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    The Tough Task
    The Tough Task
    The Tough Task
    Audiobook31 minutes

    The Tough Task

    Written by Craig Wright

    Narrated by Multiple Narrators

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    About this audiobook

    Dolphin Readers are interactive graded readers specially designed to make developing language skills fun for younger learners.

    Cross-curricular content stimulates students' interest and maintains their attention, while carefully graded English introduces them to new language points in an entertaining context. Integrated activities encourage students to practice newly acquired language skills.

    An Oxford Press Audio production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOxford University Press
    Release dateAug 11, 2005
    ISBN9780194477956
    The Tough Task
    Author

    Craig Wright

    Craig Wright is the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor Emeritus of Music at Yale University, where he teaches the popular undergraduate course, “Exploring the Nature of Genius.” A Guggenheim Fellow, Wright has received an honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from the University of Chicago, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and was awarded the Sewall Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at Yale (2016) as well as the DeVane Medal for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship (2018).  He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Ph.D. from Harvard.  

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