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    Oliver Twist (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    Oliver Twist (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    Oliver Twist (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
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    Oliver Twist (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)

    By Qiliang Feng and Charles Dickens

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    About this ebook

    This is Book 10, Collection II, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words.
    Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions.

    [Text Information]
    Readability | 83.91
    Total word count | 25612
    Words beyond 1500 | 913
    Unknown word percentage (%) | 3.56
    Unknown headword occurrence | 2.7
    Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 40
    Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 168

    [Synopsis]
    The story is set in England in the 19th century. When Oliver Twist is born, his mother dies and he becomes an orphan. He spends his first nine years in a workhouse. When he is nine years old, Oliver is sent to a coffin-maker’s workshop and becomes an apprentice. After he is beaten by the other apprentice, Oliver runs out at night and set out for London on foot.
    When he gets into London, he meets Dodger, who takes him to an old “gentleman” named Fagin. Fagin trains children to be thieves. But Oliver doesn’t realize that until he’s actually out with Dodger and another boy. Oliver sees the pair steal the pocket handkerchief out of an old gentleman’s pocket. When Oliver turns to run away, he is caught and taken to the police station.
    The nice old man (his name is Mr. Brownlow) is sorry for Oliver when he realizes that Oliver is innocent. Oliver is very sick, so Mr. Brownlow takes him home and cares for him.
    Mr. Brownlow is surprised to find that Oliver looks much like the picture of a young lady on his wall. So he becomes interested in his birth.
    But he is not the only person who is interested in Oliver’s birth. Another man pays Fagin a high price, so that he can make Oliver a thief. He hopes Oliver will be caught by the police and driven out of the country....
    This book is rewritten from “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens (1812~1870), which has been made into films and plays several times.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQiliang Feng
    Release dateDec 23, 2015
    ISBN9781310202117
    Oliver Twist (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
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    Qiliang Feng

    Qiliang Feng has been a teacher of English in senior high schools since 1983. He is a keen supporter of reading in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and is expert at rewriting graded/simplified ESL(English as a Second Language) and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) readers. He has published several series of English reading course books and is promoting a reading project called Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP), in which ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words) are expected to read one million words within two or three years, and reach the upper-intermediate level easily.

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      Oliver Twist (ESL/EFL Version with Audio) - Qiliang Feng

      About This Book

      This is Book 10, Collection II, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words.

      Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions.

      Text Information

      Readability | 83.9

      Total word count | 25612

      Words beyond 1500 | 913

      Unknown word percentage (%) | 3.56

      Unknown headword occurrence | 2.7

      Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 40

      Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 168

      Notes:

      1. About readability: This is Flesch Reading Ease Readability calculated with MS WORD. The higher the score, the easier the text is to read.

      Score | Level

      0-29 | Very difficult

      30-49 | Difficult

      50-59 | Fairly difficult

      60-69 | Standard

      70-79 | Fairly easy

      80-89 | Easy

      90-100 | Very easy

      2. This e-version does not give the meanings of unknown words. You can look them up with the dictionary on your e-reader. For words with different meanings and some expressions, we give their meanings at the end of the passages. We also provide some necessary background information.

      3. To get the audio or video of this book, GO>>>

      Synopsis

      The story is set in England in the 19th century. When Oliver Twist is born, his mother dies and he becomes an orphan. He spends his first nine years in a workhouse. When he is nine years old, Oliver is sent to a coffin-maker’s workshop and becomes an apprentice. After he is beaten by the other apprentice, Oliver runs out at night and set out for London on foot.

      When he gets into London, he meets Dodger, who takes him to an old gentleman named Fagin. Fagin trains children to be thieves. But Oliver doesn’t realize that until he’s actually out with Dodger and another boy. Oliver sees the pair steal the pocket handkerchief out of an old gentleman’s pocket. When Oliver turns to run away, he is caught and taken to the police station.

      The nice old man (his name is Mr. Brownlow) is sorry for Oliver when he realizes that Oliver is innocent. Oliver is very sick, so Mr. Brownlow takes him home and cares for him.

      Mr. Brownlow is surprised to find that Oliver looks much like the picture of a young lady on his wall. So he becomes interested in his birth.

      But he is not the only person who is interested in Oliver’s birth. Another man pays Fagin a high price, so that he can make Oliver a thief. He hopes Oliver will be caught by the police and driven out of the country….

