The Elephant Man (Level 1)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: The Elephant Man (Level 1) Short description: He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'. Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film. (Click CC button to turn on/off...

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The Secret Garden (Level 3)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: The Secret Garden (Level 3) Short description: Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden . . . which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key. (Click CC button to turn on/off subtitles. Click the rectangle button at down-right...

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London (Level 1)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles - Factfiles: London (Levels 1) Short description: Come with us to London - a city as old as the Romans, and as new as the twenty-first century. There are places to go - from Oxford Street to Westminster Abbey, from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to Wimbledon Tennis Club. And things to do - ride on the London Eye, visit the markets, go to the theatre, run in the London Marathon. Big, beautiful, noisy, exciting...

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Far from the Madding Crowd (Level 3)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Far from the Madding Crowd (Level 3) Short description: Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man's world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When...

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Three Men in a Boat (Level 4)

Short description: 'I like work. I find it interesting ... I can sit and look at it for hours.' With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a cold, wet morning. This famous book has made people laugh all over the world for a hundred years ... and they are still laughing. (Click CC button...

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