Brenda's Owl
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Teaching English to non-native-speaker adults tends to focus on standard topics like business, shopping and travel. Brenda's Owl rings the changes with 24 short, whimsical stories about the oddball side of life in an ordinary English garden. With patterns, phrases and idioms that are current and useful in dozens of everyday conversational contexts, this book is easy to teach and fun to study!
Angus Waycott
Angus Waycott's books about travel and cookery have been published in the UK, USA, Japan and the Netherlands. He has been the voice of TV news broadcasts, commercials and award-winning documentaries, voiced "character" parts in game software and anime productions, and worked as a copywriter, photographer, teacher, translator, lighting designer and builder. He is married with two daughters.
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Brenda's Owl - Angus Waycott
Brenda’s Owl
by
Angus Waycott
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Copyright Angus Waycott 2012
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Table of Contents
1. Outfoxed
2. Paint-A-Pot
3. Mushroom Compost
4. Vine Time
5. The Patio
6. Brenda’s Owl
7. Slug Party
8. Garden Centre
9. Just Add Onions
10. The Shed
11. Guy Fawkes Day
12. Apple Pip
13. Cheers!
14. The Gardener
15. Ash Tree
16. Peanut Thief
17. Nesting Box
18. Frogs Are Strange
19. Wasps’ Nest
20. Prize Radish
21. Oh No, Not Rhubarb
22. Bye Bye Blackberry
23. Clearing Up
24. A Box Of Apples
Introduction
Teaching English to non-native-speaker adults tends to focus on standard topics like business, shopping, correspondence and travel. Brenda's Owl brings a new subject into the mix, with 24 short, whimsical stories about the oddball side of life in an ordinary English garden. A handy resource for both teachers and students, its patterns, phrases and idioms are current and useful in dozens of everyday conversational contexts.
This book is easy to teach and fun to study!
1. OUTFOXED
tmp_fbbd6105a6a5ed3143f932d2eacf7d2a_WwKKfD_html_435e135e.jpgOne day last week, our neighbour Jim came round and knocked at the door. I thought you ought to know,
he said. I was looking out of the window at 6 o'clock this morning, and there it was. A huge fox, with a long bushy tail. Walking around in your garden.
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