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White Teeth, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past.
White Teeth is the story of three very different families who live close together in London in the 1980s and 1990s. The Bowdens are part-Jamaican; the Iqbals are from Bangladesh; and the Chalfens are English, white and intellectual. The story looks at how people's pasts affect their lives now, and the lives and futures of their children. With
carefully adapted text,
new illustrations,
language practise activities and additional
online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to
bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include
popular classics, exciting
contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking
non-fiction.
White Teeth, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past.
White Teeth is the story of three very different families who live close together in London in the 1980s and 1990s. The Bowdens are part-Jamaican; the Iqbals are from Bangladesh; and the Chalfens are English, white and intellectual. The story looks at how people's pasts affect their lives now, and the lives and futures of their children. Zadie Smith is the author of the novels
White Teeth,
The Autograph Man,
On Beauty,
NW and
Swing Time, as well as a novella,
The Embassy of Cambodia, and a collection of essays,
Changing My Mind, and editor of
The Book of Other People. Zadie was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002, and was listed as one of Granta's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013.
White Teeth won multiple awards including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award and the
Guardian First Book Award.
On Beauty was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and
NW was shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Zadie Smith is currently a tenured professor of fiction at New York University and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.