Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language.
With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.
Oliver Twist, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text.
Oliver Twist's parents are dead and he grows up in the workhouse, where life is very hard. One day Oliver runs away to London. There, he enters a life of crime with the old man Fagin, the Artful Dodger, frightening Bill Sykes and kind-hearted Nancy. How will Oliver live in this dangerous world?
By:
Charles Dickens Imprint: Penguin Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 130mm,
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 105g ISBN:9780241430958 ISBN 10: 024143095X Series:Penguin ELT Readers Pages: 112 Publication Date:02 July 2020 Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years Audience:
Young adult
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Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
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College/higher education
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Preschool (0-5)
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Children's (6-12)
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Charles Dickens (1812-70) is one of the most recognized celebrities of English literature. His many books include Oliver Twist, Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol.