Penguin Readers Starter Level: The Hound of the Baskervilles (ELT Graded Reader)
By (Author) Arthur Conan Doyle
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Penguin Books Ltd
3rd September 2019
5th September 2019
Abridged edition
United Kingdom
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Crime and mystery fiction
428.64
Paperback
64
Width 127mm, Height 197mm, Spine 6mm
65g
Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. The Hound of the Baskervilles, a Starter level Reader, is A1 in the CEFR framework. Starter level is ideal for readers who are learning English for the first time. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, using the present simple and continuous tenses, possessives, regular and irregular verbs, and simple adjectives. Illustrations support the text throughout, and many titles at this level are graphic novels. Sir Charles Baskerville is dead. Did the hound of the Baskervilles kill him Can Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson stop the hound from killing again
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh where he qualified as a doctor, but it was his writing which brought him fame, with the creation of Sherlock Holmes, the first scientific detective. He was also a convert to spiritualism and a social reformer who used his investigative skills to prove the innocence of individuals.