Aesop's Fables

Retold by Ruth Hobart

In three stories three characters teach us lessons: the tortoise‘ slowly but surely’ wins the race; the mouse becomes a ‘great little friend’ to the mighty lion; the country mouse prefers the quiet life back home to the luxury – and dangers – of the town.

Features:

-beautiful illustrations, to encourage reading and actively help children to understand the story

-picture dictionaries, for active vocabulary work

-fun activities and games, often for more than one participant, which practise vocabulary and grammar structures used in the story

-level 4 has 250 headwords

-major structures used at this level are: going to for future reference, comparison of adjectives & adverbs