Mary Marie (ESL/EFL Version With Audio)

This is Book 12, 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 84.47Total word count 44826Words beyond 1500 913Unknown word percentage (%) 2.04Unknown headword occurrence 2.7Unknown words that occur 5 times or more 51Unknown words that occur 2 times or more 165[Synopsis]Mary Marie is a 13-year-old girl. Her parents do not agree on a name, so her mother calls her Marie, and her father calls her Mary.After Mary Marie's parents' divorce, she lives with mother for 6 months and then with father for 6 months. While living with mother, this young girl is Marie, who is lively, happy, and energetic. Living with father, she is Mary, and she must act like a lady. As she is trying to please each parent, she comes to realize one thing about them….This book is rewritten from "Mary Marie" by the American novelist Eleanor H. Porter (1868-1920). 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.