SUMMER READINGS. 2 ESO

Summer is long and you’ll have time for lots of things… so we highly recommend you some English readings. 

Choose some books from the list, read them, and write a summary, comment, opinion, mind map, timeline… about it. There are different levels for you to choose too!

You can give it to your teacher next year, he/she will value it.

SUGGESTED READINGS

* JAPAN by Rachel Bladon  Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles Level 1.   ISBN: 978-0-19-423669-0

What is Japan? It is everything new and modern: the Tokyo Sky Tree, 634 metres high; amazing cameras and phones; karaoke and manga; trains going past at 300 kilometres an hour. And it is everything ancient too: beautiful palaces; high mountains and hot springs; cherry blossom in the spring; quiet gardens with water and trees. Here the past meets the future all the time. From sumo wrestlers to robots, Japan has something amazing for everybody.

* LES MISÉRABLES  Retold by Jennifer Bassett  Oxford Bookworms Library Level 1  ISBN: 978-0-19-479440-4

France, 1815. Jean Valjean leaves prison after nineteen years. These are dangerous and troubled times, and life is hard. Valjean must begin a new life, but how can he escape his past, and his enemy, Inspector Javert? This story for Bookworms is loosely based on the famous novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, one of France's greatest writers. The novel was written in 1862, and the story has been retold many times - in a musical, in plays for radio and theatre, and in more than fifty films for television and cinema.

* LEONARDO DA VINCI  by Alex Raynham  Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles Level 2  ISBN: 978-0-19-423669-0

What does the world look like from the moon?' 'How do our bodies work?' 'Is it possible for people to fly?' 'Can I make a horse of bronze that is 8 metres tall?' 'How can we have cleaner cities?' All his life, Leonardo da Vinci asked questions. We know him as a great artist, but he was one of the great thinkers of all time, and even today, doctors and scientists are still learning from his ideas. Meet the man who made a robot lion, wrote backwards, and tried to win a war by moving a river...

* WORLD WONDERS  Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles Level 2   

ISBN: 978-0-19-423776-5

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 by people, and others are natural. Come and discover new wonders...

* SPACE by Tim Vicary Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles Level 3  

  ISBN: 978-0-19-423673-7

Is there anyone who has not looked at the dark sky, and the shining points of light above us, and asked themselves questions about what is out there? Where did our planet come from? When did the universe begin? Could we live on another planet? And one question above all - is there life anywhere else in space? Begin a journey into space - where spacecraft travel at thousands of kilometres an hour, temperatures are millions of degrees, and a planet may be hard rock - or a ball of gas. In space, everything is extraordinary...

* FORMULA ONE by Alex Raynham  Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles Level 3   ISBN: 978-0-19-423647-8

It's an exciting life - full of fast cars, money, and travel. The names of Formula One champions are known all over the world. And everywhere young drivers dream of success one day in Monaco, Melbourne, Monza... But it is a difficult life too. Drivers need strong bodies - and minds. They need to think quickly, drive hard, and sometimes look death in the face. This is the dangerous, exciting world of Formula One - where the world's best drivers have only seconds to win or lose a race.

REMEMBER, THIS IS ONLY A PROPOSAL. IF YOU HAVE ANY BETTER OPTION, YOU CAN READ IT.