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Henry J Heinz, the man who invented tomato ketchup
William Lever who made millions from soap
Michael Marks, founder of the Marks and Spencer stores
Henry Ford, who mass-produced cars and made them affordable
Coco Chanel, the businesswoman who changed fashion for women
Ray Kroc, the man who created the McDonald’s chain of restaurants

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 18,209
Headword count: 1,624

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This book is Level 2 in the Collins E

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Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for all
Charlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane Eyre
Mark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
Jacques Prévert, the writer known in France as ‘the People’s Poet’
Ayn Rand, whose writing expressed her own philosophical ideas
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who wrote about life in a Soviet Labour Camp

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 18,787
Headword count: 1,631

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Contents:
Alessandro Volta, inventor of the battery
Michael Faraday, inventor of the electric motor
Marie Curie, famous for her work on radioactivity
Albert Einstein, creator of the Theory of Relativity
Alexander Fleming, discoverer of the first antibiotic
Linus Pauling, chemist and peace activist

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 15,287
Headword count: 1,631

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This book is Level 2 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 2 is equivalent to

Contents:
Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello-player
Louis Armstrong, the American trumpet-player and singer
Frank Sinatra, the Italian-American singer and actor
Édith Piaf, France's famous singing star
Maria Callas, the Greek opera singer
Elvis Presley, the man who changed pop music

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 14,723
Headword count: 1,121

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This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 3 is equivalent to CEF level B1.

Contents:
Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize
Andrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor people
John D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all away
Thomas Barnardo who created homes for poor children
Henry Wellcome who used his money for medical research
Madam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American community

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 13,950
Headword count: 1179

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This book is Level

Twelve Years a Slave is the extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York State who, in 1841, was kidnapped and sold into slavery. This simplified version condenses Northup’s memoirs for students of English and is interspersed with stills from the 2013 Oscar award winning film.

60 minutes running time

Humpty Dumpty
Sing A Song Of Sixpence
Hickory Dickory Dock
Incy Wincy Spider
The Wheels On The Bus
Jack And Jill Mary
Mary Quite Contrary
Tommy Thumb
Wee Willie Winkie
Cobbler Cobbler Mend My Shoe
Goosey Goosey Gander
Hey Diddle Diddle
Mary Had A Little Lamb
Aiken Drum
Baa Black Sheep
Diddle Diddle Dumpling
Hot Cross Buns
Little Bo Peep
Have You Seen The Muffin Man?
Teddy Bear Teddy Bear
Little Boy Blue
Ride A Cock Horse
Little Miss Muffet
Pat A Cake
Big Ted Little Ted
Pop Goes The Weasel
See Saw Margery Daw
Miss Polly Had A Dolly
Three Blind Mice
Pussy Cat Pussy Cat
Polly Put

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Marco Polo who taught the world about China
Ibn Battuta who travelled to 44 countries
Christopher Columbus who discovered new worlds
James Cook, first to sail around the world in both directions
David Livingstone who explored Africa
Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 14,679
Headword count: 1,163

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This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 3 is equivalent to CEF lev

Contents:
Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the first great works of English Literature
William Shakespeare, writer of the greatest plays in history
Charles Dickens who wanted to make England a better place
Victor Hugo, the French writer who cared about the poor
Leo Tolstoy, the man who wrote War and Peace
Rudyard Kipling who wrote The Jungle Book and won a Nobel Prize

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 12,886
Headword count: 1,039

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This book is Le

Contents:
Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sun
René Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said ‘I think, therefore I am’
Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity works
Carl Friedrich Gauss, ‘the Prince of Mathematicians’
Charles Babbage who invented computers
Ada Lovelace who wrote the first computer program

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 8,351
Headword count: 790

Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
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This book is Level 2 in the Collins ELT R

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 the ballet Swan Lake
Irving Berlin who wrote There’s No Business Like Show Business

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 8,344
Headword count: 723

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This book is Level 2 in the Collins ELT Readers series.<br

Contents:
Edward Jenner, the man who fought the terrible disease, smallpox
Florence Nightingale, the nurse known as ‘the lady with the lamp’
Elizabeth Garrett, England’s first female doctor
Carl Jung, the doctor who wanted to understand the human mind
Jonas Salk who defeated the dangerous illness, polio
Christiaan Barnard, the first man to replace a human heart

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 10,006
Headword count: 883

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This book is