Manolis G. published in CPE1 (C1) Level

Ηow Quetzacoatl Brought Chocolate to the People.

Author: Retold by Lynn Mesh.
Summary:

Long ago, only gods had chocolate. Chocolate made them wise and strong. The gods kept the chocolate for the selves and did not share it the people. But when one generous god decides to bring chocolate to the people,it makes the other gods very angry. The name of the generous god is Ouetzalcoatl . Tezcatlipoca ,the god of night,was Ouetzalcoatl greatest enemy.He planned to come to Earth disguised as an old woman to play a terrible trick on Ouetzalkoatl .Ouetzalcoatl began to run towords the sea to cool burning skin in the water.As  Ouetzalcoatl run,Tezcatlipoca burnt all of people trees Ouetzelcatl dizappeared into the sea.The people never sow him again.But the people still had his spesial gift.From that one chocolate pod,the people grew many more cacao trees.Soon,cacao trees covered the land.Chocolate became more important to the people than gold!i


New Words: poison,disguised,planned
Favourite part of the book:
Ouetzalcoatl began to run towards the sea to cool his burning skin in the water.As Ouetzalcatl run,Tezcatlipoca burnt all of the peoples cacao trees.When Ouetzalcatl reached the sea,he stopped before he jumped in.He gave a chocolate pod to a man who was fishing there.’Keep this’he said.’Use it to grow more chocolate trees when the time is right.Plant it and care for it i like showed you.Soon,the people will have chocolate’.
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danaipantelaiou published in Senior D

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

Author: Oscar Wilde
Summary:

This book is talking about Dorian’s Gray life. The story starts when he was 12 years old, beatyfull and young ,then a man told him that he is lucky of that ,and when he will grow old nobody will care for him , and he will be ugly. And the story finishes with how Dorian dies . Also in the story is writing about the girl he fall in love ,and how he lose her. And for the painting of Dorian’s “life”.

 


New Words: Curiosity, referred, firmly
Favourite part of the book:
My favorite part at this book is at page “31” when he tell “people make their own choices in life” and at the last page from “his face” to “Dorian Gray”
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published in PreFCE

Fast food nation 🍔🍔Mike Melanitis

Author: Eric Schlosser
Summary:

This book refers to Mickey’s burger And the way they use and process the meats. In other words it talks about For the meat production process.


New Words: UMP, tightly, shook, optimistic, fence, motivate,shook,rushing,carcasses,ceiling, waved,hoses,manure,etc…
Favourite part of the book:
Chapter 5(We are all just part of th machine

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GEORGESK. published in Senior D

Flying PUMPKINS

Author: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Summary:

Every year, a group of people in Delaware have a pumpkin throwing competition. They use machines to throw pumpkins very far. The winner is the team that throws a pumpkin farther than anyone else.


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Favourite part of the book:
My favourite part is the one with newspaper central high
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Mariasif published in PreFCE

disaster strikes

Author: hamilton house
Summary:

This book is talking about, disaster strikes all over the world.Disasters are a common thing which can happen anytime and next thing you know is that you might live or die or get hurt.Peoples houses get destroyed ,fresh food and water are hard to find.Some people can predict disasters with the help of science and technology this can help people survive,they can also know that a disaster is going to happen because they use technology.Siesmographs record information about earthquakes and volcanoes all around the world.

I honestly really liked this book because about the world and how people can survive they disasters i also learned that scientists know everything a bout the earthquakes and well it will hit us.


New Words: siesmographs,satellites,forecasters
Favourite part of the book:
My favourite part was when the book was telling us about the designing safe buildings.
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jim published in Senior D

puffin rescue

Author: Rob Waring
Summary:

My name is dimitris and the title of this book is puffin rescue.The book is about facts and stories about puffins.stories of how people are saving this type of birds and how little kits are trained to rescue and release them the puffin is a type of bird that mostly lives in Iceland.baby puffins are called “pufflings”.Puffins cnd fly but they can also swim.As they grow older the pufflings try to fly away to sea.However pufflingssometimes get confused and cant find the sea.


