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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Alec Leamas, a British spy, is worn out and ready to stop working. But his boss wants him to do one final job: to spread false information about an important man in East Germany. Can Alec end his career and finally come in from the cold? (Contains adult content.)
Series overview
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. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills.
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text.
Story word count: 18,179
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- Format
- Paperback
- Page count
- 112
- Age
- 12+
- Lexile
- 650L
- CEFR
- B1+
- Word count
- 18,000-22,000
- Headwords
- 2000
- Exam
- -
