Readings

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In this section, you will find various documents to read: short stories, novels' excerpts, ... to improve your reading comprehension.

                Novels extracts:

- The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons by Dan BROWN,
Fever Pitch by Nick HORNBY (for those who like football),
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GOLDEN,
Gangsta Rap by Benjamin ZEPHANIA,
- The Fellowship of the Rings + audio extract: mp3, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion by J.R.R. TOLKIEN,
- Journey to the Center of the earth by Jules VERNE,
- The Green Mile by Stephen KING, Stephen KING's biography
(by MacMillan Readers),

                  Short stories:

- The Tell-Tale Heart (mp3), The Oval Portrait (mp3), The Fall of the House of Usher (mp3), The Masque of the Red Death (mp3), The Raven (mp3), The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and The Pendulum (mp3), The Cask of Amontillado (mp3) by Edgar Allan POE,

- The Landlady (with some useful vocabulary to help you to read it), Lamb to the Slaughter and Little Red Riding Hood revisited by Roald DAHL,

Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, a worksheet and its answers (by MacMillan Readers) .

- The Open Window (mp3) by SAKI,

- The Sniper, by Liam O'FLAHERTY, and a worksheet.

                   Poetry:

Talking Turkeys: Look at this video in which Benjamin ZEPHANIA says liberate turkeys from the tyranny of Christmas ! You can read the poem here.

              Liste de livres à lire

- Vous trouverez dans cette liste des oeuvres assez faciles et agréables à lire qui représentent, dans la littérature anglo-saxonne, le minimum que toute personne cultivée se doit d’avoir lu. Have a good read !

- Une autre liste compilée par une collègue (E. DESSASSIS) qui comprend aussi des oeuvres récentes.

 

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