By Karen Kovacs, Roald Dahl (author) , Quentin Blake (illustrator) Part of the Penguin Readers series
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George's grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered-up mouth like a dog's bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of thick brown medicine, but it doesn't seem to do her any good. She's always just as horrid after she's taken it as she was before. So when George is left alone to look after her one morning, it's just the chance he needs...
Learn English with George's Marvellous Medicine! A Penguin Readers book. Discover fifteen famous Roald Dahl adventures, adapted for learners of English aged 7+. Can you read them all?
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Learn English with George's Marvellous Medicine ! A Penguin Readers book. Discover fifteen famous Roald Dahl adventures, adapted for learners of English aged 7+. Can you read them all?
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With simplified text, illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.
In these Penguin Readers editions, Roald Dahl's stories have been aligned to the CEFR framework A1 to A2+, in four levels. Each book is also Lexile measured. The graded readers feature illustrated new words, language activities, and fun games between chapters, encouraging students and teachers to structure learning and make real progress. Every book also includes projects and discussions.
Visit the Penguin Readers website for downloadable quizzes, worksheets and answer keys, as well as accompanying audioand a digital version of the book.
George's Marvellous Medicine , a Level 3 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing first conditional, past continuous and present perfect simple for general experience. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages.
"Don't forget to give Grandma her medicine," says George's mother. Most grandmothers are kind, but George's grandmother is not. George is frightened of Grandma. But maybe he can make a new medicine for her, which will make her kinder. What will happen when Grandma takes George's Marvellous Medicine? Let's see!
Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories.
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Learn English with George's Marvellous Medicine! A Penguin Readers book.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed George's Marvellous Medicine: Penguin Readers Level 3 Abridged Edition and determined it is suitable for children aged 7-10 years old
George's Marvellous Medicine: Penguin Readers Level 3 Abridged Edition features in the following genres: Featured Books for 7+ readers, Featured Books for 9+ readers, Fantasy / Magical, Funny, Educational: Modern (non-native or second) languages: Language learning: readers, Recommendations, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Educational: Modern (non-native or second) languages: Language learning, Educational: Modern (non-native or second) languages, Educational: Language, literature and literacy, Educational material
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George's Marvellous Medicine: Penguin Readers Level 3 Abridged Edition was written by Karen Kovacs, Roald Dahl and published by Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Random House Children's UK
George's Marvellous Medicine: Penguin Readers Level 3 Abridged Edition has 95 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Readers series
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