New York Café

Oxford Bookworms: Starter

by Jennifer Bassett (Adapted By), Michael Dean

It is the year 2030, and an e-mail message arrives at New York Cafand#233;. 'I want to help people and make them happy!' But not everybody is happy about the e-mail, and soon the police and the president are very interested in the New York Cafand#233;.

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

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

[Saeed Ansari · Rating 4 out of 5]

2023
" The first book I read in English"

[Alhanouf · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book is good
And the story is good too
To help the poor people you have to donate some of your money not by forcing people to donate

[Huyền Trang · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ủa? Giúp người nghèo bằng cách lấy/cướp của người giàu là tốt hả?

[Jannia González · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am reading this to figure out if it's a good read for ESL students.

The ending left me with questions. What happened to Sheila and is the world going to end because of Sam?

This book reminded me of the TV show "Mr. Robot".

There is the audibook and it includes activities at the end: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRjt3...
And a website where hard words are described: https://english-e-reader.net/book/the...

[Lynh Đan · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I’m reading this book, I realized that nonfiction books are not for me 😂 I’m so sleepy while reading and trying to finish this book. Maybe it will be helpful to those are non fiction book readers!
My main purpose is to learn English through this book. However, I don’t think I learnt much from it!
-> p/s: read what you like!

[Sheradnia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not bad

[Ashwag · Rating 3 out of 5]

القصة ضمن مجموعة اكسفورد لتعليم اللغة الانجليزيه ، لغتها جداً بسيطة انهيتها بجلسه واحدة، اعتقد انها بدايه جيدة لتعلم اللغة الانجليزية .

[Abrar Alarjan · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is talking about the computerhead wanted to help 🆘 people in America. .it is a good story and a short .l listen 👂 from audio on my phone 🤳

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad!

[Namiko]

It is good to use a computer like that - "take one yen from 100,000,000 people and put it into my account."

[Katia]

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[Abdullah Altayyari]

It's short stories, totally is good for ESL learners.

[Phoebe · Rating 2 out of 5]

not interesting

[Huy Trần Ngô Phương · Rating 2 out of 5]

so confused :)

[Linh Tran · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting story.

[Luka]

good book