Hickory Dickory Dock: Level 5, B2+ (Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers)
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Hickory Dickory Dock: Level 5, B2+ (Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers)
By (Author) Agatha Christie
HarperCollins Publishers
Collins
26th July 2012
3rd May 2012
United Kingdom
Classifications
ELT/ESL
Non Fiction
428.64
Physical Properties
Paperback
128
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 8mm
80g
Description
Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).
Each reader includes:
Audio with a reading of the adapted story
Helpful notes on characters
Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot
A glossary of the more difficult words
Strange items have disappeared from the student hostel on Hickory Road and Mrs Hubbard, the warden, is becoming suspicious.
Detective Hercule Poirot has been a little bored recently and decides to try to solve the mystery. But the investigation turns sinister when one of the students is found poisoned in her room.
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
Author Bio
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign countries. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.
