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. [...]

rue Stories, Level 1B, is the second book 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 275 words. There is an overlap in level with True Stories 1A to ensure a smooth transition from that book to this. The stories are told in the simple present, present progressive, and future tenses, with occasional use of the past tense. Writing exercises are sentence completions and composition of single sentences." (Introduction, pp. iv-v)

CONTENT

Introduction

Acknowledgments

From the Author

UNIT 1 Hawaiian Vacation

UNIT 2 The Birthday Present

UNIT 3 Anna's Choice

UNIT 4 Hold On, Joe

UNIT 5 A Problem with Monkeys

UNIT 6 Alone for 43 Years

UNIT 7 An Easy Job

UNIT 8 The Power of Love

UNIT 9 The Pet Rabbit

UNIT 10 The Escape

UNIT 11 The Cheap Apartment

UNIT 12 Family for Rent

UNIT 13 The Car in Row B

UNIT 14 The Twins and the Truth

UNIT 15 Quality Control

UNIT 16 Nothing's Changed

UNIT 17 An Accidental Success

UNIT 18 Something from Home

UNIT 19 The Exchange

UNIT 20 The Gift

Answer Key

Credits