Graded Readers 3: In The Year Of The Dragon (A2)

Description:
In this contemporary story, two brothers, Jason and Nicholas, get lost in the midst of Hong Kong’s colourful New Year celebrations after Jason’s plans are intercepted by his curious younger brother. During their adventures around Hong Kong, Jason makes new friends and finds out a lot of interesting things about the world and himself. It is a story of acceptance, friendship and self-discovery. Realistic and likeable characters bring the story to life with mystery and entertainment.

Pre-Intermediate Level
Headwords: 1000
A2.2 (CEF)
KET (Cambridge)

Structures:
• Present Perfect Progressive
• Might/Shall/Should/Would
• Be able to/Have to
• Reflexive Pronouns
• Relative Pronouns (defining clauses)
• Too/So + adjectives
• Conditional Sentences (Type 2)
• Simple Passive Forms
• Question Tags
• Infinitive of Purpose
• More prepositions (Time/Place)

MM Publications Graded Readers provide learners from Beginner to Upper-Intermediate level with enjoyable reading material, while helping them to develop a variety of language skills. Delightful characters and exciting adventures provide the inspiration for our classic and contemporary stories.

The stories have been carefully graded for each level according to vocabulary, grammatical structures, sentence length and plot complexity so as to ensure that the students’ understanding of the story is not impeded. Each story consists of 10 - 13 chapters. Wonderful full-colour illustrations, closely integrated with the text, stimulate learners and facilitate understanding.