Penguin Readers Level 5: This Summer’s Secrets (ELT Graded Reader)
Penguin Readers Level 5: This Summer’s Secrets by Emily Barr is a 96-page ELT graded reader published by Penguin Books, Limited in February 2025. This edition is designed for learners of English as a foreign language, featuring carefully adapted text and new illustrations. It includes language learning exercises and instructions for accessing additional online supporting materials, making it a valuable resource for language development.
In this Level 5 Reader, aimed at B1 learners according to the CEFR framework, readers will follow 16-year-old Senara Jenkins as she navigates a summer filled with intrigue and secrets in Cornwall. The narrative introduces complex sentence structures and grammar concepts, such as present perfect continuous and reported speech, while engaging with themes relevant to teen and young adult literature, including romance and contemporary issues. The book also provides exercises at the back to help reinforce grammar, vocabulary, and comprehension skills, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience.
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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.
Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.
The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers’ story comprehension and develop vocabulary.
This Summer’s Secrets, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.
It’s a hot summer in Cornwall. When 16-year-old Senara Jenkins and her friends lose their drone in the garden of Cliff House, they discover that it is full of secrets. As Senara meets a world of beautiful rich people, her life changes. But should some secrets stay secret?
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