Includes Key to Guessed Answers as well as the Answer Key.

"The Silver Edition of True Stories is a five-level reading series. The series is appropriate for beginning to high-intermediate learners of English as a Second or Foreign Language. The Silver Edition consists of revised editions of six of the highly successful and popular True Stories in the News books that have provided entertaining stories and effective reading skill instruction for many years. In fact, the first book in that series was published over twenty-five years ago (hence the tilte "Silver Edition"). The True Stories series has been going strong ever since. [...]

True Stories, Level 2, is the third book in the Silver Edition of the True Stories series. It is intended for high-beginning learners of English. It consists of 22 four-page units, each with the following distinguishing features:
The pre-reading task has students look at a photo that prompts them to speculate on the content of the story.
Each story has an average length of 350 words.
The stories are told in the simple past, past progressive, and future tenses.
Writing exercises require students to fill in a chart, complete sentences, compose single sentences, or write a short paragraph." (Introduction, pp.iv-v)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

From the Author

Unit 1 Dish Soap for Dinner

Unit 2 A New Man

Unit 3 The Runner

Unit 4 The Love Letters

Unit 5 Bad Luck, Good Luck

Unit 6 Lost and Found

Unit 7 Try, Try Again

Unit 8 Man's Best Friend

Unit 9 The Coin

Unit 10 Love or Baseball?

Unit 11 The First Day

Unit 12 The Winning Ticket

Unit 13 Thank You

Unit 14 Together Again

Unit 15 Saved By the Bell

Unit 16 This is the Place for Me

Unit 17 Nicole's Party

Unit 18 A Strong Little Boy

Unit 19 The Champion

Unit 20 The Bottle

Unit 21 The Last Laugh

Unit 22 Old Friends

Key to Guessed Answers

Answer Key

Credits