Penguin Readers Level 4: I Capture the Castle (ELT Graded Reader): Abridged Edition

By Dodie Smith

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 . I Capture the Castle, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly. The poor Mortmain family move to an old castle. Mr Mortmain's daughter Rose wants a rich husband. Her sister, Cassandra, wants to be a writer like her father. But when the Mortmains meet their two rich neighbours, Simon and Neil Cotton, both Rose and Cassandra have their lives changed forever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0241700418
• ISBN13: 9780241700419
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 5.1"