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Amazing Scientists
Collins Amazing People ELT Readers (Related to this series)
- Narrator
- Collins
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 13 July 2017
- Run Time
- 1 hour 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Language readers
What to expect
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.
Contents:
Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first modern chemistry textbook
Humphry Davy who discovered ‘laughing gas’
Charles Darwin who changed people’s ideas with his theory of evolution
Gregor Mendel who first discovered the science of genetics
Louis Pasteur who saved millions of lives by killing germs
Francis Crick who helped to discover the structure of DNA
BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 13,021
Headword count: 1,064
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.
This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 3 is equivalent to CEF level 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 character’s 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 (A2–B1)
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.
Critics Review
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‘As a teacher using the Amazing People ELT Readers in an Extensive Reading Project, I’m 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 we’re swopping books is tangible.’
Hania Bociek, Zürich, Switzerland
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Details
- Author
- Adapted by Anne Collins, Series edited by Fiona MacKenzie
- Narrator
- Collins
- Duration
- 1 hour 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 July 2017
- ISBN
- 9780008268718
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Language readers
Synopsis
The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history. Contents:Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first modern chemistry textbookHumphry Davy who discovered ‘laughing gas’Charles Darwin who changed people’s ideas with his theory of evolutionGregor Mendel who first discovered the science of geneticsLouis Pasteur who saved millions of lives by killing germsFrancis Crick who helped to discover the structure of DNA BRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 13,021Headword count: 1,064 PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials. This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series.Level 3 is equivalent to CEF level 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 character’s 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 (A2–B1)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.
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