Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a book by Daniel Defoe published in Bookworms Library. It is an adventure book.

The main characters are Robinson Crusoe and Friday, his servant. It is set in England and South America.

The book is about Robinson Crusoe, a man who wanted to have many adventures. He sails in a ship, but one day the weather is very bad and there are stroms and the boat has an accident. Robinson is the only surviving man. He lives in an island for twenty-seven years and has many adventures. Many years later, he meets Friday, a black man who will be his friend forever.

By Miriam Gómez García (Básico 2).

LONDON

This book is by Vicky Shipton and was published by Penguin Readers.

It is a book about interesting places: London.

It is about London city: its buildings, museums, theatres and how everything began. Also, you have activities to remember the information you have read.



I liked it because it is entertaining and at the same time you can learn a lot of things about London. It is great.

María del Carmen Fernández Costa (Básico 2).

ROBIN HOOD

Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You



The book is retold by Liz Austin and it is published in Penguin Readers.

It is an adventure book about Robin Hood, Lady Marian, The Sherriff of Nottingham and Prince John. It takes place in Sherwood Forest.

I chose it because I like reading history books.

The events happen in the Middle Ages, in England in the taimes od King Richard, who was in Jerusalem. A brave man, Robin Hood, robs the rich people and helps the poor. It is very interesting if you love history, but the structure of adventures is a bit simple.

I would recommend this book, but I think it is better for lower levers. like Int1, because it is too easy for us.

Here is the trailer of 1991 film version of the book:


Xabier Barral (Intermediate 2).

GOLDFISH

The writer is Raymond Chnndler and this is in Oxford Bookworms. It is a book about crime and mystery.

The main characters are Carmady, Kathy Horne, Peeler Mardo and Wally Sype. The action is in Los Angeles, Olympia and Westport.

I was looking for a book in the library when suddently I saw it on the shelves. I started to read the summary. It was perfefct to read in English. On the other hand, the subject was interesting.

The story begins with Carmady. He's a private detective and at that moment he had not had any work until Kathy Horne arrieves at the office. She tells him a story about Leander Pearls. She lives alone on one side of the house and the other side is hired by Peter Mardo. When he was in prison he had a partner, Wally Sype. One night, Wally had drunk a lot and told him the story about the pearls. Despite the story, Carmady does not want to discover where they are until Kathy says that there is a reward (25,000 dollars) for that person who finds out where the pearls are. When Carmady arrives at Peelers's house, he is dead. Someone wanted to talk to hm and later kill him. Carmady continues studying the mystery with other camarades.

In the book, characers are always smoking. The story was written in 1933. It is interesting to know where the Pearls are all the time.

I recoomend the book strongly if you like the subject. There is action, crime, money anb good characters.

By Vanessa Varela Gómez (Intermedio 2).

80 Days Around the World Intro (if you are over 30, please watch this video!!)

By Bruna Iglesias (Básico 2).

This is an adventure book by Jules Verne. The rmain characters are Phileas Fogg, a rich English gentleman; Jean Passepartout, his French servant; and Fix, a Scotland Yard detective.

The places of the story are London, Egypt, India (Bombay and Calcutta), Japan and America (San Francisco and New York).

The book is about a journey round the world in eighty days.

Phileas Fogg bets 20,000 pounds he will go round the world in eighty days, so he and his servant start a journey, but there is another person: detective Fix. He follows them because he thinks that Phileas Fogg if the thief of the Bank of England and he wants to catch him.

By Miriam Gómez (Básico 2).

The book is about Phileas Fogg, a rich man. He makes a bet with his freinds: he has to go around the world in eighty days.

His servant's name is Passepartout and he travels with him.

In this trip, Phileas fog will meet his future wife and they have a lot of adventures.

This is the song for you to sing along (if you are over 30 you will shed a tear!!):


FOG, I'M THE ONE WHO MADE THE BET
AND I KNOW WE'LL BE EXACTLY RIGHT ON TIME
FOG IS MY NAME AND I COULD PLAY WITH MY LIFE IN MANY WAYS
THAT'S WHAT THEY SAY

HERE I AM - A RIGADON
I'M A TICO - D'MASCOTA
IT'S MY TURN - THE GENTLE TOUCH
A ROMY THEY LOVE ME SO MUCH

HEY NOW THEY STORY MUST GO ON
'CAUSE A LOT OF TIME HAS GONE
WE MUST BE READY
TO GO AWAY

80 DAYS AROUND THE WORLD
WE'LL FIND A POT OF GOLD
JUST SITTING WHERE THE RAINBOW'S ENDING
TIME - WE'LL FIGHT AGAINST THE TIME
AND WE'LL FLY ON THE WHITE WINGS OF THE WIND

80 DAYS AROUND THE WORLD
NO WE WON'T SAY A WORD
BEFORE THE SHIP IS REALLY BACK
ROUND, ROUND, ALL AROUND THE WORLD
ROUND, ALL AROUND THE WORLD
ROUND, ALL AROUND THE WORLD
ROUND, ALL AROUND THE WORLD

THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (Ira Levin)

The story takes place in Brazil and Germany and the main characters are Ezra Liebermann, who in real life is called Simon Wiensental and is a Jew from Austrian; and Dr. Mengele, a sick doctor who makes research on twins. I chose this read because it is an interesting story and it mixes facts and characters from real life and fiction.

In 1974, many years after World War II, Dr. Joseph Mengele meets other six people to explain his plan: "ninety-four men must die in the next two and a half years. The Aryan people will be the rulers of the world". These six men must kill the ninety-nine people. All of them are 65, they are or were civil servants, they have wives in their forties and have a thirteen-year-old son.These are Hitler's circumstances as a teenager and all teh kids are the result of Dr. Mengele's genetic experiments to clone Hitler.

Ezra Liebermann discovers Mengele's plan. They meet and Mengele tries to kill Ezra, but a cloned boy stops him.

The author masterfully mixes facts and stories and teh book is very well-written and action-packed. I would recommend this book to people who like suspense. You can find out more about real-life characters. It si one of these books you like discussing with a friend.

By Rosa María iRodríguez Rivas (Intermedio 2)

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