Isaak Asimov - Science fiction stories.

Небольшие по объему рассказы Айзека Азимова можно использовать для чтения и обсуждения в рамках одного академического часа на уроках в школе и для самостоятельного чтения дома. Тексты рассказов адаптированы в учебных целях до уровня Intermediate и сопровождаются комментарием. К каждому рассказу предлагается ряд заданий для отработки и закрепления навыков владения грамматическим, лексическим материалом, а также развития навыков чтения, говорения и письма. В конце пособия приводится англо-русский словарь.

My Antonia by Willa Cather

This great American novel tells the story of several immigrant families who move to rural Nebraska.The story has many elements but clearly documents the struggles of the hard-working immigrants in the prairies, and does a particularly fine job covering the hardships that women faced in that difficult environment. My Antonia also provides Cather with a platform to make some comments on women's rights while weaving a story where romantic interests are ultimately bandied about by the uncontrolled changes that occur in people's lives.

The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins

Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband's past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to find out why he is concealing his true identity from her. Soon she must endure an even greater shock: the revelation that her husband has been on trial for poisoning his first wife.

Americans at School

What’s the “Pledge of Allegiance”?

Which are the “Ivy League” schools?

What does a cheerleader do?

 

Americans at School gives you the answers to these questions and many more as it finds out what life is really like for students in elementary school, high school, and college in the USA today.

Joyce Carol Oates' "We Were the Mulvaneys" follows the fallout in the lives of the Mulvaney family of upstate New York as the result of one fateful night. February 14, 1976--the Mulvaney's only daughter, Marianne, attends the prom at the local high school and high on her popularity makes a mistake and ends up being raped. Marianne's unwillingness to face her accuser in court ultimately rips the family apart--alienating the three Mulvaney sons, disolving the parent's marriage, all as Marianne struggles to find an identity for herself as the exiled fallen hero of the family.