ESL books

[pepperos]

Hello. I tried to find simplified english books in America, but I
wasn't succesful. I found just many famous stories for many levels of
english with limited vocabulary (i.e. 3000 word book, 1500 word used
in book) from United Kingdom (Oxford publisher etc.). Can anyone
recommend me some eshop or company that publish this type of books? I
read several of them and I know that sometimes there are differences.
I'm in California now. Bye.

[Angel List]

Most books may not be free. It is not a good idea to find ebooks in
America. But still Amazon.com is recommended.

It would be a better choice to find free ebooks in China.haha~ Though,
selecting an English version book from so many Chinese books will cost
a bit of time. In my college,there's a website providing thousands of
books especially English novels。 If you like, maybe I can email you
some of them in .txt format.

Anyway,enjoy internet.

[Eduardo Gonçalves]

Yes, too many ebooks are not free. (Dont attach ebooks here please...)

My advice for Oxford books is: http://www.oup.com/elt/students/?view=student&cc=br
and for pdf ebooks is search here: http://www.scribd.com/groups/administer/2704-english-learn-esl-podcast
bye

Ed,

[pepperos]

I probably didn't explain my question correctly. I'm looking for
something like teese books: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/ReadersLevel.aspx?id=37334&producttypeid=28250.
Macmillan is a publisher in Great Britian and they sell books grouped
to five different levels. To read the simpliest level 1 you need just
about 300 words. But there are harder one of course. Do anyone knows
about similar publisher or bookstore in US with similar books? I don't
want books for free.
Bye, Joseph.

[Eduardo Gonçalves]

Right.. I understand what you are finding...
If I found something I post here...

By now I just found this link:

100 free short English stories for ESL learners
http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2/

looks nice..

Bye

Ed.

[Eduardo Gonçalves]

Other interesting web site:

Online Books for ESL Students:
http://www.esldesk.com/english-reading/index.htm

And books from the Writer C. G. Draper like
"Great American Stories, Book 1: An ESL/EFL Reader, Second Edition"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-2726232-0028930?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=C.%20G.%20Draper

I hope help you...

Take care

Ed.

[hek mer]

i am not from u.s.a.
i do not know informations like this.
if you know tell me.
thanks

[Eduardo]

Hello Pepperos,

I know that your message is old (Dec 02-2007) but, before late than
never...

You asked.

Can anyone recommend me some eshop or company that publish this type

of books? (ESL ebooks)

I´m sure that here you will find the answer here:
http://www.successfulenglish.com/Successful_English/The_English_Learners_Book_Room.html

Take care Friend!

Ed. (edgnets)



On Dec 2 2007, 11:09 pm, pepperos <josef.rezni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. I tried to find simplified englishbooksin America, but I

> wasn't succesful. I found just many famous stories for many levels of
> english with limited vocabulary (i.e. 3000 word book, 1500 word used
> in book) from United Kingdom (Oxford publisher etc.). Can anyone

> recommend me some eshop or company that publish this type ofbooks? I

[KNICKNAME]

I strongly recommend for ESL Reader the online-story

http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=606&Itemid=104


robert(o)

http://robert-esl.blogspot.com/

tell me afterwards - what are you thinking about it ???

On Jan 7, 4:40 pm, Eduardo <edgn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Pepperos,
>
> I know that your message is old (Dec 02-2007) but, before late than
> never...
>
> You asked.
> Can anyone recommend me some eshop or company that publish this type
> of books? (ESL ebooks)
>

> I´m sure that here you will find the answer here:http://www.successfulenglish.com/Successful_English/The_English_Learn...

[Warren]

There are different ways to measure difficulty of reading. Vocabulary
families is one of them. I just did a quick check of three books from
"The English Learner's Book Room" (which uses lexile numbers) that
Eduardo linked to and found this:

Silent Honor (Danielle Steele) lexile #600 - 85% of the words are from
the 2,000 word family and 6% are from the 3-5,000 word family.

Vanished (Danielle Steele) lexile #620 - 89% of the words are from the
2,000 word family and 5% are from the 3-5,000 word family.

Tell Me Your Dreams (Sidney Sheldon) lexile #720 - 75% of the words
are in the 2,000 word family and 9% are in the 3-5,000 word family.

Anything under 800 is probably intermediate level.

There are some other practical suggestions for deciding whether a book
is the correct difficulty for you in the article "Read to Improve Your
English!" on the same web site as "The English Learner's Book Room".

Warren