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    A Little Princess (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    A Little Princess (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    A Little Princess (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
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    A Little Princess (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)

    By Qiliang Feng and Frances Hodgson Burnett

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    This is Book 6, Collection II, 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 | 82.9
    Total word count | 38370
    Words beyond 1500 | 1487
    Unknown word percentage (%) | 3.88
    Unknown headword occurrence | 3.31
    Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 77
    Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 239

    [Synopsis]
    Seven-year-old Sara Crewe and her father, Captain Crewe, arrive at Miss Minchin’s boarding school for girls in London. Captain Crewe is very rich. It is believed that he has a diamond mine. Miss Minchin treats Sara as a star pupil and the other children call her a Princess.
    Four years later, just as Sara’s luxurious birthday party ends, Miss Minchin learns of Captain Crewe’s death. His lawyer comes to the boarding school and tells Miss Minchin the unfortunate news. His investment has failed and he has lost everything. Now Sara is penniless, with no money to pay the bills....
    This book is rewritten from “A Little Princess” by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), published in 1905. It has been made into movies, TV series and musicals many times.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQiliang Feng
    Release dateDec 24, 2015
    ISBN9781311867476
    A Little Princess (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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      A Little Princess (ESL/EFL Version with Audio) - Qiliang Feng

      A Little Princess

      (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)

      Original by: Frances Hodgson Burnett

      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 6, Collection II, 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 | 82.9

      Total word count | 38370

      Words beyond 1500 | 1487

      Unknown word percentage (%) | 3.88

      Unknown headword occurrence | 3.31

      Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 77

      Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 239

      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

      Seven-year-old Sara Crewe and her father, Captain Crewe, arrive at Miss Minchin’s boarding school for girls in London. Captain Crewe is very rich. It is believed that he has a diamond mine. Miss Minchin treats Sara as a star pupil and the other children call her a Princess.

      Four years later, just as Sara’s luxurious birthday party ends, Miss Minchin learns of Captain Crewe’s death. His lawyer comes to the boarding school and tells Miss Minchin the unfortunate news. His investment has failed and he has lost everything. Now Sara is penniless, with no money to pay the bills….

      This book is rewritten from A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), published in 1905. It has been made into movies, TV series and musicals many times.

      Chapter 1. Sara

      Once on a dark winter’s day, the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted. A strange-looking little girl sat in a cab with her father and was driven rather slowly through the streets.

      She leaned against her father, who held her in his arm, as she stared out of the window at the passing people.

      She was such a little girl, yet she had a strange look on her small face. Sara Crewe was only seven. She was always dreaming and thinking strange things, often about grown-up people and the world they belonged to.

      At this moment she was remembering the voyage she had just made from Bombay with her father, Captain Crewe. She was thinking of the big ship, of the Indian sailors passing silently back and forth on it, of the children playing about on the hot deck, and of some young officers’ wives who used to try to make her talk to them and laugh at the things she said.

      Mostly, she was thinking of what a strange thing it was that at one time one was in India in the hot sun, and then driving through streets in London. She moved closer to her father.

      Papa, she said in a low little voice, papa.

      What is it, darling? Captain Crewe answered, looking down into her face. What is Sara thinking of?

      Is this the place? Sara whispered. Is it, papa?

      Yes, little Sara, it is. We have reached it at last. And though she was only seven years old, she knew that he felt sad when he said it.

      Her mother had died when she was born. Her young, handsome, rich, loving father seemed to be the only relation she had in the world. They had always played together and been fond of each other. She only knew he was rich because she had heard people say so, and she had also heard them say that when she grew up she would be rich, too.

      During her short life only one thing had troubled her. It was the place she was to be taken to some day. The climate of India was very bad for children, and as soon as possible they were sent away from it - generally to England and to school. She had known that she would have to go also. Though sometimes her father’s stories of the voyage and the new country had attracted her, she had been sad that he could not stay with her.

      Couldn’t you go to that place with me, papa? she had asked when she was five years old. Couldn’t you go to school, too? I would help you with your lessons.

      But you will not have to stay for a very long time, little Sara, he had always said. You will go to a nice house where there will be a lot of little girls, and you will play together, and I will send you plenty of books. You will grow so fast that you will soon be big enough and clever enough to come back and take care of papa.

