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.
Taylor Swift, a Level 1 Reader, is A1 in the CEFR framework.
Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the past simple tense and some simple modals, adverbs and gerunds.
Illustrations support the text throughout, and many titles at this level are graphic novels.
Taylor Swift started singing and writing songs at a very young age.
Now she is a very famous singer - and lots more!
How did she get there?
This book tells the story of her life.