Barack Obama

by Coleen Degnan-Veness

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32 pages, Paperback

Published February 24, 2011

About the author

Coleen Degnan-Veness has been writing English Language Teaching materials including grammar books, readers for adults and children in both British and American English, and English language assessment tests for Macmillan course books for the past fifteen years. She writes online activities for her readers published by Pearson Education, which can be downloaded from the Penguin Readers and Penguin Kids websites. Her latest publications include "Our Changing Planet" published in 2013 by Pearson Education, and "The United States of America" published in 2013 by Macmillan Readers, co-authored with Chantal Veness.

Reviews

[Soh Takeuchi · Rating 4 out of 5]

toall 120 min

7words summary
Black,discipline,lowyer,poor,president,dream,race

Discussion Question
Q. How much do you know about Barack Obama?
A. Not so much, thanks to this book,I'm really interested in him.
Plus he is the most important person in the world. soI want to get more information through many kind of media and books

Q What was your dreams in childhood?
A well..not president, I wanted to run a restaurante.

I choose this book because he is a timely person.
and I really enjoyed reaging this book.
so I wanna read more something related him

[Daichi Yokoyama · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book and took 68 minutes in total.

Seven words -president African family study Kenya candidate brand-new -

Q Are you interested in politic? Do you know his policy?
A Yes, I am interested in it, but I do not know it in detail. So, I did not know his policy.

I enojyed the story of this book.　Needless to mention, this is true story. Everyone should know him

[خلود · Rating 2 out of 5]

I learned some thing about Obama' s life
But I think it this book is too limited
to learn more I have to read big book!