      She liked to think of that. He held her very closely in his arms as the cab reached the big square in which stood the house they were going to.

      It was a big brick house, exactly like all the others in its row, but on the front door there was a brass plate with the words:

      Miss Minchin,

      Young Ladies’ School.

      Here we are, Sara, said Captain Crewe. He tried to be as cheerful as possible. Then he lifted her out of the cab and rang the bell. The house was well furnished, but everything in it was ugly. They were led into the drawing room.

      As she sat down in one of the chairs, Sara took a quick look about her.

      I don’t like it, papa, she said. But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don’t really like going into battle.

      Captain Crewe laughed. He was young and full of fun, and he always enjoyed hearing Sara’s strange speeches.

      Oh, little Sara, he said. What shall I do when I have no one to say serious things to me? No one else is as serious as you are.

      But why do serious things make you laugh so? asked Sara.

      Because you are such fun when you say them, he answered, laughing still more. And then suddenly he held her in his arms and kissed her very hard, stopping laughing all at once and looking almost as if tears had come into his eyes.

      Just then, Miss Minchin entered the room. She had large, cold eyes, and a large, cold smile. It became a very large smile when she saw Sara and Captain Crewe. She had heard a great many fine things of the young soldier. She had heard that he was a rich father, and he was willing to spend a great deal of money on his little daughter.

      I’m glad to have charge of such a beautiful and clever child, Captain Crewe, she said, taking Sara’s hand. Lady Meredith has told me how clever she is. A clever child is a great treasure in a school like mine.

      Sara stood quietly, with her eyes fixed upon Miss Minchin’s face. She was thinking something strange, as usual.

      Why does she say I am a beautiful child? she was thinking. I am not beautiful at all. I am a thin child and not fair at all. I am one of the ugliest children I ever saw. She is beginning by telling a story.

      In fact, she was not an ugly child. She had a strange charm of her own. She was rather tall for her age, and had an attractive little face. Her hair was heavy and quite black and only curled at the tips; her eyes were big with long, black lashes. Still she firmly believed that she was an ugly little girl, and she was not at all excited by Miss Minchin’s words.

      I should be telling a story if I said she was beautiful, she thought. I believe I am as ugly as she is. What did she say that for?

      After she had known Miss Minchin longer she learned why she had said it. She discovered that she said the same thing to each papa and mamma who brought a child to her school.

      Sara stood near her father and listened while he and Miss Minchin talked. She had been brought to the school because Lady Meredith’s two little girls had been educated there. Captain Crewe had a great respect for Lady Meredith’s experience. Sara was to be as a parlor boarder. She was to have a pretty bedroom and sitting room of her own; she was to have a pony and a carriage, and a maid to take care of her.

      I am not at all anxious about her education, Captain Crewe said, as he held Sara’s hand and patted it. The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always reading books. She is always asking for new books to read, and she wants grown-up books - great, big ones - French and German as well as English - history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much. Make her ride her pony in the street or go out and buy a new doll. She ought to play more with dolls.

      Papa, said Sara, you see, if I went out and bought a new doll every few days I should have too many of them. Dolls ought to be good friends. Emily is going to be my good friend.

      Captain Crewe looked at Miss Minchin and Miss Minchin looked at Captain Crewe.

      Who is Emily? she asked.

      Tell her, Sara, Captain Crewe said, smiling.

      Sara’s green-gray eyes looked very serious and quite soft as she answered.

      She is a doll I haven’t got yet, she said. She is a doll papa is going to buy for me. We are going out together to find her. I have called her Emily. She is going to be my friend when papa is gone. I want her to talk to about him.

      Miss Minchin laughed.

      What an original child! she said. What a lovely little creature!

      Yes, said Captain Crewe, drawing Sara close. She is a lovely little creature. Take great care of her for me, Miss Minchin.

      Sara stayed with her father at his hotel for several days; in fact, she remained with him until he sailed away again to India. They went out and visited many big shops together, and bought a great many things. They bought so many things that the polite young women behind the counters whispered to each other that the strange little girl must be at least some foreign princess.

      And at last they found Emily, but they went to a number of toy shops and looked at a great many dolls before they discovered her.

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