Penguin Readers Level 7: The Woman in White (ELT Graded Reader)

Penguin Readers Level 7: The Woman in White (ELT Graded Reader)

Summary

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.

- Carefully adapted text.

- Accompanying audio and digital version with the print edition, accessed securely online.

- The series includes popular classics, bestselling modern fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

- The eight levels of Penguin Readers are mapped to the CEFR, and Lexile measured.

- Beautiful new illustrations for levels 2 to 6. Starter and level 1 titles in graphic-novel format, for beginner learners.

- Language practice exercises and a glossary in every book, additional activities and lesson plans online.

- Visit the Penguin Readers website: www.penguinreaders.co.uk

The Woman in White, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework.

One night when Walter Hartwright is walking home, he meets and helps the mysterious 'woman in white'. Soon after this meeting, Walter starts a job as a drawing teacher in the north of England and falls in love with his student, Laura Fairlie. But Laura is engaged to Sir Percival Glyde. Then Laura receives a letter warning her not to marry Glyde. Walter is sure that the letter comes from the woman in white...

About the author

Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866), and The Moonstone (1868), considered the first modern English detective novel.
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