| ISBN |
9780241520796 (paperback) |
| Name |
Baker, David author. |
| Title |
Digital minimalism / Cal Newport ; adapted by David Baker ; series editor: Sorrel Pitts. |
| Published |
London : Penguin Books, 2021. |
| ©2021 |
| Description |
124 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes questions, exercises and project work. |
| Summary |
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language. 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. Digital Minimalism, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past. Cal Newport is a professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University in the USA. He has written a number of books on computers and technology. This book is useful for anyone who is worried about the amount of time they are spending online and shows them how to use less technology in their life. |
| Target audience note |
13+ years old. |
| Subjects |
English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers |
| Reading comprehension -- Problems, exercises, etc |
| Information technology -- Juvenile literature |
| Internet addiction -- Juvenile literature |
| Technological innovations -- Juvenile literature |
| Readers (Secondary) |
| Genre |
Readers (Publications) |
| Easy to read (blue : advanced) |
| Other Names |
Pitts, Sorrel editor. |
| Adaptation of (work): Newport, Cal. Digital minimalism. |
| Series |
Penguin readers Level 7. |
| Reservations Queue |
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