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Special Price in 2012!

A new Picture Based Beginning Reader. Each human interest story is introduced with comic-strip style pictures to spark student interest and prepare students for reading. Written almost exclusively in the present tense, most stories are about half a page long.

Now with CD! And cheaper! A new addition to the high end of this series of colorful news stories, which build reading, writing, and speaking skills. There are eight thematic units, each based on a real-life human-interest story. Each unit opens with the True Story, followed by a wide range of readings and activities that explore the theme. The reading strategies and vocabulary building activities help to prepare students for gymnasium-level academic work. Lots of actvities for discussion and writing. Themes vary from Computer Geeks to Longevity and the Stock Market.
Level: 9.-10. kl., AVU D/C etc.

Four short stories about World War II and its effect on the lives of children.” Historier om børn i en ekstraordinær situation, hvor de møder frygt, spænding, og voksne som er ude af stand til at klare deres normale roller. Historierne er korte og overskuelige og har en autentisk spænding i sig. God som fællesbog til novellearbejde – også artikel-skrivning og dagbogsskrivning. (80 pages)
Level: 7.-8. klasse

For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for “Metro Eireann”, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories takes a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance in today's Ireland. The stories range from Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner, where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a terrifying ghost story, The Pram, in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge’s older sisters and decides — in a phrase she has learnt — to ‘scare them shitless’. Most of the stories are very funny — in 57 percent Irish Ray Brady tries to devise a test of Irishness by measuring reactions to Robbie Keane’s goal against Germany in the 2002 World Cup, Riverdance and ‘Danny Boy’ — others are deeply moving. And best of all, in the title story itself, Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply! Multicultural to a fault, The Deportees specialise not in soul music this time, but the songs of Woody Guthrie. Author: Roddy Doyle. (242 pages)
Level: For use from 10.kl./beginning of the gymnasium

Special Price in 2012!

A Picture Based Beginning Reader. Each human interest story is introduced with comic-strip style pictures to spark student interest and prepare students for reading. Written almost exclusively in the present tense, most stories are less than half a page long.

There are 16 new or updated human interest stories adapted from newspapers or magazines: Flight 5390; A Killer in the Back Seat; The Plain People (about the Amish); Love under Seige (in Sarajevo) etc. — good short texts that will interest especially adult learners. Good exercises that are graduated, building up from Vocabulary to Discussion and Writing. Challenge pages with authentic reading selections to get students reading on their own. Now there is a To the Teacher section with background information and teaching tips, also an Answer Key.
Level: 8.-9. kl., AVU E etc.

Special Price in 2012!

Third Edition: There are 22 units in each book. Each unit is centered around a human interest story. Then adapted from a newspaper or magazine. Good short texts that will interest the adult learners. Good exercises that are graduated, building up from the Vocabulary to Discussion and Writing.
Level: 8.-9. kl., AVU E etc.