The stories are: Death of an Old Man, An African story, A Piece of Cake, Madame Rosette, Katina, Yesterday was Beautiful, They Shall not Grow, Beware of the Dog, Only This, and Someone Like You. These ten stories by the greatest of story tellers were all written in the 40's, and out of the experiences that the man himself had. This is definitely NOT Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory, but rather tales of the unexpected with WW2 aircraft and pilots. Roald was a pilot himself, and here the voice of painful experience comes through.
Listening to the News Voice of America is a three-book series designed to improve listening comprehension skills for academic purposes while providing interesting topics related to culture, news, and current events.
Listening to the News Voice of America is a three-book series designed to improve h comprehension skils for iicademic purposes while providing interesting topics related to culture, news, and current events. The material for level 2 was dorived from VOA Learning English reports, also knows as Special English. These news reports draw on a core of 1,500 words, and give student sample opportunity to improve their listening comprehension.
Listening to the News Voice of America is a three-book series designed to improve listening comprehension skills for academic purposes while providing interesting topics related to culture, news, and current events.
Each of the twenty units contains an authentic news report from Voice of America, a multimedia broadcasting service funded by the US government. These reports highlight a wide variety of regional and global topics, which are grouped into four major themes: “American Life,” “General Interest,” “Science,” and “World Interest.”
