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    The Railway Children (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    The Railway Children (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    The Railway Children (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
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    The Railway Children (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)

    By Qiliang Feng and E. Nesbit

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    This is Book 8, Collection I, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words.
    Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions.

    [Text Information]
    Readability | 85.53
    Total word count | 18425
    Words beyond 1500 | 472
    Unknown word percentage (%) | 2.56
    Unknown headword occurrence | 2.66
    Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 23
    Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 86

    [Synopsis]
    This is a story of three children, Roberta, Phyllis, and Peter, who live with a wonderful mother and father and a cook and servants. One night, Father is taken away to prison (but they do not know this at first), and they have to move to a poor cottage in the country near a railway line. Mother writes stories to earn some money to support them. In time they make many new friends, and many wonderful adventures happen near the railway and the tunnel....
    This book is rewritten from “The Railway Station” by the famous English writer E. Nesbit (1858~1924). It was first published in book form in 1906 and has been adapted for the screen several times.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQiliang Feng
    Release dateDec 21, 2015
    ISBN9781310323294
    The Railway Children (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
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    Qiliang Feng

    Qiliang Feng has been a teacher of English in senior high schools since 1983. He is a keen supporter of reading in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and is expert at rewriting graded/simplified ESL(English as a Second Language) and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) readers. He has published several series of English reading course books and is promoting a reading project called Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP), in which ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words) are expected to read one million words within two or three years, and reach the upper-intermediate level easily.

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      The Railway Children (ESL/EFL Version with Audio) - Qiliang Feng

      The Railway Children

      (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)

      Original by: E. Nesbit

      Rewritten by: Qiliang Feng

      Million-Word Reading Project Workshop

      Copyright 2022 Qiliang Feng

      License Notes

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      About This Book

      This is Book 8, Collection I, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words.

      Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions.

      Text Information

      Readability | 85.5

      Total word count | 18425

      Words beyond 1500 | 472

      Unknown word percentage (%) | 2.56

      Unknown headword occurrence | 2.66

      Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 23

      Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 86

      Notes:

      1. About readability: This is Flesch Reading Ease Readability calculated with MS WORD. The higher the score, the easier the text is to read.

      Score | Level

      0-29 | Very difficult

      30-49 | Difficult

      50-59 | Fairly difficult

      60-69 | Standard

      70-79 | Fairly easy

      80-89 | Easy

      90-100 | Very easy

      2. This e-version does not give the meanings of unknown words. You can look them up with the dictionary on your e-reader. For words with different meanings and some expressions, we give their meanings at the end of the passages. We also provide some necessary background information.

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      Synopsis

      This is a story of three children, Roberta, Phyllis, and Peter, who live with a wonderful mother and father and a cook and servants. One night, Father is taken away to prison (but they do not know this at first), and they have to move to a poor cottage in the country near a railway line. Mother writes stories to earn some money to support them. In time they make many new friends, and many wonderful adventures happen near the railway and the tunnel….

      This book is rewritten from The Railway Children by the famous English writer E. Nesbit (1858~1924). It was first published in book form in 1906 and has been adapted for the screen several times.

      Chapter 1. The Beginning of Things

      They were not railway children at first. They were just ordinary children, and they lived with their Father and Mother in an ordinary house.

      There were three of them. Roberta was the eldest and was their mother’s favourite. Next came Peter, who wished to be an engineer when he grew up; and the youngest was Phyllis, who was extremely kind.

      Mother was almost always there, ready to play with the children, and read to them, and help them to do their home-lessons. She also used to write stories for them while they were at school, and read them aloud after tea.

      These three lucky children always had everything they needed: pretty clothes, good fires, a lovely nursery with lots of toys, and a Mother Goose wall-paper. They had a kind and merry maid, and a dog called James. They also had a kind Father who was just perfect. He was never angry, and always ready to play a game.

      You will think that they ought to have been very happy. But they did not know how happy they were till the pretty life was over, and they had to live a very different life indeed.

      The terrible change came quite suddenly.

      Peter had a birthday - his tenth. Among his other presents was a model engine, which he loved best of all. But after three days, while Peter and Phyllis were playing with it, the Engine went off[1] suddenly. It made such a loud noise that James ran out and did not come back all day. Peter was very sad. The others said he cried over it - but of course boys of ten do not cry. He said that his eyes were red because he had a cold. This turned out to be true, and the next day he had to go to bed and stay there. Mother began to be afraid, when suddenly he sat up in bed and said eagerly:

      I want to get up and have a pigeon-pie. A very large one.

      So Mother asked the cook to make a large pigeon-pie. And when it was cooked, Peter ate some of it. After that his cold was better.

      Father had been away in the country for three or four days. Peter hoped his father could mend his Engine for him, for Father was very clever with his fingers. He could mend all sorts of things.

      Peter did not say anything about his Engine till after Father had had his dinner and his after-dinner cigar.

      At last Mother said to Father, Now, dear, if you’re quite rested, we want to tell you about the great railway accident, and ask your advice.

      All right, said Father, go ahead!

      So then Peter told the sad tale, and fetched what was left of the Engine.

      Father looked the Engine over very carefully. The children held their breaths.

      Is there NO hope? said Peter, in a low voice.

      Hope? Rather! Lots of it, said Father, cheerfully, "but we’ll need something. I think we’d better keep it for a rainy day. I’ll

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