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Twelve Years a Slave is the extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York State who, in 1841, was kidnapped and sold into slavery. This simplified version condenses Northup’s memoirs for students of English and is interspersed with stills from the 2013 Oscar award winning film.

Contents:
Marco Polo who taught the world about China
Ibn Battuta who travelled to 44 countries
Christopher Columbus who discovered new worlds
James Cook, first to sail around the world in both directions
David Livingstone who explored Africa
Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 14,679
Headword count: 1,163

Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.

This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 3 is equivalent to CEF lev

Contents:
Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the first great works of English Literature
William Shakespeare, writer of the greatest plays in history
Charles Dickens who wanted to make England a better place
Victor Hugo, the French writer who cared about the poor
Leo Tolstoy, the man who wrote War and Peace
Rudyard Kipling who wrote The Jungle Book and won a Nobel Prize

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 12,886
Headword count: 1,039

Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.

This book is Le

Contents:
Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sun
René Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said ‘I think, therefore I am’
Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity works
Carl Friedrich Gauss, ‘the Prince of Mathematicians’
Charles Babbage who invented computers
Ada Lovelace who wrote the first computer program

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 8,351
Headword count: 790

Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.

This book is Level 2 in the Collins ELT R

Contents:
Johann Sebastian Bach who wrote the Brandenburg Concertos
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the child genius
Giuseppe Verdi who wrote the operas Aida and La Traviata
Johann Strauss, ‘The Waltz King’
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky who wrote the ballet Swan Lake
Irving Berlin who wrote There’s No Business Like Show Business

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 8,344
Headword count: 723

Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.

This book is Level 2 in the Collins ELT Readers series.<br

Contents:
Edward Jenner, the man who fought the terrible disease, smallpox
Florence Nightingale, the nurse known as ‘the lady with the lamp’
Elizabeth Garrett, England’s first female doctor
Carl Jung, the doctor who wanted to understand the human mind
Jonas Salk who defeated the dangerous illness, polio
Christiaan Barnard, the first man to replace a human heart

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 10,006
Headword count: 883

Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.

This book is

Contents:
Leonardo da Vinci who painted the Mona Lisa
Christopher Wren who rebuilt London
Antoni Gaudí who built the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish painter
Frida Kahlo, the famous Mexican female artist

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 10,172
Headword count: 941
Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.

This book is Level 2 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 2 is equivalent to CEF level A2–B1.

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Contents:
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, who helped humans to fly
Louis Blériot, the first person to cross the sea in an aeroplane
Charles Lindbergh, first to cross the Atlantic alone
Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic
Amy Johnson, the British woman who broke flying records

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 9,498
Headword count: 906

Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.

This book is Level 2 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 2 is equivalent to CEF level A2–B1.

Contents:
Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press
Louis Braille, creator of an alphabet for blind people
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone
Thomas Edison, inventor of the electric light bulb
Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the wireless system
John Logie Baird, inventor of the television

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 6,805
Headword count: 726

Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.

This book is Level 1 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 1 is

Bob Marley is the most famous reggae musician in the world. Since his death in 1981, millions of people continue to listen to his songs. But Bob Marley wasn’t just a brilliant musician. He held strong Rastafarian beliefs and his songs supported the rights of people everywhere to live together in peace. Read about Bob Marley’s early years in Jamaica with The Wailing Wailers and his journey to international stardom in this amazing story of his life.