Pre-intermediate

Farm work isn’t Joe’s idea of holiday fun. He wanted to spend the summer surfing. But when he finds himself in the middle of a disagreement about GM (genetically-modified) crop trials, life becomes more interesting. He also meets two very different girls. But what do they really want from him?

Farm work isn’t Joe’s idea of holiday fun. He wanted to spend the summer surfing. But when he finds himself in the middle of a disagreement about GM (genetically-modified) crop trials, life becomes more interesting. He also meets two very different girls. But what do they really want from him?

Emil is travelling alone to his grandmother’s house in the city. He is carrying money toher from his mother. Then a man on the train steals the money. Emil follows the thief and an exciting adventure begins, with lots of detectives, a lift boy, and a fight in a bank!

Emil is travelling alone to his grandmother’s house in the city. He is carrying money toher from his mother. Then a man on the train steals the money. Emil follows the thief and an exciting adventure begins, with lots of detectives, a lift boy, and a fight in a bank!

David Copperfield’s happy life suddenly changes when his mother marries again. Her new husband is cruel to him and sends him away to school. When David’s mother dies, he is sent to work in London. He hates his job so he runs away. He has no money for food or for travelling. But it is the beginning of his life of adventure.

A mysterious stranger has come to the island where Costas lives. Why is the man there, and why is he looking at Eagle’s Rock? Costas wants to be the first person to climb the dangerous rock. But will the stranger climb it first?

For a number of years, William plays a game with a ghost before he goes to sleep. The ghost is a poltergeist that William calls ‘Poldy’. At the beginning William and Poldy play a friendly game every night, but then the game begins to change. It becomes a dangerous game. Who will win?

‘We’ll give a free dinner to the person who tells the best story. Now, put up your hands if you agree.’ The pilgrims all held up their hands. A group of pilgrims are travelling together for five days from London to Canterbury. On the way, each pilgrim has to tell a story to keep the others amused. Some stories are happy, and some are sad. But they all have a message, and we can learn from them.

Are you brave enough to read four of Poe’s famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don’t read this book late at night!

The room was on the fourth floor, and the doors was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows wre closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery. Except Auguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people. The answers to the mystery were all there, but only a clever man could see them. Crime Mystery

What does the name Agatha Christie mean? To many people , it means a book about a murder mystery - a whodunnit. I´m reading an Agatha Christie, people say. I´m not sure who the murderer is - I think it´s ... But they are usually wrong , because it is not easy to guess the murderer´s name before the end of the book. But was Agatha Christie? What was she like? Was her life quiet and unexciting, or was it full of interest and adventure? Was there a mystery in her life, too? True Stories