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    Peter Pan (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    Peter Pan (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
    Peter Pan (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)
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    Peter Pan (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)

    By Qiliang Feng and James Matthew Barrie

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    About this ebook

    This is Book 13, Collection II, 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 | 83.87
    Total word count | 28421
    Words beyond 1500 | 1350
    Unknown word percentage (%) | 4.75
    Unknown headword occurrence | 2.97
    Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 62
    Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 222

    [Synopsis]
    Peter Pan is a naughty boy who can fly and never grows up. He spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang, the Lost Boys.
    The three children of the Darling family often talk about Peter Pan. One night, while their parents are away, Peter Pan enters their bedroom through the window. Peter Pan teaches them how to fly and the children soon learn to do so. With the help of this tiny friend, the children fly to Neverland.
    Is Neverland a paradise for the children?
    This book is rewritten from “Peter Pan” by the Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. It has been made into plays and films many times.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQiliang Feng
    Release dateDec 22, 2015
    ISBN9781311346698
    Peter Pan (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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      Peter Pan (ESL/EFL Version with Audio) - Qiliang Feng

      Peter Pan

      (ESL/EFL Version with Audio)

      Original by: J. M. Barrie

      Rewritten by: Qiliang Feng

      Million-Word Reading Project Workshop

      Copyright 2022 Qiliang Feng

      License Notes

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      About This Book

      This is Book 13, Collection II, 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 | 83.9

      Total word count | 28421

      Words beyond 1500 | 1350

      Unknown word percentage (%) | 4.75

      Unknown headword occurrence | 2.97

      Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 62

      Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 222

      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. This e-version does not give the meanings of unknown words. You can look them up with the dictionary on your e-reader. For words with different meanings and some expressions, we give their meanings at the end of the passages. We also provide some necessary background information.

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      Synopsis

      Peter Pan is a naughty boy who can fly and never grows up. He spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang, the Lost Boys.

      The three children of the Darling family often talk about Peter Pan. One night, while their parents are away, Peter Pan enters their bedroom through the window. Peter Pan teaches them how to fly and the children soon learn to do so. With the help of this tiny friend, the children fly to Neverland.

      Is Neverland a paradise for the children?

      This book is rewritten from "Peter Pan" by the Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. It has been made into plays and films many times.

      Chapter 1. Peter Breaks Through

      All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and Wendy knew it in this way. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she picked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather lovely, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, Oh, why can’t you remain like this forever! So Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two.

      Of course they lived at 14, and until Wendy came her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mouth.

      The way Mr. Darling won her was this: the many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered at the same time that they loved her. They all ran to her house to ask her to marry them except Mr. Darling, who took a cab and got in first, and so he got her.

      Wendy was their first child, then John, then Michael.

      When the children were born, their parents found it hard to keep them, but they did. And soon, the three of them were going in a row to Miss Fulsom’s Kindergarten school, accompanied by their nurse.

      As they were poor, this nurse was a dog, called Nana. She proved to be quite a wonderful nurse. How thorough she was at bath-time, and up at any moment of the night if one of the children made the slightest cry. Of course her kennel was in the nursery.

      She went with the children to school every day, walking quietly by their side when they were well behaved, and pushing them back into line if they strayed. When John played football, she never once forgot his sweater, and she usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain.

      There is a room in the basement of Miss Fulsom’s school where the nurses wait. They sat on benches, while Nana lay on the floor, but that was the only difference.

      The family had only one other servant, Liza. She looked small in her long skirt and maid’s cap. It was a happy family until Peter Pan came.

      Mrs. Darling had always heard the children talk about Peter Pan, but she did not know who he was at first. But after thinking back into her childhood, she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies. There were strange stories about him. It was said that when children died, he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened. She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married, she quite doubted whether there was any such person.

      Peter Pan never grows up, Wendy told her one day, and he is just my size. She meant that he was her size in both mind and body; she didn’t know how she knew, she just knew it.

      Mrs. Darling asked Mr. Darling, but he laughed.

      Listen to me, he said, it is some nonsense Nana has been putting into their heads; just the sort of idea a dog would have. Leave it alone, and it will soon be forgotten.

      But it would not be forgotten and soon the troublesome boy gave Mrs. Darling quite a shock.

      Children have the strangest adventures, yet they are not troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention that, when they were in the wood, they had met their dead father and had a game with him, a week after the event happened.

      One morning, Wendy said in a casual way that some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery floor. They certainly were not there when the children went to bed, and Mrs. Darling was puzzling over them when Wendy said with a smile:

      I do believe it is that Peter again!

      Whatever do you mean, Wendy?

      It is so naughty of him not to wipe his feet, Wendy said, sighing. She was a tidy child.

      She explained that she thought Peter sometimes came to the nursery in the night and sat on the foot of her bed and played on his pipes to her. Unfortunately she never woke, so she didn’t know how she knew, she just knew.

      What nonsense you talk, dear. No one can get into the house without knocking.

      I think he comes in by the window, she said.

      My love, it is three floors up.

      Were not the leaves at the foot of the window, mother?

      It was quite true; the leaves had been found very near the window.

      Mrs. Darling did not know what to think.

      My child, the mother cried, why did you not tell me of this before?

      I forgot, said Wendy carelessly. She was in a hurry to get her breakfast.

      Oh, surely she must have been dreaming.

      But, on the other hand, there were the leaves. Mrs. Darling examined them very carefully; she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England. She crawled about the floor, examining it with a candle for marks of a strange foot. The window was thirty feet from the ground, without anything to climb up by.

      Certainly Wendy had been dreaming.

      But Wendy had not been dreaming. The very next night, the extraordinary adventures of these children began.

      That night, all the children were once more in bed. It happened to be Nana’s evening off, and Mrs. Darling had bathed them and sung to them till one by one they went into the land of sleep.

      All were looking so safe and comfortable that she sat down quietly by the fire to sew.

      It was something for Michael. He was getting into shirts on his birthday. The fire was warm, however, and soon the sewing lay on Mrs. Darling’s lap. Then her head nodded. She was asleep. Look at the four of them, Wendy and Michael over there, John here, and Mrs. Darling by the fire.

      While she slept she had a dream. She dreamt

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