Heart: An Italian Schoolboy's Journal (ESL/EFL Version)

This is Book 7, Collection III, 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 81.03Total word count 29697Words beyond 1500 1195Unknown word percentage (%) 4.02Unknown headword occurrence 2.62Unknown words that occur 5 times or more 70Unknown words that occur 2 times or more 223[Synopsis]This book is rewritten from the children's novel "Cuore (Heart) " written by the Italian author Edmondo De Amicis. It is a novel written in a diary form as told by Enrico Bottini, a 10-year-old primary school student in Italy with an upper class background. It describes what he sees and hears and how he feel during the third school year from the first day at school in October to the next June. These stories are about the teachers, his classmates and their parents and many other people. These people are from different backgrounds and vary in character.This book also includes Month Stories, which are about noble deeds done by boys. These stories teach children moral values, helping those in need, respect for parents, love for family and friends, and love of their country.This book has been translanted into over 100 languages and have been made into films, TV series, radio adaptations, plays and comic books. Qiliang Feng has been teaching English in senior high schools since 1983. A passionate advocate for integrating reading into TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), he specializes in adapting and simplifying graded ESL (English as a Second Language) and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) readers. He has authored several series of English reading course books and is actively promoting the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP). This initiative encourages elementary-level ESL/EFL learners, with a foundational vocabulary of 1,500 words, to read one million words over two to three years, helping them progress to an upper-intermediate proficiency level with ease. Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a project in which ESL/EFL learners at elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words) are expected to read one million words within two or three years, and reach upper-intermediate level (with a vocabulary of about 3,000-3,500 words). This project contains about 40 simplified readers, enough for an ESL/EFL learner to read for two years, and this list is growing.