The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Annotated) - English as a Second or Foreign Language Edition by Lazlo Ferra: Classics Adapted by a Qualified Teacher, #2
By Lazlo Ferran
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This edition includes student exercises at the end of every chapter with answers at the end of the book.
A guest at Styles house witnesses the sudden and mysterious death of its owner, but a friend in the village, Poirot, is a brilliant, Belgian detective.
Agatha Christie's dapper dancing detective, Poirot, has delighted readers and film fans for many years.
This version of the first Poirot story has been specially adapted for pupils studying English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL, ESOL, EFL, TOEFL, ELTS CEFR), ideal for those studying for Citizenship in English-speaking countries like USA and UK. The language and vocabulary are easy, and emphasis is on action using past, present and future simple tenses.
Includes:
1. Broad questions about the text that can be used for discussion or writing short essays.
2. More detailed questions about the text.
3. Questions about grammar.
4. Games you can play on your own or with a friend.
Punctuation meets UK or USA ESL/CEFR/IELTS Level B2.
Lazlo Ferran is a fully qualified English teacher and teaches in London. He has also published more than twenty novels, making him the ideal choice to adapt Agatha Christie's stories for students.
Vocabulary Stretcher and Kids' editions are also available.
Classics Adapted by a Qualified Teacher
Paperback also available: http://bit.ly/stylestefl
Categories: UK ESL, CEFR, IELTS Level B2, USA EFL, TOEFL, ESOL, teaching materials, leaning materials, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, English grammar.
Lazlo Ferran
Lazlo Ferran: Exploring the Landscapes of Truth. Educated near Oxford, during English author Lazlo Ferran's extraordinary life, he has been an aeronautical engineering student, dispatch rider, graphic designer, full-time busker, guitarist and singer, recording two albums. Having grown up in rural Buckinghamshire Lazlo says: "The beautiful Chiltern Hills offered the ideal playground for a child's mind, in contrast to the ultra-strict education system of Bucks." Brought up as a Buddhist, he has travelled widely, surviving a student uprising in Athens and living for a while in Cairo, just after Sadat's assassination. Later, he spent some time in Central Asia and was only a few blocks away from gunfire during an attempt to storm the government buildings of Bishkek in 2006. He has a keen interest in theologies and philosophies of the Far East, Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe. After a long and successful career within the science industry, Lazlo Ferran left to concentrate on writing, to continue exploring the landscapes of truth.
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Annotated)
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Agatha Christie
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English as a Second or Foreign Language Edition
by Lazlo Ferran
PRINTING HISTORY
First Edition
Copyright © 2018 by Lazlo Ferran
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Find out more about Lazlo Ferran at:
https://www.lazloferran.com
Classics adapted by Lazlo Ferran:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Adapted For Kids
The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Adapted For Kids – Large Print
The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Kids Colouring Book
The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Kids Fun Exercise Book
The Mysterious Affair at Styles – For EFL/ESL Level B2 Students
The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Vocabulary Stretcher
The Secret Adversary – Adapted For Kids (US and UK Editions)
The Secret Adversary – For Kids (US and UK Editions) – Large Print
The Secret Adversary – Kids Colouring Book
The Secret Adversary – Kids Fun Exercise Book
The Secret Adversary – For EFL/ESL Level B2 Students (US and UK Editions)
The Secret Adversary – Vocabulary Stretcher
(US and UK Editions)
Frankenstein – Adapted For Kids
Frankenstein – Adapted For Kids – Large Print
Frankenstein – Kids Colouring Book
Frankenstein – Kids Fun Exercise Book
Frankenstein – For EFL/ESL Level B2 Students
Frankenstein – Vocabulary Stretcher
MacBeth – Adapted For Kids
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MacBeth – For EFL/ESL Level B2 Students
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Other books by Lazlo Ferran:
Ordo Lupus and the Temple Gate
Too Bright the Sun
The Hole Inside the Earth
Agatha Christie is one of the most popular English writers. Her stories provide a fun way to learn learn English.
At the end of each chapter you will find exercises to help you develop your reading skills. These exercises will include:
Broad questions about the text that can be used for discussion or writing short essays
More detailed questions about the text.
Questions about grammar.
Games you can play on your own orwith a friend.
Write down your answers. Not all questions have a single answer, but you will find many answers at the end of the book.
If possible, get a friend or parent to read the story as well, so that you can discuss your answers with them.
Use Google to help you if you get stuck.
Use www.onelook.com look up words that you don’t know.
If possible, get a fluent English-speaking adult to check your work for you.
Take your time and have fun!
Chapter 1—I go to Styles
Detective Poirot was an amazing looking, little man. He wasn’t more than five feet, four inches tall, but walked with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always held it a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military, and his clothes were always neat. I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.
We will arrange the facts,
Poirot would say. Those of no importance, pouf!
—he screwed up his baby face and puffed out his cheeks in a funny way—blow them away!
That’s good,
I replied, but how are you going to decide what is important and what isn’t?
One fact leads to another. This fact fits with that. Another fact doesn’t fit. We examine. We search. And that little curious fact, that little detail that will not fit, we put it here! No detail is too small.
As a Belgian detective, he had solved some of the most difficult cases of the day. When he spoke I listened, because I wanted to be a detective too!
So how did I come to work with Poirot on one of the most famous murder cases in England?
I was a soldier and had been wounded in the First World War. After spending a few months recovering in a gloomy hospital, I bumped into my childhood friend, John Cavendish. We had a good chat, and he invited me to spend my rest at his home, Styles Court.
Mother will be happy to see you again—after all those years,
he added.
Your mother keeps well?
I asked.
Oh, yes. I suppose you know that she married again after dad died? Now she is Mrs Emily Inglethorp.
I was surprised. John’s mother would be seventy by now. I remembered her as a rich and generous woman.
Lawrence, John’s younger brother, had often been sick as a child. He qualified as a doctor but gave it up to become writer, without success. John had become a lawyer but gave it up to live in luxury at the family’s big house in the country. He married two years before and took his wife to live with him at Styles.
John noticed my surprise at the news of his mother’s remarriage and added:
Her husband is a nasty man too! He’s Eve’s … . Do you remember Eve?
No.
Well, she is mother’s assistant now!
You were going to say—?
Yes. My new stepfather is a cousin of Eve’s. He’s got a big, black beard and wears shiny leather boots all the time! Nobody likes him, except mum. I think he just wants her money!
It was a still, warm day in early July when I arrived at Styles. As we turned in at the lodge gates, John said:
I wonder if we’ve time to pick up Cynthia. No, she’ll have started from the hospital by now.
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