The Omega Files: Short Stories

by Jennifer Bassett

In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. They go all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but they don't always find the answers.

Genres: Fiction

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Jennifer Bassett has been a teacher, teacher trainer, editor, and materials writer, and has taught in England, Greece, Spain, and Portugal. She is the Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library, and has written more than twenty original and retold stories for the series, including The Phantom of the Opera, One-Way Ticket, The President's Murderer, and William Shakespeare. Two of her adaptations, Rabbit-Proof Fence and Love Among the Haystacks, have won Language Learner Literature Awards, and three of her other titles have been finalists for the Awards. She has created a new sub-series called Bookworms World Stories, which are collections of short stories written in English from around the world. She has also written original stories for the English Today Readers and Storylines series. Jennifer is series co-adviser, with H.G. Widdowson, of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, volumes of unadapted short stories for advanced learners.

Reviews

[Jannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Suspenseful, mysterious and with a glimpse of sadness through most of its stories.

[Namiko]

Sometimes I don't like endings that author don't show us what it is but let us think. Sometimes it works very well but these stories didn't.

[Marisol Grade · Rating 4 out of 5]

El libro tiene un lenguaje sencillo, para las personas que recién aprenden inglés y desean ponerlo a prueba.

Review:

⠀The book has three mystery stories, a glossary and an activity section. It all starts with the EDI and the Omega Files.

We have two characters, detectives, who must investigate three situations: The first, a case of drugs in London. The second, the Loch Ness and the third, located in Galapagos, Ecuador. 

I loved the book. 

It's entertaining, simple and I really liked the plot :)



⠀

[Nhi Nguyễn · Rating 3 out of 5]

The three stories in this Oxford Bookworms book are nice ones. As an X-File fan, I love reading about government/big companies' secret projects that badly affect innocent humans' lives, or UFO sightseeing that is never acknowledged. However, these stories are too short and lack the final solution or answer to the mysterious thing happening in each story. So it was a nice read, nothing more.

[Ghadah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really wish it was a long series or a novel. Jude and Hawker entered my heart with just 42 pages , I really want to know more about them . I love it and I recommend it

[Robyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

X-Files for youngsters. Interesting short stories.

[Maha · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn’t really like it ; usually I enjoy reading but not in this book
Only for improving my second language skills

[B · Rating 4 out of 5]

Leí este libro a los 9 años por la escuela, me gustó mucho. Este año decidí releerlo, e igual me pareció muy bueno. Tiene un Inglés muy básico, y para aprender el idioma está muy bueno.

[Antacq · Rating 3 out of 5]

Buen material para practicar el Inglés.
Vocabulario para principiantes.
Interesante la semejanza con The X-Files.

[Omuj📚 · Rating 2 out of 5]

It’s a good book but maybe not for me

[Hiroki Yasui · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Omega Files (Oxford Level. 1)
7/2 90 minutes

project, secret, files, lake, strange, monster, volcano

"One day, someone, or something, is going to visit us from our there. Perhaps that was the first visit, all those years ago in the Galapagos. Who knows?"

Previously, Mr. Morrison recommended this book to us, former peer 4 students. It reminded me suddenly. That's why I read.
When I was elementary school student,I often read such this science fiction story. This is the genre I had liked before, but it is enjoyable for me still now.

[Yuka Sugiura · Rating 3 out of 5]

1. Oxford,level1

2. 4/13=60minutes

3.
Hawker
Jude
EDI
mystery
Omega file
monster
spaceship

4.Hawker and Jude talked about last question.
Although they couldn't find the answer, they don't want to stop searching the answer of Omega file.

5.There are three short story of them, all of question are very dangerous, but they go to dangerous place. I was very excited to read!

[Albandari · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this book. Those stories were really great!
I also enjoyed the activities at the end, they make you think.

[Rachael N · Rating 4 out of 5]

the book is interesting. some of details that i don't really understand.