People love and need animals. They keep them in their homes and on their farms. They enjoy going to zoos, and watching animals on films and on TV. Little children love to play with toy animals. Bu…
'The bride wore a long white dress, with flowers in her hair. After the wedding, there was a party, and people gave presents to the bride and groom.' This wedding was nearly two thousand years ago,…
Everyone knows about Brazil's beautiful beaches, the Amazon Rainforest, and the wonderful Carnival of Rio de Janeiro. But where is a lot more to Brazil than this: here you can find interesting old …
Nick Lortz is sitting outside a cafe in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits net to him. She's young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to si…
What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? Smile, and do your best? Perhaps it's better to find a place where time doesn't matter …
Horseracing is the sport of kings, perhaps because racehorses are very expensive animals. But when they win racea, they can make a lot of money too - money for the owners, for the trainers, and for…
A woman and a man...words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her...It's an ol…
Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in an family than there is love. Karin is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister M…
I can see wonderful things!' said Howard Carter, when he opened the tomb of the Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun, in 1922. In the tomb were gold chariots, statues, and Tutankhamun's 3000-year-old body…
I'm afraid to look in the storeroom, All our food for the winter - where is it now? Inside those hungry guests! They never stop eating! And they never say thank you! And those children - my God, th…
1. Introduction 2. Equivalence at Word Level 3. Equivalence Above Word Level 4. Grammatical Equivalence 5. Textual Equivalence: Thematic and Information Structures 6. Textual Equivalence: Cohe…
Learning People Daily Life Education and Study Work and Business Leisure and Entertainment Communication and Technology Social Crimes Concepts Functional Language Word Formation Phrase B…
Alex's family are always moving form town to town. He doesn't make new friends now, because he doesn't like saying goodbye to them. He has his music, his songs, and his guitar, and they're only for…
Everybody took photos of Prince William when he first arrived at the University of St Andrews. Crowds at the people came to the little Scottish town to see this new student - the nineteen-year-old …
'One day, I'm going to be famous,' John Lennon said when he was young - and soon he was! His band The Beatles became one of the greatest in the world, and people loved them. After John Lennon went …
Hollywood - nine big white letters against the Hollywood Hills. Every year millions people come from all over the world and look up at this famous sign. Why do they come? They come to see the stars…
What is Japan? It is everything new and modern: the Tokyo Sky Tree, 634 metres high; amazing cameras and phones; karaoke and manga; trains going past at 300 kilometres an hour. And it is everything…
Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes frien…
Luke is a good-looking young man, but he's not very clever with words. Gemma is clever with words, but what does she want? Lucy and Becky are good friends, but what about Sam? He makes wonderful ca…
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 th…