Wild Country

by Margaret Johnson, Philip Prowse (Editor)

Tess and Grant are tour leaders for a group walking holiday in France. And they don't get on at all. Tess is an artist and a dreamer, whose father owns the tour company. Grant is experienced, knowledgeable and efficient and enjoys making Tess appear foolish. As the rain pours down, things go from bad to worse until...

[Cambridge English Readers Level 3 Lower Intermediate

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.

2 Audio Cassettes with complete text recordings from the book.]

64 pages, Audio Cassette

First published December 17, 2007

About the author

Margaret K Johnson was born in Hertfordshire, England. She writes women's fiction and readers for people learning to speak English.

Margaret's novel The Goddess Workshop is a roller-coaster comedy about a mismatched group of women with a common aim - becoming confident, sensual beings. Her second women's fiction novel, The Dare Club is about a group of people who meet on a Divorced and Separated course. They decide to challenge each other to do daring things as part of their discovery process. But is saying how you really feel the most daring thing of all?

Margaret's readers for people learning to speak English are published by Cambridge English Readers, Cambridge Discovery Readers and Cengage Learning. They are in lots of different genres including Fantasy, Romance, Human Interest, Thriller, Fact Book and Adapted Short Stories.

As well as fiction, Margaret has written plays and screen plays. Her comedy GODDESS was performed at Cambridge Drama Centre to rave reviews.

Margaret has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.

You can find out more at www.margaretkjohnson.co.uk

Or follow her blog at www.margaretkajohnson.wordpress.com

Reviews

[Janete on hiatus due health issues · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very good book for learning English, because it's easy and the audio's narration is clear and slow.

[Tania · Rating 3 out of 5]

Está bien para practicar reading y ganar vocabulario 😀

[Yona Racheva · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book, it was very nice written and interesting.
Tess and Grant are tour leaders for a group walking holiday in France. But they don't get on well - at least at the start. They are forced to work together for 10 days. And it this time they get to know each other, very well.
And i really like the end.
It was a very nice story.

[Masato Kato · Rating 3 out of 5]

1: Cambridge Level 3

2: 7/5=120 minutes

3: Wild Country, tour leader, holiday, mountain, heavy rain, picture, artist

4: a) Grant said Tess "But the reason I don't want to be your friend," he went on "is because... I like you. And I want you to be my girlfriend."

b) First, Tess didn't like Grant. He looks very handsome but he was not good person. He always tried to find fault with her. In this story, he always did it. Tess and Grant were tour leader in Wild Country. Tess is careless person so she did a lot of mistake in this trip. But Grant didn't help her so much. He was always laughing. I didn't like him very much because I thought he was not good person. But he helped Tess end of the story. Moreover, he wanted her to be his girl friend! I thought he had been loved her since they met at first but he couldn't be obedient. So he could only find fault with her. Then I changed the view of Grant.

5: This story is fun for me. Tess and Grant faced many troubles in this trip. We can know how hard this trip was if we read this story. In this trip plan, they climb mountain and stay there with tents. This trip lasts for ten days. So some participants complained. I think this plan should change. It's too hard to participate in. But this story is fun for me.

[Miyu Kojima · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. Cambridge, level 3
2. 10/2=30 mins. 10/6=50 mins. 10/7=60 mins.
3. Tess, Grant, tour, leader, group, happening, love
4. a: "You were the one who told me I should be an artist. That's what I'm going to do."
b: Tess could not choose that way, to be an artist, because she did not have confidence herself before she heard Grant's word. I knew that words are important and they can change one's life.
5. Both Tess and Grant are tour leaders for a group walking holiday. They did not like each other at first, but they became understand each through some happenings. Human relations are written in this story. I learned someone's word can give confidence for others and people can understand each other someday even they do not like such as Tess and Grant.

[Mana Ando · Rating 3 out of 5]

1.Cambridge level3
2.7/14=20min 7/15=60min
3.tour,not well, annoying, laugh, father, job, tour leaders

4a.
I don't like the scene that when Tess and Grant told the details of the tour to the tourists because Grant's explanation didn't finish though, Tess started adding information.
b.
That will make tourists confused. Even if they can't get along with, they mustn't let tourists notice that.

5.I don't finished reading yet. I'm looking forward what will happen next between Tess and Grant. Are they doing well each other at the end of this story?

[Sayaka · Rating 5 out of 5]

1 Cambridge Level3
2 11/26=120minutes
3 tour leaders, terrible holiday, mountain, rain, artist, caricatures, girlfriend
4 a) "the reason I don't want to be your friend, is because...I like you. I really like you. And I want you to be my girlfriend."
b)I like this scene. How sweet he is!
5 He often called her name so I thoght he might love her. Actually, he likes her! He was chilly to her but he helped her, so this means he likes her.