Oliver Twist (ebook)

Argumento de Oliver Twist (ebook)

This classic novel has been abridged and adapted into 10 illustrated chapters. This format is ideal for bilingual education - people learning English as a second language (ESL), English Language Learners (ELL), people of any age intending to improve reading skills and students for whom the original version would be too long or difficult. This learning product is high-interest, low-readability. Readers of this version will improve comprehension, fluency and vocabulary.

Long ago in England there was a workhouse in most every town. Poor people, who had no place to go, lived in a workhouse. But they did not live for free. That?s why it was called a workhouse. They would eat and sleep at the workhouse. But they went to work outside the workhouse. The little money they made went to the workhouse to help pay for their food. And when children were old enough, they went to work, too! One night at the workhouse, Oliver Twist was born. His mother sat up. ?Let me see my baby, then I will die,? she said. ?Oh, you must not talk about wanting to die,? said the doctor. But Oliver?s mother patter he baby, then fell back and died. "Too bad," said the doctor. "Who was she, anyway?" "No one knows," the doctor's helper answered. "She fell in the street outside. Her baby was ready to be born. We do not know her name, or where she came from." Little Oliver's early years were hard. He and the other children at the workhouse had little to eat. Mrs. Mann, the woman in charge, was mean to the children. She hit them often..,and liked doing it! And she took the children's food money to spend on herself! So little Oliver went hungry most of the time. Sometimes Mr. Bumble came to see the children. It was his job to see that the children were being cared for. It was his job to tell the owners how the children were doing. But like Mrs. Mann, he did not like children. So he didn't do his job real well. "How are the children getting along?" he asked Mrs. Mann, one day.0