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The Olympic Games
Take three million spectators and seven thousand competitors. Organize twenty-one sports with three hundred gold medals for the winners. The results, after months of planning, hard work and money is the modern Olympic Games, 'the greatest show on earth'.
This is the story of the Olympic Movement. The author is Bruce Tulloh, who knows what it feels like to be at the Games as athlete, journalist and spectator. He competed in the Rome Olympics in 1960. He also ran in the Commonwealth Games in 1962 and 1966, and was a gold-medalist in the 1962 European Games.
Heinemann Guided Readers U5 - Upper Level
Readers at Upper Level are intended as an aid to students which will start them on the road to reading unsimplified books in the whole range of English literature. At the same time, the content and language of the Readers at Upper Level are carefully controlled with the following main features:
Information Control As at other levels in the series, information that is vital for the development of a story is carefully presented in the text and then reinforced through the Points for Understanding section. Some background refeences may be unfamiliar to students, but these are explained in the text and in the Glossary. Care is taken with pronoun reference.
Structure Control Students can expect to meet those structures covered in any basic English Course. Particularly difficult structures, such as complex nominal groups and embedded clauses, are used sparingly. Clauses and phrases within sentences are carefully balanced and sentence lenght is limited to a maximum of four clausesin nearly all cases.
Vocabulary Control At Upper Leve,l there is a basic vocabulary of approximately 2,200 words. At the same time, students are given the opportunity to meet new words, including simple idiomatic and figurative English usages that are clearly expained in the Glossary.
This is the story of the Olympic Movement. The author is Bruce Tulloh, who knows what it feels like to be at the Games as athlete, journalist and spectator. He competed in the Rome Olympics in 1960. He also ran in the Commonwealth Games in 1962 and 1966, and was a gold-medalist in the 1962 European Games.
Heinemann Guided Readers U5 - Upper Level
Readers at Upper Level are intended as an aid to students which will start them on the road to reading unsimplified books in the whole range of English literature. At the same time, the content and language of the Readers at Upper Level are carefully controlled with the following main features:
Information Control As at other levels in the series, information that is vital for the development of a story is carefully presented in the text and then reinforced through the Points for Understanding section. Some background refeences may be unfamiliar to students, but these are explained in the text and in the Glossary. Care is taken with pronoun reference.
Structure Control Students can expect to meet those structures covered in any basic English Course. Particularly difficult structures, such as complex nominal groups and embedded clauses, are used sparingly. Clauses and phrases within sentences are carefully balanced and sentence lenght is limited to a maximum of four clausesin nearly all cases.
Vocabulary Control At Upper Leve,l there is a basic vocabulary of approximately 2,200 words. At the same time, students are given the opportunity to meet new words, including simple idiomatic and figurative English usages that are clearly expained in the Glossary.
72 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1976
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