The best selling Macmillan Graded Readers in Italy.
Everyone loves a good book!
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Everyone loves a good book! Carefully-graded levels from Beginner to Upper Intermediate so your students get the right reading material for their ability. Extra exercises and audio cd for selcted titles A truly international range of simplified Readers with a prestigious list of authors from around the world Free support material from the Readers’ website -www.macmillanenglish.com/readers: worksheets, worksheet answer keys, answers to the ‘Points for understanding’, comprehension questions, extra exercises, sample chapters and sample audio Author data sheets: these are two-page sheets aimed at teachers and students who want to find out more about the writers represented in our list The free teacher’s booklet Using Graded Readers in the Classroom downloadable from the net Most titles are available with audio cds and include accompanying exercises. You can choose from a wide variety of titles and series that include: biographies, Shakespearean plays, crime stories, horrors and travel stories.
Council of Europe Common European Frameworks and Macmillan Readers Beginner Elementary Pre- Intermediate Intermediate Upper Intermediate
A1 A2 A2/B1 B1/B2 B2
Try this questionnaire with your students and follow it up with a discussion! - sample page taken from the booklet Using Graded Readers in the Classroom
Books - can’t live with them, can’t live without them? Look at the following questions and decide which answers best describe you. 1 What do you usually read? a. Nothing much- only adverts, soup packets and the TV page in the newspaper b. Articles, reports, letters and emails at work I don’t have time for any more c. Emails and web pages mostly, not books d. Newspapers and magazines e. Non-fiction books either for studies or general interest f. A bit of everything, but I prefer fiction, or non-fiction books like autobiographies
2 How often do you read for pleasure? a. Not often. I prefer films, TV, music, sport etc. b. Sometimes, but usually only during the holidays c. When I’m ill, when it’s raining or when someone has given me a book they recommend d. As often as possible - I love reading
3 Which of these is closest to the way you feel about reading? a. I don’t enjoy it in any language b. I don’t mind reading in my language but it’s too difficult/boring in English c. I really enjoy it in my language but I’m not sure about reading in English d. I love reading and I don’t mind which language I read in
4 When you are with your friends, do you ever recommend books to each other? a. No, never b. No, not very often c. Sometimes d. Yes, a lot
5 If you read for pleasure, which of these types of books do you enjoy? a. Crime and thriller b. Detective/mystery c. Romance d. Historical /Biography e. Adventure f. Fantasy g. Science-Fiction h. Travel i. Horror or ghost j. Humour k. Classical literature l. Books with film m. Other (What?)
Beginner
about 600 key words
Elementary
about 1100 key words
about 1400 key words
Pre-intermediate Intermediate
about 1600 key words about 2200 key words
Upper intermediate
Guide to Structural Grading of Macmillan Readers
The folllowing features will be occasionally found at Beginner level and frequently at subsequent levels
The folllowing features will be occasionally found at Elementary level and frequently at subsequent levels
Past simple Past continuous Future with will/shall Modal - have to Catenative verbs want to, try to, like to, hate to, stop, start
Nouns in simple apposition Two nouns linked by and
Verb + maximum of two adverbs vewrb + maximum of two simple adverbial phrases of direction, time or manner
Present Perfect Past perfect See, hear, watch + infinitive or present participle
Noun phrase in opposition to a noun
Adverbs of frequency - sometimes, never, etc.
Simple passive forms Extensive use of catenative verbs like to, decide to etc. Infinitive of purpose
Abstract nouns maximum of three adjectives verbs + nouns Two adjectives + adjectival phrase
Conditional forms Modal -could (ability) modal - can (permission)
Relative clauses with who, which, that Conditional forms would/could/might
Two nominal phrases in co-ordination
Compound sentences with two co-ordinate clauses joined by and, but, or
Superlative forms of adjectives
Complex sentences: main clause + one subordinate clause, Adverbial clauses of time Relative clauses
Superlative form of adjectives + adjectival clause
Adverbial clauses of comparison Adverbial clauses of reason
Adverbials clauses of purpose concession, condition
Present perfect continuous Past perfect continuous Future perfect Extended use of modals and conditional forms - might/ may Use of look, feel etc. as linking verbs
Maximum of three adjectives + noun + adjectival phrase or clause
Verbs + two adverbs + adverbial clause Adverbs of duration still, just
Future perfect conditional
Noun modifiers Maximum of four adjectives + noun + adjectival phrase or clause
Verb + maximum of two adverbs + adverbial clauses
Extended verbs forms -maximum of three verbs
Maximum of two ajectives + noun Noun + one simple adjectival phrase Simple comparatives
Maximum of three clauses: main clause + two subordinate clauses, main clause + one co-ordinate clause More complex groups modifying a noun
Complex sentences: maximum of main clause + two subordinate clauses, Adverbial clauses of purpose concession, condition Embedded clauses Complex sentences: maximum of main clause + three subordinate clauses
Macmillan Readers website - free support material For teachers: worksheets, worksheet answer keys, answers to ‘Points for understanding’, comprehension questions, extra exercises, sample chapters with sample audio, author data sheets with information on authors and their work, a revised edition of Using Graded Readers in the Classroom.
