Graded Reading & Listening

Category: A2

  • Fun Cat Facts

    How Cats Walk – elementary listening for young learners. English language level: A1-2

  • Sherlock Holmes: Blue Carbuncle

    Adapted opening of the first Sherlock Holmes adventure. Reading worksheet with answers for English language learners. English language level: intermediate.

  • A Christmas Ghost?

    Fred misses the last bus home from his college Christmas party. Walking home though a churchyard, he comes across a very strange scene…. Fun Christmas ‘ghost story’ (B1)

  • A Christmas Carol

    Stave One – Marley Was Dead Introductory materials for new readers A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. With adapted text & audio, PowerPoint presentations, worksheets, character guides and key quotes. Before-Reading-A-Christmas-Carol Worksheet This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office. Download powerpoint, watch in full screen &/or access slide notes via the player…

  • Man-Sized-in-Marble by E Nesbit

    Classic halloween ghost story. A young couple move to the country. Every night they visit a beautiful local church. Inside there are two marble statues. Why do these statues frighten local people? And what is the secret of the broken marble finger? Adapted from Man Size in Marble (1893) E. Nesbit, writer of The Railway…

  • What is Halloween?

    Hallowe’en or All-Hallows-Eve takes place on the night of 31 October. Hallow is the old English word for saint.

  • Doctor Dolittle’s Hedgehog

    New adaptation of Hugh Lofting children’s classic. Doctor Dolittle talks to the animals but has problems with human patients. Age/language level: 8+ elementary

  • Animal Names

    Singular and plural names of animals for young learners

  • The Canterville Ghost

    Classic Oscar Wilde comic ghost story retold for English language learners. An American family refuse to believe their new home is haunted

  • What Cats Hear? (A2)

    What Cats Hear? (A2)

    What Cats Hear? – elementary listening comprehension for young learners. Vocabulary focus: cats young learners. English language level: A1-2