PENGUIN READERS LEVEL 5: WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Emily Brontź (18181848) published only one novel Wuthering Heights (1847) but that single work has its place among the masterpieces of English literature. Some of her lyrics are also rated with the best in English poetry.It is winter in Yorkshire England. A man rides through the snow to visit a house called Wuthering Heights. While there the man learns about Catherine who lived in the house years before. Catherines story of love and sadness still affects the lives of those in the present. Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics exciting contemporary fiction and thoughtprovoking nonfiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills. Wuthering Heights a Level 5 Reader is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses introducing present perfect continuous past perfect reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations which appear regularly.