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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