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Short Stories in English for Intermediate Learners has been written specifically for students from a low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1-B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you, and give you a feeling of progress when listening.

Like its predecessor, Vocabulary Energizers II builds vocabulary by presenting the fascinating histories behind those words we need for more effective communication and comprehension. Focusing on a core of 100 words and their back ground stories, the author links these words with hundreds of synonyms and antonyms.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

В данном издании собраны лучшие юмористические рассказы, которые превратят изучение английского языка в увлекательное занятие. Тексты произведений адаптированы и снабжены параллельным переводом на русский язык. Для проверки понимания прочитанного в книге даны упражнения с ответами и англо-русский словарь.

Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of 18! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe . . . or if you are a child from the wrong social class . . . or a singer without work and the rent to be paid. Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stories by Katherine Mansfield dig deep beneath the appearances of life to show us the causes of human happiness and despair.

New York City wurde vom Coronavirus schwer getroffen, aber Big Apple kämpft dagegen an. In dieser Ausgabe 3/2021 von Spotlight Audio hören Sie von New Yorkern etwas über ihr Leben und wie sich vieles in der Stadt, die niemals schläft, verändert hat. Ebenfalls in dieser Ausgabe: In der dreiteiligen Kurzgeschichte gibt es in einem englischen Landhaus ein Geheimnis zu lösen. Agile Project Management wird in der modernen Arbeitswelt immer beliebter. In English at Work lernen Sie das Vokabular, auf das es ankommt. Englisch lernen mit "Spotlight Audio".

Adapted from the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle.... Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening – and he knows what question the stranger will ask.

In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street – visitors who bring their troubles to the only man in the world who can help them.

Descubra el placer de desenvolverse en inglés alrededor del diminuto pueblo de Italia que llegó a dominar todo el Mediterráneo y más allá. Conocerá a los reyes, senadores, generales y traidores que terminaron por romanizarnos a todos.

Cuentos alrededor del Mundo (Stories around the World): Proyecto Marruecos es el tercer audiolibro destinado a aprender inglés mientras conoces otras culturas y costumbres de diferentes países del mundo. Contiene una colección de cuentos bilingües interculturales, que te acompañarán en tus inicios con el idioma para familiarizarte con otros acentos, culturas y tradiciones.

Cuentos alrededor del Mundo (Stories around the World): Proyecto España es el segundo audiolibro destinado a aprender inglés mientras conoces otras culturas y costumbres de diferentes países del mundo. Contiene una colección de cuentos bilingües interculturales, que te acompañarán en tus inicios con el idioma para familiarizarte con otros acentos, culturas y tradiciones.

Cuentos alrededor del Mundo (Stories Around the World): Mali es un libro destinado a aprender inglés mientras conoces otras culturas y costumbres de diferentes países del mundo. Contiene una colección de cuentos bilingües interculturales, que te acompañarán en tus inicios con el idioma para familiarizarte con otros acentos, culturas y tradiciones.

In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers.Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things.

Practica el listening del inglés con estos microrelatos. Una forma de ideal de mejorar la comprensión auditiva.

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress – ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love.O. Henry’s famous short stories – sensitive, funny, sympathetic – give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers.

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher Socrates, the great Greek philosopher Aristotle, the first to organize scientific knowledge William Wilberforce who ended the British slave trade Karl Marx who wrote The Communist Manifesto...

The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery.Except Auguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people.

Many consider "The Canterville Ghost" the most famous ghost story of all time. It is a parody featuring a dramatic spirit named Sir Simon and an American ambassador named Mr. Hiram B. Otis. Mr. Otis travels to England with his family and moves into a haunted castle. Lord Canterville, the previous owner of the castle, warns Mr. Otis that the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville has haunted the castle ever since he killed his wife, Eleonore, centuries ago.

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents: Johann Sebastian Bach who wrote the Brandenburg Concertos Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the child genius Giuseppe Verdi who wrote the operas Aida and La Traviata Johann Strauss, ‘The Waltz King’ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky who wrote...