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.
Alice in Wonderland, a Level 2 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework. Sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the future tenses will and going to, present continuous for future meaning, and comparatives and superlatives. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages.
Alice goes after a white rabbit into Wonderland. There she meets the Mad Hatter, the Duchess and many other famous people and animals in Lewis Carroll's famous story.
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Über den Autor Lewis Carroll
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson alias Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) zählt zu den bekanntesten Schriftstellern des viktorianischen Zeitalters. Mit »Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland« und »Througt the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There« schuf er Weltliteratur. Der Sohn eine Pfarrers studierte Mathematik, Theologie und Klassische Literatur in Oxford (Christ Church) und war dort nach dem Studium als Tutor für Mathematik angestellt. Die Idee zu den Alice-Geschichten kam ihm während eines Ausflugs an der Themse mit der kleinen Alice Pleasance Liddell und ihren Geschwistern. Neben den Alice-Geschichten zählen Gedichte, mathematische Schriften und Rätselbücher sowie der Roman »Sylvie and Bruno« zu Carrolls Werk. Er starb im Januar 1898 an den Folgen einer Lungenentzündung.
