Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).
Each reader includes:
Roger Ackroyd is a man who knows too much.
He knows the woman he loved poisoned her first husband. He knows someone was blackmailing her – and now he knows she killed herself.
When Roger Ackroyd is found murdered, the famous Belgian
detective, Hercule Poirot, is called in to find out who the killer is.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007451562
Number of pages: 128
Weight: 100 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 9 mm
‘As a teacher using the Amazing People ELT Readers in an Extensive Reading Project, I’m as happy as my students are: motivating topics/real people, interesting facts and a great alternative to Graded Reader fiction. Having said that, the same class is also reading books from the Agatha Christie series, and enjoying them very much. Their Reading Diaries are full of questions, speculation about who-dunnit and comments about “unputdownability”. The buzz in the classroom when we’re swopping books is tangible.’Hania Bociek, Zürich, Switzerland
I'm a huge crime fan but it's always Agatha Christie who I return to again and again, and this is my favourite of all of them.Mrs Ferrars had poisoned her husband and got away with it, until a blackmailer... More
When you hear Agatha Christie you usually end up hearing "Oh, And Then There Were None, now that was great!" or "Oh, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, a masterpiece!"
And yes, this book was just that, a...
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It's taken me hundreds of years to read this classic but what a fun time I had with this! Oh there are NO spoilers here except to say I was applauding Agatha Christie at the end as I did with And Then There were... More
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