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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2009Download Free Short Stories
Hi, I wonder if you could let me know where I can download free short stories for my students at different levels. Best regards Mori > Hi, > I wonder if you could let me know where I can download free short > stories for my students at different levels. > Best regards > Mori http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page > Hi, > I wonder if you could let me know where I can download free short > stories for my students at different levels. > Best regards > Mori What sort of short stories? Literature? Fun to read? Lessons in English? What do you teach? Where? To whom? >Hi, >I wonder if you could let me know where I can download free short >stories for my students at different levels. >Best regards >Mori Wouldn't most of your students prefer to read these stories in conventional, bound versions? For me, reading a story on a computer screen takes away most of the pleasure they can provide.  SignatureRegards, Chuck Riggs Near Dublin, Ireland > >Hi, > >I wonder if you could let me know where I can download free short [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Chuck Riggs > Near Dublin, Ireland Chuck, they very well might not. A lot of people prefer ebooks to "real" books; the feel and smell of paper has no effect on them at all (unless they're allergic to dust). And it's been years that kids have turned first to the computer for answers to all their questions instead of to books, or even to people. It must be near ten years ago that I saw a group of children, told to look the meaning of a word up, walk right past a library's collection of dictionaries to get to a computer. A couple of years ago, I saw a child who needed to research something for school asking Jeeves (ask.com) when the research librarian was sitting at her desk just the other side of the computer. Mori, what age are your students? Do you teach ESL? >> >Hi, >> >I wonder if you could let me know where I can download free short [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >Chuck, they very well might not. More pity on the poor babies. >A lot of people prefer ebooks to >"real" books; the feel and smell of paper has no effect on them at all [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >something for school asking Jeeves (ask.com) when the research >librarian was sitting at her desk just the other side of the computer. Research is one thing, but no one can tell me it is pleasurable to snuggle up in bed to a screen full of words. SignatureRegards, Chuck Riggs Near Dublin, Ireland Chuck wrote on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:29:48 +0000: >> >> Hi, >> >> I wonder if you could let me know where I can download [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> >> Chuck, they very well might not. > More pity on the poor babies. >> A lot of people prefer ebooks to >> "real" books; the feel and smell of paper has no effect on [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> the research librarian was sitting at her desk just the other >> side of the computer. > Research is one thing, but no one can tell me it is > pleasurable to snuggle up in bed to a screen full of words. I can't resist. There are better things to snuggle up to in bed than either paper or e-books. SignatureJames Silverton Potomac, Maryland Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not > Chuck wrote on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:29:48 +0000: > [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] >I can't resist. There are better things to snuggle up to in bed than >either paper or e-books. At my age, ones hand gets tired. SignatureRegards, Chuck Riggs Near Dublin, Ireland > >Hi, > >I wonder if you could let me know where I can download free short [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > conventional, bound versions? For me, reading a story on a computer > screen takes away most of the pleasure they can provide. They may not be reading on screen - if they were, they wouldn't need to be downloaded. It's possible that Mori intends downloading and then printing them out for the students. Not dissimilar to my school days when we were given photocopied (or Bandaed) stories to read. SignatureLinz Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford My accent may vary > Hi, > I wonder if you could let me know where I can downloadfreeshort > stories for my students at different levels. > Best regards > Mori Mori emailed me directly instead of posting here: I'm an EFL teacher although it's not my first language. I teach both teens and adults mostly at introductory and intermediate levels. My suggestion is: Okay. Try this webpage: http://www.readassist.org/read/ebooks.html There are links to some free sites there, mostly with science fiction. There are also links to other places to look for more links. > > Hi, > > I wonder if you could let me know where I can downloadfreeshort [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > There are links to some free sites there, mostly with science > fiction. There are also links to other places to look for more links. Thank you very much for the answer! |
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