Summer Reading

Summer is here and it's time to lie on the beach, soak up the sun, and read a good book!

If you would like to take advantage of your summer holidays to keep expanding your English knowledge, I recommend you check out these adapted books for learners of English.

The level you studied this semester is B.1 in the European Common Framework. It corresponds to an intermediate, the Cambridge English exam PET (the First Certificate is B.2 level).

In the following links you'll find book titles for all levels. You can order these books online, or you can find them in your local bookshop or even your library!


Macmillan Graded Readers
In this website, your level corresponds approximately to Intermediate. Macmillan offers over 80 different titles for Intermediate level!


Penguin Readers
If you have a look at the levels they offer, you'll see that you're approximately a Level 4 (the blue), which corresponds to B.1 level in the Common Framework.


Oxford Bookworms Library
Here you have six different levels (from Starters to Stage 5).


Saber Inglés
Here you have a list of free books in English that you can download and read from your computer or your ebook reader. These books haven't been adapted for students, so they're in the original format.


Amazon
You can also find many adapted books on Amazon (at lower prices, too!) Here's a link to Amazon Spain with the search for "Macmillan Graded Readers." Be sure to check that the level you order is the correct one! Here's another link for the search "Heinemann Graded Readers."


Well, I'm sure that with all the books these websites offer you'll find something interesting to read this summer! In my case, I'm reading A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin... I'm almost halfway through but it's taking me a very long time because I'm not enjoying the story very much so I keep leaving it and leaving it... Oh, well! I'm sure you'll have more luck than me with the books you choose!