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.
Jane Eyre, 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.
Jane goes to work at Thornfield Hall as a governess for the strange Mr Rochester.
They become friends, and she is finally happy.
But Mr Rochester is going to marry the beautiful Blanche Ingram, and soon Jane must leave Thornfield forever.