The Phantom Of The Opera

by Stephen Colbourn (Adapter), Gaston Leroux (Creator), Francisco Meléndez (Illustrator)

A gothic romance set in the twilight world of Paris in the 1870s.

Genres: Classics

72 pages, Paperback

First published September 23, 1909

Reviews

[Kj]

A product of its time. Macabre in parts, fanciful in others-- the phantom is perhaps the perfect allegory of our current loss of connection. His darkness stems the shunned nature of others, his deformity, becomes his monstrous nature. And yet we pity him. The nature of the plot, excellent. Atmosphere, awesome. The actual dialogue and serial nature of a magical horror....eh. 3 stars.

[Hanna Boven]

Yeah... I'm really stupid for not realizing (again) that this was a Learner's Version of the book... That being said, I could speed through it.

[Mia Reads Books]

Es un clásico de la literatura. Lo leí en media hora porque es nivel Beginner y soy muy fan del musical pero igual fue interesante conocer un poco sobre el libro original. Pero al ser para ese nivel repite un montón de cosas y las oraciones son demasiado cortas.

[Marti]

Me gustó el libro, pero no lle doy 5 estrellas porque se supone que es un libro de horror y no me dio nada de miedo 😂😂

[Celes]

It's a good book if you are starting reading in English.

[Eden]

Wouldn't have read this otherwise so I'm thankful this exists!

I have to say Raoul sounds a bit unhinged
It left mw with an empty feeling. What is that? Help!

[Danny]

"The man had a voice , but he had no body !"

[Ryoichi]

-about an hour and 10 minutes(10/6)

-7 word summary:
opera-voice-mysterious-ghost-accident-confusion-love


-Discussion Questions:
1.Do you know the difference between opera and musical?
Answer:
I don't know and I have no idea, so I looked over some Web pages.
Basically opera use classical music and musical use jazz one.
Moreover opera singers sing without microphones.Musical singers use it.
But, musical singers have to sing and also dance.
Both of them needs high level techniques.
It's hard for them to act, I think.

2.In this book, finally the phantom gave up loving the heroine because she and the hero loved deeply each other.
Then have you ever given up anything special? What? And why?
Or have you ever been permitted to do any matters? Who did?
Answer:
When I was third grade student in high school,
I told my parents my will I wanted to go NUFS.
However they opposed it and asked me to go universities in my hometown.
But I passionately told them features of NUFS
for example, Bston programs and PUT and more.
As a result, they admitted me to go NUFS, I was very glad.


-Note-
The story is in 1880. in northern France
The heroine is Christine, the hero is Raoul,
an impotant actor is Erik(= the Phantom of the Opera).
Erick loved her voice and created this disturbance.

MACMILLAN books have CDs, it's good to review the contents.

[Takuya Kitaura]

-MACMILLION READERS.level 2
-Time 9/21 =55minutes 9/22 =10minites
-7-word summary Opera-people-disappear-man-who-wears-mask
-Discussion questions.
1.Have you ever encountered accidents?
No.I have't. But my friend encountered a car accident. That was terrible.
2.In this story,there are traps use fire and water. Which can you endure hot days or cold days?
I can endure hot days. But I hate cold days.

I like this book. This story was so thrilling!
I kept my eyes on this book from begining to end.

[Takaya]

Macmillan readers
June 3 70minutes
mask, talent, hide, lover, jealousy, choice, forever
Discussion Questions
1what is the most important for you?
A My friends and my family is the most important for me.
2 If you had a talent for opera.But your face is strange or scarely. Dou you play on the opera?
A Yes I do. Because even if I had a talent, it means opera is suitable for me even if I had strange and scarely face.

I didn"t know this story first time. I have heard this title, but I had never read book. Actually this story is sad story. But I think this story is interesting. There is a movie of this story, so I want to watch it.

[Daiki Yamaguchi]

MACMILLAN READERS Gaston Leroux Lv.2

1.Brittany 2.girl 3.opera 4.voice 5.mask 6.phantom 7.die 90min.


Q1:Have you ever watched operas?

A:Yes, I have. When I was a junior high school student, I watched it with my friends.

Q2:If you were Christine, could you love Eric whose face was the face of dead man?

A:In my case, I couldn't love him because I think I couldn't see his face so much time.

[Ryoji]

by stephen Colbourm
80minute
act/opera/voice/love/confusion/scary/mysterious

Q. Have you ever seen Phantom of the Opera on movie or musical?
A. No, I haven't. I really know this title but I don't have knowledge about it.

This story is finally phantom stopped to love her because she loves other guy. I'm sorry for him. this is very interesting so I wanna rent DVD.

[Natália Spencer]

Escolhi este livro para trabalhar com meus alunos, na edição Macmillan readers, nível beginner. Bom, como já era de se esperar o livro foi bem resumido e simplificado, assim como a linguagem.
Mas me interessei bastante pela história e quero ler a versão normal, sem edições.