Reading Judas
The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
read by Justine Eyre and Robertson Dean
When the Gospel of Judas was published by the National Geographic Society in April 2006, it received extraordinary media attention and was immediately heralded as a major biblical discovery that rocked the world of scholars and laypeople alike. Elaine Pagels and Karen King are the first to reflect on this newfound text and its ramifications for telling the story of early Christianity. In Reading Judas, the two celebrated scholars illustrate how the newly discovered text provides a window onto understanding how Jesus’ followers understood his death, why Judas betrayed Jesus, and why God allowed it.

Unabridged
Read by Christopher Cazenove
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II.
Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.

Archimedes

Archimedes - the Greek mathematician reputed to have shouted “Eureka!” as he leapt from his bath having discovered the principles of floating bodies. Whatever the truth of the myths surrounding the man, he was certainly one of the world’s great mathematicians. The practical application of his work in pulleys and levers created formidable weapons such as catapults and ship tilting systems, allowing his home city in Sicily to defend itself against the Romans. “Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth”, he declared.

But despite these triumphs, his true love remained maths for maths sake. Plutarch writes: “He placed his whole affection and ambition in those purer speculations where there can be no reference to the vulgar needs of life.” His most important breakthroughs came in the field of geometry with his work on the areas and volumes of curved objects.

So how did this Greek mathematician in the third century BC arrive at a calculation of Pi? Did he really create a Death Ray to fight off invading ships? And what does a recently discovered manuscript reveal about his methods.

Ten Fairy Tales (text+audio)
You'll find ten fairy tales in this archive - both audiofiles and DOC scripts. The scripts include Grammar Practice, Vocabulary  pre-reading and post-reading Practice questions, as well as Speaking Practice questions.
Some parts of the practice tasks are English-Russian translation tasks. However, you'll discover that you can just omit those activities easily.
The following fairy-tales are included in the archive:
1 Johnny-Cake
2 Little Kim
3 The Emperor
4 The Sleeping Beauty
5 The Wild Swans
6 The Wolf and the Seven Kids
7 The Little Matchgirl
8 The Enchanted Princess
9 The Snow Queen
10 The Wizard of Oz