Showing posts with label Level 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Level 2. Show all posts

Friday, April 10, 2015

MR. HARRIS AND THE NIGHT TRAIN (Level 2)



Mr. Harris loves the night train and he usually travels on it. Until one day, something happened and he never goes on it again.


MR. HARRIS AND THE NIGHT TRAIN

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Vocabulary:
  1. blood: the red liquid in a person's body
  2. bright: not dark, giving a lot of light
  3. bus: a very big car for many people to travel in
  4. carriage: a 'room' on a train
  5. clothes: things you wear, e.g. dress, shirts, trousers
  6. corridor: the long narrow place on a train with doors on the carriages
  7. diamond: a beautiful, very expensive, bright stone
  8. fall (past tense fell): to move suddenly from a higher place to a low place
  9. floor: the 'ground' in a room; you walk on a floor
  10. ghost: a dead person that living people think they can see 
  11. guard: a man who works on a train
  12. holiday: days or weeks when people do not go to work
  13. jump: to move quickly with both feet off the ground
  14. kind: friendly; good to other people
  15. life: the time when you are alive, not dead
  16. loud: not quiet; with a lot of noise
  17. necklace: something beautiful that women wear round their neck
  18. newspaper: you read a newspaper to know what is happening in the world
  19. poor: when you say 'poor', you are feeling sorry for somebody
  20. restaurant: a place where you can buy a meal and eat it
  21. seat: a 'chair' on a train
  22. shout: to speak or cry very loudly and strongly
  23. stare: to look at someone or something for a long time
  24. station: trains stop at stations for people to get on or off
  25. sweet: (of people) very nice
  26. terrible: something terrible makes you feel afraid or unhappy
  27. unhappy: not happy
  28. vodka: a very strong cold drink
  29. voice: you talk with your voice
  30. whisper: to speak very, very quietly

Thursday, April 2, 2015

GOODBYE, MR. HOLLYWOOD (Level 2)



The girl suddenly kisses Nick on the mouth and said to him: "Goodbye, Mr. Hollywood.' Nick didn't understand anything, and he doenst know that someone near there doesn't like "Mr. Hollywood". Dangers come to Nick and he doens't know it.


GOODBYE, MR. HOLLYWOOD

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Vocabulary:
  1. bar: a room where people can buy and have drinks
  2. blood: blood is red and moves around inside the body
  3. bridge: something build high to go over a river or a road
  4. busy: with many things happening
  5. cafe: a place where people can buy and eat food and drink
  6. city: a big important town
  7. crowd: a lot of people
  8. desk: people in offices sit and work at desk
  9. fall (past tense fell): to go down quickly from a high place
  10. ferry: a ship to carry cars and people
  11. floor: the part of a room which is under your feet
  12. fly (past tense flew): to travel through the air (ex: by areoplane)
  13. follow: to go after someone or something
  14. great: wonderful, very good
  15. guess: to try to give the right answer when you don't know it 
  16. gun: a thing that shoots out bullets to kill people
  17. guy: a man
  18. kiss: to touch someone with your lips, to show love, or to say hello or goodbye
  19. magazine: a book with a paper cover which comes out every week, month, etc.
  20. maybe: perhaps
  21. millionaire: somebody who has a millions pounds or dollars, or more
  22. mountain:  a very high hill
  23. movie: a film which you see at a cinema
  24. mystery: something that you do not understand and cannot explain
  25. outside: not in something (a room, a building, etc.)
  26. park: a garden or place in a town where people can walk, sit, play games, etc.
  27. party: a meeting of friends to eat, drink, talk, dance, etc.
  28. point: to show with your finger where someone or something is
  29. policeman: the police are the men and women in a country who catch criminals, try to stop people doing wrong, etc.
  30. police station: an office of hte police
  31. pretty: beautiful, nice to look at
  32. pull: to hold and move something towards you
  33. push: to move something away from you with your hands
  34. restaurant: a place where people can buy and eat meals
  35. scream: to cry out loud, usually when you are afraid or hurt 
  36. shoot (past tense shot) to sent a bullet from a gun to kill or hurt somebody
  37. short: the bullet sent from a gun
  38. shout: to call or try out loudly and strongly
  39. stranger: somebody that you do not know
  40. sure: certain, knowing what something is true
  41. tea: a hot drink, often with sugar and milk or lemon
  42. travel: to visit other countries, cities, etc.
  43. turn: to move around
  44. vacation: a holiday, a time when you do not work and perhaps go travelling
  45. waiter: somebody who brings your food or drink in a restaurant or cafe
  46. worried: afraid that something is wrong or something bad is going to happen

