The READING & TRAINING series is composed of illustrated graded readers, aimed at teenagers and adults. The readers are graded into six levels - from elementary/pre-lower intermediate to post-intermediate - according to internationally recognised criteria for structural grading.Features:introduction about the author and his/her timeswide variety of interesting activities to promote understanding of the text, as well as all four language skills, lexis and sociocultural awareness and knowledgeactivities in the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity examsinformative and fascinating cross-curricular dossiers, which explore the historical and cultural background of the texta recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activitiesextensive vocabulary footnotes, with phonetic transcription of more unusual wordsexit testsguided internet projectsAn answer key and an additional exit test for each reader are available online as a PDF file at the Black Cat website. Further info on grading can be found in the 'The Black Cat Guide to Graded Readers
The READING & TRAINING series is composed of illustrated graded readers, aimed at teenagers and adults. The readers are graded into six levels - from elementary/pre-lower intermediate to post-intermediate - according to internationally recognised criteria for structural grading.Features:introduction about the author and his/her timeswide variety of interesting activities to promote understanding of the text, as well as all four language skills, lexis and sociocultural awareness and knowledgeactivities in the style of the Cambridge ESOL and Trinity examsinformative and fascinating cross-curricular dossiers, which explore the historical and cultural background of the texta recording on CD of the text in British or American English, with extra listening activitiesextensive vocabulary footnotes, with phonetic transcription of more unusual wordsexit testsguided internet projectsAn answer key and an additional exit test for each reader are available online as a PDF file at the Black Cat website. Further info on grading can be found in the 'The Black Cat Guide to Graded Readers