Do you think it's a really good idea? I mean, if your friend has some difficulties reading English, I think he also has problems with his pronunciation, and he's obviously gonna read the text like he read a Russian text. Here's a link to the thread containing a video that shows what it can look like, and also an English text transliterated into Cyrillic (the man is reading from the paper with the transliterated text).

http://masterrussian.net/f13/%D0%BB%...0%D1%82-17177/