This is one of the first books I made. I would say it's an intermediate to advanced ESL reader. It's a compilation of short stories taken from Rong-Chang, I added a few pictures and put it together in a crisp and clean pdf file. It's basically a reading comprehension book with exercises and the teacher can improvise with some conversation questions based on the stories. Each section has some vocabulary which can be translated to a native language or used to make sentences with. There are Dictation exercises and a crossword puzzle based on the story after each story. I threw in a few grammar exercises.
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