One Day Level 2

by Helen Naylor

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. It was just a normal Friday evening in Moreland Road. Jason was listening to his iPod and couldn't hear his mother shouting. Nina wasn't sure how to tell her husband about her news. Maggie smiled as she thought about her holiday romance in Chile. Sam looked worried – money trouble again. Then that evening something happened which changed all of their lives. Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CD including complete text recordings from the book.

48 pages, Paperback

First published June 2, 2008

Reviews

[Nanami · Rating 3 out of 5]

1. Cambridge lv2
2. 4/26 30min ; 4/27 60min
3. normal, Friday, money, problems, trouble, betrayal, confusion
4.a. "He'll lend us the money, so Emma can go to Norway." I didn't like this passage.
b. The reason why Sam told lie. Actually, he can't lend money from Jeremy because he always lend money, and Jeremy said him that you need to think about your job. Get a job with more money. You've got to change, Sam. However, Sam lied to his daughter. I was disappointed.
5. The book has a lot of characters and stories. It was interesting. But sometimes, I little confused. It is including family story, heart break story, money problem and so on.

[Buesra · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bu kitapla beraber İngilizce okumak istediğim kitaplarda da bir üst seviyeye çıkabileceğime karar verdim. Kitabın konusu, isminden de anlaşılabileceği üzere belli bir günde bir sokakta yaşayan çeşitli ailelerin yaşadıkları çeşitli sorunlardan bahsediyor. Bu benim de günlük hayatta düşündüğüm bir şey olduğu için hoşuma gitti ama İngilizce seviyesinin düşüklüğünden bu hoşnutluk uzun süremedi çünkü kitap hemen bitti. Sadeleştirilmemiş, kitabın gerçek halini okumuş olsam belki de gerçekten beğendiğim bir kitap olurdu. (Sonradan baktım ve aslında bu kitap bu seviye için, bu şekilde yazılmış. Sadeleştirilmemiş, gerçek hali yokmuş:))

[Daniela Suarez Rodriguez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Es muy interesante, todo pasa muy rápido, pero es tensiónante esa parte antes del fianal que revela todo, es corto pero super interesante

[Islam · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this is the most beautiful graded novel I've read.

[Kiyu Nishiki · Rating 3 out of 5]

（1）
Book title：One day
Publisher：Cambridge
Book level：2
2： It took me （80）minutes to read

3〔Seven words〕
・nomal
・Friday
・job
・money
・love
・photo
・family

4（about passage. like or don't like）
a…
b...

5 （Explain about book）

[Luca Barabini · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un intreccio di brevi storie adatto in particolar modo per tutti coloro che vogliono migliorare l'inglese e sono ad un livello medio basso. Il libro è molto scorrevole e di facile lettura con un lessico quotidiano che coinvolge storia dopo storia per vedere come si conclude ogni situazione.

[Sayaka · Rating 4 out of 5]

1 Cambridge Level2

2 4/11=15minutes, 4/16=80minutes

3 money, daughter, job, like, brother, study, salary

4 a. Sam works at the newspaper but his salary is low. One day his daughter tells she want to Norway to study. He and his wife want to let her go Norway, but they don't have enough money to do it.

b. I can read 9 stories in this book. They are written about daily happenings, so this book make me think my daily life more.

5 Thanks to my parents, I can go university. I apreciated my parents afresh after reading this book. Money is important to live, but rewarding jobs are also important. I cannot choice which more important is .

[Noriho Motokawa · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. Cambridge English Readers level2
2. 6/25=90
3. normal Friday evening change money love life
4. a)Simon, his father, came to the house sometimes and Jason began,slowly and carefully,to get to know him.
b)Jason's father left house 12 years ago but he came back home suddenly. At first, Jason didn't like him but gradually he trys to get along with his father. I thought the ties that bind parent and child together are strong.
5. This is story about small happenings in ordinary Friday. People are also ordinary. They move on while they are sometimes troubled or depressed. In this story, there were no special happenings, but this story gave me courage. It tells that life is not too bad.

