"The Silver Edition of True Stories is a five-level reading series. The series is appropriate for beginning to low-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 4 is the fifth book in the True Stories, Silver Edition series. It is intended for intermediate learners of English. It consists of 16 eight- to ten-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 3,000 words.
Writing exercises require students to write a dialog, a letter, a description, or a short essay about a personal experience.
Two-page "Challenge" readings at the end of every unit are at a slightly higher level and prepare students for the transition from controlled to authentic written English." (Introduction, pp. iv-v)

CONTENTS

Introduction

Acknowledgments

From the Author

UNIT 1 Love at First Sight

UNIT 2 The Semong (The Tsunami)

UNIT 3 More Alike Than Different

UNIT 4 Healthy Again

UNIT 5 If You Have Time

UNIT 6 The Buried City

UNIT 7 Misunderstandings

UNIT 8 A Real Bargain

UNIT 9 Black Cats and Broken Mirrors

UNIT 10 Flight 5390

UNIT 11 A Killer in the Back Seat

UNIT 12 How You Finish

UNIT 13 The Plain People

UNIT 14 Does Death Take a Holiday?

UNIT 15 Sucker Day

UNIT 16 Love under Siege

Key to Guessed Answers

"[This book] consists of 20 human-interest stories adapted from newspapers and magazines. The stories are told in simple yet natural language. Pre-reading drawings tell the stories visually and help students get ready for reading"--Page 4 of cover.