The Lost World
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- 6,99 €
Publisher Description
A Step 2 Reading and Training graded reader, retold by Frederick Garland. In this story, which inspired King Kong and Jurassic Park, a team of brave explorers set out for a‘lost world’ in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
This reader uses the EXPANSIVE READING approach, where the text
becomes a springboard to improve language skills and to explore
historical background, cultural connections and other topics
suggested by the text. As well as the story, this reader contains:
• A wide range of interactive activities practising the four skills
• CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) activities
• Dossiers: ‘The Lost World’: a New Kind of Story and others
• PET-style and Trinity-style activities (Grade 5)
• A full recording of the text
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In 1912, Doyle took his Victorian readers deep into the South American jungles where, high atop a treacherous plateau, a small band of British explorers encountered a terrifying world of prehistoric creatures long thought lost to the sands of time. The adventurers included a young newspaper reporter, Ed Malone; the swashbuckling aristocrat, Lord Roxton; the skeptical scientist, Professor Summerlee; and the brilliant and bombastic Professor Challenger, who leads the party. Doyle unfolds high adventure at its best with fantastic encounters with pterodactyls, stegosaurs and cunning ape -men. Glen McCready's performance captures the time and tone of Doyle's material perfectly without straying into melodrama. He nicely balances Malone's sense of youthful wonder with the professors' scientific pragmatism, while fully exploiting the humor spread strategically throughout, planting numerous chuckles among the thrills. McCready's entertaining reading more than fulfills the author's introductory wish to "give one hour of joy to the boy who's half a man, or the man who's half a boy."