[Haruka Handa · Rating 3 out of 5]

- Cambridge University Press, level 2
-Time: 12/19 = 90 minutes
- 7-word summery: normal - father - lover - job - holiday - worry - money
- Discussion questions:
1. If your father had gone away and come back after 10 years, what will you do?
At first, I'll ask the reason why. If my father hopes that he wants to have a good relation with me, I'll try to get along with him.
2. Have you ever borrowed money from someone?
Yes, I have done it a lot of times from my mother. Because of that, I have fought with her. I think I have to stop that...

[Ippei · Rating 4 out of 5]

1.Cambridge University Press, level 2
2.Time 5/6=80min
3.7 word-summary Dad- mom-job- success- change- think-love
4.Discussion Question
In the future, if you love your work very much and your partner has to change his or her workplace, how will you take an action?
-If I can change my workplace, I will do that. But if impossible, We will have to live in each place.
5. There are good stories to think about families. If you are tired of the family, I recommend you read it and you learn the importance of the family from this book.

[Shizuka · Rating 2 out of 5]

"- Cambridge University Press, level 2
-Time: 6/12 60min 6/14 30min
- 7-word summery:money, problem, love, job, change, family
- Discussion questions: Do you think you change or quit your favorite job if you really need money?
→If I love the job I don't want to change it. However, in this story, he decided to change his job for his wife and child. I'd like to be flexible like him.
- this story was complicated because many people have serious problem at the same time. I will try to read the book you lent me! Same title but different publisher. Maybe I can understand more, then.

[Chiaki Kinpara · Rating 3 out of 5]

1.Cambridge level2
2.5/2 15min,5/3 15min,5/6 40min 5/7 20min, 5/8 20min, 5/13 60min
3.money, photo, bird, job, love, happening, letter
4a,Jason's father left his house twelve years ago.
4b,He met up his father again but then, he had not good feeling because of another bad thing. So I thouht he is unlucky boy and don't like this scene.
5,Bad things happened in four families. It's serious for each families. But there were so many characters, so sometimes I was confused and difficult to understand.

[Mio Takasaki · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. CAMBRIDGE&2
2. 05/02=30minutes; 05/05=70minutes
3. photo, Newcastle, Chile, poor, call, job, money
4. a. This story was written about something happened which changed all of people's lives. Some people become good lives. In the other hand, some people become bad lives.
b. I liked the passage that Sam tried to get money keeping Emma in the secret because I moved his effort and love for her.
5. I could not understand Jason's mind. Jason was strange all of means. Actually, I enjoyed reading this story. This is a book, but I felt I could read some stories.

[Akira Hasegawa · Rating 4 out of 5]

It took 2 hours to read this book.

7 words summary
night-parents-future-job-problems-change-life

I thought we should contact with someone using not writing but saying.
So, have you ever regretted to contact with someone using writing?
- I have never done it.

Comment
I think this book is so good book to read for me. It is so interesting and I could read easily. There are people who have several problems in this story. I really respect this author. I really like this book.

[文弥 坂本 · Rating 3 out of 5]

1.Cambridge level2
2.5/10 40min 5/13 40min
3. 1, job 2,money 3,post 4,letter 5,Moreland Road 6,photo 7,surprise
4."I don't know how much longer we can go on like this".
I like this phrase, this phrase was kind of what I was looking for.
5. I think this book is a little bit hard to understand, because there are many people and names. However, the story was interesting and how the story ends was very impressive!

[Mana Ando · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. Cambridge level 2

2. 5/31=30min, 6/1=10min, 6/2=15min, 6/3=30min

3.job, money, love , letter, family, problem, fire

4 a. ゛When I was on holiday with my family in France at New Year I met a man and...゛゛and I think I love him.゛

b.I felt a flush of anger of this phrase. The thing that a person isn't convinced is not love!! If she loves him, she shouldn't use the word--'think'.


