Читаем вместе.Красавица и чудовище.Beauty and the Beast
Эта книга входит в серию иллюстрированных учебных пособий "Читаем вместе", адресованных детям младшего школьного возраста. Адаптация текста, упражнения, предисловие и словарь А.Г.Карачковой.
Seriously silly stories: Billy Beast. The Rather Small TurnipThis collection of seriously silly stories puts a new - and very, very funny - spin on some tales that we all know and love. With easy-to-read text and black and white illustrations that make the stories even more entertaining, Seriously Silly Stories, by the award-winning author Laurence Anholt, provide the ideal introduction to the pleasure of books for young readers.
Kyle Kingsbury, rich, handsome and popular, plays a mean practical joke on an outcast girl in his class, who is really a witch named Kendra in disguise. The witch then curses him for his cruelty. He starts to turn into a beast; however, because he performed a small act of kindness shortly before his transformation when he gave an unwanted rose corsage to a girl working a ticket booth, she gives him two years to break the spell, or remain a beast forever.
Beauty, I love you. Do you love me? Will you marry me” What should she say? She was afraid of him…And so she said, No, Beast. You are kind but I don’t love you. And I don’t want to marry you. At this the Beast let out a roar of anger and pain. “Why don’t you love me? Am I so ugly?! He shouted at the terrified Beauty and left the room…
Added by: Leshkunets | Karma: 262.76 | Black Hole | 13 February 2012
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Beauty and the Beast (mp3)
Retold by Jenny Dooley Graded Readers Level 1.
Beauty and the Beast is part ELT Graded Readers, which includes myths, legends, science fiction, mystery, action, ghost and classic stories retold in language easily understood by learners of English as a foreign language
