More True Stories: A Beginning Reader - Softcover

Heyer, Sandra

9780801302237: More True Stories: A Beginning Reader

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801302234 ISBN 13: 9780801302237

Publisher: Pearson Education Ltd., 1990

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Imagine ...

waking up every night to a voice saying “Come and catch me”!

being on a boat in the middle of the ocean in a terrible storm!

finding millions of dollars on a busy highway!

These stories and more — humorous, poignant, astounding — and all true!

More True Stories, Third Edition, by Sandra Heyer, consists of 22 new or updated human-interest stories adapted from news sources around the world. The universal appeal of these believe-it-or-not stories ensures a pleasurable reading experience and encourages high-beginning-level students to read with fluency and confidence.

Features:

A photo and pre-reading questions introduce each story.
Average story length is 470 words.
Stories are told in the past and past progressive tenses.
Revised and improved exercises for vocabulary development, reading comprehension, discussion, and writing help students develop language proficiency.
Background information and teaching tips in an expanded To the Teacher section help make the reading class more effective.
An audio CD with recordings of all stories is included in each textbook.
A perfect partner with More True Stories Behind the Songs.

The True Stories series includes:

True Stories Behind the Songs

More True Stories, Third Edition

Even More True Stories, Third Edition

Beyond True Stories

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From the Publisher:

Beginning reader/ ESL,Adult Literacy /human-interest stories
A dog in Japan who swims 2 miles to visit his girlfriend. . . A restaurant in San Francisco that serves ground pearls . . . A doctor in Mexico who is known as "The surgeon who operates with his feet" . . . These are some of the stories in "More True Stories," the third in the "True Stories" series. This book for high-beginning students has the same flavor and format as "True Stories in the News," but is slightly more difficult: the stories are a little longer, vocabulary is more sophisticated, and sentence structures are more complex. Each of the 22 stories is introduced by a large photograph and is followed by exercies in vocabulary, comprehension, discussion, and writing.

Synopsis:

In this collection of stories from magazines and newspapers the vocabulary and structures used have been controlled to match those of a typical beginning ESL course. At the same time the language aims to be natural and the readings are designed to be fun and spark classroom discussions. The pre- and post-reading exercises encourage comprehension through: vocabulary development; reading skills such as making inferences, understanding details, and recognizing cause and effect; cultural insights; and personalizing ideas and themes.

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