear in Miss Dodson's house and what are they looking for? Why do the boys at Harry's boarding school think he's crazy and why does a mysterious priest come to visit him? Who is the girl who haunts Sarah's new house and want to take control of her? Find the answers to these questions in this ghostly collection
Oxford University Press España, S.A. 9780198326762
Improve your English, and reading, skills with unabridged contemporary literature. The year is 1943. Bruno's family must move from their home to a new house far away. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. Bruno sets out to explore this desolate new place.
Oxford University Press España, S.A. 9780194620918
Ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve or 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. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money.But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.
Fourteen-year-old Edward Morton loves making online videos and playing video games. One day, he plays an exciting new game, called 'Angel's Game'. It starts as a kind of treasure hunt, but then things turn dangerous. Eddie makes a new video, warning others not to play the game and then, he disappears. Where is he? What happened to him? And who is the mysterious 'Angel'? His classmates are determined to find out. But can they find Eddie before they, too, fall into danger?
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.
