ANOTHER WORLD (Level 1)

The sun always shines in Eden City. Everybody is happy, young and beautiful. BZXY741 is a student in the city. One day he meets Eve. She is different from the other people, and she tells him about another world. But is it really a better place?

ANOTHER WORLD

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Vocabulary: 

1. happiness: a happy feeling
2. real: true
3. procedure: when you follow a procedure, you do everything in the right way
4. smell: you smell with your nose
5. salad: a food made from vegetables
6. juice: a drink from fruit or vegetable
7. team: some people doing something together
8. law: the rules in a country
9. joke: something funny to make other people laugh
10. air: we breath this in our nose or mouth to stay alive
11. free: no one to control you
12. believe: think that something is true
13. lift: a lift in a building takes you up and down the floors
14. traffic: cars, buses, motorbikes,...
15. worry: you worry when you don't know about something
16. beggar: a person who ask for food and money in the street
17. dream: pictures in your head when you are asleep
18. embarrassed: when you do something stupid, you feel embarrassed, and your face often turns red.
19. alive: not dead
20. reaction: what we do when something happen to us

ONE GHOST FOR THE DAY, ONE GHOST FOR THE NIGHT (Level 1)

Keech is a very bad man, who kills people and steal money. Now he is haunted by two ghosts. One at day, and one at night.

ONE GHOST FOR THE DAY, ONE GHOST FOR THE NIGHT

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Vocabulary: 

1. build: to make something by putting parts of it together
2. court: a place where judges and lawyers listen in trials
3. darling: a way of speaking to someone we love
4. ghost: the spirit of a dead person that comes back to visit living people
5. judge: the person in a law court who decides how someone will be punished
6. mad: of someone who is ill in the head
7. peace: a quiet, happy time
8. prison: a place where bad people are locked up
9. steal (past tense stole) to take things that do not belong to you 
10. throw: to lift something up and send it quickly through the air
11. trial: a court case, to find out if someone is guilty or not
12. unhappy: sad, not happy
13. voice: the sound that you make when you speak

POLICE TV (Level 1)

'Every day someone takes money from people near the shops. We must stop this,' says Dan, a police officer.
The police use TV cameras but it is not easy because there are so many suspects. Who is the robber?

POLICE TV

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Vocabulary:

1. arrest: when the police find a bad man and take him to the police station
2. bridge: a road or path that goes over water
3. buy: get something from a ship with money
4. cafe: a place where you sit and drink coffee or tea
5. dangerous: something that can hurt you is dangerous
6. follow: walk behind someone
7. idea: something you think
8. jogger: a runner
9. let: make it easy for something to happen
10. officer: a man or woman in the police
11. purse: a small bag for money
12. shout: talk very loudly and angrily
13. steal: take something that is not yours
14. turn: go left or right

RED ROSES (Level 1)

'Who is the man with the roses in his hand?' thinks Anna. 'I want to meet him.'
'Who is the girl with the guitar?' thinks Will. 'I like her. I want to meet her.'
But they do not meet. And then one rainy day...

RED ROSES

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Vocabulary:

1. a bit: a small amount, not much
2. along: from one end of something to the other end
3. anybody: any person
4. apartment: a group of rooms for living in
5. around: in different places
6. dear: you say this when you speak to someone you like or love
7. funny: strange
8. girlfriend: a girl who is a man's special friend
9. gran: grandmother - the mother of your father or mother
10. inside: into a room or building
11. lovely: very nice
12. music: what you make when you sing, or play the piano, guitar, etc.
13. outside: out of a room or building
14. ring: make a sound like a bell  (e.g. a telephone rings)
15. smell: notice something with your nose
16. upstairs: to or in the higher part of a building
17. voice: you speak and sing with your voice

DRIVE INTO DANGER (Level 1)

'I an drive a truck,' says Kim on her first day at work in the office. When Kim's passenger Andy finds something strange under the truck things get dangerous - very dangerous.

DRIVE INTO DANGER

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Vocabulary:

1. cafe: a place where people can eat and drink
2. danger: something that can hurt you or get you into trouble
3. dirty: you need to have a bath when you are dirty
4. drug: something that some people take to make them feel happy or sleepy
5. entrace: the way into somewhere
6. fall: to go down suddenly
7. ferry: a way of getting cars and trucks across the river
8. follow: go after
9. gun: something that shoots and kills people
10. jump: to move quickly with your feet from one place to a different place
11. licence: you need this paper before you can drive a car
12. motorway: a big road where you can drive fast
13. oil: a liquid that helps cars and trucks move
14. overnight bag: a bag with sleeping and washing things
15. passport: you need this book to travel outside your country
16. throw: move your arm quickly to send something through the air
17. truck stop: a place where trucks stop and theri drivers eat and drink
18. wine: an adult drink made from fruit

THE WATCHER (Level 1)

In the caves under the famous Palace of Knossos in Crete, the Watchers sit. They watch the gold statue of Poseidon, god of the sea. Jim and Stella, an English brother and sister, are on holiday in Crete. With Nikos, their Cretan friend, they go into the caves. But the Watchers are waiting for them...

