Helbling Readers Red Series Level 2: Black Beauty with CD

Helbling Readers Red Series書系簡介
橫向系列分為：
● Helbling Classics（經典文學）
● Helbling Fiction（當代原創）
● Helbling Fiction Short Reads（短篇小說）
● Helbling Fiction Graphic Stories（生活故事）

適合程度：劍橋英檢(Cambridge) KET / 全民英檢(GEPT) 初級 / 歐洲共同語言能力(CEF) A1~A2 / 倫敦聖三一學院(Trinity) 1~ 4 級

蹤向系列書共分3個級數，分別是
Level 1 - 400字彙以上；認證級數Cambridge KET、CEF A1、Trinity1,2級
Level 2 - 600字彙以上；認證級數Cambridge KET、CEF A1/A2、Trinity 2,3級
Level 3 - 1000字彙以上；認證級數Cambridge KET、CEF A2、Trinity3,4級

本書特色─
◎About this Book單元: 分別提供學生與老師的語言學習或教學提示，並有本書文法結構要點。
◎Before Reading/After Reading: 閱讀前/後各有問題提問與練習，幫助理解作品內容並培養賞析 與批判思考能力。
◎精選深受青少年喜愛的經典名著，或專為青少年所寫的有趣故事。
◎依據CEF分級閱讀，讓英文學習精準到位。
◎附有MP3光碟，同時訓練閱讀與聽力技巧，還有聽力練習活動。
◎配合本書學習，提供免費的教學資源，包括練習單、解答及聽力練習原稿。

內容簡介：
Black Beauty / Level 2 / Helbling Classics / Recording in British English
最受孩子歡迎的故事，黑神駒！
黑神駒誕生在一個充滿愛的家庭，直到他的主人經濟困窘必需把牠賣了，牠的命運開始轉變，牠換過一個又一個主人，遭受到不好的對待。但牠始終不曾放棄年輕的快樂生活的夢想。

Helbling Readers Red Series is aimed at young teenagers. It includes a selection of adapted classics and original fiction to get your students reading for pleasure right from beginner level.

Helbling Classics

A series of well-known classic stories by world-famous authors that have been chosen, and adapted, to appeal to young teenagers.
Careful selection of stories with suitable content and language level has allowed the flavour of the originals to remain.
Reflection boxes throughout the stories help understanding, and draw links with the students' own lives. While detailed Before and After Reading activities help and check understanding.
A clear introduction gives information about the author and the story.

Book Description
The much-loved children’s story of a horse, Black Beauty. Black Beauty begins his life at a loving home. But when his owners have to sell him, his fortune changes. As Black Beauty moves from home to home and job to job, he often suffers bad treatment and living conditions. But Black Beauty still dreams of the happy life he had as a young foal.

About the Author
Anna Sewell was born in 1820 in England. The family were Quakers and she had a brother called Phillip.
Anna’s mother was a successful author of children’s books. She taught Anna at home until she was 12, concentrating on natural history and moral education. When she was 14, Anna fell while walking home from school in the rain, and injured both her ankles. She never recovered completely and had to use a crutch to stand or walk.
Anna never married or had children, but lived at home, and remained very close to her mother, Mary Wright Sewell, helping her to edit her books.
Anna traveled with her parents to a number of European spas in the hope of improving her health. She met various writers, artists, and philosophers there and enjoyed sharing ideas and opinions with them.
Sewell’s only book was Black Beauty, which she wrote between 1871 and 1877. She dictated the text to her mother. Anna originally wrote Black Beauty for people who worked with horses, but if soon became a popular children’s story.
Anna died on 25th April 1878 just five months after the publication of the book. Her home is now a Museum.