Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: An Open Reader (Unwalled Readers)

✍ Scribed by Michael H. Brown

• Publisher: Unwalled Books
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Ebeneezer Scrooge is a rich old man who treats everyone around him badly. He loves money more than anything. But he is in for a big surprise when several ghosts visit him on Christmas eve.

 

In this 'open reader', Charles Dickens' classic tale of Christmas, greed, and redemption is re-told in simplified English. This adaption of A Christmas Carol is suitable for those learning English as an additional or foreign language, or anyone who would like to read a simplified version of one of the most famous English novels of all time.

 

In addition to the story of A Christmas Carol, this edition includes a glossary of harder words, brief explanations about Charles Dickens' and the story's setting (England in the first half of the 1800s), and questions to help ensure reader understanding.

 

Estimated Text Level

INTERMEDIATE (Extensive Reading Foundation Grading Scale)

CEFR: A1 - A2 - B1 - B2 - C1 - C2