3.9
The Body in the Library: B1 (Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers)
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 readers have been carefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading scheme to ensure that the language is at the correct level for an intermediate learner. This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 3 is equivalent to CEF level B1 with a word count of 11,000 - 20,000 words.
Each book includes:
* Full reading of the adapted version available for free online
* Helpful notes on characters
* Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot
* A glossary of the more difficult words
* Free online resources for students and teachers at
www.collinselt.com/readers
The plot:
Colonel Bantry and his wife Dolly live in a grand old house outside a small village. Nothing ever happens there.
Imagine their surprise when one morning they are woken by their maid who tells them that the body of a girl has been found in their study. Who is she? And how did she end up on their rug?
Dolly asks her friend Miss Marple to help discover the truth - can she help explain this mystery and clear Colonel Bantry's name?
About Collins ELT Readers
Collins ELT Readers are divided into 7 levels:
Level 1 - elementary (A2)
Level 2 - pre-intermediate (A2-B1)
Level 3 - intermediate (B1)
Level 4 - upper- intermediate (B2)
Level 5 - upper-intermediate+(B2+)
Level 6 - advanced (C1)
Level 7 - advanced + (C2)
Each level is carefully graded to ensure that the learner both enjoys and benefits from their reading experience.
EducationAdult & Continuing EducationSchoolsLevelsSecondaryForeign Language Study
RELEASED2017
PUBLISHERHarperCollins Publishers Limited
LENGTH96
LANGUAGEEN
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her husband, who had been having an affair. In 1930, she married Sir Max Mallowan, an archaeologist and a Catholic. She was happy in the early years of her second marriage, and did not divorce her husband despite his many affairs. She travelled with her husband's job, and set several of her novels set in the Middle East. Most of her other novels were set in a fictionalized Devon, where she was born. Agatha Christie is credited with developing the "cozy style" of mystery, which became popular in, and ultimately defined, the Golden Age of fiction in England in the 1920s and '30s, an age of which she is considered to have been Queen. In all, she wrote over 66 novels, numerous short stories and screenplays, and a series of romantic novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. She was the single most popular mystery writer of all time. In 1971 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
3.9
The Body in the Library: B1 (Collins Agatha Christie ELT Readers)
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 readers have been carefully adapted using the Collins COBUILD grading scheme to ensure that the language is at the correct level for an intermediate learner. This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series. Level 3 is equivalent to CEF level B1 with a word count of 11,000 - 20,000 words.
Each book includes:
* Full reading of the adapted version available for free online
* Helpful notes on characters
* Cultural and historical notes relevant to the plot
* A glossary of the more difficult words
* Free online resources for students and teachers at
www.collinselt.com/readers
The plot:
Colonel Bantry and his wife Dolly live in a grand old house outside a small village. Nothing ever happens there.
Imagine their surprise when one morning they are woken by their maid who tells them that the body of a girl has been found in their study. Who is she? And how did she end up on their rug?
Dolly asks her friend Miss Marple to help discover the truth - can she help explain this mystery and clear Colonel Bantry's name?
About Collins ELT Readers
Collins ELT Readers are divided into 7 levels:
Level 1 - elementary (A2)
Level 2 - pre-intermediate (A2-B1)
Level 3 - intermediate (B1)
Level 4 - upper- intermediate (B2)
Level 5 - upper-intermediate+(B2+)
Level 6 - advanced (C1)
Level 7 - advanced + (C2)
Each level is carefully graded to ensure that the learner both enjoys and benefits from their reading experience.
EducationAdult & Continuing EducationSchoolsLevelsSecondaryForeign Language StudyEnglish as a Second LanguageSpanish
RELEASED2017
PUBLISHERHarperCollins Publishers Limited
LENGTH96
LANGUAGEEN
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her husband, who had been having an affair. In 1930, she married Sir Max Mallowan, an archaeologist and a Catholic. She was happy in the early years of her second marriage, and did not divorce her husband despite his many affairs. She travelled with her husband's job, and set several of her novels set in the Middle East. Most of her other novels were set in a fictionalized Devon, where she was born. Agatha Christie is credited with developing the "cozy style" of mystery, which became popular in, and ultimately defined, the Golden Age of fiction in England in the 1920s and '30s, an age of which she is considered to have been Queen. In all, she wrote over 66 novels, numerous short stories and screenplays, and a series of romantic novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. She was the single most popular mystery writer of all time. In 1971 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
