Diamonds Are Forever

James Bond (Macmillan graded readers) #3

by John Escott (Adapter), Ian Fleming

No other description available.

95 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2009

About the author

John Escott started by writing children's books and comic scripts, but now writes and adapts books for students of all ages. He especially enjoys writing crime and mystery thrillers, and is a member of the British Crime Writers Association.

With Oxford University Press John has published London for the Oxford Bookworms Factfile series; Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery, Star Reporter, Girl on a Motorbike, The Fly and Other Horror Stories, and The Scarlet Letter for the Oxford Bookworms Library series; The Magician, Time for a Robbery, Star for a day, Tomorrow's Girl, and The Man with Three NAMEs for the Hotshot Puzzles series; and A Pretty Face for the Dominoes series.

Reviews

[Emre · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had a hard time at the beginning of the book. I think this is stage 3 book but it was a stage 4 book and it isn't like other stage 4 books. Its gramer is much harder than others.

Anyway, that was a good experiment. It was very useful to push myself a little bit. Even now I can feel my progress.

Also the story too not bad. I like it generally. I heard James Bond before but I didn't watch his movies or I didn't read his books. it was good to get an idea about it.

[Mauro Martinez · Rating 2 out of 5]

La adaptación de esta novela es muy adecuada para leerla en otro idioma. Resulta entretenida de principio a fin y es raro sentirse cansado mientras se lee. Además, la temática detectivesca suele ayudar a estos propósitos.

[Yukino · Rating 4 out of 5]

Macmillan, level 4
Time: 5/26= 70 minutes

7-word summary
Bond-agent-research-diamond-smuggling-beautiful-lady

Discussion question
Q:Have you ever got a real diamond?
- Yes. My mother gave me a necklace with a small diamond!
I was really really glad. It was for my 20th birthday.

I enjoyed Bond's story. The theme, diamond smuggling, was very interesting for me. Maybe this type of crimes still happens in the world today. This problem seemed really serious in this story.