共 Helbling Readers Red Series書系簡介
系列分為：
● Helbling Classics（經典文學）
● Helbling Fiction（當代原創）
全系列適合程度：劍橋英檢(Cambridge) KET / 全民英檢(GEPT) 初級 / 歐洲共同語言能力(CEF) A1~A2 / 倫敦聖三一學院(Trinity) 1~ 4 級
此系列書共分3個級數，分別是
Level 1 - 400字彙以上；認證級數Cambridge KET、CEF A1、Trinity1,2級
Level 2 - 600字彙以上；認證級數Cambridge KET、CEF A1/A2、Trinity 2,3級
Level 3 - 1000字彙以上；認證級數Cambridge KET、CEF A2、Trinity3,4級
The Secret Garden / Level 2 / Helbling Classics / Recording in British English
《祕密花園》於1911年出版至今，是最受歡迎的兒童讀本之一。
故事描寫瑪莉的父母雙亡，因此瑪莉搬到英格蘭與叔叔一家同住。瑪莉在叔叔家發現了一處秘密花園，還發現了她的表兄弟Dickon住在花園裡養病並且無法行走，但是有了瑪莉的照顧，Dickon逐漸康復，一家人終於可以幸福生活。
Helbling Readers Red Series is aimed at young teenagers. It includes a selection of adapted classics and original fiction to get your students reading for pleasure right from beginner level.
Helbling Classics
A series of well-known classic stories by world-famous authors that have been chosen, and adapted, to appeal to young teenagers.
Careful selection of stories with suitable content and language level has allowed the flavour of the originals to remain.
Reflection boxes throughout the stories help understanding, and draw links with the students' own lives. While detailed Before and After Reading activities help and check understanding.
A clear introduction gives information about the author and the story.
Book Description
When Mary Lennox’s parents die in India, she moves to England to live in her uncle’s enormous manor.
Mary is sad and lonely but one day she finds an old key to a secret garden that no one goes into and a whole new world of magic and enchantment opens up to her. Before long Mary learns to make friends for the first time.
Can the garden bring back the love that is missing from their lives?
本書特色
◎About this Book單元: 分別提供學生與老師的語言學習或教學提示，並有本書文法結構要點。
◎Before Reading/After Reading: 閱讀前/後各有問題提問與練習，幫助理解作品內容並培養賞析 與批判思考能力。
◎精選深受青少年喜愛的經典名著，或專為青少年所寫的有趣故事。
◎依據CEF分級閱讀，讓英文學習精準到位。
◎附有MP3光碟，同時訓練閱讀與聽力技巧，還有聽力練習活動。
◎配合本書學習，提供免費的教學資源，包括練習單、解答及聽力練習原稿。
作者簡介
About the Author
Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in 1849 in Manchester, England. When her father died suddenly, life became difficult for her mother. In 1863 the family moved to Tennessee, USA. Frances was sixteen years old. She began writing stories for ladies’ magazines and soon she was earning enough money for all of the family.
In 1853 Frances got married. Her husband, Swan Burnett, wanted to study medicine in Paris, so they went there to live with their baby son. While they were in Paris, their second son was born.
Soon after that they returned to the USA. Frances continued to write because Sawn didn’t earn much. In 1877 she published her first novel, and in 1884 she wrote her first children’s novel. It was about an American boy who becomes an English aristocrat. It was called Little Lord Fauntleroy. The book was very successful and created a new fashion for velvet suits with lace collars and long curly hair for boys. After 1887 Frances spent a lot of time in England. She lived in a large house with a lovely garden called Great Maytham Hall. This house and its gardens inspired her to write The Secret Garden.
In 1907 she returned to live in the USA. She spent the summers in her house on Long Island and the winters in her house in Bermuda. She died on Long Island in 1924.
