Publisher Description

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 FeaturesStunning 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 HeadwordsWordcount 5,735Available on Audio CDA woman and a man . . . words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her . . . It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time - today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern England, has something different about it. Perhaps it is only a dream, or perhaps it is magic - a kind of strange dark magic that begins in the world of dreams and phantoms . . .

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Author Biography

Thomas Hardy (1840 1928), enduring author of the twentieth century, wrote the classics Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and many other works.

Promotional

Perhaps it is only a dream, or perhaps it is magic - a kind of strange dark magic that begins in the world of dreams and phantoms...

Prizes

Winner of FINALIST: The Language Learner Literature Award 2005.

Long Description

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


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Classics

400 Headwords

Wordcount 5,735

Available on Audio CD


A woman and a man . . . words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her . . . It's an old story. Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time - today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern England, has something different about it. Perhaps it is only a dream, or perhaps it is magic - a kind of strange dark magic that begins in the world of dreams and phantoms . . .

Feature

Word count 5,735
Extensive Reading Foundation Language Learner Literature Award Finalist
Read at a comfortable level with word count and CEFR level on every cover
Illustrations, photos, and diagrams support comprehension
Activities build language skills and check understanding
Glossaries teach difficult vocabulary
Free editable tests for every book
Selected Bookworms are available for your tablet or computer through the Oxford Learner's Bookshelf

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