Penguin Readers Level 5: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry + free audio and digital version

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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, 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.

Harold Fry lives a quiet, ordinary life in England. But when he learns that his old friend Queenie Hennessey is dying, he decides to post her a letter to her home 500 miles away. As he walks to the postbox, Harold begins to think about his past and his family. He decides to keep on walking until he reaches Queenie. (Contains adult content.)

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