English learner's library: Fairy-Tales and Stories
The textbook, designed to develop reading skills in English, includes prose works by the famous English writer O. Wilde (1854-1900): fairy tales "The Remarkable Rocket", "The Young King" and "The Star-Child", as well as the story "The Model Millionaire" and "The Sphinx without a Secret" with some abbreviations of the original texts. To reinforce the impression of antiquity in the tales "The Young King" and "Star-Child", the author uses a number of outdated and poetic forms of pronouns and verbs, which are explained in the glossary. The texts of the manual are accompanied by page-by-page commentary, exercises to control reading comprehension and a dictionary.
Ghosts International Troll and Other Stories - Bookworms 2
In Sweden, nobody wants a troll to come into their garden, but how do you stop them? On a lonely road at night in Oman, Abdul's car breaks down and he takes a ride with a stranger, but perhaps it is safer to walk. In England some young people play a scary game, and in Asia, a soldier returns home - at last.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - Penguin Young Readers - Level 3
Ali Baba overhears the secret password to the cave where the thieves hide their treasure. He takes some gold coins from the cave but the thieves want them back
Pinocchio plays pranks upon the kindly woodcarver Geppetto, is duped by the Fox and the Cat, kills the pedantic Talking Cricket, and narrowly escapes death, with the help of the blue-haired Fairy. A wooden puppet without strings, Pinocchio is a tragicomic figure, a poor, illiterate, naughty peasant boy who has few choices in life but usually chooses to shirk his responsibilities and get into trouble.