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

LOVE OR MONEY (Level 2)


It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting 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.
LOVE OR MONEY

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Vocabulary:
  1. Aunt: the sister of your father or mother, or the wife of your uncle.
  2. Build: to make a house or a building
  3. Club: a number of people who meet because they are interested in the same thing (e.g. a tennis club)
  4. Cup: a thing to put drinks in
  5. Empty: with nothing in it
  6. Farm: land and buildings where people grow things to eat and keep animals for food.
  7. Find out: to ask questions and learn about something
  8. Inspector: an important policeman or policewoman
  9. Job: when you work and get money for it, you have a job
  10. Kitchen: a room where people make breakfast, dinner, tec.
  11. Land: ground (not water – sea, rivers, tec.)
  12. Lie: to say something that is not true.
  13. Murder: killing someone (not in an accident)
  14. Murderer: somebody who murders
  15. Police: people who look for bad people
  16. Ring (past tense rang) to make a sound like a bell (e.g. a telephone rings)
  17. Sell: to give something to someone and they give you money for it
  18. Sergeant: a policeman or a policewoman
  19. Tablet: a doctor gives you tablets to eat and you feel better
  20. Trouble: something bad, or difficult, or unhappy
  21. Uncle: the brother of your mother or father, or the husband of your aunt
  22. Wine: a cold drink made from grapes


Thursday, February 5, 2015

STUDIO FIVE (Level 2)



Fay loves making The Friends' Hour for Studio Five, but her boss - Jason - is always angry with her. One day, a young man - Simon Jones - phones her show. Soon Fay must find Simon, and work hard to keep her job. Then her best friend - Wing - stops helping her. What can Fay do now? Can she and Wing stay friends?


STUDIO FIVE

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Vocabulary:
  1. on air: when people can hear you on their radios
  2. show: you watch or listen to this on TV or radio
  3. studio: a room where people make TV or radio shows
  4. music: people listen or dance to this
  5. email: words that you send from computer to computer
  6. boss: the person that your work for
  7. really: truly
  8. sad: not happy
  9. police officer: a man or a woman who stops people doing bad things
  10. try: to want to do something but not to do it well
  11. underground: a train that goes under streets and building
  12. station: people get on and off trains here
  13. terrible: very bad
  14. real: true
  15. fall in love (past tense fell): to begin to love someone
  16. marry: to make someone your husband or wife
  17. idea: something thta you think
  18. card: something that you send someone on their birthday
  19. birthday: the day when someone was born
  20. envelope: a paper cover that you put in a letter
  21. worry: to be unhappy about something and to think about it all the time
  22. tidy: with everything carefully where it is right to be
  23. model: little buildings, trains, cars, ships or planes that children make and then play with
  24. key: you can close or open a door with this
  25. job: work
  26. CD: people listen to music on this
  27. desk: a table in a study or in an office
  28. alone: with nobody
  29. locked: closed with a key
  30. climb: to go up, down or through something using your hands and feet
  31. safe: in no danger
  32. floor: the place in a room where you stand and walk
  33. ledge: a long flat stone under a window
  34. fall: (past tense fell) to go down suddenly
  35. crazy: not thinking well
  36. background: something that is under the most important noise on a CD or behind the most important thing in a picture
  37. voice: you use this to speak
  38. sound: noise
  39. coin: metal money
  40. platform: you get on a train in a station from this
  41. Internet: you use a computer and a phone line to find different things on this
  42. postcode: you write these numbers and letters on an envelope under the city
  43. date stamp: this mark on an envelope shows a postman when and from where someone sent a letter
  44. Lost Property Office: people can find things they lose or forget here
  45. twice: two times
  46. pay (past tense paid): to give money for something
  47. wine: a red or white drink, when you drink a lot you feel happy or sleepy
  48. kiss: to touch lovingly with your mouth
  49. note: a short letter
  50. the same: not different
  51. believe: to think that something is true
  52. flat: a number of rooms in a house where people lives
  53. promise: when you say that you will certainly do something
  54. protect: to keep someone safe
  55. the rest: what is left
  56. guest: somebody that you invite to your home, a party, or to speak in a radio show
  57. selfish: thinking only about what is good for you
  58. pregnant: when a woman is having a child
  59. stupid: not thinking well
  60. knock: to hit strongly
  61. pay rise: when the money you get for your work goes up
  62. hug: to take lovingly in your arms



