Essential Reading - the course

High Beginner to Upper intermediate
American English

Essential Reading is a unique four-level course aimed at university level students, taking learners from High Beginner to Upper intermediate level.

Essential Reading builds on the latest research into what good readers do. It includes explicit vocabulary work and fluency development - each book comes with a complete short story taken from the Macmillan Readers series.

Key Features:

Both intensive and extensive approaches to reading
A wide range of engaging topics such as Money, Sport, and Relationships
A full range of skills-building activities

Each level contains 12 topic-based units consisting of two parallel texts and 12 review units.

Essential Reading Teacher's File provides additional photocopiable activities, cultural background notes, full answer keys and a CD Rom test generator.

Levels and Components