Sports and Hobby: Книга для чтения на английском языке.
Основная цель книги - научить понимать прочитанное и с помощью словаря активизировать речевую практику. Каждому тексту дан соответствующий комментарий для снятия лексико - грамматических трудностей, а также система упражнений, направленная на расширение словарного запаса и усвоение новой лексики. Книга предназначена для желающих изучать английский язык независимо от уровня языковой подготовки.
Book is in English
The ultimate aim of this text is to teach the scholars how to comprehend the material which has just been read and to activate speaking competence by means of activating vocabulary usage.
Added by: Fruchtzwerg | Karma: 7915.45 | Kids, Fiction literature | 13 May 2011
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Bella has a very special bear named Arthur, who protects her from monsters. One night, Arthur goes missing. Everyone searches high and low, but he is nowhere to be found. Will Bella ever find him again? A perfect good night, sleep tight book to reassure all children who are afraid of monsters at bedtime.
It wasn’t Archie’s fault really. It’s true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry her–well, what else was there to do? From his point of view, the whole thing was a thoroughly good egg; but Mr. Brewster, his father-in-law, thought differently, Archie had neither money nor occupation, which was distasteful in the eyes of the industrious Mr. Brewster; but the real bar was the fact that he had once adversely criticised one of his hotels.
The action begins with playboy bachelor Jimmy Pitt in New York; having fallen in love on a transatlantic liner, he befriends a small-time burglar and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet. The cast of characters head to England, and from there on it is a typically Wodehousian romantic farce, set at the stately Dreever Castle, overflowing with imposters, detectives, crooks, scheming lovers and conniving aunts.
Successful lawyer Mark Dooher has killed his wife of 20 years in order to marry a beautiful young female colleague. But suspicions of his guilt begin to tear his life apart, as the homicide chief gets closer to the truth.
