On 23rd April, it will be Sant Jordi in Catalonia – a day for offering red roses and flowers to people that you love. What better present could you offer someone who is studying English than an English language book? Here are Babylon Idiomas´ recommendations… 

Love by Design (MacMillan Graded Readers) – Elementary Level (A1)

Tom has failed his exams, so he cannot study photography at art college. He is bored with his job in a library and he doesn’t know what he wants to do. Rita knows what she wants to do- she wants to be a fashion model. When she steps into Tom’s library one rainy day, the young couple’s futures become linked.

 

Romeo and Juliet (Oxford Bookworms) – Levels A2 – B1 

This classic play by Shakespeare about the power of love, adapted for  learners of English,  is an ideal Sant Jordi gift. Romeo and Juliet are two young people who fall in love, but whose families hate each other. For a time, they manage to keep their love secret, but when Romeo is sent away and plans are made for Juliet to marry another man, their love is put to the test.

 

Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy – Levels B2 -C2

This collection of love poems is written by the current UK Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. All of the poems have as their central theme love, but they avoid typical clichés that one might expect from a book of love poems. The poems in this collection look at love in all its complexities – infatuation, longing, passion, commitments, separation, and grief. Anyone who is in love or who has been in love, will certainly enjoy this collection.

 

Ask your local Head of Studies if you have these books in your local Babylon Idiomas library.  If you read any of these books and would like to write a review for our May blog, send an email to