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About ESL Reading materials
Some texts are original while others are adaptations of classic stories. All the materials are graded by vocabulary, grammar and readability.
ESL Reading has links with Extensive Reading, the British Council and many other organisations promoting language learning through reading. It features in the Longman ELT manual Tips for Teaching with Call.
The Editor
Kieran McGovern has published more than twenty readers for major international ELT publisher including Oxford University Press and Macmillan. He has been described as being 'amongst the best writers of language learner materials in English’.
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