Angielski
Treasure Island - With Audio Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library
Stevenson, Robert Louis
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. 'Suddenly, there was a high voice screaming in the darkness: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" It was Long John Silver's parrot, Captain Flint! I turned to run . . .' But young Jim Hawkins does not escape from the pirates this time. Will he and his friends find the treasure before the pirates do? Will they escape from the island, and sail back to England with a ship full of gold?
Treasure Island Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library
Stevenson, Robert Louis
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott 'Suddenly, there was a high voice screaming in the darkness: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" It was Long John Silver's parrot, Captain Flint! I turned to run . . .' But young Jim Hawkins does not escape from the pirates this time. Will he and his friends find the treasure before the pirates do? Will they escape from the island, and sail back to England with a ship full of gold?
Trzej muszkieterowie - Les Trois Mousquetaires - The Three Musketeers
Aleksander Dumas
Alexandre Dumas / Aleksander Dumas (ojciec / pre / father) Trzej muszkieterowie / Les Trois Mousquetaires / The Three Musketeers / tekst w trzech językach: Polski / Français / Englisch Akcja powieści jest osadzona w pierwszej połowie XVII wieku we Francji i Anglii. Jest jedną z najsłynniejszych powieści Aleksandra Dumasa oraz powieści płaszcza i szpady. Została wielokrotnie zekranizowana i przetłumaczona na wiele języków. Francja, rok 1625. Krajem rządzi Ludwik XIII, ale faktycznym władcą jest żądny władzy kardynał Richelieu. Osiemnastoletni Gaskończyk d'Artagnan opuszcza rodzinne Tarbes, by wstąpić do elitarnej formacji muszkieterów królewskich. Na pożegnanie otrzymuje od matki przepis na maść leczącą wszystkie rany, zaś od ojca szpadę, list polecający do kapitana muszkieterów de Tréville'a, a także polecenie, żeby pojedynkować się z każdym, kto go obrazi. W przydrożnej karczmie w miasteczku Meung zaczepia człowieka, który śmieje się z jego konia. Nieznajomy nie chce jednak walczyć i wysyła swoich ludzi, którzy biją dArtagnana i łamią mu szpadę ojca. Tajemniczy człowiek kradnie chłopakowi list polecający do kapitana, po czym spotyka się z równie tajemniczą Milady. D'Artagnan przybywa do Paryża... (https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trzej_muszkieterowie) A co było dalej, dowiesz się drogi czytelniku po przeczytaniu książki. Les Trois Mousquetaires est un roman d'Alexandre Dumas. Le roman raconte les aventures d'un Gascon impécunieux de 18 ans, d'Artagnan, venu Paris pour faire carrire dans le corps des mousquetaires. Il se lie d'amitié avec Athos, Porthos et Aramis, mousquetaires du roi Louis XIII. Ces quatre hommes vont s'opposer au premier ministre, le cardinal de Richelieu et ses agents, dont le comte de Rochefort et la belle et mystérieuse Milady de Winter, pour sauver l'honneur de la reine de France Anne d'Autriche. (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Trois_Mousquetaires) The Three Musketeers is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized in MarchJuly 1844. Set in the 17th century, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those being his friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis, inseparable friends who live by the motto "all for one, one for all" ("tous pour un, un pour tous"), a motto which is first put forth by d'Artagnan. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers)
Ukryty klejnot błękitny karbunkuł. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Przygoda dzieje się w okresie świąt Bożego Narodzenia. Znajomy Sherlocka Holmesa posłaniec Peterson jest świadkiem nocnej awantury. Wkracza, aby pomóc biednej ofierze pijanemu starcowi, napastowanemu przez chuliganów. Jednak ten, po nieumyślnym wybiciu szyby w sklepie, ucieka pozostawiając na ulicy podniszczony kapelusz i dorodną gęś. Peterson bez wahania zabiera te rzeczy do Holmesa. Sherlock dedukuje z kapelusza cechy właściciela, a gęś oddaje Petersonowi. Wkrótce w gęsi znaleziony zostaje błękitny karbunkuł skradziony w hotelu bogatej hrabinie Morcar. (za Wikipedią).
