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I teach English to immigrants. I use the Oxford Books and Penguin Readers with audio recordings as part of my class.

Here is the reading list for the class as we go from roughly the A1 level to the B2 level.

Oxford Bookworms (audio available)

starters (250 common words) - Drive into Danger, Last Chance, Orca, Police TV, Red Roses.

level 1 (400 common words) - Christmas in Prague, The President's Murderer, Remember Miranda, The Wizard of Oz.

level 2 (700 common words) - Anne of Green Gables, Grace Darling, The Jungle Book, The Piano, Robinson Crusoe.

level 3 (1000 common words) - The Call of the Wild, Chemical Secret, The Railway Children, Skyjack!.

level 4 (1400 common words) - Black Beauty, Gulliver's Travels, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Little Women.

level 5 (1800 common words) - David Copperfield, Ghost Stories, Sense and Sensibility, This Rough Magic.

level 6 (2500 common words) - The Enemy, Oliver Twist, Pride and Prejudice.

Penguin Readers (audio available)

level 4 (1700 common words) - The Client, Falling Leaves.

level 5 (2200 common words) - The Firm, Round the World in 80 days, World Folktales.

level 6 (3000 common words) - Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, Schindler's List.

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I teach English to immigrants in my city. I use Oxford Bookworms readers and Penguin Readers with audio recordings as part of the class.

Briefly, my students read and listen one hour a week in class and read and listen two hours a week at home. After 30 hours, the improvement in vocabulary, reading comprehension, reading speed, listening comprehension, and speaking is dramatic. After 100 hours, most students find jobs and leave the class.

For the first 30 hours of reading and listening, we read while listening to the audio recording. Afterwards, we do some related work (discuss the story, look up new words, ...).

After roughly 30 hours of reading and listening, the approach changes to include listening to a chapter that the students have just read. We read and listen for about two chapters, then we close the book and listen again to the two chapters. Afterwards, we do some related work (discuss the story, look up new words, ...).

After roughly 60 hours hours of reading and listening, the approach changes to include listening without the book. We do two types of activities: A) We read and listen to about two chapters, then we close the book and listen to the following two chapters. B) Sometimes, we drop down two levels, and listen to the story without reading. Afterwards, we do some related work (discuss the story, look up new words, ...).

The reading level is easy. Approximately 20-30 new words per book (about 1 new word per two pages). We usually read about five books at a level before moving up to the next level. It takes about 30 weeks to read 30 books (starting at A1 and ending at B2).

We generally start at a very easy 200-common-word vocabulary level, read five books, then move up to the next level, read another five books, move up another level, and so on. At the 2000-common-word level, most students find jobs and leave the class.

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