and for students: guides and projects for Creative writing and Academic writing, self-study material, a Shakespeare webquest, articles and interviews and much more!
Web sample material: worksheets taken from Jurassic Park and activities on Macmillan Readers on Shakespeare.
Macmillan Readers Competition Review a Macmillan Reader and Win! please visit the readers’ website to find out further information and to join the competition with your students!
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The best selling Macmillan Graded Readers in Italy. Beginner • 600 words Adventures of Tom Sawyer, M. TWAIN Jane Eyre, C. BRONTE Phantom of Opera, G. LEROUX This is London, P. Prowse The Three Musketeers, A. DUMAS Princess Diana, A. COLLINS
Intermediate • 1600 words 9781405076081 9781405076166 9781405076340 9781405087117 9780230716735 9780230716537
Elementary • 1100 words Canterville Ghost and other stories, O. WILDE Frankenstein, M. SHELLEY Hound of the Baskervilles, SIR A. CONAN DOYLE Legend of Sleepy Hollow, W. IRVING Picture of Dorian Gray, O. WILDE Princess Diaries 1, M. CABOT Princess Diaries 2, M. CABOT Seven Stories of Mystery and Horror, E. A. POE White Fang, J. LONDON
9781405076401 9781405076500 9781405076524 9781405076548 9781405076586 9781405080644 9781405080668
Barack Obama,K. W. HARL, Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason, H. FIELDING, Dracula, B. STOKER, Goldfinger, I. FLEMING, The Great Gatsby, F.S. FITZGERALD, Jurassic Park (no CD), CROYTON, * Live and Let die, I. FLEMING Oliver Twist, C. DICKENS, Sense & Sensibility, J. AUSTEN, Tess of D’urbervilles, T. HARDY, Wuthering Heights, E. BRONTE, Hamlet, W. SHAKESPEARE, Bridget Jones , H. FIELDING, The Merchant of Venice W. SHAKESPEARE ** Slumdog Millionaire V. SWARUP,
9780230400009 9780230400238 9781405076722 9781405080606 9781405077033 9781405072960 9780230735088 9781405076760 9781405080620 9781405074575 9781405077095 9780230716636 9780230716704 9780230716643 9780230404717
9781405075350 9780230026735
Pre-intermediate • 1400 words Kick Off! The Story of Football, P. ADAMS 9780230400504 Selected Short Stories by D H LAWRENCE 9781405087353 Casino Royale, I. FLEMING, 9781405087414 I, Robot, I. ASIMOV 9780230026827 King Arthur, S. COLBOURN, 9780230026858 Michael Jackson, K. W. HARL 9780230406292 The Princess Diaries 3, M. CABOT, 9781405087179 The Princess Diaries 4, M. CABOT, 9781405087209 The Wizard of Oz, L. F. BAUM, 9781405087148 Robin Hood S. COLDBOURN, 9781405087230 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, W. SHAKESPEARE,** 9781405087292 Romeo & Juliet, W. SHAKESPEARE, ** 9781405087308 The secret Garden, F. H. BURNETT, 9780230026902 Nelson Mandela, K. W. HARL, 9780230716599 Robinson Crusoe , D. DEFOE, 9780230716568
Upper Intermediate • 2200 words Rebecca, D. DU MAURIER Great Expectations, C. DICKENS Macbeth, W. SHAKESPEARE **
9781405077132 9781405076821 9780230402232
* recommended for the writing part of the Cambridge ESOL FCE exam www.cambridgeESOL.it **All titles by W. SHAKESPEARE do not include audio CD. Listenings could be downloaded from the net.
Check also the complete list of Macmillan Readers Series for Italy on www.macmillanenglish.com/italy.
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American Stories Horror Stories Love Stories Science Fiction Stories
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