Penguin Readers
Penguin Readers are simplified books published especially for the students of English as a foreign language. You'll find here various genres: English & American classic authors, scripts of the films and also some original texts. Each book contains an introduction and some exercises concerning the content of the book. You can find other exercises in a separate section - Resources.
The books are published in the following 7 levels (according to the reader's skills):
- Level 0 - Easystarts - 200 words
- Level 1 - Beginner - 300 words
- Level 2 - Elementary - 600 words
- Level 3 - Pre-Intermediate - 1200 words
- Level 4 - Intermediate - 1700 words
- Level 5 - Upper-Intermediate - 2300 words
- Level 6 - Advanced - 3000 words
The number of the words does not mean the length of the book but the variety of the words used in the book. You can now borrow the following books (you can find detailed information in separate subsections in the menu on the left):
Level 1
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Level 2
- Robin Hood
Level 3
- Billy Eliot
Level 4
- 1984 (3pc)
- The Canterville Ghost
- King Solomon's Mines
- Love Actually (3pc)
- Macbeth
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (3pc)
- Three Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The Time Machine
- The Client
- A Diary of a Young Girl
- Dr. Faustus
- The Merchant of Venice
Level 5
- 2001-A Space Odyssey
- British and American Short Stories
- Cold Mountain
- Death on the Nile
- The Great Gatsby
- The Heart of Darkness
- Jamaica Inn
- On the Road (3pc)
- Tales of Mystery and Imagination
- A Time to Kill
- Wuthering Heights (3pc)
- The Firm
- Four Weddings & a Funeral
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Hound of the Baskervilles
- The Invisible Man (3pc)
- The Partner
- Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
- The War of the Worlds
- Jane Eyre (3pc)
- Pride and Prejudice
- Tales from Shakespeare (2pc)
Level 6
- The Remains of the Day
- Brave New World (3pc)
- Oliver Twist (3pc)
- North and South
- East of Eden (3pc)
- A Room with a View
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2pc)
Class Sets of Books
- Round the World in Eighty Days (Level 5, 18 books)
- The Remains of the Day (Level 6, 18 books)
Resources
Here you can find donwnloadable materials containing information about the books, authors and lots of exercises.
