White teeth [literacy]

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Title:

Author:

Smith, Zadie, author.

Added Author:

Trewin, Anna, author.

Smith, Zadie. White teeth.

Publication Date:

2020

2000

Publication Information:

London, [United Kingdom] : Penguin Books, 2020.

Physical Description:

125 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

ISBN:

9780241463376

Abstract:

White Teeth, 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. "White Teeth is the story of three very different families who live close together in London in the 1980s and 1990s. The Bowdens are part-Jamaican; the Iqbals are from Bangladesh; and the Chalfens are white. The story looks at how people's pasts affect their lives now, and the lives and futures of their children." -- Publisher-provided description on the back cover.

Contents:

Note about the story -- Before-reading questions -- Chapter one : the strange second marriage of Archibald Jones -- Chapter two : trouble with teeth -- Chapter three : two families -- Chapter four : three coming -- Chapter five : the root canals of Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal -- Chapter six : school days -- Chapter seven : Magid or Millat? -- Chapter eight : Millat and Irie, 1989-1990 -- Chapter nine : Joyce and Marcus Chalfen -- Chapter ten : the root canals of Hortense Bowden -- Chapter eleven : love letters -- Chapter twelve : coming home -- Chapter thirteen : Magid returns -- Chapter fourteen : the mouse conference -- Chapter fifteen : the final bullet -- During-reading questions -- After-reading questions -- Exercises -- Project work -- Essay questions -- Glossary.

Subject Term:

Ethnic relations -- Fiction.

Humorous stories -- Fiction.

Jamaicans -- England -- Fiction.

Male friendship -- Fiction.

Muslim families -- Fiction.

Readers for new literates.

Geographic Term:

London (England) -- Fiction.

Genre:

High interest-low vocabulary books.

Domestic fiction.