3.2 Dancing with Strangers

Dancing with Strangers (study guide) Retold by Clare West
Oxford Bookworms Stage 3

"Sometimes I think this search is hopeless. So much has happened since I last saw my friends. Perhaps they have died or the rebels have taken them away. But I know I have to find Laker. I know she needs me.'

In a country torn by war, it is easy to stop hoping. All Atita has is an old photograph. She does not even know if she will recognize Laker after all these years . . ."
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E.3 The Leopard and the Lighthouse

Level: Easy Starts

Description
Sindi is an island in East Africa. One day a hungry leopard swims across from the mainland and hides in the lighthouse. How will the people catch the leopard?

Pearson ELT: http://www.longmanjapan.com/search/onlinecatalog.html?id=607

E.2 Hannah and the Hurricane

Level: Easy Starts

Description
Original / British English
"Hannah loves her job on old Mr Duval’s small boat. The boat takes people to the beautiful coral reef every day. Then a rich man arrives with a big new boat. Suddenly, there isn’t any work for Hannah and Mr Duval. Then the hurricane comes ..."

2.5 The Last Leaf and other Stories

Level: Level 2 Beginner

Description
Five stories with unexpected endings. They are about criminals and their crimes, detectives and their investigations, and lovers and their hopes. The Good Burglar/ The Last Leaf/ A Lesson in Love/ The Jeweller’s Wife/ The Car is Waiting

Macmillan Readers: http://www.mlh.co.jp/catalog/product.php?i=356

4.2 Teacher Man

Level 4
Description
"Frank McCourt was a teacher in New York for thirty years. Read the true story of one man's surprising, upsetting, but sometimes funny experiences in the classroom."

Pearson ELT: http://www.longmanjapan.com/search/onlinecatalog.html?id=691

2.4 Stranger than Fiction

Penguin: Level 2

Description
"A man fell from a very tall building. Why didn't he die? Why did a dead woman have a frozen chicken under her hat? What fell out of an old man's ear, and why did everybody laugh? And how did a cow fly? Find the answers in these strange stories."

Pearson ELT: http://www.longmanjapan.com/search/onlinecatalog.html?id=1081

3.3 A Christmas Carol

Oxford Bookworms Stage 3
"Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget."
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