Dracula

‘ We found the tombs of the three vampire wemen. They cannot hurt us now, and Dracula is dead at last! We can begin to live again.’

 

Today I read “Dracula.” In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula – a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls. In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon, he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to be afraid, because Count Dracula is one of the Un-Dead – a vampire that drinks the blood of living people…

 

Stoker, Bram, Dracula, Oxford University Press, 2000

Remember Miranda

‘ Of course we can,’ I told him. ‘ Things are going to get betternow, for all of us.

 

Today I read ” Remember Miranda.” Cathy Wilson is driving to Norfolk, to begin her new job with the Harvey family. She is going to look after the two young children, Tim and Susan. Cathy meets the children’s father, and their grandmother, and their aunt. She meets Nick, the farmer who lives across the fields. But she doesn’t meet Miranda, the children’s mother, because Miranda is dead. She died two years ago, and Cathy cannnot learn anything about her. Everybody remembers Miranda, but nobody wants to talk about her…

 

Akinyemi, Rowena, Remember Miranda, Oxford Bookworms Library, 2000

Robinson Crusoe

 “Don’t let them see you, Friday”

 Robinson Crusoe is bored with his quiet life at home in England. He decides to be a sailor, and to travel the seas of the world. He has many exciting adventures, and in 1659 he is in a ship sailing from Brazil to Africa. One day there is a terrible storm. The ship begins to break up, and soon Crusoe and his friends are fighting for their lives in an angry sea. All his friends die, but Crusoe lives and reaches land. He finds himself in a strange, wild country-alive, but alone on a small island, with no food, no boat, no way of escape. He will be there for the next twenty-seven years…

 

Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe, Oxford University Press, 2000

Christmas in Prague

‘Dad, I know it’s difficult for you. But can you tell us about that Christmas in 1957?’

 

In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast – Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas. Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But he is afraid. He still remembers another Christmas in Prague, many long years ago- a Christmas that changed his life for ever…

 

Hannam, Joyce

Mutiny on the Bounty

” I must go to my trial first.”

It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and  they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to his neck. ‘ Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you’re a dead man!’ he says. The munity on the Bounty happened in April, 1789. This is the true story of Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian, and the ship that never came home to England.

Vicary, Tim, Munity on the Bounty, Oxford Bookworms Library, 2000

The Monkeys Paw

” He’s coming to the door… Perhaps he’s bringing the money!”

Outside, the night is cold and wet. Inside, the white family sits and waits. Where is their visitor? There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived. The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years. What has he got? He has brought the hand of a small, dead animal – a monkey’s paw. Outside, in the dark, the visitor smiles and waits for the door to open.

Jacobs, w, w, The Monkey’s Paw, Oxford Bookworms Library, 2000

Death in the Freezer

  She has a difficult lfe with three young kids and very little money.

Ellen SHore’s family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first.

 

Vicary, Tom, Oxford Bookworms

Love or Money?

” One day I’m going to kill that woman.”

 

 

 

 

 

It is Molly Clarkson’s fiftieth birthday.She is having a party.She is rich, but she having a small party – only four people.Four people, however, who all need the same thing : they need her money., so they arewaiting for her to die.And  there are other people who are also waiting for her to die.But one person can’t wait.And so, on her fiftieth birthday, Molly Clarkson is going to die.

Akinyemi, Rowena, Love or Money?, 2000

Money for a Motorbike

 Martain worked in a garage. He had a bike for sale. It was a beauty! Martain wanted ￡350 for the bike,

but Stuart didn’t have ￡350. He didn’t have any money.

Today I read Money for a Motorbike. It is in the MACMILLAN READERS. Stuart was seventeen years old. He left school, but he did not start work. He wanted a long holiday and he needed  a motorbike, but he didn’t have any money. One day, he met a man in the empty house. And he found a certain thing and he bought a motorbike by it, but something will happen. It was  very interesting.

Picture Puzzle

 On his way to college, Pete sees a pretty blonde girl in the shopping mall. The girl runs towards him and gives him a cassette of film. Then she runs away. She is frightened. Two men are running after her. One of the men is big and heavy. He is wearing a red shirt. Pete takes the cassette to a film developing shop. One hour later, he has the photographs. One picture shows two men. They are near a church. A man in a suit is giving a large brown envelope to another man. This other man is big and heavy and he is wearing a red shirt.

I read Picture Puzzle today. It is in the Macmillan Readers. It is very interesting.

Escott, John, Picture Puzzle, Macmillan Readers