Live And Let Die (Level 5)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Live And Let Die (Level 5) Short description: In Live and Let Die, Bond finds himself in Jamaica investigating the underworld criminal 'Mr Big', who is suspected of selling antique gold coins to finance Soviet spy operations. As usual, Bond gets caught up in many dangerous situations. He also falls in love with Mr Big's girlfriend, the mysterious and beautiful Solitaire. (Click CC button...

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World Wonders (Level 2)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: World Wonders (Level 2) Short description: What are the most beautiful, the most interesting, the most wonderful things in the world? The Great Pyramid, the Great Wall of China, the Panama Canal - everyone has their favourites. And there are natural wonders too - Mount Everest, Niagara Falls, and the Northern Lights, for example. Here is one person's choice of eleven wonders. Some of them are made...

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Dinosaurs (Level 3)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Dinosaurs (Level 3) Short description: Imagine an animal with teeth as big as bananas - and a brain as big as an orange. Or a flying animal with wings as wide as a small plane. Think about a tail that could knock a man's head off, or a mouth with hundreds of teeth. Is it any surprise that people are interested in dinosaurs? Nobody has ever seen a living dinosaur, but millions of us go every year...

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Lorna Doone (Level 4)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Lorna Doone (Level 4) Short description: One winter's day in 1673 young John Ridd is riding home from school, across the wild lonely hills of Exmoor. He has to pass Doone valley - a dangerous place, as the Doones are famous robbers and murderers. All Exmoor lives in fear of the Doones. At home there is sad news waiting for young John, and he learns that he has good reason to hate the Doones. But...

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Drive into Danger (Level 0)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Drive into Danger(Level 0) Short description: 'I can drive a truck,' says Kim on her first day at work in the office. When Kim's passenger Andy finds something strange under the truck things get dangerous - very dangerous. (Click CC button to turn on/off subtitles. Click the rectangle button at down-right corner to view fullscreen) Glossary Café: a place where people can eat and drink coffee:...

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Sense and Sensibility (Level 5)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Sense and Sensibility (Level 5) Short description: Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense - or for middle-aged men of thirty-five, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by the young, of course. And if your heart is broken at the age of seventeen,...

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Pride and Prejudice (Level 6)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Pride and Prejudice (Level 6) Short description: 'The moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be persuaded to marry,' said Elizabeth Bennet. And so Elizabeth rejects the proud Mr Darcy. Can nothing overcome her prejudice against him? And what of the other Bennet girls - their fortunes, and misfortunes, in the business of getting husbands? This famous novel by Jane...

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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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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Level 4)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Level 4) Short description: Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes. (Click CC button to turn...

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A Kiss Before Dying (Level 4)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: A Kiss Before Dying(Level 4) Short description: Upon learning that his girlfriend is pregnant, a young man cold-bloodedly adjusts his plans for marrying into a wealthy industrialist family. Throughout his life he has used his intelligence, striking good looks, and as a last resort, his ruthless and violent strength to achieve his goals. He refuses to be stopped now―especially by something as trivial as a pregnant girlfriend. (Click CC button to turn on/off subtitles. Click the rectangle button...

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Skyjack! (Level 3)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: Skyjack!(Level 3) Short description: When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened. There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is! And there isn't much time. One man lies dead on the runway....

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The Call of The Wild (Level 3)

Learn English Through Story - Subtitles: The Call of The Wild(Level 3) Short description: When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow...and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again. (Click CC button to turn on/off subtitles. Click...

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