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Australian ESL materials for adults and young adults

ESL Easy Read e-books

ESL Easy Read e-books are intermediate level readers for new learners of English.

The English Chip

Original fiction, intermediate level, Australian/British English
The cover of The English Chip

Charlie’s in Australia, studying English, but English is so hard. He just wants to have fun, not to study all day! Then he sees a notice: INSTANT ENGLISH! VOLUNTEER NEEDED.

Instant English? It all sounds so easy.

Soon Charlie is part of an experiment—but experiments can go wrong…

Now also available with Book Club questions in pdf format, and soon as a paperback!

Download sample chapters from the Payhip page!

Here are some end-of-book Book Club questions:

The English Chip Book Club Questions

This e-book is now also available on Overdrive, if you'd like to borrow it from your local library.

Blood Kind

Original fiction, intermediate level, Australian/British English
Cover of Blood Kind

His name is Josh – or is that Ben? When you make fake passports and ID cards for a living, you need a few different names, right?

Ben doesn’t like people much, and he certainly doesn’t believe in kindness. Then he has an accident, gets a blood transfusion – and things begin to change.

Ben starts to feel kind, but that creates big problems in his life…

Now also available with Book Club questions in pdf format, and soon as a paperback!

Download sample chapters from the Payhip page...

Some additional questions for discussion at the end of the book:

Blood Kind Book Club Questions

A Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53

by Mrs Charles (Ellen) Clacy (non-fiction: abridged)
A Lady's Visit to the Gold-Diggings of Australia cover

Twenty-year old Ellen Clacy and her brother travelled from England to the Australian goldfields at the start of the ‘gold rush’ in 1852, when thousands of people from around the world were arriving at the gold ‘diggings’.

This is a short, Easy-Read adaptation of Ellen Clacy’s best-selling book about her Australian adventures.

Now also available with Book Club questions in pdf format, and soon as a paperback.

Download sample pages from the Payhip page...

This e-book is now available on Overdrive, if you'd like to borrow it from your local library.

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