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Penguin Readers Level 1: A Christmas Carol (ELT Graded Reader)
  • Published: 30 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241482216
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 64

Penguin Readers Level 1: A Christmas Carol (ELT Graded Reader)

Graphic Novel

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30 July 2020
Paperback
17 Sept 2019
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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language practise activities, 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. Extra online resources, like audio, are not available with an eBook purchase.

A Christmas Carol, a Level 1 Reader, is A1 in the CEFR framework. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the past simple tense and some simple modals, adverbs and gerunds. Illustrations support the text throughout, and many titles at this level are graphic novels.

Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas. He is angry that people are not working. Then, he meets the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley. Can Scrooge be a good person before it is too late?
  • Published: 30 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241482216
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 64
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About the author

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in Hampshire on February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office, who was well paid but often ended up in financial troubles. When Dickens was twelve years old he was send to work in a shoe polish factory because his family had been taken to the debtors' prison. His career as a writer of fiction started in 1833 when his short stories and essays began to appear in periodicals. The Pickwick Papers, his first commercial success, was published in 1836. The serialisation of Oliver Twist began in 1837. Many other novels followed and The Old Curiosity Shop brought Dickens international fame and he became a celebrity in America as well as Britain. Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
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