HELBLING READERS 2012

STRUCTURES AND GRADES

Level 1 - A1
A New Home for Socks
David and
the Great Detective
Fireballs Heart
Hollys New Friend
Next Door
Peter Pan
The Clever Woman

The Happy Prince and

The Nightingale and the Rose
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Zadies Big Day

Structures:
A, an; adjectives; adverbs of frequency; can; countable and
uncountable nouns; demonstrative adjectives and pronouns;
have got; How much/many?; imperatives; like/love/hate/dont like
doing; subject and object pronouns; plural nouns; possessive s;
possessive adjectives; present continuous; present simple; question
words; short answers; some/any; the; there is/are

Grading:
CEF A1 Breakthrough
Towards Cambridge ESOL KET
Trinity Levels GESE 1, 2

Level 2 - A1/A2
Alices Adventures
in Wonderland
Black Beauty
Holly the Eco Warrior
Mowglis Brothers
Princess on the Run
Rickys Big Idea
The African Mask

The Anti-bully Squad

The Red-headed League
The Secret Garden
The Surprise
The Time Capsule
Jack and The Westbourne Fair

Structures:

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Lost Smile
The Spring Cup
The Stolen White Elephant
Twins
White Fang

Structures:

a lot of, not much, not many; adverbs of manner; and, so, but, because;
be going to; comparative; have to/must; mustnt; past continuous; past
simple; past simple v. past continuous; possessive pronouns; superlative;
to for purpose

Grading:
CEF A1/A2 Breakthrough/Waystage
Towards Cambridge ESOL KET
Trinity Levels GESE 2, 3

Level 3 A2
A Christmas Carol
David and the Black Corsair
Grace and the Double Life
Mr. Football
Ricky and the American Girl
Stubs Grows Up
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn

cardinal/ordinal numbers; ever/never; must/should need to/have to; one/

ones; prepositions of time, place and movement; present perfect; present
perfect v past simple; present continuous for future; question tags; reflexive
pronouns; relative pronouns who, which, that; so do I/neither do I; too
plus adjective; indefinite pronouns; will; would like

Grading:
CEF A2 Waystage
Cambridge ESOL KET
Trinity Levels GESE 3, 4 ISE 0

Level 4 - A2/B1
Dracula
Operation Osprey
The Boy Who Could Fly
The Call of the Wild
The Garden Party and Sixpence
The Green Room
The Last of the Mohicans

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Kingdom of the Snow Leopard

Structures:
causative have; could/was able to/ managed to; first conditional; futures
together; had to/didnt have to; how long?; make and let; may/can/
could for permission; might for future possibility; present and past passive;
present perfect plus yet, already, just; shall/could for offers; want/ask/tell
someone to do something

Grading:
CEF A2/B1 Waystage/ Threshold
Cambridge ESOL PET
Trinity Levels GESE 4, 5 ISE 0

Level 5 - B1
Daisy Miller
Danger in the Sun
Mystery at the Mill
Red Water
The Canterville Ghost
The Coconut Seller
The Great Gatsby
Tales of Mystery

The Strange Case of

Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde
To the Lighthouse

Structures:
defining relative clauses; future continuous; modal verb would; non-defining
relative clauses; past perfect; present perfect continuous; present perfect
future; reported speech/verbs/questions; second conditional (wish); used
to/used to doing; used to/would; second conditional

Grading:
CEF B1 Threshold
Cambridge ESOL PET
Trinity Levels GESE 5, 6 ISE 1