martes, 26 de octubre de 2010

Lecturas del curso 2010/11. Inglés

1º E.S.O.

Changing Places
Author: Alan Hines
Series: Dominoes
Level: Starter Headwords: 250
SBN-13:9780194247085
Hal works at the zoo every day and his life isn't exciting - until he meets Tim.
Tim is a movie star. He has a difficult life, and he is unhappy - until he meets Hal. But when they meet, and agree to change places, interesting things start to happen. And, by changing places, the two men learn what is truly important in their lives.

Happy Prince

Author: Oscar Wilde
Series: Dominoes
Level: Starter
Headwords: 250
ISBN-13: 9780194247122
The Happy Prince is a beautiful golden statue high up on a column in the city. Everyone loves him. He Feels sad about the city's poor people, but what can he do? He can't leave his column. Then the swallow arrives, and helps the Happy Prince to do many good things. But what about the swallow's dream of flying to Egypt? And what does the Mayor do when the Happy Prince loses all his gold?

2º E.S.O.
The Curse of the Mummy
Author: Joyce Hannam
Series: Dominoes
Level: Level 1
Headwords: 400
SBN-13:9780194247603
 
For thousand of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his diary.
But soon people begin to die. Who or what is the killer? Is Tutankhamun angry with them for opening his tomb? And who is the beautiful French girl with the face of Tutankhamun's long-dead wife?

Tales of Arabian Nights

Genre: Classic Fiction
Level: Easy
Words: 400-600 Headwords

Let Sheherazade, a gifted storyteller, take you on a journey to distant lands in this delightful collection of tales. Meet Mansur, a rich merchant who does to Cairo to seek his fortune. What does he find? Read about the two clever thieves who steal Balshazar's donkey. How do they trick him? Learn how a poor fisherman finds a bottle in his fishing net and becomes rich. What's inside the bottle?

3º E.S.O.

True Heroes of Sport
Author: Donatella Fitzgerald
Series: Dominoes
Level: Level 1
Headwords: 400
ISBN-13: 9780194247702
Some people in the world of sport are heroes only because they are the best at their sport. But the sportsmen and sportswomen in this book - Oscar Pistorius, Michael Phelps, Wilma Rudolph and Natalie du Toit - are all that and much more. All of them went through bad times and learned to be stronger people through sport. Because it isn't living through good times, but living through bad times that makes you into a true hero!


Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories
Author: Oscar Wilde
Series: Dominoes
Level: Level 2
Headwords: 700
ISBN-13: 9780194248853

The three stories in this book are about ordinary people, people like you and me; but they find themselves in surprising situations. Lord Arthur Savile, a rich man with no enemies, finds out that he must do something terrible before he can marry. Poor young Hughie Erskine gives money to an old beggar - but the beggar is not what he seems. And Lord Murchison falls in love with a mystery woman - but what is the strange secret behind the door in Cumnor Street?

4º E.S.O.


Turn of the Screw
Author: Henry James
Series: Dominoes
Level: Level 2
Headwords: 700
ISBN-13: 9780194248891

A young woman arrives at a large country house. Her job is to look after the two children who live there, but she soon discovers that there is something very strange about both the house and the children. The longer she stays, the more she feels that the two children are in danger - or is it that the children are the danger, and the person in danger is herself?

Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Series: Macmillan
Level: B1
ISBN: 978-0-230-72317-7

This world famous story written by Bram Stoker in 1897 has made the name Dracula synonymous with vampires. Many writers both in his times and later have tried to produce works similar to his, but his story is inimitable and

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