Amazing Mathematicians : A2-B1 (Collins Amazing People ELT Readers)

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The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sun
Ren Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said I think, therefore I am
Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity works
Carl Friedrich Gauss, the Prince of Mathematicians
Charles Babbage who invented computers
Ada Lovelace who wrote the first computer program

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 8,351
Headword count: 790

Each book includes a full recording of each story online.
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.

This book is Level 2 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 2 is equivalent to CEF level A2-B1.

About the Amazing People series:
A unique opportunity for learners of English to read about the exceptional lives and incredible abilities of some of the most insightful people the world has seen.

Each book contains six short stories, told by the characters themselves, as if in their own words. The stories explain the most significant parts of each characters life, giving an insight into how they came to be such an important historic figure.

After each story, a timeline presents the most major events in their life in a clear and succinct fashion. The timeline is ideal for checking comprehension or as a basis for project work or further research.

Created in association with The Amazing People Club.

About Collins ELT Readers:
Collins ELT Readers are divided into four levels:
Level 1 elementary (A2)
Level 2 pre-intermediate (A2B1)
Level 3 intermediate (B1)
Level 4 upper intermediate (B2)
Each level is carefully graded to ensure that the learner both enjoys and benefits from their reading experience.

Reviews

As a teacher using the Amazing People ELT Readers in an Extensive Reading Project, Im as happy as my students are: motivating topics/real people, interesting facts and a great alternative to Graded Reader fiction. Having said that, the same class is also reading books from the Agatha Christie series, and enjoying them very much. Their Reading Diaries are full of questions, speculation about who-dunnit and comments about unputdownability. The buzz in the classroom when were swopping books is tangible.
Hania Bociek, Zrich, Switzerland

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