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    Mary Marie (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    Mary Marie (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    Mary Marie (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
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    Mary Marie (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)

    By Qiliang Feng and Eleanor H. Porter

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    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 | 84.47
    Total word count | 44826
    Words beyond 1500 | 913
    Unknown word percentage (%) | 2.04
    Unknown headword occurrence | 2.7
    Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 51
    Unknown 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).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQiliang Feng
    Release dateDec 16, 2015
    ISBN9781311691880
    Mary Marie (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
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    Qiliang Feng

    Qiliang Feng has been a teacher of English in senior high schools since 1983. He is a keen supporter of reading in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and is expert at rewriting graded/simplified ESL(English as a Second Language) and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) readers. He has published several series of English reading course books and is promoting a reading project called Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP), in which ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words) are expected to read one million words within two or three years, and reach the upper-intermediate level easily.

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      Mary Marie (ESL/EFL Version with Audio) - Qiliang Feng

      Mary Marie

      (ESL/EFL Version)

      Original by: Eleanor H. Porter

      Rewritten by: Qiliang Feng

      Copyright 2016 Qiliang Feng

      Published by Qiliang Feng at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      About This Book

      Synopsis

      Preface

      Chapter 1. I Am Born

      Chapter 2. Nurse Sarah’s Story

      Chapter 3. The Mistake Is Made

      Chapter 4. When I Am Marie

      Chapter 5. When I Am Mary

      Chapter 6. When I Am Both Together

      Chapter 7. When I Am Neither One

      Chapter 8. Which Is the Real Love Story

      Chapter 9. Which Is the Test

      What You Have Learned

      About the Author

      Other Books by Qiliang Feng

      Connect with Qiliang Feng

      Preface

      I have had the pleasure of working with Mr Qiliang Feng for a number of years. I am impressed with his dedication to Chinese students and the work he is doing to help Chinese people become readers of English. Reading in a foreign language is not easy - and many people are put off by trying to read William Shakespeare or Charles Dickens - which are pretty difficult for native speakers of English. It is far better to start off at a much lower level where you know at least 95% of the words. (Some graded readers have a vocabulary of just 50 words so there is something for everyone).

      Mr Feng has provided a wide variety of readers of different levels so there should be something for you, whatever your level and whatever your interest, whether you like crime stories, science fiction, comedies or good old-fashioned love stories, there are graded readers for you.

      This reminds me of a student I once had from Poland. Her English was very poor but she liked reading romantic fiction in Polish so I gave her two very simple graded readers to read in English. A week later she came back. More books please!

      I gave her ten more books and a week later, ten more books, slightly harder than the week before. After eight weeks she was reading romantic fiction again - but this time in English! After eight weeks she had moved on from graded readers (after about 80 books) to ‘normal’ books for native speakers.

      Not surprisingly, her English reading skills improved a lot in that time. Interestingly, so did her speaking, listening and writing skills as well. Yes, reading is that powerful.

      As the American Professor Stephen Krashen said, Comprehensible Input is the key. You should read books that you understand, rather than reaching for a dictionary to check the meaning of a word every 10 seconds. You shouldn’t feel embarrassed about reading simple books. These are the building blocks of your English reading skills and with sound foundations, who knows how high you can go - the sky’s the limit!

      One important skill is to read books that have a small number of new words. Krashen called this I+1. This exposure to a small number of new words among many words that you do know will help your Second Language Acquisition in a very effective way. Let’s look at a few examples:

      Last week I noticed that my windows were so xhzmalshkd that I decided to clean them immediately.

      What could xhzmalshkd mean? Well, as you cleaned them immediately they were probably dirty, but as you chose to clean them immediately the implication is that xhzmalshkd means very dirty.

      The robbers ran so cxmzklwqdly that the police couldn’t catch them.

      What could cxmzklwqdly mean? Well, the word ends with -ly so it is probably an adverb describing how the robbers ran. Could be slowly, could be quickly but we also read that the police couldn’t catch them so we can understand that the word cxmzklwqdly probably means very quickly.

      Instead of reaching for your dictionary each time, play the game of trying to work out what the unknown word might mean. If there are too many unknown words, then the book you are reading is too difficult for you so simply pick another, easier book.

      Mr Feng wants you to read 1 million words. I hope that you come to see reading as a pleasure and a joy that will open your eyes to many other worlds - as well as taking your English ever closer to perfect fluency.

      Happy Reading!

      Jeremy Taylor

      Writer, Teacher and Teacher Trainer.

      Jeremy Taylor is a British author and has written over 50 books. In addition to writing he likes photography, cooking, hiking, cycling and languages. If you want to know more about him you can visit his website: http://www.jeremytaylor.eu

      About This Book

      This book is Volume I-9 of the series of readers of Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP). It is suitable for readers with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words.

      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 3,500 words). This project contains about 40 simplified readers, enough for an ESL/EFL learner to read for two years, and this list is growing.

      Text Information

      Readability || 89.5

      Total word count || 44945

      Words beyond 1500 || 952

      Headwords beyond 1500 || 350

      Unknown word percentage (%) || 2.12

      Unknown headword percentage (%) || 0.78

      Unknown headword occurrence || 2.72

      Unknown words that occur 5 times or more || 52

      Unknown words that occur 2 times or more || 171

      Notes:

      1. About readability: This is Flesch Reading Ease Readability calculated with MS WORD. The higher the score, the easier the text is to read.

