Grimms’ Fairy Tales (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
By Qiliang Feng & The Brothers Grimm
- Release Date: 2015-12-25
- Genre: Fairy Tales, Myths & Fables for Kids
Description
This is Book 7, 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 | 85.7
Total word count | 28023
Words beyond 1500 | 1262
Unknown word percentage (%) | 4.5
Unknown headword occurrence | 3.23
Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 70
Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 207
[Synopsis]
It is safe to say that almost every child has read or heard Grimm’s fairy tales read to them. Every child knows Snow White and the seven kind dwarfs, the poor Cinderella who is treated badly by her stepmother and many more.
For over one hundred years, Grimm’s fairy tales have been popular with children all over the world. These stories, collected by the Brothers Grimm (Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm), have been translated into more than 100 languages and made into many films.
