Level 5: The Bride Price

Buchi Emecheta

ISBN 10: 0194792188 / ISBN 13: 9780194792189

Published by Oxford University ELT Jan 2008, 2008

About this Item

Neuware -Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.When her father dies, Aku-nna and her young brother have no one to look after them. They are welcomed by their uncle because of Aku-nna's 'bride price' - the money that her future husband will pay for her. In her new, strange home one man is kind to her and teaches her to become a woman. Soon they are in love, although everyone says he is not a suitable husband for her. The more the world tries to separate them, the more they are drawn together - until, finally, something has to break.CEFR B2Word count 22,620.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Level 5: The Bride Price
• Publisher: Oxford University ELT Jan 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0194792188
• ISBN 13: 9780194792189
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 198W x 131H x 9D millimeters 198 millimeters width by 131 millimeters height by 9 millimeters depth
• Weight: 125 grams

About this title

Synopsis

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students.

Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence.

Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension.

Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension.

Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

About the Author

Jennifer Bassett is Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Collection, for which she has written original stories One-Way Ticket and The President's Murderer.