JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (Level Starter)

In Hamburg, Germany, Professor Otto Lidenbrock comes home with an old Icelandic book. In it there is a message about a journey to the centre of the Earth.

Can Lidenbrock and Axel and their Icelandic guide, Hans, find the centre of the Earth? And can they all get home alive after their many underground adventures?

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH

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Vocabulary:

professor: an important teacher who also studies a lot

nephew: your sister's or brother's son

scientist: a person who studies the natural world

paper: you write on this

secret: something that you don't tell to everybody

message: you write this to someone

sure: when you feel that something is true

fire: this is hot, and it burns

backwards: beginning at the last letter and going to the first letter

uncle: your father's or mother's brother

crater: a big, wide hole

shadow: a dark shape that the sun makes on things

fall: to go down suddenly

centre: the part in the middle

Earth: we live on this

volcano: a mountain that fire and rocks sometimes come from

fiancée: the woman that a man wants to marry

plan: when you get something ready to do later; to get something ready to do later

journey: they you go far

marry: to make someone your husband or wife

luggage: bags and things that you take when you go on a journey

ship: you use a ship to go across the water

sail: to go across the water

storm: a lot of rain and very bad weather

mountain: a big hill

science: the study of the natural world

guide: a person (or thing) that shows or tells people where to go

food: you eat this

erupt: when rocks and fire come out of a volcano

top: the highest part of something

light: a thing that helps you to see in the dark

bottom: the lowest part of something

hole: an opening in something that you can look through or go through

sign: something that hows you something important

climb: to go up or down using your hands and feet

compass: something that shows you north and help you see where to go

lamp: a thing that helps you to see in the dark

tunnel: a long hole that goes through or under something

crystal: a beautiful stone

wall: the side of a tunnel

small: little

worried: not happy about something and thinking a lot about it.

follow: to go after something or somebody

stream: a small river

break: to make something stop working

cave: a big natural room under the Earth

underground: under the Earth

raft: a small ships made from trees

monster: an animal that is very bad to look at

fight: to hit again and again

land: the part of the Earth that is not the sea

cloud: a big white or grey thing that rain comes from

lightning: the light in the sky when there is storm

explode: to break suddenly with a big noise

rock: a very big stone

mastodon: a type of elephant from five million years ago

ground: we walk on this

knife: a sharp tool used for cutting something

letter: we write with these, there are 26 of them in English.

gunpowder: powder that explodes

blow up: to break into small pieces noisily

light: to give fire to something

waterfall: where water falls far down over rocks

lava: the hot liquid that comes out when a volcano erupts

world: where we all live; people live in lots of different countries in the world

language: people say or write things with this

hero: a person who does something important or good

CHANGING PLACE (Level Starter)

Hal works at the zoo and he thinks his life is boring. Tim is an actor but he doesnt like his job. They look very alike. One day, they meet, and they agreed to change their places.

CHANGING PLACES

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Vocabulary:

