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The best selling Macmillan Graded Readersin Italy.

Everyone loves a good book!

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 A1 Elementary A2Pre- Intermediate A2/B1Intermediate B1/B2Upper Intermediate B2

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.

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 morec. Emails and web pages mostly, not booksd. Newspapers and magazinese. Non-fiction books either for studies or general interestf. 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 holidaysc. When I’m ill, when it’s raining or when someone has given me a book they recommendd. 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 languageb. I don’t mind reading in my language but it’s too difficult/boring in Englishc. I really enjoy it in my language but I’m not sure about reading in Englishd. 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, neverb. No, not very oftenc. Sometimesd. Yes, a lot

5 If you read for pleasure, which of these types of books do you enjoy?a. Crime and thrillerb. Detective/mysteryc. Romanced. Historical /Biographye. Adventuref. Fantasyg. Science-Fictionh. Traveli. Horror or ghostj. Humourk. Classical literaturel. Books with filmm. Other (What?)

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Nouns in simple appositionTwo nouns linked by and

Verb + maximum of two adverbsvewrb + maximum of two simple adverbial phrases of direction, time or manner

Maximum of twoajectives + nounNoun + one simple adjectival phrase Simple comparatives

Compound sentenceswith twoco-ordinateclauses joined by and, but, or

The folllowing features will be occasionally found at Beginner level and frequently at subsequent levels

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 formsExtensive use of catenative verbs -like to, decide to etc.Infinitive of purpose

Abstract nouns maximum of three adjectives verbs - + nounsTwo adjectives + adjectival phrase

Superlative forms of adjectives

Complex sentences: main clause + one subordinate clause,Adverbial clauses of timeRelative clauses

The folllowing features will be occasionally found at Elementary level and frequently at subsequent levels

Conditional formsModal -could (ability)modal - can (permission)

Superlative form of adjectives +adjectival clause

Adverbial clauses of comparisonAdverbial clauses of reason

Relative clauseswith who, which, that

Conditional formswould/could/might

Two nominal phrases in co-ordination

Adverbials clausesof purpose -concession, condition

Maximum of three clauses:main clause +two subordinate clauses,main clause + one co-ordinate clause

Present perfect continuousPast perfect conti-nuousFuture perfectExtended use of modals and condi-tional forms - might/mayUse of look, feel etc.as linking verbs

Maximum of three adjectives + noun+ adjectival phra-se or clause

Verbs + two ad-verbs + adverbial clause Adverbs of duration -still, just

More complex groups modifying a noun

Complex sentences:maximum of main clause +two subordinate clauses,Adverbial clauses of purposeconcession, condition Embedded clauses

Future perfect conditional

Extended verbs forms -maximum of three verbs

Noun modifiers Maximum of fouradjectives + noun+ adjectival phra-se or clause

Verb + maximum of two adverbs+ adverbial clauses

Complex sentences:maximumof main clause + three subordinate clauses

Guide to Structural Grading of Macmillan Readers

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!

Macmillan Readers website - free support material

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!

www.macmillanenglish.com/readers

Web sample material:worksheets taken from Jurassic Park and activities on Macmillan Readers on Shakespeare.

Beginner • 600 words Adventures of Tom Sawyer, M. TWAIN 9781405076081 Jane Eyre, C. BRONTE 9781405076166 Phantom of Opera, G. LEROUX 9781405076340 This is London, P. Prowse 9781405087117 The Three Musketeers, A. DUMAS 9780230716735 Princess Diana, A. COLLINS 9780230716537 Elementary • 1100 words Canterville Ghost and other stories, O. WILDE 9781405076401 Frankenstein, M. SHELLEY 9781405076500 Hound of the Baskervilles, SIR A. CONAN DOYLE 9781405076524 Legend of Sleepy Hollow, W. IRVING 9781405076548Picture of Dorian Gray, O. WILDE 9781405076586 Princess Diaries 1, M. CABOT 9781405080644Princess Diaries 2, M. CABOT 9781405080668 Seven Stories of Mystery and Horror, E. A. POE 9781405075350 White Fang, J. LONDON 9780230026735

Pre-intermediate • 1400 wordsKick Off! The Story of Football,P. ADAMS 9780230400504 Selected Short Stories by D H LAWRENCE 9781405087353 Casino Royale, I. FLEMING, 9781405087414I, 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, 9781405087148Robin Hood S. COLDBOURN, 9781405087230 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, W. SHAKESPEARE,** 9781405087292Romeo & Juliet, W. SHAKESPEARE, ** 9781405087308 The secret Garden, F. H. BURNETT, 9780230026902Nelson Mandela, K. W. HARL, 9780230716599 Robinson Crusoe , D. DEFOE, 9780230716568

Intermediate • 1600 wordsBarack Obama,K. W. HARL, 9780230400009 Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason,H. FIELDING, 9780230400238 Dracula, B. STOKER, 9781405076722Goldfinger, I. FLEMING, 9781405080606 The Great Gatsby, F.S. FITZGERALD, 9781405077033 Jurassic Park (no CD), CROYTON, * 9781405072960Live and Let die, I. FLEMING 9780230735088Oliver Twist, C. DICKENS, 9781405076760 Sense & Sensibility, J. AUSTEN, 9781405080620 Tess of D’urbervilles, T. HARDY, 9781405074575 Wuthering Heights, E. BRONTE, 9781405077095 Hamlet, W. SHAKESPEARE, 9780230716636 Bridget Jones , H. FIELDING, 9780230716704 The Merchant of Venice W. SHAKESPEARE ** 9780230716643 Slumdog Millionaire V. SWARUP, 9780230404717

Upper Intermediate • 2200 wordsRebecca, D. DU MAURIER 9781405077132 Great Expectations, C. DICKENS 9781405076821 Macbeth, W. SHAKESPEARE ** 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.

The best selling Macmillan Graded Readers in Italy.

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