Track the Blue Snake Incredible India: Mysterious Adventure

Author: (Australia) Thompson
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: This series includes 8 exciting stories, each with a length of 2,500-3,000 words and a vocabulary of approximately 450 words. The young protagonists in each story are selected by the "Mystery Global Adventure Team (SWAT)" to be sent to a country or city to complete a special mission, such as rescuing elephants in Africa, assisting in solving computer game production challenges in Japan, and so on. Readers can experience many unforgettable exotic landscapes and cultural customs while following the protagonists on their thrilling missions. The stories extensively showcase the everyday language of teenagers in English-speaking countries, with vivid and realistic plots. Each book in the series opens with a double-page illustration, providing a geographical map of the mysterious adventure destination in the story, as well as information on population, currency, and tourist cultural attractions. To help some readers overcome difficulties and increase interest, a Chinese "plot summary" is provided before each story; the questions in "Think Before Reading" help spark reading interest; readers who enjoy computers can also choose online paths from "Explore Websites Related to the Stories" to learn more interesting facts and broaden their horizons. The "Read a Story, Learn Spoken English" excerpts at the end of the book include popular, vivid, and practical English sentences among teenagers; teachers or parents can guide students in reading activities around the "Reading Reflection Questions." Key vocabulary and language points in the stories are listed as footnotes at the bottom of the page, and a detailed "Glossary" is also provided at the back. This series is suitable for students in the sixth grade of primary school and the first grade of junior high school.
Anpo and Jeremy were hardly friends at all. Everyone knew Jeremy was a notorious oddball at school, and he had the nickname O.B. (OddBall). One day after school, Anpo unfortunately was the last one to catch the bus and had no choice but to sit next to Jeremy, the one everyone called O.B. This made Anpo very upset. However, as the bus started moving, a stranger suddenly slipped a note into Anpo's hand. It turned out that the Mystery Global Adventure Team (SWAT) had sent Anpo and Jeremy on an urgent mission: to help the snake charmer Habibi in Mumbai, India, find his missing blue-eyed snake. After arriving in Mumbai, Anpo and Jeremy visited the wizard with Habibi and came to the Ganges River to pray, asking the gods to help them find the blue-eyed snake. They followed the trail from the Ganges River all the way to the Taj Mahal, but still couldn't find any trace of the magical blue-eyed snake. Just as Habibi was about to give up, Jeremy unexpectedly discovered...