Adrián N. Bravi

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The Thirsty Tree. Big Book. Level C. Young Readers

Many great writers have been fluent in multiple languages but have never been able to escape their mother tongue. Yet if a native language feels like home, an adopted language sometimes offers a hospitality one cannot find elsewhere. My Language Is a Jealous Lover explores the plights and successes of authors who lived and wrote in languages other than their mother tongue, from Samuel Beckett and Vladimir Nabokov to Ágota Kristóf and Joseph Brodsky. Author Adrián N. Bravi weaves their stories in with his own experiences as an Argentinian-Italian, thinking and writing in the language of his new life while recalling that of his childhood. Bravi bears witness to the frustrations, the soul-searching, the pain, and the joys of embracing another language.

My Language Is a Jealous Lover

L'albero e la vacca

Valentina Russello

Helbling Young Readers is an exciting new series of graded readers for Primary Schools in 5 levels. Engaging stories with beautiful full-colour illustrations, specially written to appeal to young learners of English, introduce high-frequency words in order to promote fluency from an early age. Each story is carefully graded and language is presented both as lexical groups and language functions. Accompanying Interactive Whiteboard compatible CD-ROMs include a complete reading of the story, chants and games and link to the Young Readers website. All materials use an open type font which has been devised to help children with reading difficulties. All texts and recordings are in British English. The thirsty tree is on top of the hill under the hot sun. There is no water for the tree to drink and its leaves are yellow and thirsty, too. The tree asks Cloudbreak, a little bird with a sharp beak for help. Along with the wind's help Cloudbreak finds a cloud and gets some water for the tree.

Level C

The Thirsty Tree

Adrián N. Bravi

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