Hard Times - Oxford Dominoes - Level 3 Thomas Gradgrind believes that facts and money are more important that feelings and imagination. After Cissy Jupe - a circus child - is left along in the world, Gradgrind takes her into his house, looking after her and teacher he facts with his own children Tom and Louisa. Some years later the Gradgrind family meets hard times. Louisa became a prisoner in a loveless marriage, and Tom has problems at work. In the end, Thomas Gradgrind learns the importance of feelings and...
Lessons cover listening with a purpose, predicting or preparing to listen, vocabulary, important details, main ideas, inferences, sequence of events, points of view, and specific information using the play as a catalyst
A toddler looks under his bed, in his toy box, behind a chair, and in a laundry basket for his present, until he finally finds it under the Christmas tree
English graded reader series for secondary level to adult
Everybody took photos of Prince William when he first arrived at the University of St Andrews. Crowds of photographers came to the little Scottish town next to the sea and took pictures of this new student - the nineteen-year-old grandson of the Queen of England. But nobody photographed Kate Middleton on her first day at the university. She moved in quietly, ready to begin her studies in art history. She was just an ordinary student with an ordinary future in front of her. Or was she?
In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife, Margaret, home to his farmhouse. Margaret is a strange, unpleasant woman, determined, it seems, to make Henry’s life miserable. ‘Poor Henry!’ say his friends. ‘What an awful life he has!’ But Henry is not the sad and disappointed man we might expect him to be. He manages to enjoy life, and indeed, has quite a lot of fun, one way and another . . . Mary Wesley’s story takes a sharp but light-hearted look at love, sex, and marriage – and the things people will do to get what they want.
