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Homer’s Odyssey in twenty-four games, one for every book, as the scholars of the Library of Alexandria divided it. Follow Telemachus in search of his father, and Odysseus on his long way home, from the Cyclops’s cave to the great bed of olive wood. The English climbs in half-steps, two books at each level, from A1 to C2+.
A1–C2 · 24 lessons and gamebooks · 📱 Phones · All language games
Grammar: isn’t / doesn’t; my / him; men; who / why; Sit down; this / that
A house full of rude suitors, a boy who has never met his father, and a stranger at the door.
Grammar: are; our / her; there are; can; he eats; when; at night; Do you…?
Telemachus speaks to all of Ithaca, and slips away by night in a borrowed ship.
Grammar: is / are + -ing; was / were; -er than; some / any; always + verb; be going to; with
A beach full of bulls, the oldest king in Greece, and very long stories.
Grammar: is + -ing; everybody is; let’s; would like to; can’t; was; how many; on an island; next to
A wedding feast in Sparta, and a sea god who changes shape on the island of Pharos.
Grammar: sent / built / cried; Did…?; couldn’t; more beautiful than; for + time; suddenly; nobody; so… that
Home or immortality? A raft, a storm, and a goddess’s veil.
Grammar: want to; should; threw / woke / was; afraid of; look like; him; first / then; the most beautiful
A princess, a ball in the river, and a shipwrecked man who needs the right words.
Grammar: was + -ing + past simple; has just + pp; ever / haven’t; as… as; too… to; must; will; whose
Golden gates, a garden that never stops fruiting, and a queen who notices everything.
Grammar: good at; don’t + verb; faster; the furthest; while; couldn’t; if + present, will; who
Games, an insult, and a song about the wooden horse that makes a stranger weep.
Grammar: tell + person + to; make + person + verb; manage to; as soon as; on his own; too many; each other; get drunk; be called; Who + verb?
A giant with one eye, a skin of strong wine, and a man called Nobody.
Grammar: so that; had to; had + pp; suggest + -ing; on the way; still; turn into; instead of + -ing; look after
A bag of winds, a harbour of giants, and a goddess who turns men into pigs.
Grammar: had + pp; so many; among; let + verb; tell + not to; might; as long as; each time; wish + were; the other
A prophecy, a mother who slips through his arms, and the shades of Troy.
Grammar: could be heard; was tied; whatever; either… or; rather than + verb; swore / fell; run out; hardly… when
A song nobody can resist, a monster, a whirlpool, and the cattle of the Sun.
Grammar: was turned; can’t / might have + pp; question tags; as if + past; even though; otherwise; get used to + -ing; be about to
Home at last, and he can’t go home. A lie good enough to delight a goddess.
Grammar: let + verb; have + obj + pp; if only + past; likely to; no use + -ing; accused of; insist that; few; neither
The most loyal man on Ithaca, and a beggar who mustn’t give himself away.
Grammar: needn’t have + pp; was to have + pp; get to; turn out; end up; no point + -ing; regardless of; supposing; only then did; I’d rather you + past
Sparta, Pylos, a fugitive prophet, and an ambush in the dark.
Grammar: can’t be / must be; must have + pp; break down; get rid of; keep; whereas; not even; no way; plot to; by the time
After twenty years, in a swineherd’s hut.
Grammar: what with; for all; far from + -ing; dare not; having been; barely; not so much as; whoever; not that
An old dog on a dung heap who knows his master after twenty years.
Grammar: Were he to…; no fewer than; hold back; for fear of + -ing; as happened; stands to reason; reckon; heed; as though to
A fight with Irus, and a warning to the one good suitor.
Grammar: Under no circumstances + inversion; so as to; the very; small wonder; if anything; to some extent; would sooner… than; in the event of; notwithstanding; all the more
A test by the fire, and an old nurse who knows that scar.
Grammar: bore; rein in; try as he might; as if to; none other than; with the exception of; all they did was; Scarcely had… when; thereby; uncontrollably
Thunder from a clear sky, and one more day of insults.
Grammar: Gone are the days when…; lo; to all intents and purposes; in lieu of; for want of; be wont to; short of; much less; the upshot; not least
Twelve axes, a bow nobody can string, and an old beggar who asks for a turn.
Grammar: owing to; red-handed; culpable; at bay; turn the tables; in the nick of time; plead; give no quarter; spare; gloat
Four men against a hundred, and the choice of whom to spare.
Grammar: loath / loathe; reticent; discreet / discrete; pore over; home in on; penultimate; complement / compliment; bated breath; forgo; wreaked havoc
A secret that only a husband could know, rooted in an olive tree.
Grammar: eponymous; epitome; amoral / immoral; bemused; prevaricate; refute; moot; decimate; irrespective of; enormity
An old father in his orchard, a last battle, and a goddess who says: stop.
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