1. feed: to give things to eat to someone or something
2. zoo: a place where you can see animals from different countries
3. animal: a living being that moves, a dog or a cat is an animal
4. dream: pictures that you see in your head when you are sleeping
5. famous: when many people know about someone
6. marry: to make someone your husband or wife
7. actor: someone who is in a film
8. stare: to look at someone or something for a long time
9. normal: usual, not different
10. movie: a story that is on film
11. glasses: you wear these in front of your eyes to help you see better
12. recognize: to see someone and to know who it is
13. nervous: a little afraid
14. crew: a number of people who are all working together
15. film: to use cameras to make a movie
16. idea: something that you think
17. fun: something that you like doing and that makes people laugh
18. place: where something is
19. clothes: people wear these
20. brush: to move your hair
21. sure: when you feel that something is true
22. scene: a part of a movie that happen at one time
23. boss: a person who tells workers what to do
24. monkey: an animal, usually with a long tail
25. job: work
26. talk show: when famous people answer questions on TV
27. party: when people meet to have fun
28. agree: to say 'yes'
29. girlfriend: a woman that a man loves
30. role: one of the people in a movie
31. trick: to make people think that something is true
32. star: a famous person
33. climb: to go up using your hands and feet
34. action: where a lot of exciting things happen
35. accident: something bad that happens
36. sky tram: a train that travels high up 
37. first aid: giving help to people before a doctor can come
38. desert: a place which usually has no water
39. breath: to move air in and out of your body
40. wedding: the time when two people marry
41. cell phone: a phone that you can carry with you
42. practice: when you do something before it happens because you want to do it well
43. dinner: when you eat a lot with lots of people on an important day
44. gate: a door in a garden wall
45. police: men and women who stop people doing bad things
46. hide: to go where no-one can see you
47. Jeep: a small car that can drive where there aren't any roads
48. disappear: to go away suddenly
49. map: a picture that shows where things are, like streets, towns, rivers, or countries
50. lost: not knowing where you are
51. gas: gasoline or petrol; car need this to work
52. ring: the noise of a bell
53. go dead: to stop working
54. truck: a kind of car for carrying things or people
55. farm: a piece of land for animals or growing plants
56. problem: something that makes you feel bad
57. guest: people that you ask to go to a wedding or a party
58. stranger: a person you don't know
59. church: Christian people go here to pray
60. music: people listen or dance to this
61. outside: in the open - not in a building
62. faint: to fall down suddenly because something bad happens to you

BLACK BEARD (Level Starter)

The year is 1717. It is a bad time to be the captain of a ship in the Caribbean because of pirates. The most frightening pirate on the sea is Edward Teach, or 'Blackbeard'.

'The Governor of Virginia wants us all dead!' Blackbeard thinks. 'But can he kill me - the most famous pirate in the Caribbean? No!'

This is his story...

BLACK BEARD

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Vocabulary:

1. captain: the most important man on a ship
2. ship: you use a ship to go across the water
3. pirate; someone who takes ships and the things on them without asking
4. attack: to begin fighting
5. famous: that everybody knows
6. capture: to take and not give away
7. queen: the most important woman in a country
8. war: fighting between countries or people
9. sailor: a man who works on a ship
10. crew: all the people who work on a ship
11. aboard: on or onto a ship
12. throw: to make something move from your hand through the air
13. lookout: a sailor who looks to see what in front of the ship
14. starboard: the right of a ship
15. mast: the tall thing on an old ship which was the sails on it, and where a lookout sits
16. gun: a ship can fight with this
17. fight: when you hit someone many times
18. gold: an expensive yellow metal
19. sir: you say this when you talk to an important man
20. cabin: a room on a ship
21. revenge: when you do something bad to someone after they do something bad to you
22. island: a country in the sea
23. ashore: on or onto the land
24. sail: to go across the water
25. wife: a woman living with a man
26. adventure: something very exciting that happens to you
27. aye: a sailor's 'Yes'
28. terror: a feeling of being afraid
29. beard: the hair on a man's face
30. frightening: making people afraid
31. governor: a person who looks after a far country for a king or queen
32. lieutenant: an officer on a ship
33. royal navy: all the kings' or queens' ships
34. fire: to attack with a gun
35. boat: a little ship
36. small: little
37. jump: to move fast on your legs from one thing to a different thing
38. pistol: a kind of gun, person can kill someone with this
39. sword: a long knife that you fight with
40. medicine: something that you eat or drink to help you get better when you are ill
41. doctor: a person who helps people when they are ill
42. fever: when you get very hot because you are ill
43. surrender: to stop fighting because you cannot win
44. councillor: an important man that looks after a town
45. letter: you write this to tell something to someone
46. send: to give something to someone to take somewhere
47. chest: a big box to put things in
48. pardon: a letter from someone important which says that someone bad does not need to die
49. king: the most important man in a country
50. sugar: this is white or brown and sweet
51. abandoned: with no men on it
52. blockade: when someone stops ships arriving or leaving a town by the sea
53. topsail: this sail goes up near the top of the mast
54. inlet: a small arm of the sea that has land to left and right
55. aground: on land that is not under much water, from which it is difficult for a ship to move
56. rum: an alcoholic drink made from sugar
57. treasure: something expensive, like gold
58. catch: to take quickly
59. anchor: a heavy metal thing that a ship puts down into the water when it wants to stop somewhere
60. deck: where you walk on a ship
61. below: under
62. break: to make one thing into two things when you hit it
63. fall: to go down suddenly
64. wound: a hole in the body from a knife or a pistol
65. escape: to get away
66. legend: an old story - half true, half not true

