The Coat is a pre-intermediate reader, set in Melbourne, and featuring the sometimes impetuous Anni.
I was shivering when I arrived at work. Sue, my boss, looked at my thin jacket.
“Anni, you need a good coat,” she said. She was wearing a thick red jacket. She looked wonderful. She always looked wonderful.
“I’m not really cold,” I said. It wasn’t true, but I didn’t have the money for a new coat.
When Anni moves to Melbourne, she’s cold, but she doesn’t have the money for a new coat. She wants to start a business, but she can’t get a bank loan. Her boyfriend wants to get married, but she’s not sure...
Then suddenly a borrowed coat changes everything.
The Coat is available with audio CD, in both a story-only library version or as a photocopiable Teacher's Guide and Workbook, which contains the full story plus exercises, activities and teaching notes.
NEWS: DIGITAL VERSION NOW AVAILABLE: You can now purchase a licence for a pdf and mp3 version of the Teacher's Guide from The Book Next Door PayHip store OR you can still buy the original paperback version (and the small library books) from your local language bookshop or library supplier.
From 2022, the new Teacher's Guide price includes access to the digital version, so that you can have the physical book on the shelf PLUS store and share the digital version with students. (If you bought the paperback some time ago, please contact me for a pdf discount!)
There are sample pages for download here, as well as on the PayHip store.
