It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening. Then the sun goes down, covering the world with a carpet of darkness. From the hedges around the hayfield comes the rich, sweet smell of wild flowers, and the hay will make a fine, soft bed...
"The Trembling of a LeafA collection of short stories on the South Sea Islands, among which are the famous "Red," "Rain," and "The Fall of Edward Barnard," the last of which contains the basic story of what came to be one of the most well-known among W. Somerset Maugham's novels, The Razor's Edge.
The book is a compilation of simple explanations, exercises and work sheets on Tense which have been successfully implemented in classrooms receiving promising results of understanding, learning and practice of tenses among students of various cognitive levels.
Skyjack!: Learn English Through Stories Subtitles- Level 3
The story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. While playing in a gravel pit the five children uncover a rather grumpy, ugly and occasionally malevolent Psammead or sand-fairy, who has the ability to grant wishes. He persuades the children to take one wish each day to be shared among them, with the caveat that the wishes will turn to stone at sunset.....
Five children and It: Learn English through story (subtitle)
The story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. While playing in a gravel pit the five children uncover a rather grumpy, ugly and occasionally malevolent Psammead or sand-fairy, who has the ability to grant wishes. He persuades the children to take one wish each day to be shared among them, with the caveat that the wishes will turn to stone at sunset..
