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    The Adventures of Don Quixote (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    The Adventures of Don Quixote (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    The Adventures of Don Quixote (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
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    The Adventures of Don Quixote (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)

    By Qiliang Feng and Miguel de Cervantes

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    This is Book 14, 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 | 82.22
    Total word count | 27864
    Words beyond 1500 | 2090
    Unknown word percentage (%) | 7.5
    Unknown headword occurrence | 4.31
    Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 83
    Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 262

    [Synopsis]
    A poor Spanish gentleman about 50 years old loves reading stories about knights. Slowly he starts to lose touch with reality and begins to believe that he is one of these fiction heroes.
    He finds some old armor and prepares an old horse. He calls himself Don Quixote and persuades his neighbor, Sancho Panza, to be his squire by promising him riches, fame and the governorship of an island. Together, they get away and their famous adventures begin.
    Don Quixote takes a small inn for a castle, and he believes large windmills to be giants and thus attacks. He attacks a flock of sheep, believing it to be an army, finds a barber basin which he believes to be a helmet....
    This book is rewritten from “Don Quixote of La Mancha” by Miguel de Cervantes. This novel is his masterpiece and is considered to represent the birth of modern literature in the 20th century.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQiliang Feng
    Release dateDec 25, 2015
    ISBN9781311477484
    The Adventures of Don Quixote (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 Adventures of Don Quixote (ESL/EFL Version with Audio) - Qiliang Feng

      The Adventures of Don Quixote

      (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)

      Original by: Miguel de Cervantes

      Rewritten by: Qiliang Feng

      Million-Word Reading Project Workshop

      Copyright 2022 Qiliang Feng

      License Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      About This Book

      This is Book 14, 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 | 82.2

      Total word count | 27864

      Words beyond 1500 | 2090

      Unknown word percentage (%) | 7.5

      Unknown headword occurrence | 4.31

      Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 83

      Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 262

      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

      A poor Spanish gentleman about 50 years old loves reading stories about knights. Slowly he starts to lose touch with reality and begins to believe that he is one of these fiction heroes.

      He finds some old armor and prepares an old horse. He calls himself Don Quixote and persuades his neighbor, Sancho Panza, to be his squire by promising him riches, fame and the governorship of an island. Together, they get away and their famous adventures begin.

      Don Quixote takes a small inn for a castle, and he believes large windmills to be giants and thus attacks. He attacks a flock of sheep, believing it to be an army, finds a barber basin which he believes to be a helmet….

      This book is rewritten from "Don Quixote of La Mancha" by Miguel de Cervantes. This novel is his masterpiece and is considered to represent the birth of modern literature in the 20th century.

      Chapter 1. Getting Ready for Adventures

      Many years ago there lived in Spain a strange gentleman. This gentleman had so many strange ways and did so many strange things that he made himself famous throughout the world.

      No one outside of his village seemed to know what his real name was, but his neighbors called him the good Mr. Quixana.

      He was gentle and kind, and very brave, and all who knew him loved him. He had neither wife nor child. He lived with his niece in his own farmhouse close by a quiet little village in the province of La Mancha.

      His niece was not yet twenty years of age. So the house was kept and managed by an old servant woman. A poor man who lived in a cottage nearby was employed to do the work on the farm, and he did so well that the master had much spare time.

      Mr. Quixana was more than fifty years of age, and quite tall. His face was thin, his nose was long, and his hair was turning gray.

      In the hallway of his house a short, rusty sword was always hanging, and leaning against the wall were a rusty lance and a big leather shield. These weapons had belonged to his great-grandfather, long ago.

      On the kitchen doorstep an old dog was always lying. In the barn there was a horse as old and as thin as the dog.

      Like many other gentlemen, Mr. Quixana did not work much. He spent almost all his time in reading, reading, reading.

      He was seldom seen without a book in his hand. When the weather was fine he would sit in his little library, or under the apple trees in his garden, and read all day.

      He often forgot to come to his meals. He was so fond of his books that he forgot his horse, his dog, and even his niece. He forgot his friends, he forgot himself. Sometimes he sat up and read all night.

      Now, what kind of books do you suppose he read?

      He read neither histories nor books of travel. His whole mind was given to stories - stories of knights and their daring deeds. He read so many of these stories that he could not think of anything else. His head was full of knights and knightly deeds.

      At last this gentleman said to himself, Why should I always be a plain farmer and sit here at home? Why may I not become a famous knight?

      The more he thought about this matter, the more he wished to be a hero like those he had read about in his books.

      Yes, I will be a knight, he said to himself. "My mind is fully made up. I will arm myself in a coat of mail[1], I will get on my noble horse, I will ride out into the world to seek adventures. No danger shall frighten me. With my strong arm I will go to protect the weak and to be kind to the friendless. Yes, I will be a knight, and I will fight against error wherever I find it."

      So he began at once to get ready for his adventures.

      The first thing was to find some suitable armor. In the attic of his house there was an old coat of mail. It had lain there among the dust for a hundred years and more. It was rusted and broken, and some of the parts were missing.

      But he cleaned it as well as he could. He cut some pieces of pasteboard to supply the missing parts, and painted them to look like steel. When they were properly fitted, they looked perfect.

      With the coat of mail there was an old brass helmet. It, too, was broken. But Mr. Quixana mended it. As he held it up and looked at it from every side, he felt very proud.

      And now a horse must be provided, for every knight must have a noble horse.

      The poor old creature in the barn was bony. As the gentleman looked at him he thought that no horse had ever been so beautiful or so fast.

      He will carry me most bravely, he said, and I shall be proud of him. But what shall I call him? A horse that is ridden by a noble knight must have a noble name.

      So he spent four days in studying what he should call his horse. At last he said, I have it. His name shall be Rozinante.

      He thought he would find a good name for himself.

      Every knight, he said, has the right to put Don at the beginning of his name, for that is a title of honor and respect. Now, I shall call myself Don Quixote. And since my home is in the district of La Mancha, I shall be known throughout the world as Don Quixote de la Mancha.

      The name was indeed not very different from his real name. For his neighbors called him Quixana.

      Now the good old gentleman felt himself well equipped for adventures. But suddenly the thought came to him that still another thing must be settled before he could ride out.

      In all the stories he had read, every knight had some fair lady whom he appealed to in time of danger, and to whom he brought the prizes which he had won. It was at her feet that the knight must kneel at the end of every expedition. It was from her that he must receive the victor’s crown. To him, therefore, a lady friend was as necessary as a horse or a suit of armor.

      Who should it be?

      This question troubled him more than any other had done. He sat in his house for two whole weeks, and thought of nothing else.

      At last he remembered a handsome, red-cheeked

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