Under the Moon - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Akinyemi, Rowena
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Rowena Akinyemi. It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die . . . In a colony under the moon, people wait for news - news from home, news from the planet Earth. And in a spaceship high above Earth, a young man watches numbers on a computer screen. The numbers tell a story, and the young man is afraid. The planet Earth is burning, burning, burning . . .
Under the Moon Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Akinyemi, Rowena
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Rowena Akinyemi It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die . . . In a colony under the moon, people wait for news - news from home, news from the planet Earth. And in a spaceship high above Earth, a young man watches numbers on a computer screen. The numbers tell a story, and the young man is afraid. The planet Earth is burning, burning, burning . . .
Upiór rodu Canterville'ów. Angielski z Oscarem Wilde\'em
Oscar Wilde
Książka dwujęzyczna ** ANGIELSKI + POLSKI + AUDIOBOOK **. ** CZYTASZ ** ROZUMIESZ ** ODSŁUCHUJESZ ** UCZYSZ SIĘ JĘZYKA ** Proponujemy czytanie ciekawych książek **W JĘZYKU ORYGINALNYM** z wplecionym polskim tłumaczeniem. Cała treść jest podzielona na akapity. Najpierw czytamy akapit **Z TŁUMACZENIEM**, następnie czytamy tę samą treść bez tłumaczenia, czyli "płyniemy bez asekuracji". Dodatkowo książka posiada QR code do **AUDIOBOOK**, żeby ćwiczyć wymowę. Mózg łączy obcojęzyczne i polskie znaczenia w jedną całość, a czytelnik **UCZY SIĘ JĘZYKA Z PRZYJEMNOŚCIĄ I PRZY OKAZJI**. Z serii mogą korzystać osoby zarówno początkujące i średniozaawansowane (czytając najpierw część z tłumaczeniem, a potem bez tłumaczenia), jak i osoby zaawansowane (czytając w odwrotnej kolejności albo tylko oryginalną treść). ** PEŁNY ORYGINALNY TEKST ** 100 % POLSKIEGO TŁUMACZENIA ** AUDIOBOOK ** Upiór rodu Canterville'ów - to często ekranizowane, zabawne opowiadanie grozy. Otóż duch, od wieków zamieszkujący zamek, który kupili gruboskórni Amerykanie, już całkowicie stracił nadzieję, że uda mu się kiedykolwiek ich przestraszyć. Ale urocza córka Amerykanina poznaje historię upiora i ratuje go od męki przeszłości. ** Pracujemy starannie nad tym, żeby odkrywać dla Ciebie urok oryginalnego języka, zawarty w każdej książce.
Vanity Fair - With Audio Level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library
Thackeray, William
A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat. When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortunes soon rise, while Amelia's fall. Greed, ambition, loyalty, folly, wisdom . . . this famous novel gives us a witty and satirical picture of English society during the Napoleonic wars.
Vanity Fair Level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library
Thackeray, William
A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortunes soon rise, while Amelia's fall. Greed, ambition, loyalty, folly, wisdom . . . this famous novel gives us a witty and satirical picture of English society during the Napoleonic wars.
Variability in English across time and space
Ewa Waniek-Klimczak, Anna Cichosz
Synchronic variability in the area of phonetics, phonology, vocabulary, morphology and syntax is a natural feature of any language, including English. The existence of competing variants is in itself a fascinating phenomenon, but it is also a prerequisite for diachronic changes. This volume is a collection of studies which investigate variability from a contemporary and historical perspective, in both native and non-native varieties of English. The topics include Middle English spelling variation, lexical differences between Middle English dialects, Late Middle and Early Modern English forms of address, Middle English negation patterns, the English used by Polish immigrants living in London, lexical fixedness in native and non-native English used by Polish learners, and the phenomenon of phonetic imitation in Polish learners of English. The book should be of interest to anyone interested in English linguistics, especially English phonetics and phonology as well as history of English, historical dialectology and pragmatics.
