The Railway Children


ELI Teenagers Readers CEFR Level: Stage 1 | A1 Headwords: 600 |
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Three children and their mother move to a new home because
their father gets sent away. They are sad at the beginning of their new
life, but they make a new friend along the way and live a lot of
adventures.
Three children go to live in the country. Their house is near a
train station. They go there with their mother. But their father isn’t
there. The train station is an exciting place. Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis
are always there. And they do a lot of exciting things.
Topics: Love, Feelings, Family, Trains, Nature
Grammar and structures: Simple Present: states and habits - Present Continuous: actions in progress - Past Simple: finished actions - Future forms: Present Continuous, going to, will - Can: ability, permission - Could: ability, permission in the past - Must: obligation - Have to: necessity - Will: offers, spontaneous decisions for future, predictions - Adjectives - Prepositions (place, time) - Pronouns
In this Reader you will find:
Information about Edith Nesbit | A section focusing on background
and context
A glossary of difficult words | Comprehension activities
An exit test