| ISBN |
9780241493205 (paperback) |
| Name |
Holwill, Helen author. |
| Title |
Slumdog millionaire / Vikas Swarup ; retold by Helen Holwill ; illustrated by Matt Rota ; series editor: Sorrel Pitts. |
| Published |
London : Penguin Books, 2021. |
| ©2021 |
| Description |
112 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
"Based on the novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup"--Cover. |
| Summary |
With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. Slumdog Millionaire, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text. Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of a poor, eighteen-year-old waiter in Mumbai called Ram Mohammad Thomas. Ram goes on a television quiz show, and he answers all the questions correctly. But the people who work on the programme think that he has cheated, so Ram must explain how he knew the answers. |
| Target audience note |
13+ years old. |
| Subjects |
Orphans -- India -- Bombay -- Juvenile fiction |
| Television quiz shows -- India -- Bombay -- Juvenile fiction |
| Television quiz shows -- Juvenile fiction |
| Suspicion -- India -- Bombay -- Juvenile fiction |
| Young adult fiction |
| India -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction |
| Genre |
Adaptations |
| Easy to read (blue : advanced) |
| Other Names |
Based on (work): Swarup, Vikas. Slumdog millionaier. |
| Rota, Matt illustrator. |
| Pitts, Sorrel editor. |
| Series |
Penguin readers Level 6. |
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