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A request

I've had a lot of trouble finding reading resources for my adult ESOL learners. What I'm looking for are internet story resources at all levels suitable for an adult class. When I find stories at the appropriate language levels they are always clearly only suitable for children. When I find stories suitable for adults, the language level is often for fluent native speakers. I'm mostly intereested in short stories that we can read as a class and use to examine various language functions.

If anyone has any ideas or useful web sites with this kind of thing on, I'd love to hear about them.

 

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Submitted on 17 July, 2008 - 09:36
Hi Bob   You can find lots of different reading resources with interactive quizzes on the BC's LearnEnglish website. The reading sections is here:  http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-skills-reading.htm
  Nice colletion of short stories here: http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-stories-archive.htm   Hope these are useful   Best
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Submitted on 17 July, 2008 - 18:31
Thanks. They certainly look useful at a quick glance. I'll give them a more careful look when I have more time.
Submitted on 21 July, 2008 - 17:29
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  • Thank you for a good question. I also want to ask about the copyright - can I use LearnEnglish Reading and other available resources for creating tests in the examination format if I place them on the Internet (eg, on my site or any special site for these purposes) and don't charge for that?
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