As you may already know, on 25 November 2010 Englishtips.org is turning FIVE years old.
Well in advance, today we're launching our traditional Birthday contest with prizes :) - we invite you to participate and win something nice. And yes - all our prizes come with Englishtips logo on them! Sweet, isn't it?!
Bernie Bridges’ wants to be named “Most Popular Rotten Egg” in the yearbook-but first he has to prove just how popular he is. Bernie has a brilliant plan-he’ll tell everyone that it’s his birthday. He is going to throw himself the biggest birthday party in the history of Rotten School just to show how popular he is!
But wait--something is very wrong. Nobody at school cares about Bernie’s birthday. How could that be?
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.44 | Fiction literature | 5 October 2010
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Ice
When Cassie was a little girl, her grandmother told her a fairy tale about her mother, who made a deal with the Polar Bear King and was swept away to the ends of the earth. Now that Cassie is older, she knows the story was a nice way of saying her mother had died. Cassie lives with her father at an Arctic research station, is determined to become a scientist, and has no time for make-believe.
Then, on her eighteenth birthday, Cassie comes face-to-face with a polar bear who speaks to her. He tells her that her mother is alive, imprisoned at the ends of the earth.
Added by: Alexandrov | Karma: 18.46 | Fiction literature | 1 September 2010
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Yet another fairy tale retelling, this one a modernized take on Sleeping Beauty. Talia is a spoiled and bored princess who since she was old enough to understand what people said to her, has been told that she must avoid spindles, because of a spell placed on her during her christening. Talia doesn’t actually know what a spindle is, as all such things have been banned from the country, but on her sixteenth birthday, as she is wandering through the palace trying on dresses to find the perfect one for her birthday ball, and she finds an old lady who lets her play with her spinning device ...
Peppa Pig - George's Birthday - Sticker Story. История с наклейками. Есть с вклеиными наклейками. История про день рождения Джорджа, братика Пэппы. Для чтения взрослыми детям.
