Garnet Graded Oracle Reader Beginner to Pre-intermediate Level 1: The Locked Room Book

Published 2013.

Currently comprising 16 titles across four stages - from beginner to upper intermediate - the series is carefully graded, lexically and structurally, to encourage children and young adults to read for pleasure and at speed. Ther stories are all, first and foremost, just that - stories, from ELT authors well known for their ability to craft original and engaging narratives to entertain and educate.

Each reader contains striking and contemporary full-colour illustrations and photos, resource pages of well-scaffolded exercises, and an easy-to-use glossary. Titles in Levels 1 and 2 are 32 pages each, while titles in Levels 3 and 4 are 40 pages each. Each reader is available with or without an audio CD.

Man 'We're going to start again. Who are you?'

Me 'I can't remember. Please don't hit me?'

But he does. Then he opens the door, and he goes. There's a bump on the back of my head. It doesn't hurt now, but my face hurts. A bump? I can remember something?

A man wakes up in a room in a strange house. The door is locked. Who is he and why is he there? Why can't he leave? Slowly the man remembers?

Level 1

400 headwords