Slumdog Millionaire. Penguin Readers. Level 6

The Penguin Readers series is designed to engage language learners by presenting them with adapted texts, newly crafted illustrations, language practice activities, and additional online materials. This series features works from popular authors and offers diverse content ranging from timeless classics to captivating modern fiction and insightful non-fiction. One of the titles, "Slumdog Millionaire," is categorized as a Level 6 Reader and falls within the B1+ level of the CEFR framework. The text is complex, including sentences with up to four clauses and elements such as future continuous, reported questions, the third conditional, expressions of intent with "was going to," and ellipsis. A limited selection of illustrations complements the narrative.The story of "Slumdog Millionaire" revolves around Ram Mohammad Thomas, an eighteen-year-old from Mumbai working as a waiter. Ram participates in a television quiz show where he correctly answers all the questions. However, the show's staff suspect him of cheating, compelling Ram to justify how he came to know the answers. The description above is provided by the publisher.