HELBLING READERS 2012 STRUCTURES AND GRADES
Level 1 - A1 • A New Home for Socks • David and the Great Detective • Fireball’s Heart • Holly’s New Friend • Next Door • Peter Pan • The Clever Woman
• The Happy Prince and The Nightingale and the Rose • The Hound of the Baskervilles • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz • Zadie’s Big Day
Structures: A, an; adjectives; adverbs of frequency; can; countable and uncountable nouns; demonstrative adjectives and pronouns; have got; How much/many?; imperatives; like/love/hate/don’t like doing; subject and object pronouns; plural nouns; possessive ’s; possessive adjectives; present continuous; present simple; question words; short answers; some/any; the; there is/are
Grading: CEF A1 Breakthrough Towards Cambridge ESOL KET Trinity Levels GESE 1, 2
Level 2 - A1/A2 • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland • Black Beauty • Holly the Eco Warrior • Mowgli’s Brothers • Princess on the Run • Ricky’s Big Idea • The African Mask
• The Anti-bully Squad • The Red-headed League • The Secret Garden • The Surprise • The Time Capsule • Jack and The Westbourne Fair
Structures:
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • The Lost Smile • The Spring Cup • The Stolen White Elephant • Twins • White Fang
Structures:
a lot of, not much, not many; adverbs of manner; and, so, but, because; be going to; comparative; have to/must; mustn’t; past continuous; past simple; past simple v. past continuous; possessive pronouns; superlative; to for purpose
Grading: CEF A1/A2 Breakthrough/Waystage Towards Cambridge ESOL KET Trinity Levels GESE 2, 3
Level 3 – A2 • A Christmas Carol • David and the Black Corsair • Grace and the Double Life • Mr. Football • Ricky and the American Girl • Stubs Grows Up • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
cardinal/ordinal numbers; ever/never; must/should need to/have to; one/ ones; prepositions of time, place and movement; present perfect; present perfect v past simple; present continuous for future; question tags; reflexive pronouns; relative pronouns who, which, that; so do I/neither do I; too plus adjective; indefinite pronouns; will; would like
Grading: CEF A2 Waystage Cambridge ESOL KET Trinity Levels GESE 3, 4 ISE 0
Level 4 - A2/B1 • Dracula • Operation Osprey • The Boy Who Could Fly • The Call of the Wild • The Garden Party and Sixpence • The Green Room • The Last of the Mohicans
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • The Kingdom of the Snow Leopard
Structures: causative have; could/was able to/ managed to; first conditional; futures together; had to/didn’t have to; how long…?; make and let; may/can/ could for permission; might for future possibility; present and past ive; present perfect plus yet, already, just; shall/could for offers; want/ask/tell someone to do something
Grading: CEF A2/B1 Waystage/ Threshold Cambridge ESOL PET Trinity Levels GESE 4, 5 ISE 0
Level 5 - B1 • Daisy Miller • Danger in the Sun • Mystery at the Mill • Red Water • The Canterville Ghost • The Coconut Seller • The Great Gatsby • Tales of Mystery
• The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde • To the Lighthouse
Structures: defining relative clauses; future continuous; modal verb would; non-defining relative clauses; past perfect; present perfect continuous; present perfect future; reported speech/verbs/questions; second conditional (wish); used to/used to doing; used to/would; second conditional
Grading: CEF B1 Threshold Cambridge ESOL PET Trinity Levels GESE 5, 6 ISE 1