      Score || Level

      0-29 || Very difficult

      30-49 || Difficult

      50-59 || Fairly difficult

      60-69 || Standard

      70-79 || Fairly easy

      80-89 || Easy

      90-100 || Very easy

      2. The basic 1500 wordlist does not include compound words made up of the basic words (like: schoolboy <=school +boy) or words derived from the basic words (like: honestly <= honest+ly).

      3. Proper names (names of persons or places) or words derived from proper names and interjections are not counted.

      4. Words beyond 1500 (unknown words) include all those beyond the basic 1500 wordlist that occur and reoccur. For instance, words that occur three times are counted as three.

      5. In Unknown headwords, reoccurred words or their derived forms are counted as one.

      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" written by the American novelist Eleanor H. Porter (1868-1920).

      Preface

      Father calls me Mary. Mother calls me Marie. Everybody else calls me Mary Marie. The rest of my name is Anderson.

      I’m thirteen years old, and I’m a cross-current and a contradiction. That is, Sarah says I’m that. (Sarah is my old nurse.) She says she read it once---that the children of unlikes were always a cross-current and a contradiction. And my father and mother are unlikes, and I’m the only child. And now I’m going to be a bigger cross-current and contradiction than ever, for I’m going to live half the time with Mother and the other half with Father. Mother will go to Boston to live, and Father will stay here --- a divorce, you know.

      I’m terribly excited over it. None of the other girls have got a divorce in their families, and I always did like to be different. Besides, it ought to be awfully interesting, more interesting than just living along with your father and mother in the same house all the time --- especially if it’s like my house with my father and mother in it!

      That’s why I’ve decided to make a book of it. Only I shall have to call it a diary, on account of Father, you know. Won’t it be funny when I don’t have to do things on account of Father? And I won’t, of course, the six months I’m living with Mother in Boston.

      Well, about making this into a book. As I started to say, he wouldn’t let me. He says novels are a silly waste of time, if not absolutely bad. But, a diary --- oh, he loves diaries! He keeps one himself, and he told me it would be an excellent and instructive discipline for me to do it, too --- set down the weather and what I did every day.

      * * * * *

      I shall call it a diary. Oh, yes, I shall call it a diary --- till I take it to be printed. Then I shall give it its true name --- a novel. I love stories. I’ve written lots of them for the girls, too --- little short ones, I mean; not a long one like this is going to be, of course. And it’ll be so exciting to be living a story instead of reading it --- only when you’re living a story you can’t look at the back to see how it’s all coming out. I shan’t like that part. Still, it may be all the more exciting, after all, not to know what’s coming.

      I like love stories the best. Father’s got lots of books in the library, and I’ve read lots of them, even some of the stupid old histories and biographies. I had to read them when there wasn’t anything else to read. But there weren’t many love stories. Mother’s got a few, though --- lovely ones --- and some books of poetry, on the little shelf in her room. But I read all those years ago.

      That’s why I’m so excited over this new one --- the one I’m living, I mean. For of course this will be a love story. There’ll be my love story in two or three years, when I grow up, and while I’m waiting there’s Father’s and Mother’s.

      Nurse Sarah says that when you’re divorced you’re free, just like you were before you were married, and that sometimes they marry again. That made me think right away: what if Father or Mother, or both of them, married again? And I should be there to see it, and the courting, and all! Wouldn’t that be some love story? Well, I just guess!

      And only think how all the girls would envy me --- and they just living along their boring, everyday existence with fathers and mothers already married and living together, and nothing exciting to look forward to. For really, you know, there aren’t many girls that have got the chance I’ve got.

      And so that’s why I’ve decided to write it into a book. Oh, yes, I know I’m young --- only thirteen. But I feel really old; and you know a woman is as old as she feels. Besides, Nurse Sarah says I am old for my age, and that it’s no wonder, the kind of life I’ve lived.

      And maybe that is so. For of course it has been different to live with a father and mother that are getting ready to be divorced. Nurse Sarah says it’s a shame and a pity, and that it’s the children that always suffer. But I’m not suffering --- not a bit. I’m just enjoying it. It’s so exciting.

      I’m going to begin the story tomorrow --- the real story --- Chapter One.

      Chapter 1. I Am Born

      The sun was slowly setting in the west, shining golden light into the old room.

      That’s the way it ought to begin, I know, and I’d like to do it, but I can’t. I’m beginning with my being born, of course, and Nurse Sarah says the sun wasn’t shining at all. It was night and the stars were out. She remembers particularly about the stars, for Father was in the observatory, and couldn’t be disturbed. (We never disturb Father when he’s there, you know.) And so he didn’t even know he had a daughter until the next morning when he came out to breakfast. He’s always finding out something about those old stars just when we want him to pay attention to something else.

      Well, as I was saying, Father didn’t know until after breakfast that he had a little daughter. (We never tell him disturbing, exciting things just before meals.) And then Nurse told him.

      I asked what he said, and Nurse laughed and gave her funny little shrug to her shoulders.

      Yes, what did he say, indeed? she said. He frowned, looked kind of confused, then whispered: ‘Well, well, upon my soul! Yes, to be sure!’

      Then he came in to see me.

      I don’t know, of course, what he thought of me, but I guess he didn’t think much of me, from what Nurse said. Of course I was very, very small, and I never yet saw a little bit of a baby that was pretty. So maybe you couldn’t really blame him.

      Nurse said he looked at me, whispered, Well, well, upon my soul! again, and seemed really quite interested till they started to put me in his arms. Then he threw up both hands, backed off, and cried, Oh, no, no! He turned to Mother and hoped she was feeling pretty well, then he got out of the room just as quick as he could.

      He was much more interested in his new star than he was in his new daughter. We were

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