Jacek Tadeusz Waliński
This book presents a corpus-based study of verbs used in expressions of fictive motion, which refers to the cognitive-linguistic phenomenon of describing material objects incapable of movement in terms of motion over their configuration in space. The study focuses specifically on the category of coextension paths, which are used to describe the form, orientation, or location of a spatially extended object in terms of a path over the object’s extent. The analysis, carried out using the British National Corpus, indicates that in English only a fraction of motion verbs are used consistently to express coextension paths, and that some of them are used for this purpose far more systematically than others. A holographic image of structuring coextension paths that emerges from the linguistic data indicates that whereas directional motion verbs tend to be used in fictive motion to express bounded paths, directions, and routes, verbs of motion manner are employed to specify shapes constituting subjective counterparts of spatial contours of actual motion. Moreover, depending on the particular use and the wider linguistic context, certain coextension path expressions can be interpreted as a result of conceptual blending, which fuses multiple facets of motion via a common communicative platform established dynamically in discourse. From the perspective of the analysis, these interpretations are not mutually irreconcilable. The evocation of a particular conceptualization triggered by the semantic attributes conflated in a verb and its satellites is likely to depend not only on individual comprehension strategies, but also on the degree of cultural-linguistic conventionalization of certain fictive motion patterns established through the processes of language acquisition and social transfer.
Voodoo Island - With Audio Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Duckworth, Michael
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Michael Duckworth. Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti. There is only one old man who still visits the graveyard; and Mr Conway is not afraid of one old man. But the old man has friends - friends in the graveyard, friends who lie dead, under the ground. And when Mr Conway starts to build his houses, he makes the terrible mistake of disturbing the sleep of the dead . . .
Voodoo Island Level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library
Duckworth, Michael
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Michael Duckworth Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti. There is only one old man who still visits the graveyard; and Mr Conway is not afraid of one old man. But the old man has friends - friends in the graveyard, friends who lie dead, under the ground. And when Mr Conway starts to build his houses, he makes the terrible mistake of disturbing the sleep of the dead . . .
W obronie czci kobiecej. The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
Arthur Conan Doyle
Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. Holmes powiadamia Watsona, że lady Ewa Blackwell, narzeczona lorda Dovercourt, jest prześladowana przez Milvertona, zwanego królem szantażystów. Osobnik ten żąda od niej dużej sumy pieniędzy w zamian listy miłosne lady do jej kochanka grożąc, że w przeciwnym razie ujawni je, co doprowadzi do zerwania zaręczyn. Detektyw poproszony został o wynegocjowanie obniżenia ceny okupu do wysokości, którą lady Ewa byłaby w stanie spłacić, Milverton jest jednak nieugięty. Wyjaśnia, że planuje kilka podobnych spraw i zamierza w ten sposób zastraszyć inne ofiary, które przestaną go lekceważyć. Oburzony tupetem szantażysty Holmes chce go zrewidować, tamten pokazuje jednak, że ma broń i dodaje naiwnością byłoby sądzić, że noszę takie papiery przy sobie. Na pytanie doktora, czy taki proceder jest bezkarny, detektyw wyjaśnia, że należałoby pozwać szantażystę do sądu i udowodnić mu wymuszenie, co oznaczałoby upublicznienie sprawy, czego ofiary starają się uniknąć. (za Wikipedią).
Jack London
“War of the Classes” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. War of the Classes is a series of essays by Jack London. The collection consists of these titles: The Class Struggle, The Tramp, The Scab, The Question of the Maximum,A Review, Wanted: A New Land of Development, How I Became a Socialist.
Washington Square - With Audio Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library
James, Henry
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Kieran McGovern. When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to the front parlour of her home in Washington Square to whisper soft words of love to her. But in New York in the 1840s young ladies are not free to marry where they please. Catherine must have her father's permission, and Dr Sloper is a rich man. One day Catherine will have a fortune of 30,000 dollars a year . . .