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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary. Visit the Penguin Readers website Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys. Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of a poor, eighteen-year-old waiter in Mumbai called Ram Mohammad Thomas. Ram goes on a television quiz show, and he answers all the questions correctly. But the people who work on the programme think that he has cheated, so Ram must explain how he knew the answers.

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Former tiffinboy Ram Mohammad Thomas has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz-show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheating. Because how can a kid from the slums know who Shakespeare was, unless he is pulling a fast one. In the order of the questions on the show, Ram tells us which amazing adventures in his street-kid life gave him the answers. From orphanages to brothels, gangsters to beggar-masters, and into the homes of Bollywood's rich and famous, Ram's story is brimming with the chaotic comedy, heart-stopping tragedy and tear-inducing joyousness of modern India.

Kto chce byť miliardárom? To tu ešte nebolo. Indickí diváci spozornejú, keď súkromná firma vyhlási vedomostnú súťaž o celú miliardu rupií. Ešte väčšia senzácia však nastane, keď sa víťazom nového populárneho programu stane obyčajný čašník - chlapec z ulice, sirota a najdúch, ktorý toho v živote preskákal veľmi veľa, ale nikdy nezískal poriadne vzdelanie. Nikto nechápe, ako sa to mohlo stať. Je jeho víťazstvo podvodom storočia? A ak nie, ako to, že poznal odpovede na všetky otázky? O prípad sa zaujíma polícia aj výhercova mladá právnička. Tá jediná tuší, že riešenie záhady sa skrýva v jeho spletitom životnom príbehu...