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How to Get a Gorilla Out of Your Bathtub
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How to Get a Gorilla Out of Your Bathtub

In this essential instruction manual for dealing with an all too common and terribly troublesome childhood dilemma, kids will learn just how tricky it can be to get a gorilla out of the bathtub.

 

First of all, they have to do it carefully enough not to leave gorilla tracks all over the house that would certainly give their moms a big scare! They can’t just tie a rope around the gorilla’s neck and tug it reminds gorillas of getting tangled up in a bowl of spaghetti! You would think laying a trail of bananas would do the trick but that’s because people don’t realize that gorillas like being in the tub more than they like bananas. Who knew!?!

 
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The 800-Pound Gorilla of Sales: How to Dominate Your Market
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The 800-Pound Gorilla of Sales: How to Dominate Your MarketThe 800-Pound Gorilla of Sales: How to Dominate Your Market

Smart insight and best practices for achieving sales excellence in any market
The proverbial 800-pound gorilla is the monster in the room that you just can’t ignore, though maybe you want to. In sales, the 800-pound gorilla is that salesperson or company who totally dominates their market, taking more than their fair share of business, and winning time after time. How can you compete with that? More importantly, how can you be that?


 
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Mary Pope Osborne - Good Morning, Gorillas
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Mary Pope Osborne - Good Morning, GorillasBook 26 in the Magic Tree House series (2002)
A novel by Mary Pope Osborne
The Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie off to the mountains of Africa. There they run into a huge mountain gorilla! At first they don't  know whether they should shake hands or turn tail. But the ominous-looking creature turns out to be surprisingly gentle. Not only that, the gorilla may be able to help them learn their next bit of magic, which Morgan has challenged them to do.
 
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and SpiritThe narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man  in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local  newspaper from a teacher looking for serious  pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned  office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling  delicately on a slender branch. "You are the  teacher?" he asks incredulously. "I am  the teacher," the gorilla replies. Ishmael is a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story  to tell, one that no other human being ever heard.
 
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Very Easy True Stories: A Picture-Based First Reader
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Very Easy True Stories: A Picture-Based First ReaderТрёхлетний мальчик случайно падает в клетку с гориллой и его спасает мама. Мама-горилла!
Официантка в кафе вместо чаевых получает выигрышный лотерейный билет - на 6 миллионов долларов!

Четырнадцать исключительно интересных, смешных, весёлых, трогательных историй, написанных простым языком и сопровождаемых понятными иллюстрациями, тщательно отоборанных из журналов и газет и максимально адаптированных для начинающих - всё в настоящем времени. Все истории - правдивы!
Предтекстовые стимулирующие интерес вопросы и задания, собственно истории, где практически к каждому предложению дана картинка, задания на закрепление, на понимание, на спеллинг, на письмо, на обсуждение прочитанного... Рекомендую в качестве первой книги для чтения на английском для тех, кто учил язык "мало, но давно" :)
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A three-year-old boy falls 18 feet into a gorilla cage and is saved by a mother - a mother gorilla, that is!A waitress finds a lottery ticket for a tip, instead of cash. And she wins six million dollars! Fourteen very low-level stories of high-level interest?humorous, poignant, astounding?and all true! Selected from newspapers and magazines, and adapted for the beginning student, the stories are told as simply as possible - exclusively in the present tense. First, students see a series of captioned pictures so the meaning is clear. Then, students read the story in text form for real reading practice. Finally, students do exercises following each story to develop very basic reading skills as well as build pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary proficiency. VERY EASY TRUE STORIES is an ideal first text for students with little or no experience with EnglishThe universal appeal of these real-life, human-interest stories engages beginning ESL students with humor, poignancy, or astonishment, and helps them to become fluent readers
 
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