Penguin Readers Level 3: The Extraordinary Life of Stephen Hawking (ELT Graded Reader)

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. The eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book.

The Extraordinary Life of Stephen Hawking, a Level 3 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing first conditional, past continuous and present perfect simple for general experience. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages.

Stephen Hawking was a very famous scientist whose ideas changed the world. He studied space and time, and he taught people about the universe. Stephen was often very ill, and his life was not easy, but it was extraordinary.