Penguin Readers is anELT graded readerseries for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations andlanguage learning exercises**, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.

Penguin Readers is anELT graded readerseries for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations andlanguage learning exercises**, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.

Titles includepopular classics, excitingcontemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners tobestselling authors and compelling content.

The eight levels ofPenguin Readersfollow 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.* The Thursday Murder Club,a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text. Meet Richard Osman’s famous group of pensioner-detectives: Elizabeth, Ibrahim, Joyce and Ron. In The Thursday Murder Club, the group must try to connect the murders of two men they know and an extra body discovered in an old grave!*