The Penguin Book of Very Short Stories has been specially written for intermediate students of English. These eleven stories are exciting and intriguing. Set in locations all around the world with plots that cover romance, fantasy and comedy, they are so short that they can easily be read in a single sitting.
Each story is full of useful language, idioms and everyday expressions, and a short section at the back of the book provides glossaries, language practice exercises and discussion questions.
ESCOTT, John : The missing coins (300 words) Penguin Readers Level 0
AUDIO ONLY (of 13-page book ) 300 headwords
Pete and Carla are both students at the University of Bath. One day in summer they are walking round the city and decide to look at some very old coins and stamps in a shop. Pete wants to buy some, but they are too expensive. Later that afternoon the coins are missing from the shop and the shopkeeper wants to find Pete.
Stargate OCRed
(Penguin Readers Level 3) In 1928 archaeologists found a mysterious stone with the inscription: 'A million years into the sky is Ra, Sun God.' Sixty years later in the USA, a young archaeologist, Daniel Jackson, finds a way to open the StarGate. What is on the other side? The teacher's factsheets and answers are added to the end of the file. Mirror added by visan!