WHITE DEATH (Level 2)


Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So, now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die.

She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother, and an old boyfriend who does not love her now. Can they work together? Can they find the real criminal before it is too late?

WHITE DEATH

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Vocabulary:
  1. prison: a place to keep the bad people
  2. court: a place where people discuss about the bad people and their bad deeds
  3. airport: where planes go and arrive
  4. drug: a kind of medicine that makes people feel good and excited, and makes people addicted to it
  5. tube: a kind of container, long and round
  6. toothpaste: you use this to brush your teeth with
  7. heroin: a very bad drug
  8. innocent: did not do bad thing
  9. lawyer: someone who studies the law
  10. jury: a group of people who will vote if the person is good or bad in a court
  11. judge: the controller of the court


ROBIN HOOD (Level 2)



Robin Hood (a pun of Rob-in-hood) is an outlaw. He lives in the Sherlock Forest with other outlaws, waiting for the good King Richard to return. In the meanwhile, he robs the rich and give the money to the poor.



ROBIN HOOD

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Vocabulary:

  1. crusade: when a country attacks and takes another country
  2. greedy: want to have everything for oneself
  3. arrogant: when someone thinks that he/she is the most important person and others are not important
  4. brutal: very bad and violent
  5. sheriff: a  police man in old England
  6. loyal: when a good servant serves his master well, he is loyal.
  7. against: not with
  8. harm: to hurt someone
  9. cavern: a large cave
  10. horn
  11. signal: a sign that only the people who made it knows
  12. archer: someone who uses a bow
  13. practise: do something again and again until you are goot at it
  14. stream: a river
  15. bridge: we walk over a river on this
  16. enormous: very big
  17. staff: a long stick, used for fighting 
  18. merry: happy
  19. company: someone who goes with you
  20. expert: someone who is very good at soemthing
  21. fiar: a male member or a religious order
  22. sniff: to smell
  23. bank: the land side along the river
  24. shake hands:
  25. quarrel: to argue angrily
  26. promise: you say this when you agree and sure to do something in the future
  27. tax: the money the poor people have to give to the rich people, or the king
  28. capture: to keep someone
  29. perfectly: very well
  30. wicked: very evil
  31. subjects: the people under the king 
  32. maid: a girl who works in the house of a rich person
  33. disguise: to wear other clothes so that people don't know you
  34. knight: a person fighting on a horse 
  35. helmet
  36. coward: a person who is afraid of almost everything
  37. leave for: to go to
  38. butcher: a very violent man
  39. disgust: to hate someone very much because he/she is very evil
  40. naked: with no clothes on
  41. silver: a white expensive metal
  42. archery: the art of using the bow
  43. competition: where you have to do better than the others to win
  44. challenge: where you have to do difficult things for good reward
  45. discover: to know, to recognise
  46. peasant: a country person (eg. farmer)
  47. crowd: where there are a lot of people
  48. square: a large place where people go to when there is an event
  49. acrobat: a person who performs well on the air for people to watch
  50. target: where to shoot your arrow 
  51. contest: competition
  52. victory: when you win a competition
  53. lyre: a kind of musical instrument 
  54. baron: a high-ranked person in Britain
  55. similar: alike
  56. bishop: a man who oversees the priests in the church
  57. pale: when your skin becomes white, you are pale
  58. ceremony: a formal event
  59. point: to aim at something
  60. couple: two people
  61. banquet: a formal party
  62. cross
  63. offer: giving something to someone for free
  64. pork: pig meat
  65. kneel (past tense knelt): to be on your knees
  66. dishonest: not honest
  67. excitement: very happy because something good is going to happen
  68. memory: something you remember in your head
















SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE BLUE DIAMOND (Level 2)



'He's an intelligent man. He was one rich and now is poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.'
One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees - and think - a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.

SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE BLUE DIAMOND


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Vocabulary:
  1. diamond: a very expensive stone that usually has no colour
  2. sitting-room: the room in a house where people sit and talk
  3. newspaper: people read about things that happen every day in this
  4. magnifying glass: when you look through this, small things are big
  5. crime: killing someone, or taking money from someone
  6. doorman: a man working at a hotel; he opens the front door for visitors
  7. bird: an animal that can fly; you can eat some birds
  8. goose (plural geese) a large, usually white bird; people sometimes eat it at Christmas
  9. cook: to make things for people to eat
  10. shoulder: this is between your arm and your neck
  11. fall (past tense fell) to go down suddenly
  12. try: to want to do something but not to do it well
  13. walking stick: a long, thin piece of wood; you use this to help you to walk
  14. owner: the person that something belongs to
  15. advertisement: you pay to put this in a newspaper
  16. intelligent: quick-thinking
  17. poor: not rich
  18. nose: this is between your eyes
  19. brain: this is in your head and you think with it
  20. buy (past tense bought): to give money for something
  21. grey: the color between white and black
  22. kitchen: the room in a house where people cook
  23. countess: the wife of a rich, important man
  24. disappear: to go away suddenly
  25. jewel: an expensive stone
  26. pay: (past paid): to give money for something
  27. report: some writing in a newspaper
  28. repair: to make something that is broken work again
  29. assistant manager: an important job in a hotel
  30. court: the police take someone here when they think he or she did something wrong
  31. maid: a woman who works in a rich person's house, or in a hotel
  32. thief: a person who takes things without asking 
  33. prison: a place where people must stay when they do soemthing wrong
  34. case: when the police work to find answers
  35. High Court: The most important court in the country
  36. believe: to think that something is true
  37. sir: you say this when you talk to a rich or important man
  38. already: happening earlier than you think
  39. terrible: very bad
  40. safe: a box that people put expensive things in so thieves can't get them
  41. innocent: doing nothing wrong
  42. housekeeper: a woman who looks after a rich person's house
  43. address: the number and the street where somebody lives
  44. pub: a building where people go to have a drink
  45. museum: a building where people look at old or interesting things
  46. beer: a yellow or brown drink
  47. sell (past tense sold) to take money for something 
  48. winner: the person who gets the right answer
  49. page: a book has many pages
  50. weak: not strong
  51. shout: to say loudly and angrily
  52. job: work
  53. cab: a taxi
  54. real: not false
  55. tail: the long thing at the back of an animal's body
  56. floor: the place in a room where you stand and walk
  57. feel sorry for: to be unhappy about
  58. truth: when what you say is true
  59. arrest: to take a person to prison
  60. police officers: policemen and policewomen
  61. decide: to think about something and then do it
  62. catch (past caught): to take quickly in your hands 
  63. neck: this is between your head and your body
  64. witness: a person who saw a crime
  65. solution: the answer to a problem


Wednesday, February 4, 2015

THE 1,000,000 BANK NOTE (Level 2)



Henry accidentally got to England and he has only 1 dollar in his pocket. Just in a month he can make 1000000 pound. How did he do that?