      This book is rewritten from "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens (1812~1870), which has been made into films and plays several times.

      Chapter 1. Oliver Twist Was Born

      In a workhouse in a certain town, Oliver Twist was born. There was nobody by, however, but a poor old woman and a doctor. After a few struggles, Oliver breathed, and began to cry loud.

      A young woman raised her pale face from the pillow and said in a faint voice, Let me see the child, and die.

      As the young woman spoke, the doctor rose, came to the bed, and said kindly, Oh, you must not talk about dying yet.

      The patient shook her head, and put out her hand towards the child. The doctor put it in her arms. She kissed its forehead kindly, looked wildly round, fell back - and died.

      It’s all over! said the doctor at last.

      Ah, poor dear, so it is! said the nurse, as she bent down to take up the child. Poor dear!

      You needn’t mind sending up to me, if the child cries, nurse, said the doctor, putting on his gloves. He put on his hat, and, pausing by the bed-side on his way to the door, added, She was a good-looking girl, too. Where did she come from?

      She was brought here last night, replied the old woman. She was found lying in the street. She had walked some distance, for her shoes were worn to pieces, but nobody knows where she came from, or where she was going to.

      The doctor leaned over the body, and raised the left hand. The old story, he said, shaking his head, no wedding-ring, I see. Ah! Good-night!

      The doctor walked away to dinner, and the nurse sat down on a low chair before the fire, and began to dress the baby.

      Oliver cried hard. If he could have known that he was an orphan, perhaps he would have cried louder.

      Chapter 2. Oliver Asked for More

      For the next eight or ten months, Oliver stayed in the workhouse. Then, the parish authorities decided that Oliver should be sent to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where there were twenty or thirty other orphans, under the care of an elderly female. She received the orphans because she could get some money per week, but she kept the greater part of the money for her own use.

      Oliver Twist grew to be a pale, thin and small boy. On his ninth birthday, he was locked up in the coal-cellar with two other boys for saying that they were hungry, after receiving a cruel beating. At this time, Mrs. Mann, the good lady of the house was greatly surprised to see Mr. Bumble, the beadle, trying to open the door.

      Oh, is that you, Mr. Bumble, sir? How glad I am to see you, surely! said Mrs. Mann, putting her head out of the window. Then she said in a low voice, Susan, take Oliver and the two bad boys upstairs, and wash them at once.

      Now, Mr. Bumble was a fat and irritable man. He shook the little door hard, and then kicked it.

      God, only think, said Mrs. Mann, running out, for the three boys had been removed by this time, only think of that! That I should have forgotten that the gate was locked on the inside, on account of the dear children! Walk in sir, please, Mr. Bumble.

      Mrs. Mann took the beadle into a small sitting room with a brick floor. After he had had a drink, he took out a pocket-book and said, And now about business. The child that was named Oliver Twist is nine years old today.

      Bless him! said Mrs. Mann.

      And although we offered twenty pounds as a reward, said Bumble, "we have never been able to discover who is his father, or what was his mother’s settlement, name, or condition. Oliver is now too old to remain here, so the board[1] have determined to have him back into the house. I have come out myself to take him there. So let me see him at once."

      I’ll fetch him at once, said Mrs. Mann, leaving the room. Soon, she returned with Oliver.

      Will you go along with me, Oliver? said Mr. Bumble, in a proud voice.

      Oliver was about to say that he would go along with anybody, when he caught sight of Mrs. Mann, who had got behind the beadle’s chair, and was shaking her fist at him angrily. He understood what she meant at once.

      Will she go with me? asked poor Oliver.

      No, she can’t, replied Mr. Bumble. But she’ll come and see you sometimes.

      So the child pretended that he was sorry to go away. Mrs. Mann gave him a thousand embraces, and she also gave him a piece of bread and butter so that he should not seem too hungry when he got to the workhouse. Then Oliver was led away by Mr. Bumble.

      Oliver had not been within the walls of the workhouse a quarter of an hour, when Mr. Bumble led him into a large room, where eight or ten fat gentlemen were sitting round a table. At the top of the table, sitting in a high chair, was a particularly fat gentleman with a very round, red face.

      Bow to the board, said Bumble. Oliver brushed away two or three

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