Casino Royale

MACMILLAN READERS

PRE-INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

IAN FLEMING

Casino Royale

Retold by John Escott

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MACMILLAN READERS

PRE-INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Founding Editor: John Milne

The Macmilliin Readers provide a choice of enjoyable reading materials for learners of English. The series is published at six levels - Starter, Beginner, Elementary, Pre-intermediate,

Intermediate and Upper.

Level control

Information, structure and vocabulary are controlled to suit the students' ability at each level.

The number of words at each level:

Starter

Beginner

Elementary

Pre-intermediate

Intermediate

Upper about 300 basic words about 600 basic words about 1100 basic words about 1400 basic words about 1600 basic words about 2200 basic words

Vocabulary

.Some difficult words and phrases in this book are important lor understanding the story. Some of these words are explained in the story and some are shown in the pictures. From Pre-intermediate level upwards, words are marked with a number like this: ...'. These words are explained in the Glossary at the end of the book.

Answer keys

Answer keys for the Points for Understanding and the Exercises sections can be found at www.macmillanenglish.com

Contents

A Note About The Author

A Note About This Story

The People in This Story

1 A Memorandum for M

2 Mathis and the Microphone

3 The Girl from London

4 The Men in Dark Suits

5 Felix Leiter

6 The Casino

7 The Game

8 The Man with the Stick

9 Winner and Loser

10 Kidnapped

11 The Crash

12 The Villa

1 5 Torture

14 Vesper Explains

15 A Small Hotel

16 The Telephone Call

17 The Man with the Patch

18 Gettler

19 The Letter

Points for Understanding

Glossary

Exercises

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A Note About The Author

Ian Lancaster Fleming was born on the 28th of May 1908 in

Canterbury, England. He was a newspaper journalist and a writer. He created one of the most famous characters in twentieth-century fiction -James Bond.

Ian Fleming was educated at Eton - a famous school tor boys. After he left Eton, he trained to be a soldier at

Sandhurst Military Academy. He then went to Europe to study languages at Munich and Geneva universities.

Fleming's first job was as a journalist. From 1929 to 1933, he worked in Moscow tor a news agency called Return. In this job, Fleming heard about Soviet spies who sold government secrets to other countries. Fleming sent reports about these spies to Reuters in London. He returned to