by Gerald Durrell · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780194248242
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«My Family and Other Animals» is the graded reader by Gerald Durrell, published by OUP Oxford in hardback (83 pages, in English).
After a bad summer in England, Gerald's mother sells the house and takes her children to Corfu. Between lessons, ten-year-old Gerald explores the sunny island and discovers its people and the fascinating animals that live there. The story follows his adventures with the local wildlife and with his surprising family and friends.
Graded reader from the Dominoes series, level 3 (1000-word vocabulary), adapted by Bill Bowler. Includes MultiROM with dramatised audio and interactive activities; CEFR level B1.
Recommended for students of English as a foreign language (level B1) who want to practise reading with an adapted classic work.
Gerald Malcolm Durrell was a British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter. He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, and moved to England when his father died in 1928. In 1935 the family moved to Corfu, and stayed there for four years, before the outbreak of World War II forced them to return to the UK. In 1946 he received an inheritance from his father's will that he used to fund animal-collecting trips to the British Cameroons and British Guiana. He married Jacquie Rasen in 1951; they had very little money, and she persuaded him to write an account of his first trip to the Cameroons. The result, titled The Overloaded Ark, sold well, and he began writing accounts of his other trips. An expedition to Argentina and Paraguay followed in 1953, and three years later he published My Family and Other Animals, which became a bestseller.
