Dickens asked his readers to ‘have a heart that never gets hard’. As readers follow the life of Oliver Twist, a poor orphaned boy struggling against the dangers of life in 19th-century London, they can empathise with his childhood in a workhouse and his life with a gang of pickpockets. They can also share his relief that there were some good people, ready and willing to rescue a child in need.

Syllabus
Vocabulary areas: friendship, social class, feelings
Grammar and Structure: Past simple (regular and irregular forms), Past continuous, Can/Could, Comparative and superlative adjectives, Must for obligation, Question words.

In this Reader you will find:
Games and language activities | An audio recording of the story | A picture dictionary

Tags
Social issues | Knowing the past | Feeling empathy | Developing values