Penguin Readers Level 4: Lion

Description: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR).

Lion, 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.

Five-year-old Saroo gets on the wrong train in India and is taken thousands of miles to the city of Kolkata. After months of living on the streets, he is adopted by a family in Australia. Many years later, Saroo decides to try and find his Indian family.