New English File Pre-intermediate recommended reading 2 Bookworms
Read your way to better English
Units 1 – 2
Lesson
Themes Personality
Holidays
OR
Stage 2 syllabus  A2–B1 Average word count 6,500  700 Headwords  Grammar: present perfect, will (future), (don’t) have to/must
Stage 3 syllabus  B1 Average word count 10,000  1,000 Headwords  Grammar: should, may, present perfect continuous, used to,
not/could, comparison of adjectives, simple ‘if’ clauses, past continuous, tag questions, ask/tell + infinitive …
Fantasy and Horror
The Canterville Ghost
Stage 2
Oscar Wilde
Retold by John Escott
There has been a ghost in
past perfect, causative, relative clauses, indirect statements …
the house for three hundred
years, and Lord Canterville’s
family have had enough of
it. So Lord Canterville sells
his grand old house to an
American family. Mr Hiram
B. Otis is happy to buy the
house and the ghost because
of course Americans don’t
believe in ghosts. The
Canterville ghost has great
plans to frighten the life
out of the Otis family. But
Americans don’t frighten
easily – especially not two
noisy little boys …
ISBN 978 0 19 479053 6
CD 978 0 19 478976 9
CD Pack 978 0 19 479015 4
audio CD available
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Factfiles
FACTFILES
Australia and New
Zealand
Stage 3
Christine Lindop
What do you find in these
two fascinating countries?
One is an enormous island
where only twenty million
people live and the other is
two long, narrow islands,
with ten sheep for every
person. One has the biggest
rock in the world, and a
town where everybody lives
under the ground; the other
has a beach where you can
sit beside the sea in a pool
of hot water, and lakes that
are bright yellow, green and
blue. Open this book and
start your journey.
ISBN 978 0 19 423390 3
CD 978 0 19 423589 1
CD Pack 978 0 19 423591 4
Units 3 – 4
Stories
Dreams
Human Interest
Go, Lovely Rose and
Other Stories
Stage 3
H. E. Bates
Retold by Rosemary Border
A warm summer night. The
moon shines down on the
quiet houses and gardens.
Everyone is asleep. Everyone
except the man in pyjamas
and slippers, standing on
the wet grass at the end of
his garden, watching and
waiting … In these three
short stories, H. E. Bates
presents ordinary people
like you and me. But as we
get to know them better, we
see that their feelings and
experiences are not at all
ordinary. Could these happen
to you and me?
ISBN 978 0 19 479118 2
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Units 5 – 6
Feelings in different situations
Decisions
World stories
Cries from the Heart:
Stories from Around
the World
Stage 2
Retold by Jennifer Bassett
From Botswana to New
Zealand, from Jamaica
to Nigeria, from Uganda
to Malaysia, from India to
South Africa, these moving
stories show us that the
human heart is the same in
every place. Fear and pain,
happiness and sadness
belong to us all.
ISBN 978 0 19 479084 0
CD 978 0 19 4789691
CD Pack 978 0 19 479 046 8
Units 7 – 8
Famous people
Factfiles
FACTFILES
Martin Luther King
Stage 3
Alan C. McLean
The USA in the 1950s and
60s was a troubled place.
Black people were angry,
because they did not have
the same rights as whites. It
was a time of angry words,
of marches, of protests, a
time of bombs and killings.
But above the angry noise
came the voice of one man,
a man of peace. This is the
story of an extraordinary
man, who changed
American history in this
short life.
ISBN 978 0 19 423393 4
CD 978 0 19 423595 2
CD Pack 978 0 19 423597 6
CD American English
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Unit 9
True stories
Love stories
OR
True stories
The Love of a King
Stage 2
Peter Dainty
All he wanted to do was
marry the woman he loved.
But his country said, ‘No’.
He was Edward VIII, King of
Great Britain, King of India,
King of Australia, and King
of 39 other countries. And
he loved the wrong woman.
She was beautiful and she
loved him. But she was
already married to another
man.
ISBN 978 0 19 479086 4
CD 978 0 19 479009 3
CD Pack 978 0 19 479048 2
Human interest
Love Story
Stage 3
Erich Segal
Retold by Rosemary Border
This is a love story you
won’t forget. Oliver Barrett
meets Jenny Cavilleri. He
plays sports, she plays
music. He’s rich, and she’s
poor. They argue, and they
fight, and they fall in love.
So they get married, and
make a home together.
They work hard, they enjoy
life, they make plans for the
future. Then they learn that
they don’t have much time
left. Their story has made
people laugh, and cry, all
over the world.
ISBN 978 0 19 479122 9
CD 978 0 19 479097 0
CD Pack 978 0 19 479305 6
CD American English