5. I could enjoy reading this book because there were some stories about money, love, family and so on.

[Sena Honda · Rating 5 out of 5]

1 Cambridge level2 1/15 100min
2 normal Friday, news, job, money, photo,love, life
3 I like the scines that characters talk in this book.
This is story about ordinary lifes. There are many people in life. It is not only usualy, but also important.
3 There are many characters in this book. It is difficult for me to understand who is taking now. When i read this book, i have to thank for my parents to live ordinary life.

[Chenda Hak · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's really so sad at the end when a small fire started in a van of the mail depot in bath.and two big bags of the letters were lost by fire. In those bags were four important letters for some people in Moreland Road . If all those people got the letter, they wouldn't wait for a long time to hear a good news, and they would decide it better than this

[Ryoji · Rating 2 out of 5]

CAMBRIDGE
level2
90minutes

summary
work,money,love,compricated,letter,chance

If you need much money, what will you do?
A: I will work harder. I never rent money from someone.

Thought
This story is really compricated. There are many characterwho have serious problem.
At the end of, the letter was fired. someone couldn't get letter. And that made their fame changed. It is so sad thing.

[Shizuka Yamauchi · Rating 3 out of 5]

1.Helen Naylor, CAMBRIDGE, Level2
2.80min
3.future, job, holiday, money, problem, angry, fire
4.Do you have any serious problem?-No, I don't. I'm always doing okay.
5.The small fire happened which changed all of their lives. I think that we should tell some important things by word of mouth, not letter.

[Daiki · Rating 3 out of 5]

-It took 90 minutes.
-Word summery- Friday, evening, lifestyle, change, worry, father, lover
-Have you experienced anythinh change about your daily life?
- After I read this book, I reminded change about my daily life.
I met friends from junior high school unexpectedly. I thought our life happends things accidently.

[Akari Suzuki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Publisher: CAMBRIDGE
Time: 10/30 60min 10/31 30min 11/1 30min
7-word summary: Boy-Love-Girl-Flirt-Shock-Escape-Fire

Q&A
Have you ever been shocked to do something?
Yes, last year, I lost one of my treasure. I was very sad.

This book had some short stories so I could understand easily, but all of the stories were a little sad so I want to read something fun next week.

[Keiko Kawashima · Rating 2 out of 5]

1. Cambridge English Readers

2. 4/19 = One day ; 60 minutes , 4/20 = Logan's Choice ; 20 minutes

3. Moreland Road, normal Friday, call, van, important letters, fire, lost

4. On normal Friday, bad things happened to 4 families. They sent important letters but it was lost by fire in the van Jason rode.

[Ploy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think this book is not fun to me because this book has a lot of story and i cann't remember all of story so i cann't remember the name people too i confused about story but in the end of book has a little bit excited for me.
In the end of this book is the letters have gone because fire on van and have important letters in side.But this book is happy ending.

[Haruka Fujimoto]

1. Level 2 Cambridge
2. 11/14 20min. 11/15 20min 11/17 25min. 11/18 15min.
3. Jason-girlfriend-Maggie-contact-David-Sam-letter
4a. The mail carrier car was burned which there were important letters.
4b. These letters about important persons in the story.
5. I didn't understand clearly this story, because there are too many relationships in the story. I think it is little boring.

[Yumi · Rating 3 out of 5]

1.Cambridge, One Day, Level2
2.99minutes
3.Friday night, Jason, Nina, Maggie, Sam, mail, change a life
4.Have you had an experience to change your life suddenly like this book?-No, I haven't.
5.I wondered who caused a fire.

[Rolande · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think that it is a very good book for a beginner Foreign student. I am reading it with a 14 years old Swiss student to help her with her school work in English.

[Miss-lilly]

Cambridge for English Readers .. A2 .. velice primitivní :D .. sem tam si přečtu kapitolku když se mi nechce začítat do napínavých nebo zdlouhavých knih.. :)

[Ilker Uslu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thet was ok

[Yasuko · Rating 3 out of 5]

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