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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Alessandro Volta, inventor of the batteryMichael Faraday, inventor of the electric motorMarie Curie, famous for her work on radioactivityAlbert Einstein, creator of the Theory of RelativityAlexander Fleming, discoverer of the first antibioticLinus Pauling, chemist and peace activistBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 15,287Headword count: 1,631PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.This...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Confucius, the great Chinese philosopherSocrates, the great Greek philosopherAristotle, the first to organize scientific knowledgeWilliam Wilberforce who ended the British slave tradeKarl Marx who wrote The Communist Manifesto and Das KapitalMahatma Gandhi who helped free India from British ruleBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 16,058Headword count: 1,701PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for allCharlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane EyreMark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom SawyerJacques Prévert, the writer known in France as ‘the People’s Poet’Ayn Rand, whose writing expressed her own philosophical ideasAleksandr Solzhenitsyn who wrote about life in a Soviet Labour CampBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 18,787Headword count: 1,631Visit...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, who helped humans to flyLouis Blériot, the first person to cross the sea in an aeroplaneCharles Lindbergh, first to cross the Atlantic aloneAmelia Earhart, the first woman to fly alone across the AtlanticAmy Johnson, the British woman who broke flying recordsBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 9,498Headword count: 906PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.This...

The inspiring stories of 5 people who changed history.Contents:Leonardo da Vinci who painted the Mona LisaChristopher Wren who rebuilt LondonAntoni Gaudí who built the Sagrada Familia in BarcelonaPablo Picasso, the famous Spanish painterFrida Kahlo, the famous Mexican female artistBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 10,172Headword count: 941PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.This book is Level 2 in the Collins ELT Readers series.Level 2 is...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Johann Sebastian Bach who wrote the Brandenburg ConcertosWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the child geniusGiuseppe Verdi who wrote the operas Aida and La TraviataJohann Strauss, ‘The Waltz King’Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky who wrote the ballet Swan LakeIrving Berlin who wrote There’s No Business Like Show BusinessBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 8,344Headword count: 723Visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Mayer Amschel Rothschild who started a bank which made his family richCornelius Vanderbilt who became one of the richest people in the USAW. K. Kellogg who started the world’s biggest cereal companyElizabeth Arden who built the Elizabeth Arden cosmetics companyWalt Disney who started the famous entertainment companySoichiro Honda who started the Honda motorbike and car companyBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 6,901Headword count: 623Visit...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sunRené Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said ‘I think, therefore I am’Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity worksCarl Friedrich Gauss, ‘the Prince of Mathematicians’Charles Babbage who invented computersAda Lovelace who wrote the first computer programBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 8,351Headword count: 790Visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello-playerLouis Armstrong, the American trumpet-player and singerFrank Sinatra, the Italian-American singer and actorÉdith Piaf, France's famous singing starMaria Callas, the Greek opera singerElvis Presley, the man who changed pop musicBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 14,723Headword count: 1,121Visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.This book is Level 3 in the...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel PrizeAndrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor peopleJohn D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all awayThomas Barnardo who created homes for poor childrenHenry Wellcome who used his money for medical researchMadam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American communityBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 13,950Headword count: 1179Visit www.collinselt.com/readers for...

The inspiring stories of 6 people who changed history.Contents:Harriet Tubman, the slave who helped hundreds of other slaves to escapeEmmeline Pankhurst who wanted women to be able to voteMaria Montessori, the doctor who found a new way to teach childrenHelen Keller, the deaf and blind woman who became a famous teacherEva Perón, the actress who helped poor and sick people in ArgentinaNancy Wake, the Second World War spyBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 7,001Headword count: 665Visit...