THE WATCHER

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Vocabulary:

1. alive: living, not dead
2. arm: your hand is at the end of your arm
3. bowl: a large, round plate
4. cave: a very large hole under the ground
5. Cretan: a person from Crete
6. Crete: an island in Greece
7. dangerous: if something is dangerous, it can hurt or kill you
8. dead: when you stop living, you are dead
9. earthquake: a sudden, very strong movement of the ground
10. fall: move quickly and freely from a high place to a low place
11. fire: something burning, with smoke and flames
12. god: there were many old Greek gods: Poseidon was the god of the sea, Apollo was the god of the sun, etc.
13. Greece: a country in Europe
14. hair: it grows on your head
15. hall: a very big room or building (in this story, a very big cave)
16. hear: you see with your eyes, you hear with your ears
17. huge: very, very big
18. Iraklion: a town on Crete
19. Knossos: a very old place on Crete
20. listen: you look at something with your eyes, you listen to something with your ears
21. nobody: no people
22. palace: a very big, beautiful house
23. Poseidon: the name of the old Greek god of the sea
24. silly: stupid, not clever
25. statue: something (made of stone, wood, gold, etc.) that looks like a person
26. stone: a very hard part or piece of the ground
27. Watcher: somebody who watches

MARCEL AND THE WHITE STAR (Level Starter)

Marcel is a detective mouse who likes opera. One day he finds out about the diamond ring stolen from his favourite opera singer. And he determines to get it back.

MARCEL AND THE WHITE STAR 

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Vocabulary:

1. finish: done
2. metro station: where trains arrive and leave
3. diamond: a very beautiful and expensive, white stone
4. finger: you have five fingers on your hand
5. ring: you wear this on your finger
6. steal: take something from other people
7. garden: this is around the house and there are a lot of flowers and trees in it
8. number plate: a car must have a number plate at its back
9. jump: to move quickly with your feet from one place to a different place
10. moment: a very short time
11. bite: to hit someone with your teeth
12. follow: to go after someone
13. cafe: coffee shop
14. perfume: a very good smell, women often use this on them
15. soap: something you use to clean your hand
16. thief (plural thieves): the person who steals things from other people
17. mirror: a thing that you can see yourself in it.

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE (Level 1)

A couple of student who wander around the "dangerous street" and took "dangerous things" from a dangerous man. He gives chase to them with a weapon in his hand. What will happen?

A comic style-story, very nice and exciting. Read along to practice your pronunciation.

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE

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Vocabulary:

1. bin: we put the things we don't need anymore into a bin
2. corner: the place where 2 roads meet
3. dangerous: not safe, can hurt you
4. drug: a bad kind of stuff that can get you addicted to it
5. excited: feeling like because something good is going to happen
6. fall (past tense fell): to go down suddenly
7. frightened: very afraid
8. gun: 
9. hold (past tense held): to keep 
10. market: where people buy and sell things
11. rubbish: things we don't need anymore
12. shout: to speak in a very loud and high voice

THE PRETTY FACE (Level 1)

Zoe is a student who likes to act in plays. Is Zoe a really good actor, or she just has a pretty face? 

THE PRETTY FACE

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Vocabulary:

1. bookstore: a shop for books
2. act: to speak and move, to tell a story in front of people
3. play: a story that people act
4. players: an old name for people who act in plays
5. famous: that everybody knows
6. college: you study here after you leave school
7. theatre: a building where people go to see plays
8. newspaper: people read about things that happen in this
9. editor: the person who says which stories go in a newspaper
10. review: some writing in a newspaper telling people about a new play or book
11. notebook: a small book for writing in
12. audience: the people who go to see a play
13. part: one of the people in a play
14. pretty: beautiful
15. kind: good to other people 
16. honest: saying things that are true
17. costume: the things that a person wears in a play
18. believe: to think
19. coffee: people often drink this in the morning
20. cafe: you can go here to have a drink and something to eat
21. furious: very angry
22. hate: not to love
23. stupid: without thinking well
24. idea: something that you think a plan
25. class: a time when student learn with a teacher
26. actress: a woman who acts in plays
27. prove: to make people see that something is true
28. carry: to take with you
29. magazine: a think book with lots of pictures, you can buy it every week or every month
30. surprised: feeling that something very new is suddenly happening
31. interview: a meeting to ask questions
32. playwright: a person who writes plays
33. reporter: a person who writes for a newspaper or magazine
34. gossip: talking about people's lives
35. throw out: to make somebody leave a building
36. difficult: not easy
37. bush: a short little trees
38. list: a number of things that you write down
39. follow: to go after someone
40. wig: false hair
41. glasses: you wear these to help you see better
42. hide: to go where people can't see you
43. funny: making you laugh
44. lie: something that is not true
45. truth: something that is true
46. study: a room in a house where you go to write or work
47. desk: a table in a study or in an office
48. pay: to give money for something
49. movie: moving pictures that tells a story
50. plot: the story of a book, play or movie
51. nervous: a little afraid
52. impatient: not feeling happy about waiting for something
53. amazed: very surprised
54. shake hands: to give your hand to someone when you say hello or goodbye to them
55. refuse: to say no when someone asks you to do something
56. character: a person in a book, a movie or a play
57. embarrassed: feeling bad after you do something stupid
58. trick: something that you do to make somebody feel stupid
59. free: that you don't pay for