ELI Readers Role-Play

February 16, 2012 by rickla

These books are not in the LLC, but I borrowed one from the University Library, and it was so interesting that I wanted to tell you about it.

The book I borrowed is called Underwater Mystery, and it’s about Atlantis. It’s in the ELI Readers Role-Play series. In this series, there are many different story lines, and the development of the story depends on the choices you make. You could fail in your task or even die if you make the wrong choices! If you look at the pictures below, you’ll see an example: you could go back into your room, or explore. If this kind of story looks interesting, please check these books out on the 3rd floor (洋書 section) of the University Library. The code is 428 E 461.

Another similar series you might want to try out is Oxford Bookworms Starters. Four of those books are Interactive Stories: The White Stones, Mystery in London, Survive!, and Oranges in the Snow.

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A new start with reading

January 6, 2012 by rickla

If you want to improve your English but don’t know where to start, why not try extensive reading (多読)? It’s a good and enjoyable way to build your vocabulary naturally and to increase your reading speed, while improving your general knowledge. And there are thousands of books in the PUK Library, some difficult and some very easy.

I’d like to focus today on Oxford Reading Tree. This is a very popular series in British primary (elementary) schools. The series is divided into many levels. At most of the levels, there are few sentences on each page and each sentence is fairly easy. In fact, at the lowest levels, there may be only 2 or 3 words on a page. The stories are fun, and also teach us things from history and geography.

Here is the ORT site for Japan: http://www.oupjapan.co.jp/gradedreaders/ort/

And here are a few pages from some of the easiest books: http://www.oupjapan.co.jp/gradedreaders/ort/media/TheBarbecue-sausage_page.pdf

So you can see that the books are easy enough for almost everyone!

You can borrow the books from the PUK Library (not the LLC!). I did a search just now and found 227 items.