Penguin Readers Level 4: Women Who Changed the World

Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language.

These are the stories of some of the women who changed our world. Read about the women who fought to be equal to men, and learn about the things that women have done in education, science, sport and politics.

Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction
and thought-provoking non-fiction, written for learners of English as a foreign language. The series follows the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and includes language activities that help develop key skills.

Women Who Changed the World, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.