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 1A, is the lowest level in the Silver Edition of the True Stories series. It is intended for beginning learners of English. It consists of 20 four-page units, each with the following distinguishing features: The pre-reading task has students listen to each story while looking at illustrations that recreate the story's narrative.
Each story has an average length of just over 200 words.
There is an overlap in level with True Stories 1B so that students can smoothly transition from this book to the next book in the series.
The stories are told in the simple present, present progressive, and future tenses, with occasional use of the past tense.
Writing exercises are dictations, sentence completions, and composition of single sentences." (Introduction, pp. iv-v)

CONTENTS

Introduction

Acknowledgments

From the Author

Unit 1 The Big TVs

Unit 2 The Man in the Blue Car

Unit 3 Mr. Venezuela

Unit 4 Hot Soup

Unit 5 Give Me the Money!

Unit 6 Looking for Love

Unit 7 License, Please

Unit 8 Election Day

Unit 9 The Best Doctor

Unit 10 Larry's Favourite Shirt

Unit 11 What a Boy! What a Toy!

Unit 12 The Flying Lesson

Unit 13 Two Happy Men

Unit 14 Speed

Unit 15 The Kind Waitress

Unit 16 Grandfather Hada's Favourite Soup

Unit 17 No More Housework!

Unit 18 The Bottle

Unit 19 Whose Money Is It?

Unit 20 The Gold Ring

Key to Guessed Answers

Dictation Preparation Directions

Answer Key

Credits