Young Adult ELI Readers - The Turn Of The Screw - Stage 4 B2 - Downloadable Audio Files
‘After I had accepted the position and agreed to his condition, I had two or three very bad days. I was full of doubts, sure I had made a terrible mistake. I was in this state of mind as I sat in the uncomfortable coach which was taking me to my new home.’
A young woman starts her first job as a governess in charge of two young orphans, Miles and Flora, at a country house called Bly. The children are beautiful and well-behaved, but are they too good to be true? When the governess starts to experience strange visions, she suspects that the children are hiding a terrible secret. Are there ghosts at Bly, or is the governess going mad? Henry James’s classic ghost story is retold here at level B2.
Read and find out.
Syllabus
Verbs: Present perfect, Past perfect, Future tenses including, future perfect, Irregular verbs: would for willingness/ refusal, Third conditional, If clauses (in zero conditional), Used to and would, Phrasal verbs, Passive forms, Infinitive constructions. Conjunctions: as soon as, but, however, and, because. Determiners: whichever, whatever, whoever etc, either, neither, none, both, little, some, enough, every, most, time phrases. Sentence types: Relative clauses: embedded, defining. Modal Verbs: Will, Might, May, Shall, Could, Should
