Lectura que corresponde al nivel europeo A2 perteneciente a la serie Lecturas adaptadas de clásicos de la literatura de habla alemana
A non-fiction book, ideal for intermediate and more confident learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen at the same time as reading.About a quarter of the people in the world today speak or use English. In homes and schools, offices and meeting rooms, ships and airports, people are speaking English ...How has this happened? How did English begin, and what will become of it? The history of English is a journey through space and time, from thousands of years ago to today and beyond, and to all parts of the world. Come on that journey and meet the monks and soldiers, the kings and scientists, the printers, poets and travellers who have helped to make the English of today.
Au sud de la ville, Alain se réveille. Il a un examen de géographie ce matin: il doit se lever vite. Il ouvre la fenêtre. Il voit la boulangerie. Elle est ouverte. "Je vais acheter un croissant pour mon petit-déjeuner" pense Alain. Il a froid : il va fermer la fenêtre mais... qu´est-ce qu´il voit?
Alonso, un ávido lector de diez años, obsesionado con las novelas de aventuras -hasta tal punto que sus padres «confiscan» su biblioteca para contener su imaginación desbordante-, desea ser caballero por encima de todo y vivir aventuras en compañía de su rechoncho amigo Sancho, que le sigue a todas partes. Juntos, montados en sus viejas bicicletas, estarán dispuestos a enfrentarse a gigantes, rescatar a ancianos en apuros, declarar su amor a las doncellas o desenmascarar a farsantes que pretenden timar al alcalde del pueblo. Tras muchas aventuras vividas, Alonso entregará a Sancho la ínsula prometida. O al menos, lo intentará.
