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Amazing Scientists: B1 (Collins Amazing People ELT Readers)

Written by: Fiona MacKenzie - editor, Anne Collins - adaptor
Narrated by: Collins
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Publisher's Summary

The inspiring stories of six people who changed history.

Contents:
Antoine Lavoisier, who wrote the first modern chemistry textbook
Humphry Davy, who discovered 'laughing gas'
Charles Darwin, who changed people's ideas with his theory of evolution
Gregor Mendel, who first discovered the science of genetics
Louis Pasteur, who saved millions of lives by killing germs
Francis Crick, who helped to discover the structure of DNA

This audiobook is level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 3 is equivalent to CEF level B1.

About the Amazing People series:
A unique opportunity for learners of English to hear about the exceptional lives and incredible abilities of some of the most insightful people the world has seen.

Each book contains six short stories, told by the characters themselves, as if in their own words. The stories explain the most significant parts of each character's life, giving an insight into how they came to be such an important historic figure.

After each story, a timeline presents the most major events in their life in a clear and succinct fashion. The timeline is ideal for checking comprehension or as a basis for project work or further research.

Created in association with The Amazing People Club.

About Collins ELT Readers:
Collins ELT Readers are divided into four levels:
Level 1 - elementary (A2)
Level 2 - pre-intermediate (A2-B1)
Level 3 - intermediate (B1)
Level 4 - upper intermediate (B2)
Each level is carefully graded to ensure that the learner both enjoys and benefits from their experience.

©2014 Original Text, The Amazing People Club Ltd; Adapted Text, HarperCollins Publishers (P)2014 HarperCollins Publishers

What the critics say

"As a teacher using the Amazing People ELT Readers in an Extensive Reading Project, I'm as happy as my students are: motivating topics/real people, interesting facts and a great alternative to Graded Reader fiction. Having said that, the same class is also reading books from the Agatha Christie series, and enjoying them very much. Their Reading Diaries are full of questions, speculation about who-dunnit and comments about 'unputdownability'. The buzz in the classroom when we're swopping books is tangible." (Hania Bociek, Zürich, Switzerland)

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immortality projects

It was sad to hear how many of these scientists, at least according to the author, made their work about being remembered - about themselves and not about science and what the advancement in science can do for humans.

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