Black Tulip (with CD)

Author: Alexandre Dumas
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press French Graded Readers, a joyful reading experience with a new concept! This series follows teaching principles, classifies works by difficulty level into four grades—beginner, intermediate, advanced, and challenge—improving reading skills progressively from easy to difficult. The design is creative and highly readable. The stories are engaging, the language vivid, and the book is accompanied by rich exercises and beautiful audio recordings, making it an excellent tool for beginners to enhance their practical language skills! The Black Tulip: The story takes place in the Netherlands during the reign of Louis XIV in the 17th century. Young Cornelius is inventing a marvelous flower: the black tulip. However, an unexpected event thrusts him out of the laboratory and onto a perilous journey. Can he overcome the challenges and cultivate the black tulip? Through this simplified French adaptation of Dumas' novel, you will learn the story's full context. You can study and reinforce grammar through listening exercises, phonetic exercises, grammar and vocabulary exercises, and interactive activities, all while having fun. The book includes three informative articles to help you better understand King Louis XIV, the Sun King, and his palace at Versailles; it will enable you to speak the language of flowers, just as Cornelius does with the tulip.