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    The Lost Cup: An Easy-English Adventure with 8 Different Endings
    The Lost Cup: An Easy-English Adventure with 8 Different Endings
    The Lost Cup: An Easy-English Adventure with 8 Different Endings
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    The Lost Cup: An Easy-English Adventure with 8 Different Endings

    By James Broadbridge and Alice Carroll

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    You are a detective on the trail of the stolen world cup of soccer. You follow the trophy to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but what comes next? Will you find fame, or... death?An easy-English adventure with eight different endings.

    Atama-ii graded readers are multiple-path adventure stories in easy English. They are ideal for reluctant readers or for learners of English as a second language. Recommended for ages 11 and up. All titles in the series are at about the 300 headword level and about 2,500 words in total. Each text page is between 100 and 110 words and is accompanied by a full-page color illustration to aid comprehension. Each story contains eight different endings, and so it is re-readable many times.

    The Atama-ii Series is nominated for the 2015 British Council ELTon Award for Innovation in Learner Resources. Titles #4 and #5, Backstage Pass and Hunter in the Darkness, are also nominated for a 2015 Language Learner Literature Award. For more information, visit atama-ii.com

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtama-ii Books
    Release dateMar 25, 2015
    ISBN9781941140536
    The Lost Cup: An Easy-English Adventure with 8 Different Endings
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    James Broadbridge

    James is an Assistant Professor in the English Language Program at J. F. Oberlin University in Tokyo. He has been teaching English for over fifteen years and has taught in a range of contexts including junior high school, high school, and university.James’ research areas of interest include vocabulary acquisition, the use of technology in the classroom, and extensive reading. He has presented on these topics both in Japan and internationally.James is an avid reader of 19th century European literature, and loves a long and complex sentence. However, he fights strong urges and restricts himself to Atama-ii’s word limit of 100 words per page in his first title for the series, The Lost Cup.

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      The Lost Cup - James Broadbridge

      The Lost Cup

      By James Broadbridge

      Illustrated by Alice Carroll

      Series edited by Marcos Benevides

      And starring… YOU!

      ABOUT THIS AWARD-NOMINATED SERIES

      Atama-ii graded readers are multiple-path adventure stories in easy English. They are ideal for reluctant readers or for learners of English as a second language. Recommended for ages 11 and up.

      All titles in the series are at about the 300 headword level and about 2,500 words in total. Each text page is between 100 and 110 words and is accompanied by a full-page color illustration to aid comprehension. Each story contains 8 different endings, and so it is re-readable many times.

      The Atama-ii Series is nominated for the 2015 British Council ELTon Award for Innovation in Learner Resources. Titles #4 and #5, Backstage Pass and Hunter in the Darkness, are also nominated for a 2015 Language Learner Literature Award.

      For more information, visit atama-ii.com

      For free downloadable worksheets, visit atama-ii.com/resources

      PRODUCT INFORMATION

      The Lost Cup by James Broadbridge

      Illustrated by Alice Carroll

      Series created and edited by Marcos Benevides

      Covers and webite designed by Mark Bain

      We would like to express our deepest gratitude to the hundreds of family, friends, colleagues, and Kickstarter supporters who have made this project possible. Please tap here to read the acknowledgements page.

      © 2014 Atama-ii Books, Florida, USA

      email: publisher@atama-ii.com

      website: www.atama-ii.com

      First edition v 1.5

      Epub, non-audio

      ISBN: 978-1-941140-53-6

      Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons

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