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OBWL 3E Level 4: A Time of Waiting: Stories From Around The World
When did you last meet a polar bear, or go to a magician for help? These stories offer many different experiences. Some are strange, some are scary, some are sad, some are blackly funny. A few are shocking - when Lin Lin returns home for a funeral, she learns a dark and terrible family secret which may destroy her. Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories are from Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, and Trinidad.
96 pages, Paperback
First published August 31, 2012
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About the author
Clare West
150 books55 followersClare West has over twenty years' TEFL classroom experience in the UK and overseas, and has led workshops for teachers in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Greece, and Argentina. For most of her teaching career she was involved with long-stay students on Cambridge examination courses, and engaged in the development of strategies to improve students' reading and writing skills.
She is now a freelance author, with a special interest in the literary and cultural aspects of language learning. Current writing projects include contributing to the Oxford Bookworms Library and Dominoes series, writing supplementary materials such as grammar workbooks, as well as being the Series Editor for the Oxford Bookworms Playscripts series.
She is now a freelance author, with a special interest in the literary and cultural aspects of language learning. Current writing projects include contributing to the Oxford Bookworms Library and Dominoes series, writing supplementary materials such as grammar workbooks, as well as being the Series Editor for the Oxford Bookworms Playscripts series.
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March 9, 2023
A book from Oxford Bookworms about stories for all over the globe. There stories from Australia, India, Malaysia, China, etc. They are suppose to teach a lesson, but that wasn't the case.
Maybe I was wrong about the intention all along. The book advertise teaching English and it is good at that. It is really structured to benefit pupils of English.
But as a collection of stories, they are too bland, fragmented, and desolate. They are more like scenes ripped out of a somewhat good stories, and presented with no context or background or details.
Why was I suppose to read around five pages about a person who is collecting his items and leaving his girlfriend behind!
That's it. That's the entire story. That's a scene as I said.
If you're into stories: Terrible Book
If you're into English learning: Good Book
Maybe I was wrong about the intention all along. The book advertise teaching English and it is good at that. It is really structured to benefit pupils of English.
But as a collection of stories, they are too bland, fragmented, and desolate. They are more like scenes ripped out of a somewhat good stories, and presented with no context or background or details.
Why was I suppose to read around five pages about a person who is collecting his items and leaving his girlfriend behind!
That's it. That's the entire story. That's a scene as I said.
If you're into stories: Terrible Book
If you're into English learning: Good Book
Displaying 1 of 1 review