True Stories 3 /
Pre-publication title: More true stories student book with essential online resources level 3 : silver edition
Sandra Heyer ; illustrations, Don Martinetti.
- Silver ed.
- Hoboken, NJ : Pearson Education, 2019.
- ix, 104 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
- True Stories (Pearson) .
- True stories series (White Plains, N.Y.) .
"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 low-intermediate 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 475 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 Introduction Acknowledgments From the Author Unit 1 Puppy Love Unit 2 Surprise! It's Your Wedding! Unit 3 Bad News, Good News Unit 4 The Twins of Siam Unit 5 The Baby Exchange Unit 6 The Ghost Unit 7 The Way Home Unit 8 Everybody's Baby Unit 9 Pay It Forward Unit 10 Please Pass the Bird Brains Unit 11 Margaret Patrick... Meet Ruth Eisenberg Unit 12 Finders Keepers? Unit 13 The Husband Unit 14 The Auction Unit 15 Money to Burn Unit 16 The School and the Stamp Unit 17 A Long Fishing Trip Unit 18 The Surgeon Unit 19 Customer Service? Unit 20 The Mermaid Balloon Unit 21 The Two Lives of Mary Sutton Unit 22 Two Strangers Answer Key Credits
9780135177938 (pbk) 0135177936 (pbk)
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers. Readers (Adult) Readers for new literates. High interest-low vocabulary books. A2-B1 (CEFR). Low-intermediate.