New Words: none
Favourite part of the book:
My favourite part is when the little kida are trying to learn how to safely release the puffins.
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marianna published in CPE2 (C2) Level

THE AMAZING HUMAN BODY

Author: by Rob Waring,Series Editor
Summary:

”The Amazing Human Body” by Rob Waring, is a book that makes plain how the human body actually works and the special tricks it has. Also explains that our body is something like an amazing ”machine” that is made up of different systems that allow us to do many things like run, eat and breathe,That our body is able to take us on an extraordinary journey every single day. It lets us meet remarkable challenges and gives us the power to expand the limits of human achievement. Moreover, all this explains how they start from a small cell that ends up in a unique and distinct organism.


New Words: 1.nourishment(the health components needed by the body for energy in the form od bood)2.nutrient(any of the substances contained in food that are essential to life such as protein,vitamins and minerals)3.spinal cord(a thick nerve that runs through the bones in the back) 4.blueprint( a detailed drawing of something to show how to make it a pattern)
Favourite part of the book:
My favorite part of the book is where it explains and points out how the brain works and its properties.In addition, that controls the entire ”system of systems”.It could well be likened to one as well super-computer.
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Nefeli published in PreFCE

Animal Rescue

Author: National Geografic
Summary:

The book is about the animals that they are victims. More animals living at the Phnom Tamao Rescue Center because the΄re hurt and the΄re need help from people.Rescue Center helps them,they give them food and they have more thinks that the animals need. The author write about poachers that they want to kill this animals to take some parts of the body,to get money. They don’t understand that this is illegan. The poachers are killing the animals to take some parts of the body,to sell it to the people to get money and the people use them to make medicine. With this tactic they get money and they hurt more animals. More animals at the Rescue Center, can’t go again at area that the are live before come here, because there are hurt and weak enough to manage to protect themselves on their one, so they have to stay at the Rescue Center for their whole life.  At the other hand, many animals must be fed by hand because, in order to recover they mustn’t eat at the bottom. Many animals have to say there for their safety.     


New Words: Victims, poachers,illegan
Favourite part of the book:
My favourite part is about the tigers, that they are victims and the poachers want to kill them to take some parts of their body.I recoment this book because it is very good and it teaches many things about animals that you didn’t know.
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alexmpo published in CPE1 (C1) Level

SPACE WALK

Author: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Summary:

The book talks starts off explaining why the vacuum of space is a hostile enviroment with examples such as how much time it would take for a person to become unconcious due to the lack of oxygen to the brain,about how cold the temperatures are and about the radiation that would cause damage to any matter.It also talks about the specially designed space suits that astronauts wear and how useful they are in a cold place like space and about the first astronaut that took steps outside a spacecraft which was Aleksei Leonov which was a great achievement.Furthermore,it talks about space walks and how much they have evolved over the years and their evolution.Lastle, it talks about the challenges they have to face when conducting space walks such as the puffy face syndrome and other illnesses and the intense training they did before conducting a space walk to ensure their safety.

 


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Favourite part of the book:
My favourite part of the book is when it explains all of the symptoms of going into space because i used to think that when you go to space and return to earth you would be completely fine but in reality there are a lot of illnesses and radiation going around in space
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Mariamina published in FCE (B2) Level

The Phantom of the Opera

Author: Gaston Leroux retold by Jenny Dooley
Summary:

This book is about a guy who became a gost and he wanted to kill the couple which lived in his house


New Words: ghastly kneel memorandum
Favourite part of the book:
chapter 4 the angel of music
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NikolasAiolos published in PreFCE

Blue Cows?

Author: Rob Waring
Summary:

Blue cows is s book about a local animal in india that local farmers cant hurt because it has a special name

Nilgai also known as blue cows are a local animal that eats the farmers crops. The farmers then are left with nothing to sell for them to get money and buy food

Also many farmers whenever the nilgai comes to their farms the farmers chase the nilgai all day and all night.


New Words: Agriculture hinduism stampede
Favourite part of the book:
No favourite part.
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published in FCE (B2) Level

The man in the iton mask

Author: Alexandre Dumas
Summary:

This book is about D’artagns dilemma. Should he protect the selfish king or should he put Philippe on the throne?

 


New Words: Flutter , pacing , grille
Favourite part of the book:
When the author introduced the king’s brother.
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