THE 1,000,000 BANK NOTE

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Vocabulary:
  1. promising: very good in the future
  2. sailboat: a boat with sails 
  3. on board: on the ship, or a train
  4. stormy: very bad weather with a lot of rains
  5. desperate: someone in very trouble and needs help
  6. servant: a person who works for the rich people
  7. stare: look at someone or something for a long time
  8. bet: to win money if you are right and to lose money if you are wrong
  9. argue: when two or more people talk about something angrily because they think differently
  10. transaction: doing business
  11. starve to death: to die because you are hungry
  12. steal (past tense stole - stolen): to take something without asking
  13. poor: not rich
  14. feel hurt: feel uncomfortable because someone do bad things to you
  15. subject: the main thing
  16. joke: a funny thing for people to laugh and have fun
  17. faint: when you faint, you don't know anything (e.g. when you are tired, shocked, terrified...)
  18. worth: how expensive something is
  19. apologize: to say sorry
  20. hurry: to go very quickly
  21. awful: very bad
  22. on time: when you are not late
  23. fog: a kind of smoke you see in the very early morning
  24. signature: your name written by your own writing
  25. asylum: a hospital for crazy people
  26. bill: the money note
  27. tailor: a person who makes clothes
  28. useless: when something has no use at all
  29. unattractive: not beautiful, not attractive
  30. nod: to move your head from up to down (e.g. to show that you agree)
  31. change: money with little value
  32. trouble: difficulty
  33. package: something with a cover (e.g. paper, wood, plastic,...) outside
  34. millionaire: a very rich person
  35. elegant: very stylish and beautiful
  36. measure: to get the length of something
  37. customer: a person who goes in the shop to buy something, usually to show that they are rich
  38. luxury: expensive things that the rich people have
  39. ambassador: a very high rank person in the government
  40. on credit: when you buy something and you pay money later, you buy on credit
  41. duke: a high rank British nobleman
  42. duchess: the wife of the duke
  43. earl: a British rank that is below a marque and above a viscount
  44. countess: female rank of a count or earl
  45. viscount: a British rank that is below a earl and above a baron
  46. celebrity: a famous person
  47. steak: a slice of meat
  48. shares: a part of a business, a part of a company
  49. precedence: the order of what is first and what is next...
  50. sardine: a kind of fish
  51. strawberry: a small red fruit 
  52. cribbage: a kind of card game
  53. debt: when you borrow money from other people, you have a debt
  54. marvelous: very great
  55. scared: very afraid
  56. shake (past tense shook): to hold and move up and down (e.g. shake hands)
  57. guarantee: to asure that something is true
  58. share: to split (eg. the money)
  59. surprise: when something is very new and sudden
  60. certificate: a paper to prove something is true
  61. deposit: the money you let the bank keeps for you
  62. astonishing: very surprising 
  63. forgive (past tense forgave): to forget the mistake of someone
  64. lap: the upper part of the leg
  65. amazed: surprised
  66. stepfather: not your real father, but the new husband of your mother
  67. cash: paper money
  68. picture frame: the thing to hold the picture 
  69. valuable: very good and expensive 

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER (Level 2)



Tom Sawyer is a small boy who likes to play around, and gets into unwanted trouble. He is a very smart boy who always knows the best things to do. One day he and his friend Huck go to a graveyard to see the ghosts. They saw something even horrible than ghost, and now they are in danger themselves. But with danger come great treasures. Will they get the treasures in the end?


THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER


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Vocabulary:

  1. jam: a kind of sticky food 
  2. trick: a bad plan to do to someone
  3. stranger: someone you do not know
  4. tie: you wear a tie on your neck
  5. beat: hitting someone again and again
  6. yard: 1 yard = 3 feet = 0.9144 metre
  7. foot (plural feet): 1 foot = 30.48 centimetres
  8. Reverend: an old word for the Father in a church
  9. bark: a loud noise from a dog
  10. immediately: very soon, right away
  11. lazy: not wanting to work or study
  12. admire: to like someone because he or she is good at something
  13. witch: an evil woman who has many evil tricks, usually appears with a flying broom and a black cat. 
  14. stick: a long piece of wood
  15. whisper: to speak very softly
  16. scary: making you afraid
  17. robber: someone who takes things from other people usually by violence
  18. dig (past tense dug): to make a hole in the ground
  19. blood: the red water in the body
  20. frying pan
  21. raft: a kind of small boat made by many pieces of wood stick together
  22. drowned: to die in the water
  23. canoe:
  24. explore: to go around a place and learn about it
  25. hang
  26. lawyer: a person who studies the law
  27. haunted house: a house where there are ghosts
  28. stone: a hard grey or white things. We see it on the ground a lot
  29. fireplace: a place inside a house where we keep the fire to keep warm
  30. cross
  31. widow: a woman who has a dead husband
  32. cruel: very evil
  33. rifle: a kind of gun
  34. shoot (past tense shot): to fire with a gun
  35. bat: an animal which looks like the mouse and has wings 
  36. weak: not strong
  37. string: a long, thin line