Wonderful Life, Volume 1: Stories of Legendary Figures: Stories of Legendary Figures

Author: Bruce
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: The book series "Famous Lives – Stories of Legendary Figures" has three distinctive features. Broad cultural perspective. The entire series collects the stories of nearly 70 legendary figures, whose life experiences and personalities vary greatly, but all have made significant contributions to the progress of the world. Logical tier progression. Based on the length and difficulty of the selections, the series is arranged into 3 volumes: Beginning, High Beginning, and Intermediate, catering to readers with different levels of proficiency. Balances classroom practice and self-study improvement. The dozens of selections included in the series provide readers with abundant English extensive reading materials. The systematic exercises—such as word definitions, comprehension questions, discussion topics, and writing practice—centered around each selection meet the intensive reading needs of learners in the classroom. "Famous Lives – Stories of Legendary Figures" is an intermediate-level English reading series, designed for students of English as a second language or foreign language. The first volume features biographies of 24 figures, including William Shakespeare, Louis XIV, Florence Nightingale, Emily Dickinson, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Marie Curie, Mrs. C. J. Walker, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Jean Paul Getty, Osera McCarthy, Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Minoru Shoma, Akio Morita, Maria Callas, César Chávez, Anne Frank, Robert Clemente, Jane Goodall, Pelé, Muhammad Ali, Anita Roddick, and Diana, Princess of Wales.