Silas Marner: Stage 4 (Oxford Bookworms S.)

by George Eliot (Author)

• Used

  Abridged
  1995

  $5.54

  Oxford Bookworms offer students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English. There are six stages, taking students from elementary to advanced level. At the lower stages, many of the texts have been specially written for the series, to provide elementary and lower-intermediate students with an introduction to real reading in English. At the higher stages, most of the books have been adapted from works originally published for native speakers. The language controls used in Oxford Bookworms are based on a syllabus specially created for the series by Tricia Hedge. This takes account of the more traditional approaches to grading and recent research into the nature of reading difficulty. The approximate vocabulary count for each stage is: Stage 1 - 400 words; Stage 2 - 700 words; Stage 3 - 1000 words; Stage 4 - 1400 words; Stage 5 - 1800 words; Stage 6 - 2500 words. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a supporting glossary to help students with vocabulary. Illustrations are used, especially at the lower stages, to help comprehension.

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $3.49

  This volume is part of a series of novels, plays and stories intended for use at GCSE level. Silas Marner is a linen weaver, working alone in his cottage. He loves only his gold, until he meets the abandoned golden-haired child of an opium addict. Each book in the series provides guidance and support to enable students to begin their GCSE work immediately, even on their own. The study material includes: the writer on writing - a section by or about the writer exploring the process of writing; an introduction for GCSE readers; guidance on keeping a reading log; a glossary; and a full study programme designed for the National Curriculum and GCSE syllabuses in English and English Literature. Although the study material is written with GCSE students in mind, it could also be used with A level students.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.49

  The New Windmills series provides unabridged versions of pre-20th-century novels, complete with an introduction, glossary, extended writing questions and activities. The sewn binding and hard laminated covers make them hardwearing for class use and excellent value for money.

• New

  Paperback
  1995

  $15.31

  Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread. It will feature writing in English from various genres and differing times. Silas Marner by George Eliot is edited by Mary Bousted of the University of York.

• New

  Hardcover
  1993

  $16.74

  When the weaver Silas Marner is wrongly accused of crime and expelled from his community, he becomes a miser and vows to turn his back on the world. But an etraordinary sequence of events, including the appearance of a tiny child in his cottage, melts Silas's heart and transforms his life. George Eliot's tender pastoral is at once a realistic story of rural life and a symbolic drama of sin and repentance, Written in her simplest style, it paints a vivid picture of a rural life long since vanished.