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#[email protected]#sffi g @ # g g g G G ru ffi ffi # ##9sruffi LADOUSSE GILLIANPORTER M E I AT N T E R RK YI L L S O X F O R DS U P P L E M E N T A S A:L A NM A L E Y S E R I EESD I T C R PRESS OXFORDUNIVERSITY Oxford University Press Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bombay Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto and associatedcompanies in Berlin Ibadan Oxford and. Oxford English ate trade marks of Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 4s340t 4 @ Oford University Press 1987 First published 1987 Fifth impression 1995 No unauthorized photocopying All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Oxford University Press. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Set by Promenade Graphics Ltd, Cheltenham Printed in Hong Kong Illustrations by: Victor Ambrus John Cooper Chris Duggan Tessa Richardson-Jones Alastair Taylor Studio and location photographg by: Rob Judges Mark Mason The publishers would like to thank the following for their permission to reproduce photographs: The J. Allan Cash Photo-Library Ancient Art and Architecture Collection (Ronald Sheridan's Photo-Library) BBC Hulton Picture Librarv Mary Dorrell The Kobal Collection Novosti Press Agency Rex Feaures Ltd The Ronald Grant Archive B-enita Stoney While the publishers have made every effort to trace copyright holders of material, we have not been able to clear permission in every case. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Acknowledgementsare madeto the followingwriters and publishers who have allowedus to use materialthat falls within their copyright: Bruno BettelheimandThamesandHudsonfor extractsfromThe Usesof Enchantment:Meaning and Irnportanceof Fairy TaLes(pages 42 and43); Bounty Books for an extract from 1000 Questionsamd Answers(page15); RoaldDahl andMichaelJosephandPenguin Books Ltd for extracts from Bitch n SwitchBitch (page38); Alan Duff for the play TheNewcorner(Unlt 6); GrahamGreeneandWilliam HeinemannLtd andThe BodleyHeadLtd for extractsfromThe Third Man (page11); The Guardian(28 August 1985)for an extract 'spy dust' (page8); Marx and Barber, and from an article about RobsonBooks Ltd for an extract from Harpo Speaks(page31); The Observer(1 September1985)for an extractfrom an articleabout spying (page10); Dorothy Parker and GeraldDuckworth and Co. Ltd for the introductionto A TelephoneCall from CollectedDorotlry Parker (page6); David Wallechinskyand Irving Wallace,and Bantam for extracts from TheBook of Lists (page33); Welfare and Fairley, and Trident InternationalTelevisionEnterprises Ltd andWilliam CollinsSonsand Co. Ltd for extractsfromArthur C Clarke's MysteriousWorld (Unit 5). CONTENTS Foreword uii Introduction to the teacher 1 ANIMALTALES 1 Readingfor gist 2 LONG-DISTANCE5 Interpretinga text 3 SPYSTORIES B Re-tellingstories NEW 12 4 MONUMENTS-OLDAND texts Organizing WORLD 17 5 MYSTERIOUS Readingleadingto discussion 6 THENEWCOMER21 Readingaloud 7 FAMILIES 29 Readingfor information 8 ASENSEOFSMELL34 Readingfor note-taking 40 9 THELESSONSOFLIFE Readingfor generalmeaning 10 AFTERTWENTYYEA
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