Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles Stage 3: Formula One

It's an exciting life - full of fast cars, money, and travel. The names of Formula One champions are known all over the world. And everywhere young drivers dream of success one day in Monaco, Melbo…

Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles Stage 3: Future Energy

Right now, all over the world, people are using energy. As we drive our cars, work on our computers, or even cook food on a wood fire, we probably do not stop to think about where the energy comes …

Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles Stage 3: The Human Body

You're fast asleep, and nothing is happening. Or is it? In fact, your body is hard at work. Your lungs are taking oxygen from the air, and your heart is pumping blood round your body. Millions of p…

Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles Stage 3: Martin Luther King

The United States in the 1950s and 60s was a troubled place. Black people were angry, because they did not have the same rights as whites. It was a time of angry words, of marches, of protests, a t…

Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles Stage 3: Space

Is there anyone who has not looked at the dark sky, and the shining points of light above us, and asked themselves questions about what is out there? Where did our planet come from? When did the un…

Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles Stage 3: Recycling

What will we do when there is nowhere to put our rubbish? Every day, all over the world, people drop cans, boxes, paper, and bottles into bins and never think about them again. And the rubbish moun…

Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles Stage 3: Dinosaurs

Imagine an animal with teeth as big as bananas - and a brain as big as an orange. Or a flying animal with wings as wide as a small plane. Think about a tail that could knock a man's head off, or a …

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3: The Prisoner of Zenda

We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!' cried Sapt. 'If we're caught, we'll all be killed!' So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3: A Christmas Carol

Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Ev…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3: The Crown of Violet

High up on a stone seat in the great open-air theatre of Athens, Alexis, son of Leon, watches the Festival of Plays - and dreams of seeing his own play on that famous stage. So, as the summer passe…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3: The Card

Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin …

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3: On the Edge

When Tug wakes up, he is not in his own bedroom at home. The door is locked and there are bars across the window. Loud music hammers through the house and through his head. Then a woman comes in an…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3: Ethan Frome

Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours, but his farm makes little money. His wife, Zeena, is a thin, grey woma…

English for Academic Communication

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ISBN/ISSN

983-3219-30-6

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19 x 26.5 cm. vi, 150p.

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Call Number

428 AZI e

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3: Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new 'man'. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - eve…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3: Tooth and Claw Short Stories

Conradin is ten years old. He lives alone with his aunt. He has two big secrets. The first is that he hates his aunt. The second is that he keeps a small, wild animal in the garden shed. The animal…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3: Wyatt's Hurricane

Hurricane Mabel is far out in the Atlantic Ocean and moving slowly northwards. Perhaps it will never come near land at all. But if it hits the island of San Fernandez, many thousands of people will…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3: The Railway Children

We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.' And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phy…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3: As the Inspector Said and Other Stories

The murder plan seems so neat, so clever. How can it possibly fail? And when Sonia's stupid, boring little husband is dead, she will be free to marry her handsome lover. But perhaps the boring litt…

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3: The Brontë Story

On a day in 1821, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a wife and mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to …