Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 2:: Changing their Skies: Stories from Africa

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension.Before, during, and after readingactivities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension.Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

Jennifer Bassett is Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, for which she has written original stories One-Way Ticket and The President's Murderer.

Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers - now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed seven-stage system of grading, from Starter to Stage 6, remains the same, helping you to find the right level for all your students. The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure.

Key Features

Stunning NEW covers, to get students interested from the start.

NEW World Stories - collections of short stories written in English from around the world - Africa, Australia, South Asia and more...

UPDATED Factfiles, with NEW text and colour photos, and a new look.

UPDATED Tests, including a NEW Multiple-choice Test for every book.

NEW Teacher's Handbook for each Stage, with answers to the activities in all the books.

UPDATED Activity Worksheets with a story summary & worksheets at Stages 1-4.

MORE books available with Audio for students to listen to the complete text.

Illustrations (including new ones in selected stories) to support the book and help introduce new vocabulary.

About the Author information, Glossary and Activities section at the back of every book.

FREE answer keys, tests, story summaries, and photocopiable activities from

Description

World Stories

700 Headwords

Wordcount 6,987

Available on Audio CD

'Then a letter came for Aloo from a famous college in America. They offered him a place . . . a place with a scholarship. Aloo could not believe it at first. He read the letter again and again.' Aloo is very happy, but soon he finds that it is not so easy. He will need money to live on, money for his plane ticket . . . And then there is Mother . . . The stories in this volume of World Stories come from Malawi, South Africa, and Tanzania by African writers Steve Chimombo, Farida Karodia, and M. G. Vassanji.

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