Penguin Readers – Level 7: Homegoing

Half-sisters Effia and Esi are born into different villages in Ghana. The sisters’ lives follow different paths: Effi marries a wealthy Englishman, while Esi is captured and sold into slavery. (Contains adult content.)

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.

Homegoing, 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.