THE TEMPEST (Level Starter)

Prospero, the Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda are far away from home, alone on an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. They want to return to Milan...

Then, one day, Prospero sees a ship near the island carrying his greatest enemies. Prospero, with the help of his magic and the island spirit, Ariel, makes a magic storm - a tempest - to bring them to the island.

THE TEMPEST

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Vocabulary:

1. duke: the most important man in a big old town
2. wife: a woman living with a man
3. look after: to do things for someone or something that needs help
4. magic: something that makes things happen in a way that you don't understand
5. king: the most important man in a country
6. gate: the big door into a town
7. attack: to start hititng something suddenly
8. boat: you go across the water in this
9. letter: you write this to tell something to someone
10. island: a country in the sea
11. monster: a person or animal that is very bad to look at
12. spirit: a magic person without a body
13. show: to help someone to see something
14. ship: a big boat
15. storm: a lot of rain and very bad weather
16. land: to arrive somewhere from a ship
17. alone: with nobody
18. tempest: an old word for "storm"
19. wind: fast moving air
20. God: an important being who never dies and decides what happenns in the world
21. captain: the most important man on a ship
22. jump: to move suddenly form one face to a different place
23. swim: to go through the water moving your arms and legs
24. alive: not dead
25. river: water that moves along the country in a long line
26. part: some, but not all, of something
27. master: you call the person that you work for this
28. wood: the hard part of a tree
29. fire: this is red and hot, and it burns
30. prince: the son of a king
31. music: singing or playing intrument
32. follow: to go after something or someone
33. plan: when you get something ready before it happens
34. goddess: a woman god
35. marry: to make someone your wife or husband
36. difficult: not easy
37. spy: a person who tries to learn secret things
38. chains: long strings of metal; in these you cannot run away
39. prison: a place where people must stay when they do something wrong
40. sword: a long, sharp knife for fighting
41. ground: we walk on this
42. wake up: to stop sleeping
43. strange: not usual
44. animal: a living being that can think and move
45. forest: a place with lots of trees
46. fool: someone who cannot think well
47. pay: to lose something because you do a bad thing to someone
48. crime: killing someone; or taking something from someone
49. against: not helping
50. cave: a big hole in a hill that you can live in
51. word: a thing that you say or write
52. fool: a man who works to make a king laugh
53. fish: an animal that lives in water
54. raincoat: a coat that you wear in the rain
55. butler: a man who brings food and drink to an important person
56. wine: a red or white drink; when you drink a lot you feel happy and sleepy
57. surprised: suddenly feeling that something very new is happening
58. throw: to make something move from your hand through the air
59. treat: to do something to someone with good or bad feeling
60. dance: to move beautifully to music
61. clothes: things that you wear
62. free: with no master
63. heart: the centre of feeling in somebody
64. lost: that you cannot find
65. break: to make one thing into many little parts
66. agree: to say yes
67. stick: a long thin piece of wood

THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON (Level Starter)

It was the middle of the night when the fire breaks out in London. Thousands of houses set on fire and there the fire still goes on. How can they stopped the fire?

THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON

1. narrow: not wide
2. rat: mouse
3. baker: a bread maker
4. maid: a girl who lives and work in a house
5. oven: you use this to bake the bread
6. wake up: you say this when you want people not to sleep
7. jump: to move quickly with your feet from one place to another
8. roof: the top part of the house
9. follow: to go after
10. ladder: you use a ladder to go up something
11. climb: to go up something
12. spead: to move out in all places
13. fire-fighter: someone who stops the fire
14. out of control: cannot be controlled
15. Lord Mayor: the most important man in a town
16. chief: the most important man in the fire-fighters
17. diary: this is what you write in everything happens to you
18. sir: you use this to call something important
19. news: something that is new
20. cloud: a very big smoke
21. church: a place where Christians go to pray
22. ring: to make a very high noise
23. bridge: you walk on this to cross the river
24. bank: the land part along the river
25. crowd: a lot of people
26. full: when something is full, it cannot take in anymore
27. carry: take with you
28. boat: you cross the water in this
29. frightened: very afraid
30. blow up: to destroy
31. Palace: a very big place where the king lives
32. guard: the man who stops the thieves to go in the palace
33. solution: what we should do for a problem
34. surprised: when you heard something new and sudden
35. Your Majesty: you use this to call a King
36. coach: a kind of car pulled by horses
37. madly: very fast (in this story)
38. tired: when you work a lot, you are tired
39. pull down: to destroy
40. soldier: a man of the king, very strong and he has a gun
41. great: very big
42. Cathedral: a large and important church
43. direction: left or right, up or down
44. centre: in the middle
45. instead: something in the place of something
46. wide: not narrow

TRISTAN & ISODE (Level Starter)

Tristan and Isolde are in love, but Isolde must marry King Mark. So a happy love story seems impossible...

The lovers meet every day but then, one night, King Mark finds them together. Now Tristan must leave the castle, but he is badly hurt and dying. Only Isolde can help him.

Can Isolde find Tristan in time? Can their love survive?

TRISTAN & ISODE

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Vocabulary:

1. king: the most important man in a country
2. nephew: your sister's (or brother's) son
3. fight: to hit someone again and again
4. sword: a long, sharp, knife for fighting
5. poison: something that kills people when they eat or drink it
6. at war: when two countries are fighting
7. wound: a hole hin the body from a knife or a sword
8. servant: a person who works for someone rich
9. boat: you go across water in this
10. potion: something that you drink to make you better, love someone, or die
11. fall in love: to begin loving
12. piece: some, but not all, of something
13. missing: not there
14. uncle: your father's (or mother's) brother
15. peace: not fighting
16. marry: to make someone your wife or husband
17. message: something that you tells another person to say to someone
18. sadly: not happily
19. maid: a woman who works in a person's house
20. ship: a big boat
21. heart: the centre of feeling in someone
22. unfriendly: not nice
23. cup: you drink from this
24. look after: to do things for someone or something that needs help
25. impossible: what cannot be
26. hate: not to love
27. full: with lots of something in
28. kiss: to touch lovingly with your mouth
29. lady: an important woman from a good family
30. castle: a big old building, a rich person lives here
31. welcome: we say this when someone arrives and we are happy to see them
32. wife: a woman living with a man
33. wedding: the time when two people marry
34. feast: a lot of good things to eat
35. put out: to stop something burning
36. torch: it burns and give light in the past people used them to see at night
37. harp: you make music on this instrument by pulling the strings with your fingers
38. hunt: to look for and kill animals
39. together: with someone or near to someone
40. jealous: feeling angry or sad because you want to have what someone has
41. lord: an important man from a good family
42. believe: to think that something is true
43. busy: with a lot of things to do
44. signal: something that you do to show someone a message from far away
45. lie: to say something that is not true
46. test: to do something to someone to learn what they can do
47. plan: when you get something ready before it happens
48. ride: to go on a horse
49. trust: to believe that someone is nice and good
50. husband: the man that a woman marries
51. stab: to push a knife into someone
52. dagger: a knife for killing people
53. fall: to go down suddenly
54. forever: for all time
55. letter: you write this to tell something to someone
56. sail: this uses wind to help something to move
57. news: when someone tells you something that is new
58. word: a thing that you say or write
59. save: to stop bad things happening to someone or something
60. shepherd: a man who looks after sheep
61. break: to make one thing into many little parts
62. bury: to put a dead body under the ground
63. grave: where you ury someone
64. rose: a flower, red or white in coloud, people often give roses to lovers
65. grow: to begin living and to get bigger

