Extra! Extra! Read all about it! News Stories is a collection of interesting and feel-good stories from around the world. Each story is written in two levels – beginners and intermediate. All you need to do is identify the highlighted sounds and choose the correct phoneme that represents that sound. News Stories helps you to identify individual sounds in long and more difficult written text. This improves your pronunciation of the words you read and your reading fluency.
Scott Neeson had everything ...: a job that paid $1 million ... a year, a nice ... car and a big ... house. He lived ... in America and he was rich ....
In 2004, he travelled ... to Cambodia. During his trip ... he visited ... four sick ... kids someone had told him about. The kids did not go to school. They worked in a rubbish ... dump.
Scott looked at the children working in the middle of deadly ... smoke and burning rubbish and felt ... sad. He wanted to help these children. He decided ... to quit ... his job and help the kids ... of Cambodia.
He started the Cambodian Children’s ... Fund (CCF). The CCF gives ... schooling, child ... care and health ... services to children who live in the poor suburbs of Cambodia.