The Watchers Graded Reader

Jennifer Bassett, Peter Viney

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A series of graded readers for young adults learning English from beginner to intermediate level.

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ISBN: 9781907575174

Beginner
CEF Level: A1  IELTS Level: 2.0

Product Description

 

Sometimes people come to these halls. They are not the god’s people. They look for gold, only gold … Nobody can take the god’s gold, or look at the gold face of the god … and live. We are his Watchers.

Jim and Stella are on holiday on the island of Crete. They go into the caves with their Greek friend, Nikos. The Watchers are waiting there …

Level 1 400 headwords

Story word count: 2,726 words

Currently comprising 16 titles across four stages – from beginner to upper intermediate – the series is carefully graded, lexically and structurally, to encourage young adults to read for pleasure and at speed. The stories are all, first and foremost, just that – stories, from ELT authors well known for their ability to craft original and engaging narratives to entertain and educate. Each reader contains striking and contemporary full-colour illustrations and photos, resource pages of well-scaffolded exercises, and an easy-to-use glossary. Titles in Levels 1 and 2 are 32 pages each, while titles in Levels 3 and 4 are 40 pages each.

 


Format: Paperback

Publication date: 29 Apr 2014

Number of pages: 32

Contents

Author details

Peter Viney started teaching English in 1971, after a research MA in English and American Studies. He is the co-author of many popular textbook series in both British English and American English, including Streamline English, New American Streamline, Grapevine, Main Street, Survival English, Basic Survival, Handshake and IN English. He is the co-author with his wife, Karen Viney, of thirteen video courses, including the English Channel series, the Grapevine Video series, Mystery Tour, Only in America, A Weekend Away and A Week By The Sea, as well as the ELT adaptations of Wallace and Gromit in A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave. He is also the author of self-study video-led materials.

Peter was series editor of the Storylines series of graded readers, as well as the author of the Departures in Reading and Connections in Reading supplementary series for developing basic reading skills. He has written many graded readers for the Storylines series, as well as Striker! in the Penguin Readers series, and he has maintained a major interest in extensive reading. Peter co-wrote Learn English Handwriting and Basic English Reading Programme in the 1980s, designed to teach initial writing and reading to students from non-Roman alphabet cultures. Peter revisited this area with Fast Track to Reading (Garnet Education 2009).

He has lectured and conducted teacher training seminars in many countries, and lives in Poole, UK.

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