A SONG FOR BEN (Level 0)

Katie Brown, an American rock singer, visits London, where she makes friends with eight-year-old Ben. One day, white Katie is teaching him her latest song, Ben is snatched from under her eyes by kidnappers. Katie sees the kidnappers again on her way to the TV studios, and her song for Ben becomes the means to save his life.

A SONG FOR BEN

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Vocabulary:

1. album: a number of songs of a singer 
2. kidnap: to take a child away
3. ransom: the money the kidnappers ask the parents to give for the boy to come back
4. follow: to go after someone
5. sick: not in good health
6. Cheer up: you say this when you want someone to happy
7. clever: smart
8. inspector: am important person in the police

KIDNAP (Level 0)

One cold winter morning, a famous movie star and her teenage daughter are driving along a country road...

A blue van is waiting for them. Tom is in the van, but he's not a kidnapper - he's an artist. He usually draws pictures for adventure stories. Now he's in a real life adventure.

KIDNAP

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Vocabulary:

1. artist: a person who makes pictures
2. comic strip: a stroy with pictures
3. escape: to get away from something bad
4. gun: a person can fight with this
5. idea: something that you think
6. maybe: perhaps
7. winter: the time of year when it is very cold
8. snow: something soft, cold and white
9. bookstore: a shop for books
10. coffee: people often drink this in the morning
11. park: to stop driving and leave your car
12. paper: you write on this
13. fall: to go down suddenly
14. map: a picture that show where things are
15. draw: to make a picture with a pen or pencil
16. tow truck: a big car that can pull your car when it isn't working
17. cell phone: a phone that you carry with you
18. bodyguard: a strong person who protected famous people
19. van: a big car, with no side windows at the back
20. famous: when many people know a person
21. plan: when you get something ready to do later
22. kidnap: to take someone away when they don't want to go
23. real life: things that happens every day
24. police: men and women who stop people doing bad things
25. movie star: a famous person that you can see in moving pictures
26. holiday concert: a school event in which the students sing and play music in front of other people
27. boring: not interesting
28. almost: nearly
29. sure: when you feel something is true
30. ice: water that is hard when it is very cold
31. gas: gasoline or petrol, cars need this to work
32. hurry: to do something quickly
33. worried: not happy about something and thining about it a alot
34. boss: the person that you works for
35. place: where something is
36. show: to help someone to see something
37. magazine: a thin book with lots of pictures in it, you can buy it every week or every month
38. kid: to say something that is not true
39. throw: to make something move from your hand through the air
40. pocket: the place in your coat where you can put things
41. stupid: not thinking well
42. smart: quick-thinking
43. guy: man
44. great: very good
45. shout: to say loudly and angrily
46. scream: to give a loud high cry because you are afraid
47. shoot: to use a gun
48. hurt: in pain and not able to move
49. dangerous: that can kill you
50. skid: to move without control when going over ice
51. crash: a big noise when a car hits something and stops suddenly
52. jump: to move suddenly from one place to a different place
53. knock: to hit strongly
54. close: near
55. river: water that moves in a long line
56. bridge: people can go across a river on this
57. slip: to fall suddenly on ice
58. swim: to go through the water moving your amrs and legs
59. snowball: a ball that you make with snow and can throw at someone
60. freeze: not to move
61. police officer: a man or a woman that works for the police
62. push: to move something quickly and strongly with your hands
63. ground: we walk on this
64. baseball: a game that lots of people play in America, one throws a ball and another person hits it with a bat
65. pitcher: the person in a baseball team that throws the ball.